Summer Olympics 2024

[AHOYBRAUSE]

Can't wait for the basketball tournament.
Recently I watch Franc beating Turkey by 50 points, and Wembanyama only played like 20 minutes.

Sure team USA looks unbeatable with all their stars but a French team, on a good day for them, might pull up a huge upset if they face and beat them, it would be hilarious.
Everybody in the US expects this team to dominate and demolish every opponent by 30 point. Guess we will see if that's true.

[adultcrypto]

I haven't made any bet on any Olympics games. I prefer the entertainment that comes from watching the games. My favourite games are the track and field event and swimming. The football matches are not as interesting as championships that are exclusively for football games. Hey notblox1, which are your favourite games and what is your predictions? Do you usually bet on Olympic games?

Same here, this year may be my first time placing a bet on Olympics event, that is if I see some consistency in any of the player or team. Olympics are actually difficult to predict because of there is rarely any data to use as reference.

My best should swimming and the variations of it. I also love Tenis and relay including other forms of racing. I will be looking out for opportunities to profit from the competition this time.

[Nrcewker]

I think the Olympics should be equally praised like the football and cricket events. Many players are not popular enough due to this. Competing with 100 players and winning gold requires a next-level skillset; hence, I think the Olympic events need to be applauded. Moreover, OP, I don’t think covering the games will be possible, as simultaneously there will be many games taking place. Hence, it will be ideal to cover only games with unique and valuable records. I like the swimming and high jump events in the Olympics. Let’s see if any new records are made or not.

[Kemarit]

I think the Olympics should be equally praised like the football and cricket events. Many players are not popular enough due to this. Competing with 100 players and winning gold requires a next-level skillset; hence, I think the Olympic events need to be applauded. Moreover, OP, I don’t think covering the games will be possible, as simultaneously there will be many games taking place. Hence, it will be ideal to cover only games with unique and valuable records. I like the swimming and high jump events in the Olympics. Let’s see if any new records are made or not.

I think it's been applauded around the world, in my opinion. There are great athletes that has come up of it, like Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt and others. Even pro athletes in basketball and tennis has been in the Olympics, but it's a totally different ball game for them as they represent their country, their flag that's why this is really something special for them to win Gold even if they are already a pro-athlete.

Yeah, athletic events are one of the centerpiece at the Olympics and in the women's category as well, competition are tough and the USA and team Jamaica has been fighting it out for supremacy.

[Zigabel]

This is going to be one of those years I'm going to give some good amount of attention to the Olympics because I have in past years given only but few attention to it reasons been that I don't find it very captivating for me, I know it is for many others but hasn't been for me in a very long while but in this year I'm going to see what will be made of my favorite sports and see how it feels like in the Olympics, further point of interest is in the fact that it will be held in France, one of the most popular country in the world.

For football players, it's going to be a really hectic year for them because they will be participating in too many competitions already and that for them will be a whole lot of stress,  from the Euro 2024 to the Olympics and back to club league games, I can only imagine.

[Yaunfitda]

Can't wait for the basketball tournament.
Recently I watch Franc beating Turkey by 50 points, and Wembanyama only played like 20 minutes.

Sure team USA looks unbeatable with all their stars but a French team, on a good day for them, might pull up a huge upset if they face and beat them, it would be hilarious.
Everybody in the US expects this team to dominate and demolish every opponent by 30 point. Guess we will see if that's true.

Yes, USA has started their training camp already. But we have Greece with Giannis and then the French Team, Wemby and Gobert  who are also present so the Basketball event is going to be one of the best watch. And 12 nations are expecting to be locked already,

https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/mens-olympic-basketball-tournament-paris-2024/news/olympics-men-2024-news-tracker-preparation-games-for-the-mens-olympic-basketball-tournament-paris-2024

But I'm sure no matter what, the USA team will still be the favorite here, no matter what other countries will do. They could have former and current NBA players, but the roster that the US is sending is the best they got right now.

[acroman08]

Can't wait for the basketball tournament.
Recently I watch Franc beating Turkey by 50 points, and Wembanyama only played like 20 minutes.

Sure team USA looks unbeatable with all their stars but a French team, on a good day for them, might pull up a huge upset if they face and beat them, it would be hilarious.
Everybody in the US expects this team to dominate and demolish every opponent by 30 point. Guess we will see if that's true.

I can't help but think if the US basketball team will go all out on this because I remember a US athlete calling out the NBA champions and its fans for calling the NBA champions "world champions" and I remember a lot of(maybe some) NBA players getting heated up because of it. also, If the US fails to take the gold in basketball I am certain a lot of people will troll the NBA and its fans.

[Yaunfitda]

Can't wait for the basketball tournament.
Recently I watch Franc beating Turkey by 50 points, and Wembanyama only played like 20 minutes.

Sure team USA looks unbeatable with all their stars but a French team, on a good day for them, might pull up a huge upset if they face and beat them, it would be hilarious.
Everybody in the US expects this team to dominate and demolish every opponent by 30 point. Guess we will see if that's true.

I can't help but think if the US basketball team will go all out on this because I remember a US athlete calling out the NBA champions and its fans for calling the NBA champions "world champions" and I remember a lot of(maybe some) NBA players getting heated up because of it. also, If the US fails to take the gold in basketball I am certain a lot of people will troll the NBA and its fans.

For sure, they've sent the best right now, Lebron, Steph to lead the USA for a gold medal. However, there are a lot of great teams as well, having NBA players in team. However, if the US has all NBA players and some teams have like 2-5 players the most, then the current US team should be the favorite no matter what. They could have a lot of pressures though in their shoulders right now, but I do think that they will prevail, but not going to be very easy for them.

Oh and I remember that US athlete that you are referring, and it's Noah Lyles,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBuoUH3AOlo

[notblox1]

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[joniboini]

also, If the US fails to take the gold in basketball I am certain a lot of people will troll the NBA and its fans.

I don't think professionals should think about trolls or memes too hard. Everyone likes to watch the favorites fail, regardless of the sport and competition. I'm pretty sure there are some circlejerk subs somewhere making fun of some athletes somewhere. Taking them seriously would only drain your energy. That being said, I'm pretty sure every team have their own target and it's no surprise if the US wants to win the gold medal.

[Jating]

also, If the US fails to take the gold in basketball I am certain a lot of people will troll the NBA and its fans.

I don't think professionals should think about trolls or memes too hard. Everyone likes to watch the favorites fail, regardless of the sport and competition. I'm pretty sure there are some circlejerk subs somewhere making fun of some athletes somewhere. Taking them seriously would only drain your energy. That being said, I'm pretty sure every team have their own target and it's no surprise if the US wants to win the gold medal.

And it's part of being in the limelight specially basketball, they know that they are going to be trolled regardless of the outcome. The USA team though have lost in other world competitions and have been trolled but they get up and move forward.

For sure, this are sports athlete and they should know how to control themselves and try to block every negative energy. Like they are going to play in other homecourt and for sure they will hear a lot of boos from the French people or the crowd since they also have a team that will compete against the USA team. And France has the twin towers in Gobert and Wemby so the USA team should be ready to be heckled and booed if they go against the home team here.

[ultrloa]

also, If the US fails to take the gold in basketball I am certain a lot of people will troll the NBA and its fans.

I don't think professionals should think about trolls or memes too hard. Everyone likes to watch the favorites fail, regardless of the sport and competition. I'm pretty sure there are some circlejerk subs somewhere making fun of some athletes somewhere. Taking them seriously would only drain your energy. That being said, I'm pretty sure every team have their own target and it's no surprise if the US wants to win the gold medal.

And it's part of being in the limelight specially basketball, they know that they are going to be trolled regardless of the outcome. The USA team though have lost in other world competitions and have been trolled but they get up and move forward.

For sure, this are sports athlete and they should know how to control themselves and try to block every negative energy. Like they are going to play in other homecourt and for sure they will hear a lot of boos from the French people or the crowd since they also have a team that will compete against the USA team. And France has the twin towers in Gobert and Wemby so the USA team should be ready to be heckled and booed if they go against the home team here.

To many people just think that this current USA line up can over power their opponent and expect a lot from them that's why if they lost and missed a chance to get a gold medal then provably that this incident will be on media and people will really criticize them for the fact that they already have the talent in this world but they still failed.

But I guess failure for this current roster is not gonna happen since they pretty work well together and we can see on their tune up games that these guys are winning. This Paris Olympic gold medal will just be added on achievement or collection to Team USA basketball team.

[LTU_btc]

Finally we have Olympics in Europe, for the first time since 2012 London. It means that won't have to get up in morning hours like it was in PyongChang 2018, Tokyo 2021 or Beijing 2022. Or watch all nigh long like Rio 2016.
For me main events is athletics and swimming. Basketball too, but I lost interest a bit when my country failed to qualify. Also, going to focus on sports where athletes from my country will perform. Oh, and forgot beach volleyball - it's one most eye catching sports
There is so many events happening in such short time like 2 weeks, it's impossible to watch everything even if you have 10 screens. Some less popular sports won't get muc hinterest because they will be in shadow of main events.

[OgNasty]

The Olympics used to be such a big deal when I was a kid. Now I feel like most people won’t even have access to watch it because it isn’t on Netflix… Sure, we’ll get to see what happens on social media, but I doubt a very high percentage of human beings throughout the planet will be tuning in to watch even a single event live.

[yahoo62278]

I have been waiting for the Olympics to start ever since I started watching the trials. There's too many events to list that I will be interested in but swimming, archery, and basketball, but I will be watching quite a few more events. Less than a week to go til opening ceremonies and then we are off.

Good luck to all the countries.

The Olympics used to be such a big deal when I was a kid. Now I feel like most people won’t even have access to watch it because it isn’t on Netflix… Sure, we’ll get to see what happens on social media, but I doubt a very high percentage of human beings throughout the planet will be tuning in to watch even a single event live.

Looks like those in the USA can watch plenty of the Olypics as a lot are scheduled to be on the channel USA. Check your provider to see if you have it.





https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/olympics-tv-schedule-2024-paris-summer-games-nbc/

[dwyane36]

Yes, USA has started their training camp already. But we have Greece with Giannis and then the French Team, Wemby and Gobert  who are also present so the Basketball event is going to be one of the best watch.

Well, Serbia has Jokic, and Canada has SGA and Murray. However, the US team hasn't had any problems with these teams in recent showcase games. I think the main problem with teams from other countries is that they have one or two all-star players in their lineups. This is obviously not enough to counteract the US team, which has almost the entire roster of All-Star players.

[wxa7115]

The Olympics used to be such a big deal when I was a kid. Now I feel like most people won’t even have access to watch it because it isn’t on Netflix… Sure, we’ll get to see what happens on social media, but I doubt a very high percentage of human beings throughout the planet will be tuning in to watch even a single event live.

This has become a problem since the previous games, as I love to watch as much as I can and during the previous edition I could only find one TV channel that transmitted some events live, and only for a couple of hours.

Which surprised me greatly, as I still remember the days in which the Summer Olympics dominated the TV programming and you could watch them all day, if that is what you wanted.

[buwaytress]

The Olympics used to be such a big deal when I was a kid. Now I feel like most people won’t even have access to watch it because it isn’t on Netflix… Sure, we’ll get to see what happens on social media, but I doubt a very high percentage of human beings throughout the planet will be tuning in to watch even a single event live.

Hey, Olympics are here. And nobody really cares for anything other than football and maybe the dashes and the marathons, right? The day bowling became an official sports, I knew it was a matter of time before it just became an excuse to gain more gold medals. Used to like watching the badminton too, and even some of the martial arts. Feels like I've outgrown all of them though.

Have to say, Olympics was something to really tune in for many countries to feel some sort of link with athletes closer to home. For instance, just a few years ago, some kid from my village (population of my entire people is 300,000) won silver in diving -- of all sports, where we don't even have pools to practise.

[doomloop]

The Olympics used to be such a big deal when I was a kid. Now I feel like most people won’t even have access to watch it because it isn’t on Netflix… Sure, we’ll get to see what happens on social media, but I doubt a very high percentage of human beings throughout the planet will be tuning in to watch even a single event live.

Hey, Olympics are here. And nobody really cares for anything other than football and maybe the dashes and the marathons, right? The day bowling became an official sports, I knew it was a matter of time before it just became an excuse to gain more gold medals. Used to like watching the badminton too, and even some of the martial arts. Feels like I've outgrown all of them though.

Have to say, Olympics was something to really tune in for many countries to feel some sort of link with athletes closer to home. For instance, just a few years ago, some kid from my village (population of my entire people is 300,000) won silver in diving -- of all sports, where we don't even have pools to practise.

For me, the ones that I watch are the X games or those board games like Snowboarding and Skateboarding. We can think that only few games are important but there are so many people in this world and each of us has our own differences.

This is the reason why there are lots of sports invented and covered on different sporting events like Olympics. Gaining gold medals doesn't depend on the sport or if it's a good one or not but it depends on the player or teams that are playing it. If they are pro at it then there is a big chance that they can snatch a gold medal on the specific sport that they are playing. You might be right about sports being outgrown because even on other things like for example in toys, this also happens. It's only normal and we shouldn't blame our selves for this.

[criptoevangelista]

I was reading about these Olympics, which will be the most sustainable games in history, I feel a little tired with this issue of sustainability, poor athletes, there won't even be air conditioning in the rooms in the heat of Paris... It even seems like these few days of event will make a significant difference to the world.