#Sport Clock

[r-aindr0p]

I forgot that ur French. So what's it like over there as the Olympics go on?

Tbh it had absolutely no impact on my day to day life since I live so far from the capital there was no change whatsoever in the area (and I barely go out but that's something else-)

Though I did watch the olympics on tv on afternoons ! (mostly nice but I like really hated that the french were booing in some sports whenever the french teams did not have the football/basketball etc.. like ?? What a bunch of disrespectful disappointments they were)

[jumjum-crafts]

Is POLYAMOURS TONY

[batsplat]

In fact Open is a mandatory book for vr46 boys :)

ohhhhhh thank you!! that is SUCH impressive archiving, I'm always in awe of how much material you've amassed. and very based of them, big W for italian motorcycle racing. it's a great book!! I love that they've read it! there's a lot of sports autobiographies that take care never to stray from the generic when telling their stories... but this one has so much character that even knowing other professional athletes have read it makes me want to quiz them about what they thought

seeing as I've been given an opportunity to proselytise about this book, here is how it opens:

it's a book about having a deeply complicated relationship with the thing you've been forced to dedicate your whole life to, about being in constant pain and asking yourself if it's really worth it, about never having been given the time and space to develop properly into your own person... about hating tennis and never quite being able to walk away from it. the misery of winning and the refusal to countenance losing. the burden of having the whole world narrativise your career and your life, denying you the chance to do so for yourself, of being constantly judged and being constantly found inadequate. about rivalries!! having your whole career ending up being inadvertently defined by One Guy who you just don't really understand and who you can never escape

what agassi does is put words to a lot of the underlying narratives and themes of sports that other athletes also come into contact with in one way or another but are far less capable of articulating. you'll be hard-pressed to find another book that captures the humanity of sports so well, its twisted appeal and why it's so compelling

like,, idk there's so much going on in that book that when I find out another athlete has read it, I do want to basically go through it with them chapter by chapter (obviously I have a full set of notes and a highlighting system with one colour dedicated just to the sampras rivalry, so I'm well prepared for this task). it's cool that they've read it! good healthy interest in sports narrativisation on their part. in this post I brought up one of my favourite excerpts from the book when discussing the vale/casey rivalry -

- and idk, this kind of thing is just so fun and interesting you kinda want to go around and get everyone's thoughts on it. also obviously on a personal level,, enjoy the motogp guys, adore agassi and that whole era of tennis, so it's a fun crossover for me specifically. yay

btw, a new interview with agassi was published in the nyt a few days ago that I'd defo recommend to anyone with even just a passing interest in the sport (once you scroll past the bits about the worst event in tennis). starts with the line “as far apart as you are on a tennis court, you can actually feel the other one very intimately". even when he's delving more into the nuts and bolts of the sport, he just kinda gets how to explain it in a way that taps into the fundamental narrative appeal of what you're watching

oh yeah that's the good stuff

[why-i-love-comics]

Catwoman #62 - "Nine Lives IV" (2024)

written by Tini Howard art by Carmine Di Giandomenico & Veronica Gandini

[dkettchen]

[lansgf]

random nobody: “f1 isn’t a real sport“

every f1 fan in a 2m radius:

[ratatatastic]

"Have you ever seen [Barkov] fall? Has he ever fallen? He's never fallen his entire career!" "Uh—It's, uh, funny and I don't know if he'll care that I say this, but he's got those—he doesn't like the blades that you can snap in and out quickly. So when he needs to get his skates done in the middle of a game, he's gotta fully take off his skates, get 'em sharpened and retie them up—which is like one of the few guys in the league, I think, that still do that. So sometimes he'll have absolutely no edge, and he'll just find a way to, like, compensate and get through it—which is incredible." "That kind-of sucks though 'cuz that's like a bad dream to have. You're waiting on something else, like—even if the trainers just like snapped it back in or whatever, like maybe they had something different they can put in there. He probably wouldn't even know!" "[...] this guy's particular. He knows his game and he's goddamn good at it! And we don't say a word so!" "'Barky, we need you out there for the face off! There's two seconds left!'" "That's what I mean! He'll compensate and he'll still look better than all of us! Like if any of us had no edge like that, we'd be screwed, right? And he goes out there and does the Barky things that he does. We're all grateful for it! He's been getting me paid for 10 years now, so."

The Cam & Strick Podcast | 7.30.24 (x)

loving my captain face... absolutely smitten with the man hes spent a decade with despite still not being invited to his house... thats love babey oh hes absolutely swinging and kicking his feet

THE LITTLE SMILE HE MAKES AFTER HE GOES "hes been getting me paid for 10 years now so 😃"

[dazesanddoodles]

it's my birthday so the butchfemme situationship from hell is back!!1!1! enjoy chapter two 𓆣

[poirott]

*screaming internally*

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT 12x04 "The Clocks"

[iekeejkeek]

orange is magic! 🧡🍊🌇📙🥧🏵🎃

[thawthebeez]

haikyuu tiktok is sooooo annoying oh my god guys nishinoya deciding to stop playing volleyball post-time skip is literally not the end of the world he's fine dude. also sorry ur faves didn't go pro not everybody in that series were going to make it to the big leagues anyway. every single decision furudate made with that series was deliberate and realistic and fucking amazing. also no ur fave ship is never going to get together, haikyuu is about sports not romance. there is literally one canonical relationship within the entire series and it's fucking tanaka and kiyoko. iwaoi is not real, bokuaka is not real, kagehina is not real, kenhina is not real, and they never will be. kageyama is not a red flag you guys just don't know how to perceive autistic people in a positive manner without babying them. please just read the fucking manga

[yugiohz]

okay not to just parrot your opinions but leaks really are such a dog water way to consume media. between shaky photos that sometimes get posted out of order and hastily done translations, its so much more enjoyable to read as intended god bless

ameen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hella1975]

Honestly I blame the manga for not really paying much attention to the very obvious issues he has for Natsuo being sidelined so easily. Like the boy clearly has some mental health problems that i know people would eat up in any other situation, and I think his reaction to Endeavor and Touya's death leaves a lot of open ends for how he grows up after that in fics. Also, the trope of looking like someone you despise?? Full of angst potential

i have suchhhhh an issue with how horikoshi had natsuo react to the dabi reveal. like natsuo rejects endeavour for a lot of reasons but the one he's most vocal about is bc of what endeavour did to touya and the only and first time in his entire life that he's willing to ally with endeavor is... when touya reveals himself to actually be alive. what. he would not fucking say that

[gmanmedias]

SWITCH THE CLOCK BACK TO THE OLD TRACK

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@yay-im-a-catgirl

[yukipedia]

fair i have no idea how they did that. what a great game. i do feel that had it gone to penalties it would have gone argentina’s way anyway. colombia needed an open play goal and they came close quite a few times, were definitely a fantastic team (esp physical endurance wise) but that argentina bench was just super stacked. good stuff

[telestoapologist]

me, a titan main, watching every other titan band together to win this year’s games for zavala/lance