Summer Olympics 2024

[TopTort777]

Yeah, that Australian break dancer probably set an antirecord when she scored zero points. What Australian Olympic committee was thinking about when they send her? Other athletes train for the games, she just got free tickets to visit France. As well as to flight half of the world to show "that"? She does not value her time. Also, did not she steal someone else quota place to perform on Olympics?

it's a new sport, no one expected such performances, certainly the poor selection meant that these poor impressions spread within the sporting event but it must be said that being an immature and new sport, the first performances must be taken with a pinch of salt

What do you mean? Nobody select random people to represent whole country during Olympics. That chick got 4 years to train for her performance. To me she looked like just a random Australian team member who has replaced a real dancer. Somebody like massagist or team doctor. Really, at local discos people perform sometimes better. If it a new discipline for Olympic games, it does not mean that you have to take newbies. Break dance battle have been there for ages.

[aoluain]

I dont think they are actually going to be added to LA28. I believe it was
only added for Paris to encourage a younger audience?

I think there are other "sports" that are played globally which could take its place.

from what I know, breaking was only for this Olympics, and yeah it was to attract the younger audience. also, from what I heard recently there will be 5 different sports will be added to the 2028 Olympics.

edit: so I did a quick search and these are the sports that will be added to the 2028 Olympics "flag football, baseball/softball, cricket, lacrosse and squash".

I was actually looking forward to watching the Breaking but I didnt see any of it.
There was simply too much other sports going on which my country was involved in.

I wasn't able to watch the break dance women's category but I was able to watch the men's category and it was amazing, the gold medalist(Phil Wizard) definitely deserves the gold.

I watched some of the Breaking from the finals at the Olympics and yea its very interesting,
for me though I thought both the womens and mens Gold medals should have been awarded
to the 2nd placed competitors.

Anyway new sports for 2028, yea I get it its interesting. In terms of Squash, that should be a
permenent sport IMO.

Yeah, that Australian break dancer probably set an antirecord when she scored zero points. What Australian Olympic committee was thinking about when they send her? Other athletes train for the games, she just got free tickets to visit France. As well as to flight half of the world to show "that"? She does not value her time. Also, did not she steal someone else quota place to perform on Olympics?

it's a new sport, no one expected such performances, certainly the poor selection meant that these poor impressions spread within the sporting event but it must be said that being an immature and new sport, the first performances must be taken with a pinch of salt

What do you mean? Nobody select random people to represent whole country during Olympics. That chick got 4 years to train for her performance. To me she looked like just a random Australian team member who has replaced a real dancer. Somebody like massagist or team doctor. Really, at local discos people perform sometimes better. If it a new discipline for Olympic games, it does not mean that you have to take newbies. Break dance battle have been there for ages.

OMG I watched that Australian dancer's performance, it was shocking! it didnt do anything
to promote "Breaking" I cant believe that nobody else in Australia was more competent at
this discipline that they had to send this "amateur" it was embarrassing.

[madnessteat]

Yeah, that Australian break dancer probably set an antirecord when she scored zero points. What Australian Olympic committee was thinking about when they send her? Other athletes train for the games, she just got free tickets to visit France. As well as to flight half of the world to show "that"? She does not value her time. Also, did not she steal someone else quota place to perform on Olympics?

Haha. I was puzzled when I saw her performance. In my opinion, any schoolboy doing breakdancing in his free time could show much better results than this woman.

To be honest, this Olympics caused more negative emotions than positive ones, not only because of the performance of individual athletes, but also because of the organization of the whole event. Sometimes it seemed to me that I was not watching the world's largest sporting event, but some kind of freak show. 

[Kemarit]

Cuba's decline in the last decades of the Olympics is clear. A country that has always been a reference in Olympic sports, this edition of the Olympics is in 32nd place in the medal table. If it continues at this pace, it will lose all its relevance in Olympic sports. Since Sydney 2000, its performance has been getting worse and worse... sad.

Yeah, they've been known to produce a lot of good boxers in the past, who would forget Teófilo Stevenson? And then Félix Savón? But their domination in this sports seems to put a stop in this 2024 Olympics.

Also they are also power house as far as wrestling goes.

Perhaps the programs of other countries are far as this sports goes has caught up with Cuba that's why they didn't win as much as they did in the past Olympics.

Probably that time there is nationalistic pride of the country, and probably they are really very proud and trying to show the world how good they were in boxing under Castro. But then if I'm not mistaken, their problem could have been copied or broken when some of their boxers defected to the US or choose to go to America after their amateur or Olympic careers.

And same with their coaches as well, they are being hired by other countries to start their boxing program and with that, they've been depleted as coaches coaches to go somewhere with good pay and no longer wanted to represent their country.

[TopTort777]

Yeah, that Australian break dancer probably set an antirecord when she scored zero points. What Australian Olympic committee was thinking about when they send her? Other athletes train for the games, she just got free tickets to visit France. As well as to flight half of the world to show "that"? She does not value her time. Also, did not she steal someone else quota place to perform on Olympics?

Haha. I was puzzled when I saw her performance. In my opinion, any schoolboy doing breakdancing in his free time could show much better results than this woman.

The fact that this Australian performancer took someone quota and her attendance was paid from taxes really disappoints me. I would also wish that my country would buy me tickets to Olympic games and pay my vacation in Paris for 2-3 weeks. I really cant believe that in Australia, there were no real break dancers and she had to perform.

[karabiber]

I think the Paris Olympics was bad both as an organization and for the country. At the end of the Olympics, I felt like I had eaten a meal that lacked salt, but in the end it was the biggest international event in the world and yet there were some good things to remember in Paris. The French dominated in every team event and reached the final in men's and women's basketball. Germany's decline, China and Korea's dominance in individual competitions and the East's rise in sports were all evident. Perhaps the biggest star of these Olympics, apart from Yusuf Dikec's pose, was Duplantis. The Olympics have long needed a star like Bolt. Duplantis became an iconic star with his record and kissing his girlfriend after winning. These were the moments that impressed me and made the Olympics worth watching.

[Haunebu]

Really looking forward to Cricket in the LA Olympics 2028 being a big fan of Cricket myself. It's been added after 128 freaking years which is a long time and really odd considering how popular it is globally.

The USA Cricket stadiums are decent at best and need to be upgraded heavily before the Olympics kicks off after 4 years. Let's see what happens.

[coinlocket$]

For the French basketball team, I think there's a lot of talent in that team and if they continue to nurture the team, they can go on to conquer the world in few years to come.

Indeed.
France have a lot of talented players and they will be top players in NBA from next season too.
I think they will be the strongest team in Europe for several years from now.
Victor Wembanyama is a golden Rookie for Sand Antotnio Spurs.

[stompix]

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What do you mean? Nobody select random people to represent whole country during Olympics. That chick got 4 years to train for her performance. To me she looked like just a random Australian team member who has replaced a real dancer. Somebody like massagist or team doctor. Really, at local discos people perform sometimes better. If it a new discipline for Olympic games, it does not mean that you have to take newbies. Break dance battle have been there for ages.

She was actually quite good in the past, she won fair and square competitions, the problem is not that she can't move like others or anything, it's the dance she has chosen, she is so much into politics that she made her entire program more about political stuff and culture than about just dancing, I don't know who helped her with the choreography but nobody told her or had the courage to tell her that although it does express something it also looks like crap.

Anyhow quite funny, Philip Kim and Ami Yuasa will be the only two with a gold medal in the sports for at least a  decade, much like undisputed champions   

[dwyane36]

For the French basketball team, I think there's a lot of talent in that team and if they continue to nurture the team, they can go on to conquer the world in few years to come.

Indeed.
France have a lot of talented players and they will be top players in NBA from next season too.
I think they will be the strongest team in Europe for several years from now.
Victor Wembanyama is a golden Rookie for Sand Antotnio Spurs.

The French team performed well in these Olympics. Second place behind the USA team is at least commendable. I think the French team might become an unpleasant opponent for the US team during the next Olympics, as by then, the US team is unlikely to have such players as LeBron, KD, and Curry on its roster.

[acroman08]

The fact that this Australian performancer took someone quota and her attendance was paid from taxes really disappoints me. I would also wish that my country would buy me tickets to Olympic games and pay my vacation in Paris for 2-3 weeks. I really cant believe that in Australia, there were no real break dancers and she had to perform.

seems like there were a lot of them but weren't picked because the selection was rigged, at least according to the rumors. there are talks going around that "Raygun"(the female Australian breakdancer) created the committee that will pick the athlete to compete in the breakdancing Olympics, some people found out(allegedly) that her husband is also part of the committee that will pick the athlete to compete in the Olympics. I am not sure how legitimate these claims are but I am certain there are better female break dancers than her.

Anyhow quite funny, Philip Kim and Ami Yuasa will be the only two with a gold medal in the sports for at least a  decade, much like undisputed champions  

true, ahaha. anyway, these two were amazing and definitely deserved the medals they got.

[blockman]

What? Curry was amazing, in the last 2 games, incredible anyway...

The tally probably is for all of the games that have been made and the scores that each player made. But I guess that Lebron got all of the most points, I haven't seen the record yet but that's probably what it is.

It wasn't a point thing but rather a leadership thing.  Yes steph had 36 points in the semi final game but lebron had a triple double.  Tough to do in a r0 minute game vs a 48 minute nba game.  Lebron had to clean the boards score when it was important and feed every US player to make sure they were getting involved.  For some weird reason lebron hmgets a lot of hate but one thing for certain he guided this team to gold.  For that I agree dude deserved the mvp here.

His consistency as well, well deserved and I agree that he's a good leader for the team for which what they need to have every time they'll have their Olympic matches.

To be honest, this Olympics caused more negative emotions than positive ones, not only because of the performance of individual athletes, but also because of the organization of the whole event. Sometimes it seemed to me that I was not watching the world's largest sporting event, but some kind of freak show. 

I feel you but for the sake of my favorite sports, they have to be watched still and ignore those negativity. But I hope that the organization will do better on LA.

[terrific]

That's right. In terms of everything, they're both into competition and this is how it goes then. With the election coming for the USA, we might see something different then about global trade, who knows.
But then, we see how these countries are having a different way of giving honor to their motherlands. I think those Olympians that are good with their sports should migrate and move to Singapore and have that greater privilege and greater reward for bringing them a medal. 

Yeah kind of ironic both ended up with the same amount of gold medals.  I see a lot of people cryoling about the amount of ping pong or diving events but there are just as much running and swimming events.  All in all it's the Olympics and for me it's great to watch the top of all athletes in each respective sport.  No politics no nothing just go out and let the best of the best play out.  Was a great Olympics to watch.

I agree, these are all good athletes and just enjoying their chosen sports and showing the passion they've chose to everyone through this competition.
To be honest, these athletes like each other and have mad respect to each of the crafts that they've built through these sports and careers that they are in that made them do a lot of trainings.
It's just that their governments are the ones that are dividing them but even so, if it's about Olympics it is about these athletes get together and compete for their glory.

[snipie]

Yeah, that Australian break dancer probably set an antirecord when she scored zero points. What Australian Olympic committee was thinking about when they send her? Other athletes train for the games, she just got free tickets to visit France. As well as to flight half of the world to show "that"? She does not value her time. Also, did not she steal someone else quota place to perform on Olympics?

it's a new sport, no one expected such performances, certainly the poor selection meant that these poor impressions spread within the sporting event but it must be said that being an immature and new sport, the first performances must be taken with a pinch of salt

If it was in a random country, I would say that it might have one parent in charge or bribed the one in charge of the players being sent abroad to humiliate their nation for a free vacation abroad.
Media whether social media or even TV news and shows didn't stop talking about her movements and mocking her new "style".
This new sport will not be played in 2028 Los Angeles from what I heard, so no new embarrassment from their side

[Dave1]

For the French basketball team, I think there's a lot of talent in that team and if they continue to nurture the team, they can go on to conquer the world in few years to come.

Indeed.
France have a lot of talented players and they will be top players in NBA from next season too.
I think they will be the strongest team in Europe for several years from now.
Victor Wembanyama is a golden Rookie for Sand Antotnio Spurs.

Yeah, they have the NBA's Rookie of the Year that's why they are very strong, although I think they really need good players the next time around. Not sure if Batum can still play in the next Olympics as he is already old.

But just imagine though a prime Tony Parker with Wemby and Gobert, it might be a very different team and it would really give team USA a very good fight and who knows there could be some upset with that kind of lineup.

[Yaunfitda]

So, what I am saying it, whoever the Phelps is, he or she gotta train someone to become like him or her, for the fact that he or she is not going to be performing and living for ever, or for an entire generation, it's not possible you know.
So, that the world will have another person like him or her as a replacement for when he or she is gone, he's or she's gonna train someone to become exactly, perfect like him or herself, else, who's gonna carry on with the legacy, he or her legacy?

I don't think he will train someone in the future, but his coach is definitely trying to help various athletes like Leon Marchand etc to try and overtake him, but that might never happen if you ask me.

But it might take time though for someone to come out and then break the record of Phelps in swimming. He had competition during his prime, but as you have said, he is really on another level by himself. And he could be in the discussions as one in the Mt. Rushmore as far as the sports of swimming goes.

Some athletes already broke a couple of his world records, but I don't think anyone will ever overtake him as the most decorated/greatest Olympian of all time. That dude is a supernatural being in my opinion.

Yeah, they could have broken his world records already, but him being the most decorated Olympic medalist, it's really hard to see someone even equaling the medals that he got in the Olympics. If I'm not mistaken, there was a interview of him that says that he didn't missed any training days and probably that's what really separate him from the rest and like the other greatest in any sports, they really have that kind of mentally, it could be their competitiveness and that kind of thinking that no one can beat or overtake them and they will do everything in their power to be the best version of themselves. So it's not just the physically, every athlete can have superior genes and freak, but if you do not have that kind of Mamba mentality, I do not think that you can reach greatness.

[WatChe]

Really looking forward to Cricket in the LA Olympics 2028 being a big fan of Cricket myself. It's been added after 128 freaking years which is a long time and really odd considering how popular it is globally.

The USA Cricket stadiums are decent at best and need to be upgraded heavily before the Olympics kicks off after 4 years. Let's see what happens.

Cricket is a sports that is mostly confined to South Asia and that's prime reason of poor performance of South Asian countries in Olympics. It's high time for South Asian countries to think about focusing on other sports like Athletics, Boxing, swimming etc.

Football is included in Olympics but there is rule that only young players i.e. players with age less then 23 are allowed to play. If cricket is included in upcoming Olympics then is there any such criteria or it's same like ICC tournaments.

[Haunebu]

Cricket is a sports that is mostly confined to South Asia and that's prime reason of poor performance of South Asian countries in Olympics. It's high time for South Asian countries to think about focusing on other sports like Athletics, Boxing, swimming etc.

I agree. Countries like India have huge populations filled with talented individuals who can rival the best in the world if they gain access to proper facilities, but that will probably never happen thanks to their corrupt governments.

Football is included in Olympics but there is rule that only young players i.e. players with age less then 23 are allowed to play. If cricket is included in upcoming Olympics then is there any such criteria or it's same like ICC tournaments.

No idea. I really don't think they will apply such a rule considering it's making its return after such a long period though we never know.

[Sg4j1n3ll0]

Really looking forward to Cricket in the LA Olympics 2028 being a big fan of Cricket myself. It's been added after 128 freaking years which is a long time and really odd considering how popular it is globally.

The USA Cricket stadiums are decent at best and need to be upgraded heavily before the Olympics kicks off after 4 years. Let's see what happens.

Cricket is a sports that is mostly confined to South Asia and that's prime reason of poor performance of South Asian countries in Olympics. It's high time for South Asian countries to think about focusing on other sports like Athletics, Boxing, swimming etc.

Football is included in Olympics but there is rule that only young players i.e. players with age less then 23 are allowed to play. If cricket is included in upcoming Olympics then is there any such criteria or it's same like ICC tournaments.

let's also say that cricket is a lesser sport than football, football has always been in the Olympics but also because of its popularity it will also be important for the countries where cricket is so popular, but it must be said that it's much less important!

[acroman08]

Football is included in Olympics but there is rule that only young players i.e. players with age less then 23 are allowed to play. If cricket is included in upcoming Olympics then is there any such criteria or it's same like ICC tournaments.

just in case someone might get confused so I want to clarify some things up, flag football is the one that is included in the 2028 Olympics, not football. flag football is a variation of football and it has different rules, and from what I have seen it also has a lot less physical contact compared to football which makes it a lot safer to football and also a great way to showcase an athlete's athleticism.