The Official 2024 Paris Summer Olympics Thread (from July 26 - August 11) - Closing Ceremony replay at 7pm EST

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

For those who will be up early.. women's balance beam final will be on Simone Biles and Suni Lee are in that as well as Rebecca Andrade of Brazil

And that's followed by women's floor final, Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles and Rebecca Andrade of Brazil are in that one.

 

[Mowgli]

GGs

 

[Diddly Drogba]

 

[Pressure]

Absolutely true
For difficulty - Simone got it
For barriers of entry - it's Bolt

It’s harder to maintain pure physical dominance

 

[The axe murderer]

 

[The axe murderer]

Crazy. I saw somewhere that 4th would have been silver in tokyo

 

[MenacingMonk]

Snoop name dropped WC in an NBC interview about Equestrian with Martha Stewart during the Olympics. 2020s continuing to be a wild ass decade.

 

[RedBull]

Put him in the 4x400 , need him to go home with 4 track trophies

If he does that, that’ll be the greatest individual TAF Olympics feat of all time. Jesse and Bolt would have to fall back.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Tonight was truly a legendary moment... been watching some old clips now...

 

[Blessings]

 

[jj23]

Yeah all well and good except the dude was juicing. That is like saying did you see Ben Johnson's acceleration in the 100 versus the other sprinters?

You mean like Coleman, Gay and Gatlin?

 

[Blessings]

 

[Dillah810]

 

[LezJepzin]

First question interesting. Someone tried to get on the track before the start?

 

[Mister Terrific]

"It's Noah Lyles?...OH MY GOD....NOOOO "

Yo the way the crowd got quiet and the way the song faded in. Cinematic.