Summer Olympics 2024

[dwyane36]

Surprisingly, as basketball is so popular in USA and has strongest league, US did not participate with both men and women teams in a new Olympic games competition: 3x3 basketball. Only US women team participated in 3x3 basketball and won gold medal. Also surprisingly, how close all the games in 3x3 basketball were. This year US is participating in 3x3 basketball, but none of the players represent NBA. All of them are from teams from all over the world.

As far as I know, players need to accrue rating points to participate in the 3x3 Olympic event, which they can only get in FIBA-approved 3x3 tournaments (World Tour). I think a lot of NBA players would like to participate in the 3x3 Olympic event, but they don't have enough time to do it because of their busy schedules during the regular season.

[Dave1]

Surprisingly, as basketball is so popular in USA and has strongest league, US did not participate with both men and women teams in a new Olympic games competition: 3x3 basketball. Only US women team participated in 3x3 basketball and won gold medal. Also surprisingly, how close all the games in 3x3 basketball were. This year US is participating in 3x3 basketball, but none of the players represent NBA. All of them are from teams from all over the world.

As far as I know, players need to accrue rating points to participate in the 3x3 Olympic event, which they can only get in FIBA-approved 3x3 tournaments (World Tour). I think a lot of NBA players would like to participate in the 3x3 Olympic event, but they don't have enough time to do it because of their busy schedules during the regular season.

Yeah, and just like the USA team, it will take time for NBA players to really commit for the 3x3 so I must say that they the "pro" players decided to just skipped this tournament completely ad focus on the gold medal for the 5x5 basketball since this is the one of the centerpiece of the Olympics as the USA is the defending champion in this tournament.

They can still send players, perhaps from colleges to represent them. But then again, it is completely very different competition and USA is not the favorite to win in the mens as it is the Serbian that are rank higher than them.

[Sg4j1n3ll0]

I honestly can't wait for the Olympic Games to start and I can't wait to see Italy in athletics given that in this European they gave us great emotions but also in the previous Olympics, marcel jacobs it was incredible to think that never a The Italian had achieved a record and even winning the 100 meter dash I would say is already history, who knows if he will be able to repeat it, I remember it well also thanks to the bet that made me win

[Yaunfitda]

I honestly can't wait for the Olympic Games to start and I can't wait to see Italy in athletics given that in this European they gave us great emotions but also in the previous Olympics, marcel jacobs it was incredible to think that never a The Italian had achieved a record and even winning the 100 meter dash I would say is already history, who knows if he will be able to repeat it, I remember it well also thanks to the bet that made me win

It's going to be a very great match up for this Olympics, as Marcel Jacobs is the defending champion here. But we have seen Noah Lyles really improving in the last couple of years and I think this two are going to be the favorites in the 100 meters. However, I don't see them breaking Bolt's record, I'm not sure if anyone can touches that record to be honest as Bolt set that during his prime. So kinda different for this Olympics, congrats to you for making the bet. However, as I have said, it will not be easy for Jacobs to defend his medal this Olympics as there are a lot of upcoming sprinters, not just from the US.

[bakasabo]

Surprisingly, as basketball is so popular in USA and has strongest league, US did not participate with both men and women teams in a new Olympic games competition: 3x3 basketball. Only US women team participated in 3x3 basketball and won gold medal. Also surprisingly, how close all the games in 3x3 basketball were. This year US is participating in 3x3 basketball, but none of the players represent NBA. All of them are from teams from all over the world.

As far as I know, players need to accrue rating points to participate in the 3x3 Olympic event, which they can only get in FIBA-approved 3x3 tournaments (World Tour). I think a lot of NBA players would like to participate in the 3x3 Olympic event, but they don't have enough time to do it because of their busy schedules during the regular season.

If NBA players dont have time to get rating points for 3x3 Olympic event, then how come they get time to get to 5x5 Olympic event? Their seasons last from October 2023 to July 2024. And if look on the schedule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324_NBA_season), January-April is free time for them. As well as there are 30 team participating. They cant find 3-4 players that arent that busy to participate in any rating points event?

[notblox1]

First round of Olympic Football matches started today with eight matches in the schedule.
Argentina is playing the first match in the tournament against Morocco and this two teams never played against each other before.
Alvarez, Rulli, and Otamendi are all playing for Argentina after winning Copa America few weeks ago, but they are alerady losing the first half against Morocco.
I am expecting more goals and interesting second half between this two teams.
Another possible surprise is Uzbekistan vs Spain 1:1 in first half.

All matches played today:

Argentina vs Morocco
Uzbekistan vs Spain
Egypt vs Dominican Republic
Guinea vs New Zealand
Iraq vs Ukraine
Japan vs Paraguay
France vs USA
Mali vs Israel
https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/football?day=24-july

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Argentina vs Morocco was crazy, big controversy.

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/what-happened-argentina-morocco-olympic-soccer-equalizer-2024-games/4d65d4f2d566c84f9341ce72

Javier Mascherano's side managed to pull one back through Atletico Madrid forward Giuliano Simeone, and then scored a dramatic equalizer in the 16th minute of added time at the end of the match. Cristian Medina's goal was bundled in after multiple efforts had hit the woodwork.

With so much unexplainable added time for Argentina to find a goal, the events of the match clearly frustrated Morocco fans — so much so that they invaded the field of play and threw objects near the players.

While it seemed the match concluded after the goal, that was not the case, and after over an hour of deliberation, the end of the game was sensationally reversed. Ultimately, Argentina fell 2-1 to Morocco in highly controversial fashion.

What happened at the end of Argentina vs. Morocco Olympic soccer match?

At the end of the 90 minutes, Morocco were leading 2-1. However, the African side spent the majority of the second half wasting time, which led to the referee adding an extra 15 minutes of injury time.

That highly unusual amount of time was down to time-wasting tactics by Morocco as well as a pitch invasion towards the end of the game. Still, it was hard to justify such an incredibly high number.

When Giuliano Simeone scored his equalizer 30 seconds after the 15 minutes had come and gone, Moroccan fans lost their heads, invading the pitch and throwing objects towards the Argentine players. Reports of a firecracker landing next to Julian Alvarez circulated.

Argentinian journalist Hugo Balassone suggested that this tournament has implemented a new method for added time: the VAR has a stopwatch to make up for "lost time." This ensures that teams are appropriately punished for wasting time and give the opponent a fair amount of play to find a goal.

Medina's strike, which came after an insane series of rebounds, post strikes and saves by Munir El Kajoui, appeared to be the final kick of the match.

The officials initially announced that the match was suspended due to the fan disruptions, however it was then later confirmed that the game had indeed finished 2-2 on the official Olympic website. However, after over an hour of deliberation, the match was sensationally brought back to life by the referee, who spotted an issue with Argentina's equalizer.

In a truly astonishing turn of events, the goal was disallowed by VAR due to an offside, with the decision coming over an hour after the supposed end of the match. Throughout that time, players and coaches had reportedly been kept in the locker rooms while deliberations on how to proceed continued.

Ultimately, the match officials decided to bring all the players back out onto the pitch and warm up for 10 minutes, before then having the referee officially review the incident and determine the goal to be nullified — over 90 minutes after the match had appeared to be finished. By rule, the goal could not be officially reviewed by the referees without the players on the pitch.

Why was Argentina's goal ruled out by VAR?

From a purely sporting perspective, the decision to rule out Argentina's late equalizer against Morocco was the correct decision.

Ignacio Fernandez was judged to have been offside on Bruno Amione's shot that cannoned off the crossbar moments before Simeone's goal. The rebound off the woodwork winds up in Fernandez's lap, and it's his header to the far post which puts the ball into Simeone's path for the goal.

The controversy, obviously, comes in the manner with which the decision took place. It seemed that the match had concluded after Simeone's equalizer, with the result even appearing official at one point. However, over 90 minutes after the match "ended," play was restarted and Morocco played out to a 2-1 victory.

Over four hours after kickoff, the result was finally sealed, as the final three minutes of action took place with no fans in the stands.

Following the result, Argentina head coach Javier Mascherano dubbed the events "the biggest circus I have ever seen in my life."

Lionel Messi posted to his Instagram the word "insolito" on a black background, which translates in English to "unbelievable."

[LTU_btc]

Argentina vs Morocco was crazy, big controversy.

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/what-happened-argentina-morocco-olympic-soccer-equalizer-2024-games/4d65d4f2d566c84f9341ce72

Football in Olympics, what a joke. First day of Olympics and we already have big scandal even before opening ceremony. It's biggest sport event in 4 years and France already failed with security. And then when it was already possible to play these remaining few minutes, everything probably was done according to rules, but still, such things always looks contraversial.

[Weawant]

The Olympics games for football has kicked off and a few games were played today, I was able to follow up with one of the games and I didn't find it really interesting enough, I don't want to really make conclusions but so far I'm not impressed enough except going further it gets better.

Looking at the performance today it is looking like the Olympics isn't going to be an easy one to make predictions on, it's not having a definite pattern just yet and many other country Stars may not get to participate because the season are here already and it will exert a lot of pressure on them. The Olympics currently don't seem like a game really appreciated in the football world, it doesn't seem to get good ranking and not often mentioned in career achievements of footballers and even coaches at times, this may be a contributing factor to the low attention the Olympics get with football.

[Alpha Marine]

Football in Olympics, what a joke. First day of Olympics and we already have big scandal even before opening ceremony. It's biggest sport event in 4 years and France already failed with security. And then when it was already possible to play these remaining few minutes, everything probably was done according to rules, but still, such things always looks contraversial.

With things like this you can't help but ask if France are doing this on purpose. I mean in terms of the security. Argentina complained that they were attacked and a player was robbed. Fireworks were thrown at them. I think it's the French people that just want to take revenge on the Argentine squad for what the senior team did on the bus. I think French people took that very personally.

As for the match, I still don't understand why they had to come back and review the goal. If a match has ended then everybody has to move on. I don't think it's right to call a match back to review a goal, it doesn't make sense. The goal should be reviewed before they suspended the match.

[Harkorede]

France looks like a completely different in the Euro 2024 compared to what we are seeing now, I totally understand that these are to different tournaments and the competition and quality of their opponents is quite lower now but the looking the lack of attacking power France had in the Euro I'm strongly convinced that given the form both Lacazette, Mateta and Michael Oliseh weren't on the squad, Mateta had a better season than Thuram in my opinion and so did Lacazette too, if you ask me. I guess that's the curse of having way too many options.

[SatoPrincess]

Tomorrow Nigeria will be playing against Brazil in the women football tournament. The Nigerian national women team, Super Falcons are placed in a group with Japan, Spain, and Brazil. It’s a no brainer that the Super Falcons are the underdogs in the group and are the least likely to qualify from the group. The Super Falcons have had some amazing progress from their last appearance on the international stage but compared to the other teams in group C they seem like weak link in the group. If the Super Falcons are able to beat Brazil tomorrow, they would have built for themselves a confidence and reputation in the tournament.

[Die_empty]

Argentina vs Morocco was crazy, big controversy.

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/what-happened-argentina-morocco-olympic-soccer-equalizer-2024-games/4d65d4f2d566c84f9341ce72

Football in Olympics, what a joke. First day of Olympics and we already have big scandal even before opening ceremony. It's biggest sport event in 4 years and France already failed with security. And then when it was already possible to play these remaining few minutes, everything probably was done according to rules, but still, such things always looks contraversial.

Didn't watch the match because I was still at work but reading the news of what happened, I was surprised at what happened. The security on the ground couldn't stop Moroccan fans from invading the pitch in protest. Luckily they achieved their aim as the goal was cancelled since VAR concluded it was not a goal.

This is a failure of the security and the match officiating system. So If the fans didn't protest, it would have been counted for a goal.? This can serve as a motivation to other country's fans to do the same thing if they are not satisfied with officiating. I just hope that the organizers have learned the right lesson from the outcome of this game. They shouldn't allow such a thing to happen again in this competition because it will affect their reputation negatively. Congratulations to the Moroccan team,maybe we might see a repeat of the last World Cup performance by the Moroccan national team in Qatar.

[Sithara007]

Football in Olympics, what a joke. First day of Olympics and we already have big scandal even before opening ceremony. It's biggest sport event in 4 years and France already failed with security. And then when it was already possible to play these remaining few minutes, everything probably was done according to rules, but still, such things always looks controversial.

What is your problem man? If basketball and volleyball can be included in Olympics, then definitely football can find it's rightful place. And from 2028, cricket is also being included. And you maybe already knowing about the player eligibility criteria. It is essentially an Under-23 competition, with a maximum 3 over-age players being allowed in the roster. And this means that Olympic football tournament is a great opportunity for the younger players. And regarding Paris, I agree that it is a bad choice for hosting the Games.

[knowngunman]

France vs USA

This game was interesting especially in the first sixty to seventy minutes. I didn't expect USA to play the way they did. France was clearly the superior side and more importantly had superior strikers but USA move the ball excellently and even created a good scoring opportunities when they hit crossbar, hit the post and the save from the goal keeper.

Although, we can still say USA need to pay much attention to sport industries because they seem to show less concern about it which is the reason the country can not compete with their fellow. If they can continue to play like this, they will definitely advance to next stage from that their group.

[Rikafip]

What is your problem man? If basketball and volleyball can be included in Olympics, then definitely football can find it's rightful place. And from 2028, cricket is also being included. And you maybe already knowing about the player eligibility criteria. It is essentially an Under-23 competition, with a maximum 3 over-age players being allowed in the roster. And this means that Olympic football tournament is a great opportunity for the younger players.

He will me correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think that he has issues with football being part of the Olympics but instead he was (probably) referring at what happened yeterday in Morocco-Argrntina game where they disallowed goal Argentina scored for 2-2 hour and a half after the end of the game.

One thing is true though, football at Olympics was never that popular simply because of u23 rule and it will remain like that until that is changed (which I don't think will happen).

[Justbillywitt]

Football in Olympics, what a joke. First day of Olympics and we already have big scandal even before opening ceremony. It's biggest sport event in 4 years and France already failed with security. And then when it was already possible to play these remaining few minutes, everything probably was done according to rules, but still, such things always looks contraversial.

With things like this you can't help but ask if France are doing this on purpose. I mean in terms of the security. Argentina complained that they were attacked and a player was robbed. Fireworks were thrown at them. I think it's the French people that just want to take revenge on the Argentine squad for what the senior team did on the bus. I think French people took that very personally.

As for the match, I still don't understand why they had to come back and review the goal. If a match has ended then everybody has to move on. I don't think it's right to call a match back to review a goal, it doesn't make sense. The goal should be reviewed before they suspended the match.

Exactly my point, after the fans interference and according to reports two hours has already passed the match should have just ended the way it was. What they have done here might be a reference point when football season finally returns. We might start seeing a situation where clubs will start calling for reviews for matches that has already ended. I don't understand what's happening to football lately since the introduction of var, sometimes there are many decisions that are really questionable, just like this one that happened here.

As for France fans attacking the Argentine's fan and athletes because of the incident that happened after the Copa America victory, I think it's not necessary. FIFA and other bodies are investigating the issues, so it won't be nice for them to take laws into their hands. I know the tension between the two countries are high now, but the police should do their job without being bias.

[Haunebu]

I was genuinely surprised to hear that Argentina's late, late goal was disallowed later on. 4 freaking attempts to get the goal in at the end was crazy and I knew that it looked like it was an offside, but I was surprised to see the referee not signalling that.

This game was far more entertaining than the Egypt-Dom Republic game which was boring as hell. Just wish they didn't make it controversial.

[joniboini]

We might start seeing a situation where clubs will start calling for reviews for matches that has already ended. I don't understand what's happening to football lately since the introduction of var, sometimes there are many decisions that are really questionable, just like this one that happened here.

I think it's too far-fetched since a case like this is an exception rather than the norm, but players or teams will definitely get confused if the officials keep referring to different rules for each competition. Maybe FIFA and other governing bodies should talk and judge which rules to use for every major competition and tell the players beforehand, so people won't use example from different competition because there's no end to that. A little bit of transparency should help in this regard, although I don't see how to solve incompetency other than replacing people. CMIIW.

[Ultegra134]

First round of Olympic Football matches started today with eight matches in the schedule.
Argentina is playing the first match in the tournament against Morocco and this two teams never played against each other before.
Alvarez, Rulli, and Otamendi are all playing for Argentina after winning Copa America few weeks ago, but they are alerady losing the first half against Morocco.
I am expecting more goals and interesting second half between this two teams.
Another possible surprise is Uzbekistan vs Spain 1:1 in first half.

All matches played today:

Argentina vs Morocco
Uzbekistan vs Spain
Egypt vs Dominican Republic
Guinea vs New Zealand
Iraq vs Ukraine
Japan vs Paraguay
France vs USA
Mali vs Israel
https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/football?day=24-july

I hadn't bothered checking for more information regarding the 2024 Olympics until yesterday. I'm sorry if this question sounds dumb, but weren't the Olympics to start tomorrow, the 26th of July? How come there were football matches on the 24th and 25th?

Anyway, this will be my first time to actively watch the Olympic games. I've got zero clue on what to expect regarding gambling purposes, which is why I'm likely to stay as a spectator. Otherwise, I'll bet on a few football or basketball games, hoping for the best.