Is that a cheese wheel?
Yup, that Italian athlete is sponsored by Parmesan
Sponsored by Big Parma?? I’ll see myself out…
dangit, there it is.
nice.
┻━┻ ヘ╰( •̀ε•́ ╰)
That’s great!
┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
ノ┬─┬ノ ︵ ( \o°o)\
If you would add a couple random additional fingers and scramble the text, the absurdity of the picture really looks like AI generated content
Two of my favorite things, but I wasn’t able to find more cheese pictures
cheeese wheels and sponsorship
Excellent! More Olympians should have such fun (and tasty) sponsors!
Strategic hand placement
Much ado about nothing.
What’s happening in the first picture on the fourth row?
It’s from the badminton. The Chinese player was in the semi-final against Carolina Marin of Spain. Marin had won the first game and was leading in the second before having to retire injured.
So He Bingjiao held up a pin with the Spanish flag on it as a mark of respect for Marin, who should really have been in her place on the podium.
Always warms my heart to see the amount of respect these athletes have for their competitors. Sometimes people are awesome!
Well, it’s all part of the Olympic spirit and what it’s all supposed to be about.
Competing at a high level but with graciousness and respect for each other.
🥹
Gojira and the beheaded Marie Antoinette needs to be included. The Korean sharpshooter too. Also, what is the Chinese athlete holding on the leftmost, second-to-the-last row?
A tiny badge with a spanish flag.
Her Spanish semi-final opponent in badminton injured herself during their match and had to withdraw. source e.g. here
What a cool thing for her to do. Mad respect.
They left out the cuban wrestler Mijan Lopez. After winning his fifth consecutive Olympic Gold Medal in his discipline, the Cuban giant retired from wrestling. His sneakers on the middle of the mat were certainly an Olympic image, considering the discipline and his achievements.
That was an extremely powerful moment. I’ll never forget it.
The mystified Chinese girl is one of the cutest pics ever. When in Rome…
Her expression is like “Is that what we’re supposed to do?”
Pretty sure they were in Paris dude 🙄
What’s the story behind this one?
Not sure if actually dating or not, but at least joked about the being a couple - https://www.scmp.com/sport/paris-olympics-2024/china/article/3272185/chinese-olympic-gold-medal-winners-pose-sparks-social-media-jokes-about-relationship
Thanks! Sounds like an overreaction doesn’t it?
wheres the cyberpunk asian shooter girl?
Where’s the big floppy pole vaulter?
You mean the big floppy pole pole vaulter?
Great collection. Though I feel like the picture of Remco Evenepoel (cyclist) should have been the one where he stands legs and arms wide open with the Eiffel tower in the background.
I have heard nothing about the Olympics this year aside from the shooting competition. It’s very weird.
It was still relatively popular but the olympics has been in decline due to being shackled behind paid cable channels. Everybody’s moved to streaming but apparently they didn’t get the memo. Just knowing where you can find the olympics is such a nightmare they have a giant table explaining which channel you should go to depending on where you live
No, they got the memo. At least in the US, the Peacock app had every single event broken out into live events, replays and highlights. Or you could watch the gold medal stream and just mainline finals. They did a pretty good job, IMO.
I haven’t watched the Olympics in a long time but I thought the experience was kinda shit, especially compared to ye olden days of it being on every channel. My experience was basically:
My wife: What’s the difference between “Women’s all around final” and “women’s all around final (TV)”?
Me: googling I think we want the “TV” one?
30 second ad
20 seconds of a commentator talking over a view of Paris
2 minutes of ads
15 minutes of the camera just looking at an empty apparatus while there’s clearly other stuff going on in the background
2 minutes ads
30 seconds commentators discussing the event
2 minutes ads
Ok they actually fucking start, finally
Someone does something, 2 second MICRO AD??? This is a thing now apparently? Randomly throughout there’s these insanely short ads that are super jarring
Zoom in on Simone Biles face
Watch someone do a warmup on vault
Simone itches her nose
We can clearly hear other competitors doing things in the background, but Simone is looking to the right, so let’s focus on that
2 minutes ads
Watch a competitor do uneven bars, neat
Back to Simone, she’s talking to Suni now, we can’t hear it, but it must be important
Literally can see people doing flips and shit in the background, but let’s watch Simone as she sits in this chair
2 minutes ads
BREAKING NEWS: Simone blinks
“What did that other girl get for a score? Did they show it?”
Attempt to rewind 30 seconds. Big mistake, 2 minutes ads
Simone does a vault
2 minutes ads
…
Like I love Simone Biles, I do. Obviously I want to see all of her events. But holy shit, I’m here to watch the Olympics, not the “Simone is waiting for her turn” show. Also it was like 90% ads, they didn’t even show some of the highest scoring performances (since they only showed like 3 other people besides Simone), and half the time didn’t even show the scores they received. It was just…pretty bleh.
Completely agree, and I have watched a ton. The quantity of ads is outrageous, and the “ongoing coverage” streams make you watch a pile of ads before you even find out what’s playing.
The video was always stuttering and just shy of unwatchable on the “live” streams, the ads were out of hand, commentary audio was super inconsistent, even the camera work was pretty shit overall. Like, missing critical moments when that was the only thing going on.
I thought NBC / Peacock did a pretty bad job.
My two complaints about Peacock were:
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Even taking the raw World feed there were often still segments cut out which I assume is where they ran ads. Watching replays with the “ad-free” plan there were no ads there, but the content was still gone.
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Even though the entirety of the events were produced in 4K/UHD, only HD content was available. I understand that they did this because none of their broadcast facilities run in UHD yet and I guess they don’t have their streaming apps supporting it yet, but it’s definitely time for that to be supported. Claiming they don’t need to go UHD because their affiliates aren’t using ATSC 3.0 yet is patently false; the signal is live in my market and dozens of others as well.
That definitely needs to be fixed by Los Angeles, and really should be by Milano Cortina.
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In Europe HBO covered it, I think you could even get a free trial during the Olympics if you didn’t have an account from before. My partner has an account so I didn’t check.
It worked great, and it was nice to easily change the language of the commentary. Really couldn’t have asked for a better viewing experience, as I don’t want public broadcasters to support this corruption shit show.
That said, it bothers me that it’s impossible to find clips online.
Damn, the Olympics are free in Canada. The US needs to do the same.
That’s what I heard from friends who were watching, they said it was a massive improvement over the last Games.
On the BBC in the UK. I’ve had a great few weeks of uninterrupted Olympics coverage with no advertisements at all. Bliss.
Hère un France they had almost all the sports on the two public channels, everyday for two weeks. Impossible to miss.
lol the cookie accept prompt on that site:
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!olympics@sh.itjust.works had most of the discussion
I’ve never wanted to be a round of cheese more XD
No T-Rex pose?
Needs more Australian break dancing
For me, it was Gojira
who was that
The metal band who played during the opening ceremony
What about the aussie breakdancer on her head?
I would have used the headless singer to represent the opening ceremony.
Yes! Gojira’s performance was amazing!