***Paris 2024 Summer Olympics: July 26-August 11*** USA dominates medal count; Finish tied w/ China for most golds - See ya in Milan 2026! (1 Viewer)

[Mrs. Rannous]

Break dancing on the gold zone channel is like when they show jags titans on the red zone

Scott Hanson commenting on it is super cringe.

Eeewww.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Bestest polo-wearing Aussie

Anyone have a link to her breakdancing performance? As someone who used to partake in "the sport", I need to see the tape. This sounds hilarious

Let's see. This is the best I can do. Ignore the idiotic commentary.

The squeaky shoes are fabulous.

WTF were they thinking? Fortunately, this will not be an event in LA.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

By 1924, 100 years ago, the Olympics had featured:

Live Pigeon Shooting

Pistol Dueling

Pistol Dueling sounds like there may not have been 3 medalists left at the end.

 

[jhib]

By 1924, 100 years ago, the Olympics had featured:

Basque Pelato (?)
Cricket
Croquet
Horse High Jump
Hot Air Balloon Racing
Live Pigeon Shooting
Motorboat Racing
Pistol Dueling
Polo
Plunge for Distance (Diving)
Rope Climbing
Swimming Obstacle Race
Tug of War

And as a test event in 1900 - Poodle Clipping

Times change, and so does the landscape of what we consider sport. We old codgers will just have to learn to deal with it.

Not kidding, some of those sound like they would be pretty cool.

 

[Osaurus]

In for Pistol Dueling

 

[GregR]

By 1924, 100 years ago, the Olympics had featured:

Basque Pelato (?)

Jai-alai is a version of this. Walled court sport (number of walls apparently varies by version), a ball and then either using the hand or some kind of scoop, basket, or bat to contact it.

 

[Mister CIA]

Whoever decided break dancing should be an Olympic sport is trying too hard to include anything that resembles people moving in any fashion be an Olympic sport.

Like, break dancing came out of a time where there was a big-bang collision of technology + music + soul + grit + hope and created this weird form of expression that anyone that saw it for the first time thought to themselves “holy hell this is the coolest thing I have ever seen”.

It was like watching the blues and jazz come to life in a three dimensional fashion.

And now the Olympics are saying they can judge THAT?!??

GTFO of here.

It just needs the right music.

x.com

x.com

 

[Major]

Bestest polo-wearing Aussie

Anyone have a link to her breakdancing performance? As someone who used to partake in "the sport", I need to see the tape. This sounds hilarious

Let's see. This is the best I can do. Ignore the idiotic commentary.

The squeaky shoes are fabulous.

WTF were they thinking? Fortunately, this will not be an event in LA.

NBC is striking everything. Wish they knew how the internet works with viral moments. If they are going to takedown all outside clips, at least post them in a timely fashion and let us watch.

 

[3C's]

Bestest polo-wearing Aussie

Anyone have a link to her breakdancing performance? As someone who used to partake in "the sport", I need to see the tape. This sounds hilarious

Let's see. This is the best I can do. Ignore the idiotic commentary.

The squeaky shoes are fabulous.

WTF were they thinking? Fortunately, this will not be an event in LA.

NBC is striking everything. Wish they knew how the internet works with viral moments. If they are going to takedown all outside clips, at least post them in a timely fashion and let us watch.

Guess they didn't get this one. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1eoe4hb/raygun_you_breakdance_yes_yes_i_do_watch_this/

 

[3C's]

Some of the comments are good.

It looks to me like someone called out sick and their mom said "I'll cover for you".
She did it. She broke dancing.

What did she score?
Some pretty good molly by the looks of it

 

[3C's]

Does SNL have any Aussie cast members? Cuz I'm smelling a skit coming.

 

[GregR]

Bestest polo-wearing Aussie

Anyone have a link to her breakdancing performance? As someone who used to partake in "the sport", I need to see the tape. This sounds hilarious

Let's see. This is the best I can do. Ignore the idiotic commentary.

The squeaky shoes are fabulous.

WTF were they thinking? Fortunately, this will not be an event in LA.

NBC is striking everything. Wish they knew how the internet works with viral moments. If they are going to takedown all outside clips, at least post them in a timely fashion and let us watch.

Guess they didn't get this one. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1eoe4hb/raygun_you_breakdance_yes_yes_i_do_watch_this/

That nearly felt more like a parody than real.

By the way, probably the IOC doing the takedowns, not NBC. That was what the Youtube message said.

 

[Cowboysfan8]

Bestest polo-wearing Aussie

Anyone have a link to her breakdancing performance? As someone who used to partake in "the sport", I need to see the tape. This sounds hilarious

Let's see. This is the best I can do. Ignore the idiotic commentary.

The squeaky shoes are fabulous.

WTF were they thinking? Fortunately, this will not be an event in LA.

NBC is striking everything. Wish they knew how the internet works with viral moments. If they are going to takedown all outside clips, at least post them in a timely fashion and let us watch.

Guess they didn't get this one. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1eoe4hb/raygun_you_breakdance_yes_yes_i_do_watch_this/

Gone now

 

[GregR]

I became curious to know if any country has dominated these Olympics so far. I tried to see if there was a correlation between population and metals won. Meaning, the countries with bigger populations would 'probably' have a bigger population pool to produce Olympic greatness. These are the 10 most populated countries, ranked by how many medals won per person in the country.

America is obviously cheating, and India is tragically underperforming.

Country	Population	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Percentage
United States	345,426,571​	31	39	37	107	0.0000003098​
Brazil	211,998,573​	2	6	8	16	0.0000000755​
China	1,419,321,278​	32	25	20	77	0.0000000543​
Ethiopia	132,059,767​	0	2	0	2	0.0000000151​
Indonesia	283,487,931​	2	0	1	3	0.0000000106​
India	1,450,935,791​	0	1	5	6	0.0000000041​
Pakistan	251,269,164​	1	0	0	1	0.0000000040​
Nigeria	232,679,478​	0	0	0	0	0.0000000000​
Bangladesh	173,562,364​	0	0	0	0	0.0000000000​
Russia	144,820,423​	0	0	0	0	0.0000000000​

Country	Population	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Percentage
Dominica	71,986​	1	0	0	1	0.00001389​

Dominica citizens 44x more likely to win Olympic medals than Americans are.

 

[Hastur]

I became curious to know if any country has dominated these Olympics so far. I tried to see if there was a correlation between population and metals won. Meaning, the countries with bigger populations would 'probably' have a bigger population pool to produce Olympic greatness. These are the 10 most populated countries, ranked by how many medals won per person in the country.

America is obviously cheating, and India is tragically underperforming.

Country	Population	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Percentage
United States	345,426,571​	31	39	37	107	0.0000003098​
Brazil	211,998,573​	2	6	8	16	0.0000000755​
China	1,419,321,278​	32	25	20	77	0.0000000543​
Ethiopia	132,059,767​	0	2	0	2	0.0000000151​
Indonesia	283,487,931​	2	0	1	3	0.0000000106​
India	1,450,935,791​	0	1	5	6	0.0000000041​
Pakistan	251,269,164​	1	0	0	1	0.0000000040​
Nigeria	232,679,478​	0	0	0	0	0.0000000000​
Bangladesh	173,562,364​	0	0	0	0	0.0000000000​
Russia	144,820,423​	0	0	0	0	0.0000000000​

Country	Population	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Percentage
Dominica	71,986​	1	0	0	1	0.00001389​

Dominica citizens 44x more likely to win Olympic medals than Americans are.

I admit my logic is a bit fuzzy...

 

[Gatorade]

By 1924, 100 years ago, the Olympics had featured:

Basque Pelato (?)
Cricket
Croquet
Horse High Jump
Hot Air Balloon Racing
Live Pigeon Shooting
Motorboat Racing
Pistol Dueling
Polo
Plunge for Distance (Diving)
Rope Climbing
Swimming Obstacle Race
Tug of War

And as a test event in 1900 - Poodle Clipping

Times change, and so does the landscape of what we consider sport. We old codgers will just have to learn to deal with it.

And most seem to make more sense than break dancing. Pistol Dueling ? Was it live ammo ?

 

[GroveDiesel]

By 1924, 100 years ago, the Olympics had featured:

Basque Pelato (?)
Cricket
Croquet
Horse High Jump
Hot Air Balloon Racing
Live Pigeon Shooting
Motorboat Racing
Pistol Dueling
Polo
Plunge for Distance (Diving)
Rope Climbing
Swimming Obstacle Race
Tug of War

And as a test event in 1900 - Poodle Clipping

Times change, and so does the landscape of what we consider sport. We old codgers will just have to learn to deal with it.

And most seem to make more sense than break dancing. Pistol Dueling ? Was it live ammo ?

Paintball guns.

Next up: LaserTag

 

[jhib]

By 1924, 100 years ago, the Olympics had featured:

Basque Pelato (?)
Cricket
Croquet
Horse High Jump
Hot Air Balloon Racing
Live Pigeon Shooting
Motorboat Racing
Pistol Dueling
Polo
Plunge for Distance (Diving)
Rope Climbing
Swimming Obstacle Race
Tug of War

And as a test event in 1900 - Poodle Clipping

Times change, and so does the landscape of what we consider sport. We old codgers will just have to learn to deal with it.

And most seem to make more sense than break dancing. Pistol Dueling ? Was it live ammo ?

Wax bullets. And it seems crazy at first, but it doesn't seem too far off from fencing.

 

[Osaurus]

By 1924, 100 years ago, the Olympics had featured:

Basque Pelato (?)
Cricket
Croquet
Horse High Jump
Hot Air Balloon Racing
Live Pigeon Shooting
Motorboat Racing
Pistol Dueling
Polo
Plunge for Distance (Diving)
Rope Climbing
Swimming Obstacle Race
Tug of War

And as a test event in 1900 - Poodle Clipping

Times change, and so does the landscape of what we consider sport. We old codgers will just have to learn to deal with it.

And most seem to make more sense than break dancing. Pistol Dueling ? Was it live ammo ?

Wax bullets. And it seems crazy at first, but it doesn't seem too far off from fencing.

Yep. Kinda what I thought too

 

[UncleZen]

Gold for the women in soccer. Crazy really given all the recent changes for the team. They had a really bad 1st half too.

 

[SayWhat?]

Couldn’t believe the Aussie breaker was real when we stumbled across that in real time. But jumped in here to say that I love the break dancing commentary.

(After 60 cumulative seconds of break dancing…) “Amazing stamina by Logistix in the 3rd round here. Having the endurance and stamina here in this 3rd round is key.” So dumb.

 

[Osaurus]

Women’s 100m hurdles final was crazy fast. Wow

 

[identikit]

Gold for the women in soccer. Crazy really given all the recent changes for the team. They had a really bad 1st half too.

Loved hearing the interview with Coach Hayes post-game.

A Brit who loves America.

 

[identikit]

Way to go, Grant Fisher!!!

Bronze in the 10,000

 

[Osaurus]

Way to go, Grant Fisher!!!

Bronze in the 10,000

US long distance runners are clearly on the scene now.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

These high jumpers are terrible

 

[identikit]

High jump OT

USA vs NZ

 

[Long Ball Larry]

literally lowering the bar

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Kerr’s coach giving him advice: JUMP HIGHER

 

[identikit]

These high jumpers are terrible

They should have split the pot

 

[SayWhat?]

4x4!!

 

[jhib]

4x4!!

That was another awesome race

 

[identikit]

4 x 400 Gold!!!

 

[identikit]

These high jumpers are terrible

They should have split the pot

Yep.

USA silver

 

[Mister CIA]

Go USA, but I'm a fan of Team Botswana too. Tebogo might be on the verge of dominating men's track and he's only 21.

 

[Deamon]

Does SNL have any Aussie cast members? Cuz I'm smelling a skit coming.

If they weren't off for the summer than maybe. Unfortunately there won't be any olympic skits, because they could do some hilarious stuff.

 

[Mister CIA]

McLaughlin-Levrone and Gabby together on the screen. Had the fire extinguisher in sight in case the TV caught fire.

 

[dickey moe]

These high jumpers are terrible

They should have split the pot

I can appreciate that they chose not to.

 

[Deamon]

By 1924, 100 years ago, the Olympics had featured:

Basque Pelato (?)
Cricket
Croquet
Horse High Jump
Hot Air Balloon Racing
Live Pigeon Shooting
Motorboat Racing
Pistol Dueling
Polo
Plunge for Distance (Diving)
Rope Climbing
Swimming Obstacle Race
Tug of War

And as a test event in 1900 - Poodle Clipping

Times change, and so does the landscape of what we consider sport. We old codgers will just have to learn to deal with it.

Plunge for distance lol. Seems incredibly unsafe. Someone pushing hard for the Gold, might not be coming back up to receive it.

Motorboat Racing sounds like my kinda event

 

[dickey moe]

What happened to Team Jamaica?

 

[identikit]

Sydney's a bullet!

 

[3 hour lunch]

Women 4x400 destroyed the field

 

[identikit]

USA should get 2 Golds for that performance

 

[jhib]

Nice finish for U.S. track & field!

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Good Lord. The American women crushed a great field in the 4x400 relay.

 

[Mister CIA]

USA should get 2 Golds for that performance

Maybe raise the center podium about five feet.

 

[Uncle Leo]

That was the most dominant performance I have seen this season.

 

[Major]

Women 4x400 destroyed the field

I hope they can give the men a few pointers on baton handoffs going forward.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

By 1924, 100 years ago, the Olympics had featured:

Basque Pelato (?)
Cricket
Croquet
Horse High Jump
Hot Air Balloon Racing
Live Pigeon Shooting
Motorboat Racing
Pistol Dueling
Polo
Plunge for Distance (Diving)
Rope Climbing
Swimming Obstacle Race
Tug of War

And as a test event in 1900 - Poodle Clipping

Times change, and so does the landscape of what we consider sport. We old codgers will just have to learn to deal with it.

Plunge for distance lol. Seems incredibly unsafe. Someone pushing hard for the Gold, might not be coming back up to receive it.

Motorboat Racing sounds like my kinda event

You motorboatin son of a *****, you old sailor you

 

[identikit]

That was the most dominant performance I have seen this season.

Most dominant I can remember in a relay race