#Paris 2024

[fire-lord-katara]

Rebeca Andrade's floor routine. Rebeca wins the gold medal in Paris 2024 and becomes Brazil's biggest medalist in the Olympics

[witchlinda]

Taisiia Onofriichuk from Ukraine performs her hoop routine to the sound of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson at the 2024 Paris Olympics Rhythmic Gymnastics Individual Qualifiers

[mattstrahm]

NOAH LYLES crashes ARMAND DUPLANTIS' interview after he set a new pole vault world record at the Paris 2024 Olympics

[tvmusiclife]

okay the fact that Brazilian gymnast flavia saraiva just patched up her eye and went about her day rn, men's soccer could never

[aspirateur-killeuse]

[churrotowns]

she ✌️

[rhaenella]

[munohlow]

[rodribentancur]

[sucka99]

[jackyjackdraws]

Local scientist enters the Olympics without any equipment nor protections

Gets a silver medal

Refuses to elaborate further

Leaves

[leavemeslowly]

The reaction of Polish fencer after winning the first Olympic medal in the history of Polish female fencing (epee), pure emotion:

[brasildaily]

Gold medalist Rebeca Andrade of Brazil, silver medalist Simone Biles of United States and bronze medalist Jordan Chiles of United States celebrate on the podium at the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Floor Exercise Medal Ceremony on day ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 05, 2024 in Paris, France.

[saucingitup]

betrayed by his own meat…

[momosane]

Marcelat Sakobi of Democratic Republic of Congo, at the end of the women’s round of 32 boxing match against Uzbekistan's Sitora Turdibekova, made a strong gesture to raise awareness of the ongoing genocide in the DR Congo by placing her hand in front of her mouth and pointing two fingers at her temple.

Resources for Congo:

Friends of Congo

Panzi Foundation

War Child

CammeDRCongo

Genocide Watch

A guide to the decades-long conflict in DR Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Industrial mining of cobalt and copper for rechargeable batteries is leading to grievous human rights abuses.

An explanation thread from 2019.

Books on Congo.

Films for peace in the DRC.

Feel free to let me know of other resources to add.

[koschei-the-ginger]

Me watching the Olympics, not knowing the name of most disciplines, let alone the rules, because overall I'm just very invested in watching people try hard and cheering for them if they seem nice or smth