Paris Olympics 2024

No daft punky, no likey.

Liked the river robot horse

Saw it trot up the Seine for about 3 hours on the opening night, did it do summat interesting after that?

My wife is loving her French pop Spotify list being brought to life

Kavinsky is great

It's a start!

Kavinsky! Wow!

Do 1901 you cowards

Called it

It's quite a lot of Phoenix.

Daft Punk appeared when they played this in Madison Square Garden

I like the bassists tone.

Band were great!

They should have got Snoop Dogg in

Still time for some Daft Punk & Snoop

Tom Cruise time please.

Can't believe snoop is taking the flag to LA

The awkward moment when Kate Courtney was not selected for Paris... 😬

It is a doggy dogg world.

The Tom Cruise segment was excellent, not so much the Snoop Dogg thing on Venice Beach.

Full throttle American, absolutely unhinged.

She's certainly got a pair of lungs.

We ready for a montage?

https://x.com/YouGov/status/1822224347584516143?t=yMlQ7Vugw2o9qK-uZwjNhw&s=19

27% of Britons reckon that they could qualify for a sport at the 2028 Olympics, if they started training today

% saying they would definitely/probably qualify for...
10m Air Rifle: 15%
Archery: 13%
Badminton: 10%
Table tennis: 9%
Rowing: 7%
100m sprint: 6%
Road race: 6%
100m Breaststroke: 6%
Trampoline: 6%
Shot Put: 5%
Cycle sprint: 5%
Dressage: 5%
Fencing: 5%
Golf: 5%
Volleyball: 5%
Basketball: 4%
Football: 4%
Windsurfing: 4%
Triathlon: 4%
Water polo: 4%
Rhythmic Gymnastics: 3%
Artistic Gymnastics: 3%
Diving: 3%

Kind of feels like the coverage and commentary almost promotes this idea though. Seem to recall a few times the commentary or chat would be talking about someone who just 'picked some sport up' after watching a previous Olympics and being inspired to then train at it over the years between. This is one example that presents it in that way like they're saying she started doing Park Run a couple of years ago and now she's an Olympic Track medalist, but she has a significant background in competing in running before that. I'm sure there are a lot of other stories of people who were alright at something when they were a kid, at college or University or just something they picked up as a teenager for extra curricular stuff that then slipped off who think they could probably get into the Olympics, whether they could or not who knows. Then there is also just deluded people who think everything is easy until they step up to actually do it and they fall on their arse.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/11/georgia-bell-paris-olympics-athletics-parkrun

The answer is dressage cos the horse does all the work. Horse dancing is not a sport