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[the-olympics-olympics]

Weird Olympic Moments Tournament

To celebrate (?) the Paris 2024 Olympic Games starting in a few weeks, I thought I'd run another Olympic-themed poll tournament. This time, we're diving into history and getting to know some of the stranger, lesser-known stories of the Games.

Polls will run for a week, and the tournament should last until around early September if I'm doing my math right. The first polls will begin Monday, July 15th.

At the end, we'll award a gold, silver, and bronze to the top three.

After many hours on Wikipedia and the IOC website, here's the list of moments I came up with:

Horse vaulting

Pigeon racing

Sarajevo venues damaged in war

Mayor of Montreal says "The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby," then proceeds to host one of the most financially disastrous Games in history

George Eyser wins six medals after being run over by a train

Solo synchronized swimming

Crowd gets pooped on by 25,000 pigeons

Flame is taken to top of Mount Everest

Margaret Abbot dies without knowing she made history as the first US woman to win gold

Brazilian team has to sell coffee to afford the trip to Los Angeles

A teenager's "dumb idea" becomes Olympic tradition (athletes marching together in closing ceremony)

St. Louis experiments with "purposeful dehydration", denies water to marathon runners

Kanakuri Shizō takes 54 years to finish his race

Mt. Vesuvius moves the Olympics to London

They stop doing the Olympic salute for some reason

IOC President compares a terrorist attack to a vote to ban a racist country

The Olympics goes 88 years without letting women run marathons

Olympic flame transmitted via satellite

Northern Rhodesia declares independence during Olympics, changes name to Zambia

Vancouver 2010 cauldron malfunction

Montreal 1976 stadium is finally paid off in 2006

The curse of the Beijing 2008 mascots

Everest climbers get gold medals

Sochi snowflake malfunction

They hold the Olympics in 1906, then later say it doesn't count

Colorado kicks the Olympics out

Flame hidden from view after anti-gay law

Summer Olympics held during Winter

Haiti and Liechtenstein discover they had the same flag

Riot at the 1924 rugby match

McDonald's gives out more Big Macs than they expected

Chamonix 1924 retroactively named the Winter Olympics

Doves burned during cauldron lighting

Torchbearer takes olympic flame down a ski jump

Medals made of e-waste

Shooter aims for wrong target, loses gold

Olympic torch passed on International Space Station

Alien addresses crowd

Figure skating debuts at Summer Olympics

Olympics held on two different continents

Rio organizers lose key to stadium gate

Baron de Coubertin wins a gold medal under false identity

1960 winter games held in city named for an ethnic slur

Obstacle Swimming

North Korea considered to co-host 1988

Housing complex for American soldiers during the occupation of Japan becomes the Olympic village

Torch design changed mid-relay

Cauldron lit by flaming arrow

Last three seconds of basketball final replayed three times until results changed

St. Louis threatens to hold their own Olympics if they don't get named host city

Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat

Balloon racing

Delirious man carried over finish line by coaches, wins marathon

Summer Olympics held in November and December

Olympics postponed for COVID

Blue screen of death appears during opening ceremony

Marathon runner attacked by priest

Guy kicks referee in the face and (maybe) ends up on a stamp

Jet pack flies over stadium

Centennial games not awarded to a very confident Athens

LA 84 gets in trouble for commercializing the torch relay

Olympic flame relit with cigarette lighter

Rower stops for ducks

Nazi propaganda becomes Olympic tradition (torch relay)

Did I miss a great weird moment? Send it to me in an ask and I might do a round 2 or something!

I chose the moments based on my own personal bias (lol)

Heads up that there is one that involves the death of animals, but I will tag any polls with that #tw animal death

Please don't hesitate to let me know if you need anything else tagged, and how to tag it!

Also, a disclaimer that I'm tired and scatterbrained and I work full time, so if this gets a little disorganized I apologize. Shouldn't be too bad though.

Let the games begin, and whatnot

@tournament-announcer :)

[insanze-24]

Değerli dostlar ve bi tarafına kına yakmak isteyenler! son zamanlarda yaşadığım yoğun stres nedeniyle oluşan sağlık sorunları sevgili doktorumu tedirgin ettiğinden aşağıdaki raporu yazma gereği duydu bana da uymak düşer!! Görüşmek üzere sevgiler, esenlikler.

"Tarafımdan muayene edilen Fatih ..... dahamei kalp ve buteyni eyser tevessüü ile iltihabı kebete merbut müzmin hemevi evcadan muzdarip olup hastalığı kendisinin sağlık ve hayatını tehdit etmekte ve hergün tumblr ve bilimum sosyal medya vazifesine devamı bu hacmelerin teşeddüdüne neden olmaktadır. Binaenaleyh bu müvecca hacmelerin tekerrürü ve tekâmüllerine mâni olmak için Fatih .....'in başta tumblr olmak üzere sosyal medya ya girmekten, zihni mesai ile iştigalden meni ve her türlü bedeni yorgunluktan tevakki etmesi icap ettiğini mübeyyin işbu rapor tarafımdan tanzim kılındı."

Doktor bu ne🙄Hangi çağdasın🤔 bu nasıl bir dil? Sen beni herkesten önce öldürmeye mi niyetlendin🤔🤕😇🙃

[au2m8]

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25 Billion Dollar Bitcoin 1USD WIN 11 Pro Milton & MIT

34 GAZILLION DROOPAL SNOOPING POOPER THOMATOES SOCUNTED ISSUANCES INUNDIATSO NO DATSOON NO DATSUN FIERO & YAMAHA EYSER

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[gymnasticscoaching]

George Eyser - amputee Olympic gymnast

George Eyser was a German-American gymnast who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics, earning six medals in one day, including three gold and two silver medals. Eyser competed with a wooden prosthesis for a left leg, having lost his real leg after being run over by a train. Despite his disability, he won gold in the vault, an event which then included a jump over a long horse without aid of a…

[kirgincicekler]

[nagalakshmii-blog]

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[unalaq]

Angelique for the name playlist (or just Ang if that's too long ❤️)

your name is so pretty!!

apple cider - beabadoobee

nobody knows - THE DRIVER ERA

geyser - mitski

encore - EVAN GIIA

la belle femme - HUNNY

i know - pink sweat$

q.u.e.e.n - janalle monáe, erykah badu

undercover martyn - two door cinema club

everytime - boy pablo

send me your name and i’ll make a playlist with those letters :)

[caliburnt]

8 9 lovely people I’d love to know better

The Questions

Name/Alias: Red Birthday: August 5th Zodiac Sign: Leo Height: 5′4″ Hobbies:  Do I have hobbies anymore? Uh, video games, swimming (rip gym membership), podcasts, ... This.  Favorite Color: Purple Favorite Book: Honestly, I don’t know anymore. Last Song: g/eyser - mit/ski Last Film/Show: Hau.nting of B.ly Man/or Inspiration: Any media I’ve consumed that works with my writing, for Nero specifically so many attempts for a DMD s-rank run in dmc 4 and 5 that the beginning mission cutscenes are burned into my retinas.  Story Behind URL: Calibur, calibur... Caliburnt? 

tagged by: @oplitis thank you!! 💜

tagging: Ah ha,,,,,, if you haven’t done it I want to know about you

[the-opening-band]

sav @ohimtherebabey tagged me in the uhhh..... URL acrostic poem playlist thing! regrettably, my username is Very long so she’s under a read more

Telemann’s Viola Concerto in G major, TWV 51:G9. because fuck you.

Hazey (Stripped) - Glass Animals

Existential Crisis Hour! - Kilo Kish ft. Childish Gambino

One Day Robots Will Cry - Cobra Starship

Presumably Dead Arm (617 Sessions) - Sidney Gish

Evergreen Love - Misty Miller

Nobody - Mitski

Island - Emilie Kahn

Never Let Me Go - Florence + the Machine

Geyser - Mitski

Belt of Faith - Jung Jae-il

Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene - Hozier

New York - The Boxer Rebellion

Do It All The Time - iDKHOW

Pardon Our Tone Shift !

uhhh i will tag @actually-a-hobbit bc i love u, @mithrandiirs bc i love u, and anyone who really wants an excuse to do this, bc i love u too

[korpglugg]

hey check out these sick-ass songs

Rules: spell out your URL using song titles and tag as many people as there are letters in your URL !

Kong by Bonobo

On'n'On by Justice

Rome by Susanne Sundfør

Panacea by Disasterpiece

Grizzly Man by Rockettothesky

Linger Longer by Cosmo Sheldrake

Unspeakable World by Go Go Penguin

Geyser by Mitski

Gold Plate by Teleskärm

I wasn't really tagged in this and i am far too shy to tag people, but i second @autos-ismos (thank you!) when i say Do this if you want

[baljeet]

song title tag

i was tagged by the lovely @tevetinotina <3 em you’re beautiful ilysm

so, here is my url spelled out with titles of some of my favorite songs!

black mud / layla

lose my mind / dean lewis

unstoppable / the score

eye of the storm / watt white

sugar honey ice & tea / bring me the horizon

all we do / oh wonder

reckless / jaxson gamble

geyser / mitski

elle me dit / mika

american money / børns

no roots / alice merton

the arena / lindsey stirling

so tied up / cold war kids

tagging: @sanskrits @saltellare @henriettia @lotsofflailing and anyone else who would like to do this!

[the-olympics-olympics]

Louis Zamperini, 1936 U.S. Olympic Team: "We're all standing on the infield, the grass, all lined up military style. They released 25,000 pigeons, they said. The sky was clouded with pigeons. And the pigeons circled overhead and then they shot a cannon and they scared the poop out of the pigeons. And we had straw hats, flat straw hats. You could hear the pitter patter on our hats."

George Eyser was a German-American gymnast who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics, earning six medals in one day, including three gold and two silver medals. Eyser competed with a wooden prosthesis for a left leg, having lost his real leg after being run over by a train.

[kirgincicekler]

[aquarian-sunchild]

Hello please look in this direction

I haven’t written in thirty-seven years so today I sat down and wrote about the world I build in my head when I’m bored...which is often haha.

I tried figuring out map-making programs and I am so bewildered by them. Instead I wrote this sort of historical timeline of the setting in the style of Bill Wurtz’s history videos. 

It’s probably not entirely logical or whatever, but I’ve tried my best. Constructive criticism is always appreciated. I might post this on r/worldbuilding. I dunno.

Okay, so I’m focusing on four major countries/cultures in my world-building.

Imagine a map because I can’t figure out map generator sites to save my life. Taking up most of the space in the southeast quadrant of the map is the empire of Kaleem. Centuries ago, Kaleem didn’t exist. There wasn’t much on this particular continent save for some tightly-knit tribes of hunters and gatherers following their food across vast savannahs. Water was very hard to find. Enter Kaleem the First (who I promise will have a cooler name once I start figuring out conlangs for this world). He’s restless. And he has visions of water.

“Hey” says Kaleem to his tribe. “Anyone want to follow me to the flying water I see in my dreams?”

 “Wow, no.” says most of his tribe. “That’s weird. You’re weird. Get lost.”

So that’s exactly what Kaleem did. He gathered up his wives, children and some curious hangers-on and immediately got lost in the savannah. But just as he’s down to his last wife and things are at the worst 🎶 OH MY GOD A GEYSER 🎶 . At least, modern science would say it was a geyser. Kaleem called it ‘the flying water I saw in my visions’...which thankfully became ‘Fountain of Kaleem’ for short. Kaleem and whoever is left settle around the fountain and a community begins to form (yeah there were probably some knotted-up family trees back then but this is very early human history for this world so people didn’t understand that yet so shhhh). The community becomes a settlement and becomes a city.

“Hey.” says the tribespeople who earlier called Kaleem a weirdo. “We’re kinda dying and you’re kinda not. Can we like, chill here?” “Okay” says Kaleem who is now king because he found the place and that’s how things work. The empire of Kaleem flourishes throughout the southern continent. They’re the most prosperous and advanced civilization on the map, and it’s rumored elsewhere that they eat gold.

Ilshe is an archipelago in the northeast corner of the map. Being an island nation, they’re kinda isolated and have their own traditions that others may consider WEIRD or BARBARIC or MILDLY CANNIBALISTIC but whatever half the world doesn’t know they exist so they can do whatever they want. This includes intimidating other Ilshe tribes into submission by eating their chiefs, which is exactly what Míras and his warriors did to centralize power around his particular island and tribe. Hey, it put an end to all the in-fighting for pretty much...forever. 📣Go big or go home.📣 Ilshe kinda looks like a cartoon character’s hand, with a giant island in the middle surrounded by four (maybe five I haven’t decided) smaller islands. NO ONE LIVES ON THE BIG ISLAND BECAUSE THAT IS THE ISLAND OF SOULS WHERE BODIES ARE DROPPED OFF AS OFFERINGS TO THE GUARDIANS OF THE AFTERWORLD WHO TAKE THE FORM OF HUGE CARRION BIRDS OM NOM NOM 🍖BONE ARMS AND TEETH🍖. Ever hear of a Tibetan sky burial? Go google it. It’s fascinating. And gross. It's "gross-cinating"! So now that power is centralized in Ilshe things are pretty chill and aside from butchering for food and animal sacrifices for sacred days things aren’t purposefully killed as often anymore. You could say it’s pretty peaceful, in a genuinely morbid sort of way.

Then there’s this asshole mainland nation to the East of Ilshe called Statsukar. “Hey, that empire-building thing down south looks like fun.” say the leaders of Statsukar. “Let’s try it. How about those island weirdos up there? They’re not even doing anything. This should be easy.” So they set sail for Ilshe with a few hundred warriors and attempt an invasion. It does not go well. One boat returns with a few dozen dazed soldiers and what’s left of the king of Statsukar’s remains tied to the prow. “Soooo...they ate our king. Can we like, leave them alone?”

“Holy fucking shit.” says Statsukar. And they leave Ilshe the hell alone. Because holy fucking shit.

But now there’s no king. And he’s left behind teenage twins, Roga and Annar. Now it’s time to play “Who Wants to Lead Statsukar?” so text those votes to--actually don’t text those votes anywhere because cell phones don’t exist here. Roga wants to strengthen Statsukar’s military after the humiliating defeat by Ilshe. Annar just...doesn’t. Ae just doesn’t and I just realized I haven’t mentioned the existence of a third gender with different pronouns in this universe yet but I guess now I have so wahey. Annar wants to use Kaleem as a model for Statsukar and focus on STUDY📖 and INCREASE OF CAPITAL📈 and 🏥GENERAL WELL-BEING OF THE PEOPLE OF- “No that’s stupid we need firearms and shit.” says Roga.

🎹🎶 IT’S TIME FOR A CIVIL WAR.🎶🎹

And the winner is....🥁🥁🥁 🎺 Nobody, nobody is the winner. Statsukar no longer exists; it’s now Rogakar and Annakar and you will never guess why. But the loser is clearly Annakar, as they lose their sea border that would connect them with Kaleem just as this cool new concept of INTERNATIONAL TRADE💰is catching on (even with the cannibal island Ilshe, who have now sort of chilled out on the brutal tribalism thing [or have they?] and are making a name for themselves as a hub of maritime trade). So now Annakar is essentially cut off from the developing world, their financial prospects are down the tubes and HEY is that a crop-destroying drought? It’s a crop-destroying drought! YAAAAY--Wait no that’s actually pretty bad.

This of course leads to famine and a refugee crisis and there’s more in my head that I could put down but I am le tired and just blinded myself with a stupid light therapy thing so BYE.