Summer Olympics 2024

[hosseinimr93]

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.

The goal wasn't disallowed after the match, but during the match.
The referee had to suspend the match due to the chaos caused by the crowd when there were three minutes left and the goal hadn't been reviewed yet. The match was resumed after nearly 2 hours and VAR disallowed the goal.

[Moreno233]

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?

Olympics is mostly for fun, indeed it is full of fun. The procession alone is an event that many people across the world look forward to and this cut across race, sex and age. It is difficult to see someone that do not like any of the events in the Olympics since they are so many, from indoor games to outdoor games. However, the Olympics could also be a good opportunity to earn passive income. There are certain events whose outcome can easily be determine. Putting money in these events can actually become money.

[Jating]

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?

Olympics is mostly for fun, indeed it is full of fun. The procession alone is an event that many people across the world look forward to and this cut across race, sex and age. It is difficult to see someone that do not like any of the events in the Olympics since they are so many, from indoor games to outdoor games. However, the Olympics could also be a good opportunity to earn passive income. There are certain events whose outcome can easily be determine. Putting money in these events can actually become money.

Yeah, it's purely for fun and obviously you will have to support your country and hope that they can get more medals. But in any case though, this might be the first time that I will bet, specially in the basketball games. Although the Americans might be the huge favorite for the gold, the battle for silver and bronze might be a good one to bet as there are a lot of countries, who might be a huge underdog that can reach their qualifying in their division, like South Sudan who gave the Americans one hell of a fight.

I do agree that track and field is one of most exciting games as there are a lot of great athletes in both women and men. 100m, 200m, and in the relays. Maybe we can see some drama with the baton passing specially if a great team drop it and lose their chances for a medal.

[AprilioMP]

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.

The goal wasn't disallowed after the match, but during the match.
The referee had to suspend the match due to the chaos caused by the crowd when there were three minutes left and the goal hadn't been reviewed yet. The match was resumed after nearly 2 hours and VAR disallowed the goal.

Yes, that's true. VAR did show that the goal had to be canceled because it was in an offside position. The referee who leads the match needs to take firm action to be a lesson to other referees who will be on duty in other matches that the firmness of the referee who leads the match must not repeat incidents like in this match.

[HajiBagi]

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

The Olympic Games are not going to be as interesting as other leagues' games because many teams don’t allow their players to for the Olympics because of injury and tiredness of some players and they won’t have enough time to rest, teams that don't allow their players to play in Olympic Games are like Real Madrid did not allow any of their players because they don’t want their players to get injured and come back to the team that they won’t be able to play very well when the team needs them, I didn’t see any team fault for not allowing their players to play in any Olympic Games because they have a good reason about that.

The only team that I have seen their performance in this tournament is France, France's performance against the USA is very impressive and I like the way those guys played together as one team, I’m not saying France is going to win this tournament but what I’m trying to say is that France performance in this Olympic tournament is better than any country and If they continue playing like this they are going to make it to the final round of this tournament.

[Die_empty]

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?

Olympics is mostly for fun, indeed it is full of fun. The procession alone is an event that many people across the world look forward to and this cut across race, sex and age. It is difficult to see someone that do not like any of the events in the Olympics since they are so many, from indoor games to outdoor games. However, the Olympics could also be a good opportunity to earn passive income. There are certain events whose outcome can easily be determine. Putting money in these events can actually become money.

The Olympics is a competition that you can watch for a long time without getting bored. There are different competitions that you can always tune to if one is on break or you get bored with a particular sport. But my favorite remains football because it is filled with surprises. African nations have found it difficult to get to the World Cup finals but two African teams have won gold in football in the Olympics.

Since the number of senior players that will play in the Olympic football team is restricted, it is a platform for the discovery of young talented footballers. In this current Olympic games, I am more interested in the female football games since my country's male football team didn't make it to the competition.

[TopTort777]

I dont remember that France usually earn a lot of medals during Olympic games, but they are always in top10. People say that "at home even walls help". Do you think that participating at home will help France to get more medals? Opening ceremony starts tomorrow evening. I always loved to watch athletes walk, so I suggest you to postpone some of your plans tomorrow, watch ceremony and support your team.

[Sithara007]

I dont remember that France usually earn a lot of medals during Olympic games, but they are always in top10. People say that "at home even walls help". Do you think that participating at home will help France to get more medals? Opening ceremony starts tomorrow evening. I always loved to watch athletes walk, so I suggest you to postpone some of your plans tomorrow, watch ceremony and support your team.

Home advantage always help (to a certain degree). France won a total of 33 medals including 10 golds in the previous edition (which is really good BTW). This time they will definitely won more (and also we need to remember that Russian athletes are not taking part, which will bring down the competition). France won gold medals last time in Judo, Fencing, Karate, Handball and Rowing. Also they won gold in men's Volleyball (after defeating Russian Olympic Committee in the finals).

[TopTort777]

Then it is left only to wish every team luck and play fair I really hope that everyone will compete fair and be clean from doping.

Btw, those who watch Olympic games, do you watch your favourite sport only, or sport where your country participate? I prefer to watch specific sports mostly and cheer for new record to be set. I find it really to cool to see if an athlete has improved so much during 4 years, that he has performed much better than gold medals owner of a previous games and set a new record. It is even cooler if a really old record is beaten.

[boltz]

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.

The goal wasn't disallowed after the match, but during the match.
The referee had to suspend the match due to the chaos caused by the crowd when there were three minutes left and the goal hadn't been reviewed yet. The match was resumed after nearly 2 hours and VAR disallowed the goal.

Olympics started very bad from all aspects and I can't even watch them to be honest. I've saw what happened yesterday in football and it was a disgrace to football because they really tried everything to let Argentina score but in the end they made the right call by VAR that 2nd goal of them but it took around 2 hours ? this looks like a rigged competition for Olympics football and I will not watch a single minute of it.

The only competition worth to watch is swimming at this point as there we will have a majestic battle between young generation who is coming to dominate the sport.

[Marvelockg]

Then it is left only to wish every team luck and play fair I really hope that everyone will compete fair and be clean from doping.

Btw, those who watch Olympic games, do you watch your favourite sport only, or sport where your country participate? I prefer to watch specific sports mostly and cheer for new record to be set. I find it really to cool to see if an athlete has improved so much during 4 years, that he has performed much better than gold medals owner of a previous games and set a new record. It is even cooler if a really old record is beaten.

my primary interest in the Olympics is mostly with regards the sports my nation has full representation in outside of which I look out for popular sports that I've interest in like swimming, table tennis and soccer. Olympics is basically for the fun of it and a means of uniting the world through sports. I've never considered staking a bet in any of the sports caus you can't really predict the outcome of most of those games exception of that where nations that are good at the said game are involved but even at that, for a difference of four years before hosting an Olympic games, you can't really tell the strength of the players that are involved in the games. Argentina lost to Morocco and if I was to do the prediction I would most likely predict that Argentina was going to win. Another advantage of the Olympics is that it lets you enjoy the uniqueness in other sports that are probably not regular on your TV.

[Emitdama]

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.

I think the problem is not because of the Olympic itself but it was the TV companies who got greedy and they rather televise programs which earns them more money than having to air one program all day but it still have some advantages to other people because they might not like watching the Olympics. Anyways, we still have the internet now, and we can always watch the Olympics there even for a whole day or for the whole week.

[SatoPrincess]

As a kid I used to watch the Olympics with my family. It was really fun to watch the games particularly the track games and football. To be honest I was more interested in the opening ceremony than the games itself. The Olympics was quite the show.

 I’m not so keen on the Olympics anymore. I would not bet on Olympics games especially after the controversy of yesterday’s game between Argentina and Morocco. I wonder the reactions of gamblers who lost their bet in that game. And how did casinos manage the situation? Was the game considered a win for Morocco or was the bet canceled because of the controversy?

[stompix]

Football in Olympics, what a joke.

You do know football has been a sport at the Olympics since 1900, right?
As for the Morroco fans, why the Pikachu faces, remember what happened in 2022 in Belgium after the match?

[Haunebu]

Decent start to the Olympics 2024 so far in my opinion. The football matches were quite boring except for the Argentina-Morocco one which was really entertaining all the way till the end surprisingly.

The handball match between South Korea and Germany was fire with the Koreans winning by just 1 freaking point.

[notblox1]

Embarrassing scenes from Argentina vs Morocco match, Morocco fans entered the pitch and they thrown bottles on players of Argentina, than after one hour VAR decided that goal was offside and result was changed from 2:2 to 1:2 
Messi was not happy about this decision and he event commented about this shameful decision.
I am expecting to see more problems during this Olympic games, on and off the pitch.

[LTU_btc]

Today we had start of women football and handball tournaments. In football so far without upsets. Also, Rugby-7 already reached 1/4 finals, this tournament is going so fast. Tomorrow we have Opening Ceremony, so, there won't be any competition in play.

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.

You do know football has been a sport at the Olympics since 1900, right?

Folks, calm down. Rikafip said well, I'm quoting his post below, first of all I was referring to situation that happened yesterday. But in general, I'm not big fan of mens football in Olympics. I think Olympics should be tournament of best athletes. Football was in the programme since 1900, but since 1992 when age rules were introduced, it stopped to be tournament of best athletes.It's like youth tournament with few older players. I know reasons why it was done, but winning Olympic gold in football isn't same like in basketball or volleyball.

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).

[coinlocket$]

Embarrassing scenes from Argentina vs Morocco match, Morocco fans entered the pitch and they thrown bottles on players of Argentina, than after one hour VAR decided that goal was offside and result was changed from 2:2 to 1:2 
Messi was not happy about this decision and he event commented about this shameful decision.
I am expecting to see more problems during this Olympic games, on and off the pitch.

it was literally a disaster I mean.
It has never happed before that 1 game got 2 hours stop for an invasion in the pitch and a delayed decision of the VAR after 2 hours.
Imagine if it will happen in a major league like Premier League what will be happen in the newspaper, a trash talk civil war.

And yeah this Olympic summer game will be problematic out of the games, like what happened yesterday to Australians ( I believe they were from Australia) with the robbery.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Athletics starts next week on 1st August. It’s probably what I’ve always enjoyed most during the Olympics.

Anything you're looking forward to in particular in the athletics guys?
 

[SatoPrincess]

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Nigeria put pressure in the first half but they lost because they did failed to take their chances . They froze from the moment Brazil started looking better. I didn’t have my hopes up for the Super Eagles so I can’t say I am disappointed with the results. I’m actually impresssed with how they played today despite the 1 nil loss. Looking at the stats Nigeria were the better side in the match. If they can play like they did in the last 15mins of tonight’s game, I believe they will be able to fare better against other teams in the group.