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legendary
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May 30, 2024, 05:43:34 PM
#30
I assume the Russian federation won't be participating in this Olympics because what is going on in the War between them and Ukraine, though.
They are participating as Individual Neutral Athletes under neutral flag, there are 56 athletes registered like that for this Olympic games.

By the way, since there have been some threads about match fixing and cheating around in this section lately, I wonder what you guys think about match fixing within the Olympics?
You cant avoid cheating anywhere, but it would be a big shame for anyone to do this in big competitions like this.

I wonder who will come out on top in the medals table, my guess is the USA or China as usual.
They have most athletes so they will be on top, but France is host with crowd support and 515 athletes in this Olympics.
United States registered 542 athletes this time, China has 328 and Germany 352.


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May 30, 2024, 02:52:24 PM
#29
It seems that everyone enjoys the track and field event as I also one of them. And it will be obvious that in the mens and womens, the 100 m, 200 m and the relays are going to be team USA vs Jamaica. There were Olympics that the Jamaican team really out muscled the USA in this event.

Definitely, boxing as well will be the sports that I'm going to watch.

And in the last Olympics, our country, The Philippines has won it's first Gold Medal last summer games (2020) and it's in weightlifting and so our very own Hidilyn Diaz will be defending his gold in Women's 55 kg.
If I'm not mistaken it composes of different sports right? I only like a few of them mostly the jumping and throwing ones but what I like the most are the extreme sports like Skateboarding.

Between Jamaica and US, I wouldn't wonder anymore on why Jamaica can win more in Track & Field events because their appearance tells it all. I'm not insulting them but I mean is they look exposed in the outside activities and this gives them an advantage. Boxing is an intense sport but I am not really a fan of it. For me, I can enjoy wrestling more, lol.

Congratulations by the way for your country and champ for bringing a pride and honour. I wish you guys a good luck.
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May 30, 2024, 12:47:09 PM
#28

Just a personal point of view. To me it does not make much sense to have breakdancing as a sport, I could get break dancing is a "discipline" because it requires time, dedication and also technique in order to achieve some remarkable and worth the attention of thousands of people in an stadium, though, if we start to go with such a definition and an sport or discipline is, there would will be a lot of activities or hobbies which could quality to have their on place within the Olympics...
I even recall there was going to be some inauguration of some sex based sport league in Sweden some months ago, in which purpose was to turn sexual acts and positions to some kind of discipline, being mode in public for judges to grant points to the couples and performers.

I don't know, I knew it was just a rumor, but each year that comes and goes it seems the definition of basic things like "art", "discipline", "sport" are slowly devolving into something I cannot recognize anymore
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May 30, 2024, 11:50:28 AM
#27
I haven't made any bet on any Olympics games. I prefer the entertainment that comes from watching the games. My favourite games are the track and field event and swimming. The football matches are not as interesting as championships that are exclusively for football games. Hey notblox1, which are your favourite games and what is your predictions? Do you usually bet on Olympic games?
I like field and track events, especially running. I like long jump and high jump and the one with the stick. I also like swimming. I do not watch the football, I do not know if it is interesting or not but I prefer world cup instead of the Olympic football. But generally there are many other interesting matches which are fun. I also prefer to watch it than to use it to bet. I may try small amount of money this time if the matches are available on bookie sites.
I do watch the football matches but not all of them, especially if my country is also present in the football competition. I could remember in 1996, that was the first time that Nigeria Super Eagles won a gold medal as the first in the football competition. When Nigeria won Brazil 4-3, from 2 goals down, and played Argentina in the finals and won them. Atlanta 1996, was when I started understanding that football is a sport that brings the world together.

I also love track and field games, because I was a good Athlete in college. I will see how I will follow up these Olympics games to see if I will be entertained by their games.
legendary
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May 30, 2024, 11:22:59 AM
#26
The same, there will be a series of games for both boys and girls in order to qualify for the Olympics,

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Qualification

It debut in 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina wherein the IOC said that it was a success as it got 1 million views, even beating any other sports in it's inauguration.
I see, thanks for the info!

I never knew the Youth Olympics already made breaking available on their event, I never saw news about them including breaking on their 2018 Youth Olympics.

Break dance should be an easy medal for some Asian countries. In Japan, South Korea and others this is super big and when you see events it's often dancers from those countries that make the biggest splash.
That is true, Asians have always been strong contenders when it comes to break dancing. I guess Asian's smaller and leaner physiques contribute to the nasty power moves they show during competitions.
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May 30, 2024, 10:01:53 AM
#25
Break dancing debuts at a Summer Olympic event. This will be very interesting to watch on a global stage with very talented performances who have otherwise not been able to compete as a sport in a global event like this.
saw I news about this last year. I wonder how the break-dancing athletes qualify for the Olympics, I mean, in other sports, athletes would need to join competitions and win or at least reach a certain ranking or score in order to meet the Olympic standard and since break-dancing is debuting this year in the Olympics I wonder if the requirements in order to qualify to compete in the Olympics are the same.

Break dance should be an easy medal for some Asian countries. In Japan, South Korea and others this is super big and when you see events it's often dancers from those countries that make the biggest splash.

I did checked the winners of the Olympic Youth competition, and you are correct, most of them are from Asian countries. Although break dancing originated from USA as far as I know.

It's nice and refreshing to see some "unusual" sports are getting added into the mix. These athletes deserve some recognition on the biggest stage possible, just like skateboarders and surfers.

And I guess we are evolving as well, we never thought that break dancing will be as competitive as this one and they will be including in the Olympics. It took them more than 50 years to be recognized.
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May 30, 2024, 08:45:53 AM
#24
Break dancing debuts at a Summer Olympic event. This will be very interesting to watch on a global stage with very talented performances who have otherwise not been able to compete as a sport in a global event like this.
saw I news about this last year. I wonder how the break-dancing athletes qualify for the Olympics, I mean, in other sports, athletes would need to join competitions and win or at least reach a certain ranking or score in order to meet the Olympic standard and since break-dancing is debuting this year in the Olympics I wonder if the requirements in order to qualify to compete in the Olympics are the same.

Break dance should be an easy medal for some Asian countries. In Japan, South Korea and others this is super big and when you see events it's often dancers from those countries that make the biggest splash.

It's nice and refreshing to see some "unusual" sports are getting added into the mix. These athletes deserve some recognition on the biggest stage possible, just like skateboarders and surfers.
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May 30, 2024, 06:37:31 AM
#23
Break dancing debuts at a Summer Olympic event. This will be very interesting to watch on a global stage with very talented performances who have otherwise not been able to compete as a sport in a global event like this.
saw I news about this last year. I wonder how the break-dancing athletes qualify for the Olympics, I mean, in other sports, athletes would need to join competitions and win or at least reach a certain ranking or score in order to meet the Olympic standard and since break-dancing is debuting this year in the Olympics I wonder if the requirements in order to qualify to compete in the Olympics are the same.

The same, there will be a series of games for both boys and girls in order to qualify for the Olympics,

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World Championships – The B-Boy and B-Girl champion at the 2023 WDSF World Championships, scheduled for 23 to 24 September in Leuven, Belgium, will obtain a quota place, respecting a two-breakdancer NOC limit per gender.

Continental Qualification Events – The highest-ranked eligible B-Boy and B-Girl at each of the five continental qualifying tournaments (Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania) will obtain a quota place, respecting a two-breakdancer NOC limit per gender. If two breakdancers from the same NOC dominate the WDSF World Championships and their respective continental qualification tournament, the former will qualify directly for the Games with the latter providing another opportunity to book another slot for his or her NOC through the Olympic Qualifier Series (OQS).[3]

Olympic Qualifier Series – The top seven B-Boys and B-Girls eligible for qualification after a four-month-long invitational series of events will obtain a quota place, respecting a two-breakdancer NOC limit.

Host country – As the host country, France reserves one quota place each for the B-Boys and B-Girls events. If two French breakdancers for each gender qualify directly through any of the tripartite routes (world championships, continental meets, or Olympic Qualifier Series), the host country slots will be reallocated to the next highest-ranked eligible breakdancer from OQS.[2]

Universality places – Two invitational places will be available for eligible NOCs interested in having their breakdancers compete in Paris 2024 in keeping with the universality principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Qualification

It debut in 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina wherein the IOC said that it was a success as it got 1 million views, even beating any other sports in it's inauguration.
legendary
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May 30, 2024, 06:23:32 AM
#22
Break dancing debuts at a Summer Olympic event. This will be very interesting to watch on a global stage with very talented performances who have otherwise not been able to compete as a sport in a global event like this.
saw I news about this last year. I wonder how the break-dancing athletes qualify for the Olympics, I mean, in other sports, athletes would need to join competitions and win or at least reach a certain ranking or score in order to meet the Olympic standard and since break-dancing is debuting this year in the Olympics I wonder if the requirements in order to qualify to compete in the Olympics are the same.
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May 30, 2024, 02:47:59 AM
#21
Break dancing debuts at a Summer Olympic event. This will be very interesting to watch on a global stage with very talented performances who have otherwise not been able to compete as a sport in a global event like this.

Besides this I will be focused on the track and field events, this will be the main focus for almost everyone and the ceiling for the athletes is very high, anyone can make a name for themselves and start a story that'll last the next 8-10 years.cam we have a poll to predict the number of new world records we'll get and which countries will make it into the top 10 on the medal table?
Break dancing is a sports now? I'm not really buying that is a sport but I guess when there's a competition and it involves the kinetics of the human body, I guess I'll try to understand why it's considered as a sport. Now, you got me curious about this one because I really want to see this one, would there be like some kind of production that will accompany the breakdancing act because that would be really awesome and it will probably make the Olympics a bit more colorful than usual. Who will be competing on the track and field? Is there a roster of the players that would participate? Also, would North Korea participate in the games too?
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May 30, 2024, 02:26:29 AM
#20
I like to watch Olympics opening and closing ceremonies which have flavors  of both show and politics.

2024 Olympics adds  the  new events and among them are those which are relevant to  breaking which is (at least for me) is more like dancing show rather than athletic competition  itself. However, youths will definitely applaud them.  Probably some betting agencies will get catch.



legendary
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May 30, 2024, 02:03:42 AM
#19
Anyone knows if any new discipline appeared this year? Last year they add one or two, or made sort of a rotation of more popular/unpopular ones. I see two bmx disciplines. Where there two of them all the time? Dressage - I think I am not familiar with this one. I would gladly speculate if there would be a lot of world or olympic records this time.
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May 30, 2024, 01:56:20 AM
#18
Break dancing debuts at a Summer Olympic event. This will be very interesting to watch on a global stage with very talented performances who have otherwise not been able to compete as a sport in a global event like this.

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i just found out that break dance will make its debut this year at the summer olympics. i didn't even think that break dancing could be a sport in the olympics, is it because this activity requires technique and precision to be able to present a beautiful style to the audience? but whatever the reason, i'm quite interested in seeing breakdancing competed in the olympics.
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May 30, 2024, 01:39:06 AM
#17
funny enough, this is going to be the first year for a long while that I will be actively following up on all major sports events accross the globe. Seems like my undergraduate journey has taken a lot from me and I can't even remember the last time I followed up on the Olympics.

 I would definitely look out for the relay racing since that's actually the second sports I enjoy most outside of football and maybe I will have to follow up on basket ball also. Don't know if my country would be participating in the Olympics this year and the sports they are most likely going to be featured in. What's mostly common in my region is football and its tournament and apart from AFCON, world cup and other major qualifiers, no one really talks that much about other sporting events that's going to be featured in the Olympics. But maybe it's because I haven't actually paid more attention to those other sports and it might be possible that they already have representatives in those sports that will be going to the Olympics.
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May 30, 2024, 01:23:59 AM
#16
So this year they will not have cricket in Olympics but from 2028 cricket will be added to the event. The format of cricket that has been approved is T20, which makes it more interesting. I liked only one game in Olympics and that is the  track and field event. The reason being you don't find athletes from track and filed playing every year. Another game that makes me glued to the TV is badminton, reason being it is now one of the most celebrated sport in my country and I have played the game a lot of times in my childhood.
Wow, Cricket is a big sport already, I thought that it's already included in the Olympics, never thought that they still doesn't have cricket, I guess we just have to watch out for it in the next Olympics. There's a first time for everything, you might want to check out other sports that are in the Olympics, I myself are more inclined to watch the Winter Olympics so it's a first for me too to watch Summer Olympics, looking forward to the greatest of humanity and how far we are able to push ourselves to the limit maybe even beyond the limit. I'm excited to watch the basketball one though, I think that USA is going to be trying to get the gold on this one because they didn't get the FIBA World Cup last time.
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May 29, 2024, 11:39:20 PM
#15
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My targets to bet for are basketball, boxing, tennis, and maybe archery. I was kind of entertained by that archery game that I watched in the past although I didn't know whose country was good at it. Yet.
Basketball really is the top priority for me to watch. I mean I'm curious on how the other countries will perform against the so-called "best of the best" of the US national team. They are disappointed with their performance last time on FIBA hence, they created this super-super-super team to reclaim what's lost with them and that's glory and the dominance. Well, the USA team has won the gold medal in basketball in the last 4 Olympics, so I wonder why.

Anyway, aside from basketball, I will also watch boxing as well, badminton, and table tennis. I hope that there will be some websites online where I can watch them. Smiley

legendary
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May 29, 2024, 09:38:12 PM
#14
It seems that everyone enjoys the track and field event as I also one of them. And it will be obvious that in the mens and womens, the 100 m, 200 m and the relays are going to be team USA vs Jamaica. There were Olympics that the Jamaican team really out muscled the USA in this event.

Definitely, boxing as well will be the sports that I'm going to watch.

And in the last Olympics, our country, The Philippines has won it's first Gold Medal last summer games (2020) and it's in weightlifting and so our very own Hidilyn Diaz will be defending his gold in Women's 55 kg.
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May 29, 2024, 09:30:04 PM
#13
I enjoy the athletics the most but it’s good to watch live sports every day throughout the Olympics.

I wonder who will come out on top in the medals table, my guess is the USA or China as usual.
I really love the 100m race. I will follow it live this time. This will either go to Jamaica or US. The marathon will go to Kenya is my guess as they also live in high altitude area and have high blood and oxygen concentration. Definitely that most medals will go to US or China. The reason is because they are rich countries that those sports are encouraged. But those Chinese are naturally good in anything like gymnastics.

Hmmmm that is a good question, care to place a wager Sir?  Cool I want to put my money on the US but I feel like China is always so stacked and literally every year it is a battle between China and the US. I think I may actually place a wager on this.
Maybe I might also but I am not sure because I prefer football to bet with and it is only those clubs and not countries. If it is not club, I prefer to just bet my money on 3 odds with roulettes.
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May 29, 2024, 09:15:35 PM
#12

We are only a few months away from the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad or 2024 Summer Olympics that are scheduled to take place from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in France.

With EURO 2024 this is one of the biggest international sport event this year with participation of more than 10,000 athletes around the world.
They will compete in 45 different sports so everyone can find something to follow, and winning a medal in Olympic games is always something special.
Most popular sports are football, basketball and tennis but there are many more sport events coming.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics

This topic will be used for posting predictions, news and for talking everything about Summer Olympics.

There are literally so many sports! Its crazy. I always have the most fun watching the Skateboarding and the Surfing, and the artistic swimming thats always a fun one. But then again shooting is also fun & probably my favorite of all these by far has to be gymnastics, those girls are so crazy good its insane.

I enjoy the athletics the most but it’s good to watch live sports every day throughout the Olympics.

I like watching the football obviously but I got engrossed in the cycling and rowing for some reason in the last games, the sailing is fascinating too.

I wonder who will come out on top in the medals table, my guess is the USA or China as usual.

Hmmmm that is a good question, care to place a wager Sir?  Cool I want to put my money on the US but I feel like China is always so stacked and literally every year it is a battle between China and the US. I think I may actually place a wager on this.

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May 29, 2024, 08:54:36 AM
#11

Never been a big fan of the Olympic games for some reason. The only sport I definitely follow is the basketball tournament this year. After team USA got embarrassed by Germany and Canada in the world cup they now have formed a super team with basically everybody you could imagine.

They are serious about restoring the basketball world order this year, you can't deny that.
Odds are so slim for every other team to win this. I think if the US team would not win it would be one of the biggest upsets in history, haha.
So I am rooting for every team they are facing. I know the chances are super slim, but maybe we can witness a miracle.
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