2024 Paris Olympics General (non-Basketball/Track & Field) Discussion Thread

[azcatz11]

Fredric Weiss should've lit up the flame.

Tony Parker?

[G R E Y]

OH CELINE!

God bless her...

[heatwillbeback]

Epic photo.

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[VicG]

Man not a huge Celine fan but that was legendary as F

[G R E Y]

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[Liam_Gallagher]

That opening ceremony was…atrocious.

Re-creating the last supper was wild.

[G R E Y]

That opening ceremony was…atrocious.

Re-creating the last supper was wild.

I liked the creativity and concept in general, but there were parts that were distasteful. That was one of them.

[bisme37]

Aside from Men's Basketball I'm realizing most of my biggest interests this Olympics are actually on the Women's side.

I really enjoy women's indoor volleyball. I root for USA but a I'm fan of several other countries as well. It's usually annoyingly hard to watch in the US (there's plenty of college volleyball on tv but not really international or pro teams) so I always get pumped for Olympic volleyball.

And then in track and field I enjoy Americans like Gabby Thomas, Dalilah Muhammad, Sydney McLaughlin, Abby Steiner, Anna Hall and others. And I love the Dutch hurdler Femke Bol. And I can't forget my beautiful girlfriend, the Ukrainian high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh haha. And Aussie high jumper Nicola Olyslagers is cool too.

And I'll be watching the USA women's basketball team as well of course.

In other news yes I am single lol.

[azcatz11]

That opening ceremony was…atrocious.

Re-creating the last supper was wild.

I liked the creativity and concept in general, but there were parts that were distasteful. That was one of them.

It was wildly offensive to an entire religion. And completely unnecessary

[mkot]

This IS her legacy...

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[a-French-Fan]

That opening ceremony was…atrocious.

Re-creating the last supper was wild.

I liked the creativity and concept in general, but there were parts that were distasteful. That was one of them.

It was wildly offensive to an entire religion. And completely unnecessary

I understand why you think this. When I saw I thought "oh this is a parisian artist's stuff, this is not a beautiful show, and people throught the world won't understand. They will offense so many people".

But then I thought this was great actually. Indeed, it was not to offense a religion, but to claim right to blasphem. When so many books are withdrawed from libraries, when LGBTQ+ have to struggle against so much violence and discriminations, when France seems to forget his history and stop to consider Human rights as his main values ... Finally this was a very interesting thing. But, i have to aknowledge this was not easy to understand from US and other countries where religion is very important.

In France, understand that religions are a private thing, but everyone is free to chose and live with his religion. Don't forget if France and USA where considered as twin nations was because of free religions. Someone could be french or US whatever his religion. Look at Jews from the 19s who went to US and France (mainly from eastern Europe) for awareness freedom.

So I am sorry if people were offensed, but be sure that people who supported this ceremony wanted to send a message for tolerance and respect for everyone in a world where more and more people are not accepted as they are: Humans. In this way, I felt well represented as a French, and even proud.

[ORLMagicGirl15]

Gymnastics, swiming, track and field, and basketball those are my favorite. Honestly, I can watch gymnastics all day.

[ORLMagicGirl15]

I’m so confused, when did the opening ceremony start? It’s on NBC now but it seem like some have already watched it.

[bisme37]

I’m so confused, when did the opening ceremony start? It’s on NBC now but it seem like some have already watched it.

It was live earlier today. On NBC and Peacock. On NBC they are replaying it right now (on the East coast at least).

This will be the case for many of the sports events as well. Everything streams live on Peacock, and often airs live on one of the NBC TV channels too (USA, CNBC etc). Then NBA airs a recap/condensed version of the day's events in prime time each night.

[G R E Y]

I liked the creativity and concept in general, but there were parts that were distasteful. That was one of them.

It was wildly offensive to an entire religion. And completely unnecessary

I understand why you think this. When I saw I thought "oh this is a parisian artist's stuff, this is not a beautiful show, and people throught the world won't understand. They will offense so many people".

But then I thought this was great actually. Indeed, it was not to offense a religion, but to claim right to blasphem. When so many books are withdrawed from libraries, when LGBTQ+ have to struggle against so much violence and discriminations, when France seems to forget his history and stop to consider Human rights as his main values ... Finally this was a very interesting thing. But, i have to aknowledge this was not easy to understand from US and other countries where religion is very important.

In France, understand that religions are a private thing, but everyone is free to chose and live with his religion. Don't forget if France and USA where considered as twin nations was because of free religions. Someone could be french or US whatever his religion. Look at Jews from the 19s who went to US and France (mainly from eastern Europe) for awareness freedom.

So I am sorry if people were offensed, but be sure that people who supported this ceremony wanted to send a message for tolerance and respect for everyone in a world where more and more people are not accepted as they are: Humans. In this way, I felt well represented as a French, and even proud.

Right to blaspheme is a French tradition. But let's be honest about why one religion was chosen over another. This was the safer choice. Tolerance and respect.

[G R E Y]

That opening ceremony was…atrocious.

Re-creating the last supper was wild.

I liked the creativity and concept in general, but there were parts that were distasteful. That was one of them.

It was wildly offensive to an entire religion. And completely unnecessary

And to da Vinci. Ooof.

[ORLMagicGirl15]

Will any Olympic ceremony top the Beijing Olympics?

[G R E Y]

Will any Olympic ceremony top the Beijing Olympics?

That was a good one. That said, I LOVED London 2012. But I'm a huge JK Rowling and Queen Elizabeth II fan, so yeah we all have our attachments that tilt the scales in favour of one over another.

[RookieStar]

Will any Olympic ceremony top the Beijing Olympics?

Im not British or even a Euro BUT Mr. Bean, Mr. Bond AND the QUEEN??? Yeah that was one for the ages.