2024 Summer Olympics (Take your croissants and shove it)

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ToeMissile

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Politics aside, I still appreciate watching people performing at a high level.

Mostly watching random stuff in the background during work. Also trying to get my kids (5 and 7) a little more exposure to sports in general as it's something the wife and I don't follow much.

So far I've caught some boxing, rugby, soccer/football, and swimming. Want to keep an eye out for track and gymnastics as I did both as a kid.
 
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Araxen

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The surfing was great yesterday! Very good waves. I've come to like watching Olympic surfing. lol
 
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Pretty happy with the Peacock app setup. Subscribed to the monthly and they have an Olympics section right in the sidebar. All the full replays by sport, mark when events are live, or you can watch the primetime broadcast. Not sure if it was like that before, but I seem to remember trying to watch 2020 being a mess. $15 feels like a very fair price.

Wife likes gymnastics, so we'll usually spend the evening half watching full qualifiers and half picking a random sport. Live surfing was, uh, less engaging than highlights might lead one to believe. "Well, the judges have judged that literally nothing happened for the last 10 minutes, so they're adding another 10 minutes to the clock."
 
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LiquidDeath

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I have to agree about Peacock. I have lots of complaints about streaming services, but they nailed this shit. I even cheaped out and did the $8 as supported one but haven't been served an ad on Olympic broadcasts yet. At most I get a minute or two of a generic screen saying that programming will continue shortly.
 
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Peacock has definitely stepped up their game. It always pissed me off how NBC owned the entire coverage and then only covered boring shit like swimming, gymnastics, and track. The only thing I wish they'd add is a way to filter by country and gender.

I have learned why some of this stuff is never televised, holy shit is that air rifle/pistol shit boring.
 
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I VPN to Canada and watch the CBC coverage. They have VOD for every minute of every event, if you want it. I watch on a day delay and fast forward through the downtime.
 
Alex

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For being a country that owns a shitload of guns and is supposedly really good at shooting, we suck at shooting in the Olympics.

Team USA basketball is fun.
 
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CaughtCross

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Kobayashi said:
I have learned why some of this stuff is never televised, holy shit is that air rifle/pistol shit boring.
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There has been some cool stuff out of air pistol. This south korean john wick girl who hardly reacts, stares at the camera and walks away after winning a gold and setting a WR.



And this old dude just showing up with hardly any equipment winning silver.

 
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Hoss

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does it make me a monster that I want to see those male boxers making the female boxers cry?

I don't get enjoyment from it. It's for science. But it's pissing me off that I can't find it anywhere.
 
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It makes me respect the discipline more. I find Archery pretty entertaining.
 
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ToeMissile

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Araxen said:


It makes me respect the discipline more. I find Archery pretty entertaining.
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I caught one of the rounds w/ some 17yr old French kid, other guy was a 20 something from England maybe? Anyway, no shot was outside an 8 with wind up to 4 m/s or something.
 
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Chris

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Are you guys still ordering the medal table by total medals so you are still top?

Everyone else orders it by number of gold medals and you are 4th lol.

Anyway what's gone wrong, all that demoralisation kicking in?
 
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Izo

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Chris said:
Are you guys still ordering the medal table by total medals so you are still top?

Everyone else orders it by number of gold medals and your 4th lol.

Anyway what's gone wrong, all that demoralisation kicking in?
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