Paris Olympics 2024 Discussion Thread

[putrevus]

3 hours ago, LordPrabhzy said:

Australian hockey star amputates finger to play at Olympics

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckmg7ngkgjeo

 

Do any of our players have that much passion to represent the nation? They will run home at the first drop of the hat

will you do it?

Edited July 26, 2024 by putrevus

[Sgattick10]

Nikhat gets a tough draw. First a German and then the reigning world champ Chinese 

[Number]

Amit Panghal and Nishant Dev got first round byes.

Need to win 2 matches for a medal.

Amit is facing Zambian boxer whom he has beaten 5-0 at Commonwealth games Semis.

And even his potential QF opponents seem okay.

Edited July 26, 2024 by Number

[neel roy]

5 hours ago, Kron said:

Sports is a luxury 

Indians don't have that in India.

Rich ones don't pursue it due to lack of work ethic

Thats not true. Sourav Ganguly s family was one of the richest in Calcutta. He perstisted and even after being marked as a quota player succeeded. Abhinav Bindra s family was very rich. MAK Pataudi was a prince and scored a double century with one eye against Newzealand. Same as amputation but tougher.. Indias first SENA series victory was under him.  So its all about personal ambition and ethics..

[randomGuy]

Expecting 10 medals:  

- 1 each in boxing, wrestling, archery, badminton 

- 2 each in track n field, shooting.

- 2 total from weight lifting, tennis doubles, hockey, all other sports.

 

10 medals will put us at arnd 25 rank according to medals' count and 25 medals will put us on 11 rank.

Edited July 26, 2024 by randomGuy

[Serpico]

28 minutes ago, randomGuy said:

Expecting 10 medals:  

- 1 each in boxing, wrestling, archery, badminton 

- 2 each in track n field, shooting.

- 2 total from weight lifting, tennis doubles, hockey, all other sports.

 

10 medals will put us at arnd 25 rank according to medals' count and 25 medals will put us on 11 rank.

Only Gold medals are ranked. 10 medals without gold will be 50+, 10 medals with 3 golds might get us into top 25

 

Hope Neeraj locks in 

[cowboysfan]

Watched the rubgy 7s QFs,very entertaining games.

[Chaos]

3 minutes ago, cowboysfan said:

Watched the rubgy 7s QFs,very entertaining games.

nz doing any good?

[randomGuy]

Just now, Chaos said:

nz doing any good?

Nz lost to RSA... other semi finalists Aus, Fiji, France 

[randomGuy]

13 minutes ago, Serpico said:

Only Gold medals are ranked. 10 medals without gold will be 50+, 10 medals with 3 golds might get us into top 25

 

Hope Neeraj locks in 

That's why I have written 'according to medals count'.

[Vickydev]

Dont know what they were thinking going in with these outfits.

 

Men's is still ok, bland but ok.. But what have they made the women wear

[bharathh]

Looks like Nikhat and Lovlina are up against tough opponents in boxing. Was hoping Nikhat was a medal hopeful - looking unlikely now.

[Ultimate_Game]

58 minutes ago, cowboysfan said:

Watched the rubgy 7s QFs,very entertaining games.

 

Rugby has so many variants... and then the Aussie rules football is another sport based on rugby.

[putrevus]

Hoping Neeraj can do his magic again.One more gold from either shooting or Archery would be great.

[Gollum]

Paris has temporarily converted Champ de Mars into beach volleyball stadium for the Olympics.

This is how you use your existing first world infrastructure for the games. Third world nations will bankrupt their entire economies.

The beach volleyball teams in front of the… pic.twitter.com/ZgoxRRdsg2

— Siddharth's Echelon (@SiddharthKG7) July 25, 2024

[Gollum]

Lighting of the olympic torch, from a París church. Spectacular! pic.twitter.com/f9Okd0ZYCN

— Harsh Goenka (@hvgoenka) July 26, 2024

[Gollum]

The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics starts in 30 min.

Up to today, Paris has forced out 5000 homeless migrants off the streets by bussing them to the absolute outskirts of Paris or other parts of the country

A group of migrants launched a protest against the authorities pic.twitter.com/OAw6C9CjdO

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 26, 2024

[Vickydev]

Love these intros on the river. 

 

Much better than stadiums

[Gollum]

Mass attacks on TGV (high speed rail) infrastructure just ahead of opening ceremony. Iranian hand suspected. 

 

Paris is now a military zone because of terror threats. 

[Vickydev]

Just now, Gollum said:

Mass attacks on TGV (high speed rail) infrastructure just ahead of opening ceremony. Iranian hand suspected. 

 

Paris is now a military zone because of terror threats. 

Western media reporting Russia allegedly