It's cool when there are huge protests saying the Olympics shouldn't happen and there are literally no one allowed to watch the games in person and even some Japanese officials are like "maybe we shouldn't do this" and the IOC is like "this is happening, you literally cannot cancel this without our permission."
A few of the sports have happened already, including a Canada vs Japan soccer game, and the first ever openly out trans athlete played at the Olympics! Their name is Quinn, click through for their very good thoughts on the experience
My main Olympic opinion (aside from the obvious “not this year, and certainly not there”) is that if anything happens to Sky Brown I’m gonna fuckin riot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Brown
She just came back from fracturing her skull last May, and while I completely understand why she wants so badly to compete, especially in Japan, I am deeply unsure if her parents should have allowed her to go
for what it's worth she just won gold at the X-Games, so she's doing ok apparently, but the concern is fair.
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also to echo several sentiments: the olympics are literally my single favourite thing that humanity has created, and also absolutely horrifically bad, simultaneously.
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My happiest Olympic moment was when I lived in Boston and the city lost their bid to host.
I think we all breathed a gigantic sigh of relief at that. Literally not a single person I know who lives here was not horrified by the very idea of it.
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My happiest Olympic moment was watching Korean women's curling team win silver at Pyongchang from a bar in Seoul in 2018. We all lost our frickin' minds.
Kim Eunjung is the hero none of us deserve (also don't google it unless you wanna get depressed all over again, the coaches all were forced to quit (yay) the sport after abuse charges post-olympics because of course)
Oh man although I also cried buckets when Kim Yuna won gold in 2010 at Vancouver, when I was also coincidentally in Seoul
I guess tl;dr I root for South Korea in the Olympics
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My happiest Olympic moment was watching Korean women's curling team win silver at Pyongchang from a bar in Seoul in 2018. We all lost our frickin' minds.
Kim Eunjung is the hero none of us deserve (also don't google it unless you wanna get depressed all over again, the coaches all were forced to quit (yay) the sport after abuse charges post-olympics because of course)
Oh man although I also cried buckets when Kim Yuna won gold in 2010 at Vancouver, when I was also coincidentally in Seoul
I guess tl;dr I root for South Korea in the Olympics
In sports I actually know something about, especially individual sports, I tend to root for athletes I like rather than nations. I'll be cheering Adam Ondra and Janja Garnbret on in the climbing and hoping they get medals despite the fucking stupid inclusion of speed climbing as one of the three categories (they should have spun it out, at least they apparently are next time).
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Are you guys getting the same audio stream down in Straya? Because the guy here just said "the honorable profession of carpentry..." and I'm like, carpentry breakdancing?? because I got news about carpentry usually there's less breakdance
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Are you guys getting the same audio stream down in Straya? Because the guy here just said "the honorable profession of carpentry..." and I'm like, carpentry breakdancing?? because I got news about carpentry usually there's less breakdance
No, we have our own local guys doing.
My understanding is that all the commentators get like their own summary sheet and get to do with it as they see fit.
Thank you CBC for taking multi minute commercial breaks
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I wouldn't have asked only the Mediacorp stream is... I think from the UK maybe? I dunno but for sure no Singaporean speakers so far
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I wonder if they had to cut down how many dancers/performers they planned on using for the opening ceremony, because they look absolutely dwarfed by their props and there's a lot of empty space in amongst all their staging areas. They keep using pushing shots instead of long shots to disguise it, but these keep feeling like set pieces that were originally planned to feature significantly larger casts.
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A few of the sports have happened already, including a Canada vs Japan soccer game, and the first ever openly out trans athlete played at the Olympics! Their name is Quinn, click through for their very good thoughts on the experience
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I think these games are cursed
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them not being playable in the last mario&sonic game is the biggest missed opportunity
This world is one of contrasts.
Actual Fun Fact: I just learned that developing typhoons are called "台風のたまご" AKA "Typhoon Egg"
https://tenki.jp/forecaster/keiko_mochizuki/2021/07/23/13337.html
for what it's worth she just won gold at the X-Games, so she's doing ok apparently, but the concern is fair.
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I think we all breathed a gigantic sigh of relief at that. Literally not a single person I know who lives here was not horrified by the very idea of it.
That was Philadelphia!
So he blitzed the course.
Kim Eunjung is the hero none of us deserve (also don't google it unless you wanna get depressed all over again, the coaches all were forced to quit (yay) the sport after abuse charges post-olympics because of course)
Oh man although I also cried buckets when Kim Yuna won gold in 2010 at Vancouver, when I was also coincidentally in Seoul
I guess tl;dr I root for South Korea in the Olympics
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I straight up love Tony Hawk. He's such a cool guy.
In sports I actually know something about, especially individual sports, I tend to root for athletes I like rather than nations. I'll be cheering Adam Ondra and Janja Garnbret on in the climbing and hoping they get medals despite the fucking stupid inclusion of speed climbing as one of the three categories (they should have spun it out, at least they apparently are next time).
It is so weird to see the empty stadium.
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Satans..... hints.....
I really like they included a rescue worker in the flag carriers. (Also a climber in the flag carriers )
Satans..... hints.....
I was going to start watching Ted Lasso but my friends were like "oh but Olympics" so
THAT DRESS HEY
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That is what I was just about to say.
I love it.
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Also this sequence is... odd? But maybe I just have been inside for so long that I forgot that interpretive dance is always odd
E: there is no Dana only Zuul-chan
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yiiiikes
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No, we have our own local guys doing.
My understanding is that all the commentators get like their own summary sheet and get to do with it as they see fit.
Satans..... hints.....
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Satans..... hints.....