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Quote from: Docnaster on August 11, 2024, 03:13:11 PM

For the French basketball team, I think there's a lot of talent in that team and if they continue to nurture the team, they can go on to conquer the world in few years to come.

Indeed.
France have a lot of talented players and they will be top players in NBA from next season too.
I think they will be the strongest team in Europe for several years from now.
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The French team performed well in these Olympics. Second place behind the USA team is at least commendable. I think the French team might become an unpleasant opponent for the US team during the next Olympics, as by then, the US team is unlikely to have such players as LeBron, KD, and Curry on its roster.

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Quote from: TopTort777 on August 13, 2024, 04:20:10 AM

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What do you mean? Nobody select random people to represent whole country during Olympics. That chick got 4 years to train for her performance. To me she looked like just a random Australian team member who has replaced a real dancer. Somebody like massagist or team doctor. Really, at local discos people perform sometimes better. If it a new discipline for Olympic games, it does not mean that you have to take newbies. Break dance battle have been there for ages.

She was actually quite good in the past, she won fair and square competitions, the problem is not that she can't move like others or anything, it's the dance she has chosen, she is so much into politics that she made her entire program more about political stuff and culture than about just dancing, I don't know who helped her with the choreography but nobody told her or had the courage to tell her that although it does express something it also looks like crap.

Anyhow quite funny, Philip Kim and Ami Yuasa will be the only two with a gold medal in the sports for at least a decade, much like undisputed champions Grin

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Quote from: Docnaster on August 11, 2024, 03:13:11 PM

For the French basketball team, I think there's a lot of talent in that team and if they continue to nurture the team, they can go on to conquer the world in few years to come.

Indeed.
France have a lot of talented players and they will be top players in NBA from next season too.
I think they will be the strongest team in Europe for several years from now.
Victor Wembanyama is a golden Rookie for Sand Antotnio Spurs.

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Really looking forward to Cricket in the LA Olympics 2028 being a big fan of Cricket myself. It's been added after 128 freaking years which is a long time and really odd considering how popular it is globally.

The USA Cricket stadiums are decent at best and need to be upgraded heavily before the Olympics kicks off after 4 years. Let's see what happens.

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I think the Paris Olympics was bad both as an organization and for the country. At the end of the Olympics, I felt like I had eaten a meal that lacked salt, but in the end it was the biggest international event in the world and yet there were some good things to remember in Paris. The French dominated in every team event and reached the final in men's and women's basketball. Germany's decline, China and Korea's dominance in individual competitions and the East's rise in sports were all evident. Perhaps the biggest star of these Olympics, apart from Yusuf Dikec's pose, was Duplantis.

The Olympics have long needed a star like Bolt. Duplantis became an iconic star with his record and kissing his girlfriend after winning. These were the moments that impressed me and made the Olympics worth watching.

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Quote from: madnessteat on August 13, 2024, 06:47:29 AM

Quote from: TopTort777 on August 13, 2024, 01:59:07 AM

Yeah, that Australian break dancer probably set an antirecord when she scored zero points. What Australian Olympic committee was thinking about when they send her? Other athletes train for the games, she just got free tickets to visit France. As well as to flight half of the world to show "that"? She does not value her time. Also, did not she steal someone else quota place to perform on Olympics?

Haha. I was puzzled when I saw her performance. In my opinion, any schoolboy doing breakdancing in his free time could show much better results than this woman.

The fact that this Australian performancer took someone quota and her attendance was paid from taxes really disappoints me. I would also wish that my country would buy me tickets to Olympic games and pay my vacation in Paris for 2-3 weeks. I really cant believe that in Australia, there were no real break dancers and she had to perform.

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Quote from: Dave1 on August 12, 2024, 07:06:49 PM

Quote from: criptoevangelista on August 12, 2024, 05:50:14 AM

Cuba's decline in the last decades of the Olympics is clear. A country that has always been a reference in Olympic sports, this edition of the Olympics is in 32nd place in the medal table. If it continues at this pace, it will lose all its relevance in Olympic sports. Since Sydney 2000, its performance has been getting worse and worse... sad.

Yeah, they've been known to produce a lot of good boxers in the past, who would forget Teófilo Stevenson? And then Félix Savón? But their domination in this sports seems to put a stop in this 2024 Olympics.

Also they are also power house as far as wrestling goes.

Perhaps the programs of other countries are far as this sports goes has caught up with Cuba that's why they didn't win as much as they did in the past Olympics.

Probably that time there is nationalistic pride of the country, and probably they are really very proud and trying to show the world how good they were in boxing under Castro. But then if I'm not mistaken, their problem could have been copied or broken when some of their boxers defected to the US or choose to go to America after their amateur or Olympic careers.

And same with their coaches as well, they are being hired by other countries to start their boxing program and with that, they've been depleted as coaches coaches to go somewhere with good pay and no longer wanted to represent their country.

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Quote from: TopTort777 on August 13, 2024, 01:59:07 AM

Yeah, that Australian break dancer probably set an antirecord when she scored zero points. What Australian Olympic committee was thinking about when they send her? Other athletes train for the games, she just got free tickets to visit France. As well as to flight half of the world to show "that"? She does not value her time. Also, did not she steal someone else quota place to perform on Olympics?

Haha. I was puzzled when I saw her performance. In my opinion, any schoolboy doing breakdancing in his free time could show much better results than this woman.

To be honest, this Olympics caused more negative emotions than positive ones, not only because of the performance of individual athletes, but also because of the organization of the whole event. Sometimes it seemed to me that I was not watching the world's largest sporting event, but some kind of freak show.

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Quote from: acroman08 on August 12, 2024, 08:40:09 AM

Quote from: aoluain on August 12, 2024, 08:16:30 AM

I dont think they are actually going to be added to LA28. I believe it was
only added for Paris to encourage a younger audience?

I think there are other "sports" that are played globally which could take its place.

from what I know, breaking was only for this Olympics, and yeah it was to attract the younger audience. also, from what I heard recently there will be 5 different sports will be added to the 2028 Olympics.

edit: so I did a quick search and these are the sports that will be added to the 2028 Olympics "flag football, baseball/softball, cricket, lacrosse and squash".

Quote from: aoluain on August 12, 2024, 08:16:30 AM

I was actually looking forward to watching the Breaking but I didnt see any of it.
There was simply too much other sports going on which my country was involved in.

I wasn't able to watch the break dance women's category but I was able to watch the men's category and it was amazing, the gold medalist(Phil Wizard) definitely deserves the gold.

I watched some of the Breaking from the finals at the Olympics and yea its very interesting,
for me though I thought both the womens and mens Gold medals should have been awarded
to the 2nd placed competitors.

Anyway new sports for 2028, yea I get it its interesting. In terms of Squash, that should be a
permenent sport IMO.

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Quote from: TopTort777 on August 13, 2024, 01:59:07 AM

Yeah, that Australian break dancer probably set an antirecord when she scored zero points. What Australian Olympic committee was thinking about when they send her? Other athletes train for the games, she just got free tickets to visit France. As well as to flight half of the world to show "that"? She does not value her time. Also, did not she steal someone else quota place to perform on Olympics?

it's a new sport, no one expected such performances, certainly the poor selection meant that these poor impressions spread within the sporting event but it must be said that being an immature and new sport, the first performances must be taken with a pinch of salt

What do you mean? Nobody select random people to represent whole country during Olympics. That chick got 4 years to train for her performance. To me she looked like just a random Australian team member who has replaced a real dancer. Somebody like massagist or team doctor. Really, at local discos people perform sometimes better. If it a new discipline for Olympic games, it does not mean that you have to take newbies. Break dance battle have been there for ages.

OMG I watched that Australian dancer's performance, it was shocking! it didnt do anything
to promote "Breaking" I cant believe that nobody else in Australia was more competent at
this discipline that they had to send this "amateur" it was embarrassing.

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Quote from: Sg4j1n3ll0 on August 13, 2024, 04:14:30 AM

Quote from: TopTort777 on August 13, 2024, 01:59:07 AM

Yeah, that Australian break dancer probably set an antirecord when she scored zero points. What Australian Olympic committee was thinking about when they send her? Other athletes train for the games, she just got free tickets to visit France. As well as to flight half of the world to show "that"? She does not value her time. Also, did not she steal someone else quota place to perform on Olympics?

it's a new sport, no one expected such performances, certainly the poor selection meant that these poor impressions spread within the sporting event but it must be said that being an immature and new sport, the first performances must be taken with a pinch of salt

What do you mean? Nobody select random people to represent whole country during Olympics. That chick got 4 years to train for her performance. To me she looked like just a random Australian team member who has replaced a real dancer. Somebody like massagist or team doctor. Really, at local discos people perform sometimes better. If it a new discipline for Olympic games, it does not mean that you have to take newbies. Break dance battle have been there for ages.

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Quote from: TopTort777 on August 13, 2024, 01:59:07 AM

Yeah, that Australian break dancer probably set an antirecord when she scored zero points. What Australian Olympic committee was thinking about when they send her? Other athletes train for the games, she just got free tickets to visit France. As well as to flight half of the world to show "that"? She does not value her time. Also, did not she steal someone else quota place to perform on Olympics?

it's a new sport, no one expected such performances, certainly the poor selection meant that these poor impressions spread within the sporting event but it must be said that being an immature and new sport, the first performances must be taken with a pinch of salt

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Yeah, that Australian break dancer probably set an antirecord when she scored zero points. What Australian Olympic committee was thinking about when they send her? Other athletes train for the games, she just got free tickets to visit France. As well as to flight half of the world to show "that"? She does not value her time. Also, did not she steal someone else quota place to perform on Olympics?

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Quote from: Fivestar4everMVP on August 12, 2024, 08:49:07 AM

So, what I am saying it, whoever the Phelps is, he or she gotta train someone to become like him or her, for the fact that he or she is not going to be performing and living for ever, or for an entire generation, it's not possible you know.
So, that the world will have another person like him or her as a replacement for when he or she is gone, he's or she's gonna train someone to become exactly, perfect like him or herself, else, who's gonna carry on with the legacy, he or her legacy?

I don't think he will train someone in the future, but his coach is definitely trying to help various athletes like Leon Marchand etc to try and overtake him, but that might never happen if you ask me.

Quote from: Yaunfitda on August 12, 2024, 08:01:27 PM

But it might take time though for someone to come out and then break the record of Phelps in swimming. He had competition during his prime, but as you have said, he is really on another level by himself. And he could be in the discussions as one in the Mt. Rushmore as far as the sports of swimming goes.

Some athletes already broke a couple of his world records, but I don't think anyone will ever overtake him as the most decorated/greatest Olympian of all time. That dude is a supernatural being in my opinion.

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Quote from: Haunebu on August 12, 2024, 08:40:23 AM

USA would have probably ended up more golds had it not been for Leon freaking Marchand destroying his competition and earning 4 freaking golds in a single competition. Makes sense since he was trained by Phelps's coach.

Many people seem to think that he could be the next Phelps, but I don't think so since that legend is from another freaking planet and on another level itself. Phelps is basically a once in a generation athlete.

As what they said, records are met to be broken, so maybe in the future we will see not just Americans, but other nation as well going close to Michael Phelps historic run in the Olympics. No one thought that Mark Spitz's 1972 Olympic with 7 gold medals can't be broken by Phelps did 8. And with the advancement of sports medicine and training and as we can see the swimming in every Olympics, there has to be a record that can be broken by even a 10th of a second. But it might take time though for someone to come out and then break the record of Phelps in swimming. He had competition during his prime, but as you have said, he is really on another level by himself. And he could be in the discussions as one in the Mt. Rushmore as far as the sports of swimming goes.

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Quote from: criptoevangelista on August 12, 2024, 05:50:14 AM

Cuba's decline in the last decades of the Olympics is clear. A country that has always been a reference in Olympic sports, this edition of the Olympics is in 32nd place in the medal table. If it continues at this pace, it will lose all its relevance in Olympic sports. Since Sydney 2000, its performance has been getting worse and worse... sad.

Yeah, they've been known to produce a lot of good boxers in the past, who would forget Teófilo Stevenson? And then Félix Savón? But their domination in this sports seems to put a stop in this 2024 Olympics.

Also they are also power house as far as wrestling goes.

Perhaps the programs of other countries are far as this sports goes has caught up with Cuba that's why they didn't win as much as they did in the past Olympics.

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Quote from: xzone on August 12, 2024, 01:03:22 PM

After the closing ceremony, we left the Olympics behind. The United States left its mark this year, they managed to get quite a lot of medals. It was a great pleasure to watch them, especially in the basketball final. Lebron and Curry were a great duo and made us watch an unforgettable match.

Everyone was hyped about the finals for the men's basketball team.

Quote from: xzone on August 12, 2024, 01:03:22 PM

One of the most talked about things at the Olympics was Yusuf Dikeç, a true icon. Everyone imitated him. I am very sorry that Turkey did not get the gold medal Sad

Silver is still a good thing to bring back to the country.

But other than that, he's taken the social media and internet by the storm with his stance and angst on that shooting competition that he participated. He's a real OG and that's more than the gold medal that he should have.

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Quote from: terrific on August 12, 2024, 05:22:06 PM

Quote from: SUPERSAIAN on August 12, 2024, 01:31:13 PM

This year, there was a very close competition between the USA and China in the Paris Olympics. If I am not mistaken, the USA won the gold medal in women's basketball on the last day and got ahead of China. But since the country that won the most medals is the USA.

The two giant countries, which also compete fiercely for global trade, do not restrict their investments and expenses when it comes to sports and in return, they gain great prestige with the medals and achievements they receive after the Olympics.

That's right. In terms of everything, they're both into competition and this is how it goes then. With the election coming for the USA, we might see something different then about global trade, who knows.
But then, we see how these countries are having a different way of giving honor to their motherlands. I think those Olympians that are good with their sports should migrate and move to Singapore and have that greater privilege and greater reward for bringing them a medal. Tongue

Yeah kind of ironic both ended up with the same amount of gold medals. I see a lot of people cryoling about the amount of ping pong or diving events but there are just as much running and swimming events. All in all it's the Olympics and for me it's great to watch the top of all athletes in each respective sport. No politics no nothing just go out and let the best of the best play out. Was a great Olympics to watch.

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Quote from: SUPERSAIAN on August 12, 2024, 01:31:13 PM

This year, there was a very close competition between the USA and China in the Paris Olympics. If I am not mistaken, the USA won the gold medal in women's basketball on the last day and got ahead of China. But since the country that won the most medals is the USA.

The two giant countries, which also compete fiercely for global trade, do not restrict their investments and expenses when it comes to sports and in return, they gain great prestige with the medals and achievements they receive after the Olympics.

That's right. In terms of everything, they're both into competition and this is how it goes then. With the election coming for the USA, we might see something different then about global trade, who knows.
But then, we see how these countries are having a different way of giving honor to their motherlands. I think those Olympians that are good with their sports should migrate and move to Singapore and have that greater privilege and greater reward for bringing them a medal. Tongue

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Quote from: criptoevangelista on August 12, 2024, 05:50:14 AM

Cuba's decline in the last decades of the Olympics is clear. A country that has always been a reference in Olympic sports, this edition of the Olympics is in 32nd place in the medal table. If it continues at this pace, it will lose all its relevance in Olympic sports. Since Sydney 2000, its performance has been getting worse and worse... sad.

A lot of things are changing regarding the Olympics and the case of Cuba is one of them. Nigeria is also another country that have deteriorated to bad and that can be attributed to poor management. They fielded 88 athletes yet could not win a single medal. Meanwhile many African countries far less than them won at least a medal. So while things changed for the worse for some countries, the reverse is the case for others. Overall the Olympic was good even though there were lost of criticisms and dramas, we can say they are the fun of it.

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Quote from: yenerbatmaz on August 12, 2024, 06:57:50 AM

I really liked the break dance category, which was for the first time in these Olympics.
It would be nice if such fun and beautiful games were added to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
I watched the 10 km swimming race in the Seine River. The athletes swam and I was out of breath.

That means you obviously aren't Australian. The whole Internet is buzzing with Aussies feeling ashamed for that girl that represented their country Wink

I heard due to the controversies there will not be a boxing competition. We'll see about break dance, but I'm sure there are better, more competitive sports out there to choose from.

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