Paris Olympics 2024

A week ago Norn Iron had 3 golds in Olympic history - we've doubled that already.

Atmosphere must be incredible

Amazing double performance.

What a night in the pool

That 100 FS WR was insane, apparently the pool is slow as shallow

Reminder too that the French National Anthem is so much more fun than the GB&NI one.

Pan Zhanle. Hmmm.

Big well done to Kieran Reilly. Watching his progress from that talented kid on Tall Orders YouTube channel to Olympic silver has been a great journey.

Just seen Tall Order posted this:

https://youtu.be/-ew016gD0fY?si=GC1fAiPgADfveQMY

Silver medalist looks like he just walked in off the street and thought he'd have a go

Thanks that’s what I was after appreciated.

Was watching him in the mixed doubles whatever and he has such a cool vibe.

lol exactly what I thought, there’s been a bit of a history with the Chinese team the past few years.

Mens 20k race walk - 3.46km pace in the last few k's and up to 3.40km- amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liY66EJOP60

Just checked out the walking and saw someone check their watch. Immediately thought: "That's me 20 years ago on my commute to work and running a bit late."

Any comments on the female boxing? As there was quite a few negative comments before about the boxer competing

What do you mean? Was watching the dutch contestant last night, she has a hilarious style. Lost to the brazilian beast unfortunately.

Basketball 3x3 is great , new to me.

Am trying not to use the names of the atheles in case searches attach to this thread. The thread seems to very active of Facebook.

The Algerian and Taiwanese female boxers, and that a boxing opponent quit after 46 seconds.

Edit Thanks @rhb hope people understand my fear of using names could possibly bring people to the forum to cause issues.

It's hard to comment without complete understanding. The BBC has an article on it.

Isn't this thread mambers only?

Sailings back on, nice bit of coast.

That BBC article is very lacking of facts. This is also worth a read

A lot to agree with in that article. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for posting, that makes far more sense than the BBC article, these cases are brutal for the individuals involved

excellent article @RonnieOatmilk

another angle the article skims is misoginoir, and how that's intrinsically tied to transphobia; how it has been used within sports to attack or push our competition.

there has been a reccuring focus coming from sore losers, radicalised gender criticials; oppertunistic right wing fundamentalists, targetting, often, black and brown atheletes on the world stage when they show signs of beating (usually white) women. it's not dissimilar to caster semenya, the williams sisters and so forth. it's heavily tied up in transphobia, misoginoir, and general reactionary opinions from people seeking to police womens bodies. seemingly to do anything other than train and get better at sport. this noisy empty pipe has been recently emboldend by sports bodies heading to their protests over trans women . protests and changes many warned would lead to greater policing of womens bodies as a whole, as we see here.

some articles on similar caes, discussing misoginoir:

https://gal-dem.com/athletics-war-of-transphobia-and-misogynoir-black-african-women-losing/

https://www.sludge.online/caster-semenya-when-fairness-is-false

https://www.stylist.co.uk/people/what-the-caster-semenya-case-says-about-misogynoir-and-transmisogyny-in-sport-and-beyond/264821

https://www.newsweek.com/serena-williams-greatest-player-all-time-and-classic-case-misogynoir-opinion-1119510

worth noting the male catagory faces no such limits on naturally occuring body diamorphism (it's in fact celebrated). noone would dream of blaming a loss in mens boxing on naturally occuring body physiology of their opponent. they'd be laughed out the room. this paternalistic attitude of "risk" and "danger" in womens sport is is itself rooted in misoginy.