Summer 2024 Olympics

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Anonymous wrote:I hope LA goes for the movie angle, and I will be bummed if there is no gorgeous La La Land type scene, because Hollywood can do old classic glamour. What was shown as a LA intro was all so 90s and not the best.

Girl, no one wants the LA of Joan Crawford days. And it wouldn’t be true to the city at present. When was the last time you were there?

Like it or now, the LA of the 90s to the present is worldwide popular.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was torn when I watched the part in LA. On the one hand, I guess they did nail the whole American / Los Angles vibe and aesthetic. On the other hand, it was so trashy compared with the elegant and classical albeit sometimes slow and boring French production.

We’re Americans, we are who we are. Shrug.

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Anonymous wrote:Usag's appeal to CAS was denied. They will not reopen the case and see any additional video about the time. They plan on pursuing it further to the Swiss courts.

Why do I feel like Gina Chiles will not encourage Jordan to deal with this with grace and class? If I were Jordan I'd want to go down in history as having returned the medal with a congrats to the new bronze title holder, graduated from UCLA and then shown up for 2028 Olympics an even better athlete who wins gold without any questions.

It’s a shame that the IOC and FIG can’t acknowledge their massive incompetency and allow both athletes to share the bronze medal as was requested by the Romanians and instead the burden of showing “grace and class” is being shouldered by an athlete who has been demoralized by IOC and FIG failures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was torn when I watched the part in LA. On the one hand, I guess they did nail the whole American / Los Angles vibe and aesthetic. On the other hand, it was so trashy compared with the elegant and classical albeit sometimes slow and boring French production.

We’re Americans, we are who we are. Shrug.

It refected Los Angeles and California. Shrug.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else think the Kiwis were the true winners? A country of 5 million people with 20 medals including 10 gold! Outstanding!!!

The kiwis do for sure.

Why does a country of five million get to send a team of almost 200? Why are they eligible for two spots in each swimming event - the same as the US (pop c. 350m) and China (pop 1.4 billion)?

If they got the same per capita team size as the US, they'd be able to send one rowing eight but not the coxswain.

Who would bother watching an Olympics where the six most populated countries accounted for half the athletes? In reality, the biggest countries have an advantage anyway as they can draw on a much bigger pool of potential athletes. Of course it’s more complicated than that as wealth and resources count for a lot.

I love to watch non-Olympic contests without this jingoistic nonsense.

[Anonymous]

The right thing to do with the multiple errors is to award all 3 gymnasts Bronze

I can’t believe IOC didn’t just do this.

It is just ridiculous - they have compounded the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope LA goes for the movie angle, and I will be bummed if there is no gorgeous La La Land type scene, because Hollywood can do old classic glamour. What was shown as a LA intro was all so 90s and not the best.

Girl, no one wants the LA of Joan Crawford days. And it wouldn’t be true to the city at present. When was the last time you were there?

Like it or now, the LA of the 90s to the present is worldwide popular.

Two years ago. I LOVE LA, and to people abroad, Hollywood is LA. The 90s are just boring at this point, and they will definitely be over when the games happen.

[Anonymous]

I would like to enter the LA 2028 Olympics

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Loved it! The opening and closing ceremonies, and everything in between. I was there for most of the Olympics for work, and France did an amazing job. The Paris venues were just gorgeous. No way would L.A. come anywhere close to that.

Team USA basketball beating France in front of the home crowd (men and women!) is a memory I will treasure forever as it was one of the best live sporting events I have ever witnessed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else think the Kiwis were the true winners? A country of 5 million people with 20 medals including 10 gold! Outstanding!!!

And Raygunn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Usag's appeal to CAS was denied. They will not reopen the case and see any additional video about the time. They plan on pursuing it further to the Swiss courts.

Why do I feel like Gina Chiles will not encourage Jordan to deal with this with grace and class? If I were Jordan I'd want to go down in history as having returned the medal with a congrats to the new bronze title holder, graduated from UCLA and then shown up for 2028 Olympics an even better athlete who wins gold without any questions.

It’s a shame that the IOC and FIG can’t acknowledge their massive incompetency and allow both athletes to share the bronze medal as was requested by the Romanians and instead the burden of showing “grace and class” is being shouldered by an athlete who has been demoralized by IOC and FIG failures.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Usag's appeal to CAS was denied. They will not reopen the case and see any additional video about the time. They plan on pursuing it further to the Swiss courts.

Why do I feel like Gina Chiles will not encourage Jordan to deal with this with grace and class? If I were Jordan I'd want to go down in history as having returned the medal with a congrats to the new bronze title holder, graduated from UCLA and then shown up for 2028 Olympics an even better athlete who wins gold without any questions.

It’s a shame that the IOC and FIG can’t acknowledge their massive incompetency and allow both athletes to share the bronze medal as was requested by the Romanians and instead the burden of showing “grace and class” is being shouldered by an athlete who has been demoralized by IOC and FIG failures.

The IOC guy in charge of deciding — Hamid Gharavi — works for Romania as per Sally Jenkins in the Wash Post.

The IOC should not be corrupt. It does not look good for you to award a medal to a gymnast of a country that is your client.

“For lending his reputation to CAS’s secretive, opaque and stinking-as-a-spoiled-oyster star chamber, the honorable presiding arbitrator Hamid Gharavi got to lunge at the langoustine-piled ice sculptures for two weeks in Paris and charge $300 to $600 per hour for rank conflicts of interest. What a legal lark to be a CAS judge and to lord it over athletes with rulings such as the banning of a Jamaican hammer thrower for a technical failure in her entry paperwork committed during a hurricane outage. Or, in the case of Gharavi, the stripping of gymnast Chiles’s bronze medal over an alleged four-second lapse by U.S. officials in filing a scoring appeal on her behalf, so you can give it to your longtime legal client, Romania, that trove of billable hours.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2024/08/13/jordan-chiles-medal-cas/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was torn when I watched the part in LA. On the one hand, I guess they did nail the whole American / Los Angles vibe and aesthetic. On the other hand, it was so trashy compared with the elegant and classical albeit sometimes slow and boring French production.

+1. Tom Cruise? Snoop? Straight trash.

Agree. Not a fan of Cruise’s puffy-faced look.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else think the Kiwis were the true winners? A country of 5 million people with 20 medals including 10 gold! Outstanding!!!

The DMV sent around 30 athletes and they won over 14 medals (I haven't counted up properly), and in some of the premier events, not obscure sports like kayak sprint. Gold in men's 100m track, women's 1500 freestyle, men's basketball, swimming relays, women's soccer, women's 100m fly etc.

If the DMV was a country, where would it rank? If Yorktown High and Stone Ridge and Alexandria City High School were countries, where would they rank?

And Bullis.

They rank as super rich.

[Anonymous]

NBC finally nailed it after so many misses. Reminded me of the thrill of watching 84 and 88. Peacock showed it's potential. The day time live broacdcast on network tv were great too the the primetime high production for highlights