OLYMPICS
Fellas, is it gay to enjoy male artistic gymnastics?
Also talk about how stupid it is that this is being held at all I guess
I guess I should've made a new thread instead of posting here
>>18249
>Also talk about how stupid it is that this is being held at all I guessYeah Japanese people have been protesting against it for a while, I think something around 80% wanted the Olympics to be cancelled, according to some poll
>>18394This
>>18388Football, diving, archery, boxing
I probably forgot some
>>18406Oh yeah, and golf too
I just found out that Mexico lost at football to Japan. I love how everyone was ultra hype for this after winning 4-1 against France, and now they desperately try to analyze the match to find the reasons why we lost. It's hilarious how butthurt we get for a loss in soccer lmao.
>>18431>>>/b/fucking coomer weebs
>>18434The "anti-sex beds" thing was probably fake
>>18441>lucky goalEgypt had better stats than you kek
Though modern football and especially U23 is very unexpected so good luck still, you are the ones who need it
>>18460idk man, I don't need to look for "illegal" streams since I live in LatAm and can watch everything on Claro's official site for free
But I would like to know, I can't just share the videos I watch because they wouldn't be available to you guys
>>18467Don't see how using a VPN couldn't work around that unless it can detect that stuff.
I always liked the idea of Fencing and wanting to get into it but where I live there isn't any sort of place to do that sadly.
>wake up>my country has lost at everything AGAIN>tfw>>18472There
is fencing where I live but it looks a bit less impressive that it sounds imo. It's also full of rich kids. I want to take up archery instead, and squash, hoping for it to become an Olympic sport one day.
Also I just learned that breakdancing will be introduced in Paris 2024.
>>18506Sorry for posting coomer shit. I'll stop now.
I like watching sports, it's fun. And the fact that it's the biggest international sporting event gives me a reason to become interested in sports again.
I'm pretty sure the Olympics suck majorly for a number of reasons, but now that they're here, why not just enjoy the games? Besides, these events help promote sports.
>jingoismIt's something obvious, but I ignore that shit, because I know why poor countries barely win at anything while a few rich nations hoard all the medals (which is, of course, frustrating sometimes). There's usually some degree of feelings of superiority in international competitions anyway.
I don't know about the softcore porn thing, I found out that internet coomers only see it that way in this very thread. I wish I hadn't.
>>18506its obvious nationalistic spirit, yes
ping pong is fire though, sad china lost doubles
accelerationAcceleration Are you watching BMX racing right now, /hobby/?
GOGOGO MARIANA PAJÓN!!! THE QUEEN OF BMX!!>>18559Where do you live?
That Brown v Valencia Archery match was simply heart-stopping.
>>18567>And why does Mexico have so many American athletes?I think Baseball is more popular in the US, and honestly Mexico is pretty shit at it too, so I guess they were in desperate need of players.
>>18564Well, maybe that explains it. Or maybe you're not watching sports channels?
>>18472>using a VPNCan you recommend any
free VPNs to watch Olympics stuff from different countries' official channels?
>>18460https://olympicstreams.net/ - relatively clean list of streams, some reddit affiliation.
http://yrsprts.stream/ - used by some anons at sportschan.org/sp/
>>18629You know what, now that I had the chance to watch some TV the other day, that seems to be the case where I live, too. In fact, it's like that in all of Latin America. They aren't airing any events live in any local TV network, not even those who used to broadcast the Olympics before, they only talk about the results the next day.
Claro, a Latin American telecom company, and Marca, a Spanish sports newspaper, through their "Marca Claro" brand, got the official rights to broadcast the Olympics in the region (or the Hispanic world, I'm not sure), and they got all the events live either on YouTube or on their official site, in addition to four 24-hour cable channels that are also available in their YouTube channel.
TV networks are struggling, it seems. But I find it weird that in the US you can only watch the Games on NBC. Here's a list of all the official broadcasters:
https://gtimg.tokyo2020.org/image/upload/production/fo7de8gnyr88ip7nhdx8.pdf >>18877Boring as fuck plus it's been going on for days now, you're late.
>>18885I heard in the GDR they made women get pregnant and then abort to force their bodies to produce hormones that would enhance their athletic ability at the Olympics, as a form of doping.
So how true or bullshit is that?
>>22648>Not this bull again. This is Cold War propaganda bullshitThanks I was waiting for someone to debunk it
>heck Norway had several of its Athletes permitted to compete even as Soviet athletes got penalized for using the SAME drugkek sauce?
I find it kinda funny how apathetic I and in fact most of the planet has become to the Olympics TBH. Social Spectacle has become repetitive and lacking any of the novelty that originally made the Olympics interesting even a decade ago, compared to today.
On a related note, how furries banded onto Olympic art depicting 'Stralian animals:
https://archive.ph/04TJI a tradition from at least the days of the Animalympics.
video kinda related but for Brazil, ironically the jaguar used in the Brazil Olympic torch relay ceremony was shot to death after it escaped its leash and tried to attack a soldier, a real tragedy, and irony given the mascot of that Olympics had been Ginga the Jaguar.
>>43495In the US, NBC has exclusive coverage and they are spending 75% of the time doing anything other than showing the events. I've seen:
>dipshit hosts talk about nothing>commercials>produced shorts about the backstories of the athletes>commercials>Zoom calls with the athletes' families>commercials>athletes in the locker room prepping for the event>commercialsThe worst part though is how they are going out of their way to only show the US competitors. Even in events where they're nowhere near getting on the podium. The best events I've caught so far were the swimming ones, purely because they all race at the same time next to each other so you can't avoid showing the other people. And they're not even showing most of the stuff, just the finals usually, plus some events are getting zero or minimal coverage like showing a few highlights.
I remember back when you could just turn on the TV and it was showing almost nothing but the events all day long. Somebody needs to revoke NBC's exclusive deal because this is abominable coverage.
>>18423>>43507Kinda crazy they don't do multiple rounds or anything. She seems to be pretty openly emotional in both tbh, but getting so decisively BTFO after being top of your game for years has got to be a mind job tbh.
Also congrats to Uzbekistan for beating Japan at their own sport and getting the gold.
>>43510Pretty crazy how the Olympics aren't ok with the Russian Federation but it was ok to
host the Olympics in nazi germany.
>>43517The doping shit is also nonsense. Either they change the standards of what can and can't be used. Or they only apply this rule and only demand testing for Russian athletes and so on. It's horseshit and anyone that isn't poisoned by MSM nonsense knows this.
Furthermore regardless of your opinion on gays and shit, the Olympic rules specifically BAN any political messaging or insults, because the Olympics are supposed to be neutral, completely.
>>43512 More interesting to me is how Israel was celebrated at the event in the midst of the ongoings in Gaza.
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