#olympics blogging

[stephantom]

Gonna make my predictions for women’s boulder & lead combined before I watch the boulder semifinals round.

Top 8 from bouldering will be: Janja Garnbret, Brooke Rabatou, Natalia Grosssman, Miho Nonaka, Erin McNiece, Oriane Bertone, Zhilu Luo, and Jenya Kazbekova.

Then we’ll have to wait a couple days for the lead round of semis, and the people likely to get the highest scores there are: Janja Garnbret, Ai Mori, Chaehyun Seo, Jessi Pilz, Laura Rogora, Mia Krampl, Brooke Rabatou, and Natalia Grossman.

So I think the 8 moving on to the finals will be:

Janja Garnbret, Brooke Rabatou, Natalia Grossman, Ai Mori, Miho Nonaka… Those are the 5 I’m pretty sure about, and the remaining 3 slots are a tossup between: Zhilu Luo, Erin McNiece, Jessi Pilz, Jenya Kazbekova, and Chaehyun Seo. Oh, and Oriane Bertone!!

My podium prediction…. Obviously Janja Garnbret for gold! And then?? Man, I don’t know—totally depends if Ai Mori has a good boulder round or not and if Brooke and/or Natalia have a good lead round. And I could see any of these women making the podium tbh, but I’ll go with Brooke for silver and Ai Mori for bronze. ??

[dayisfading]

i haven't had a chance to watch any noah lyles events but he is one of my favorite humans in the world regardless

[dayisfading]

proof for the asshole in my ask who is either hatefollowing me or trawling this post for people to call slurs:

russia (under the roc) was banned from the 2024 olympics for their actions toward ukraine

The thing is, I’m from South Africa, and as anyone born here after 1994 will tell you, the history of apartheid is drilled into us every year in school. No matter what other history we do, we always get back to apartheid.

One of the things we study is how and why apartheid came to an end; among the biggest reasons was international pressure. A point we usually touch on is how apartheid-era South African athletes could not compete in international sporting events like the Olympics. I once met a woman who was a world class athlete during the latter years of apartheid. She could not compete in the Olympics as a South African, and had to leave the country and join up with another country to take part.

And that is why I couldn’t understand, watching the Olympics opening ceremony last night, that Israel was allowed to be there.

If the world was better at dealing with apartheid states thirty years ago than it is now, I think we have a problem.

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[samgirard]

└ léon marchand breaks the olympic record to win his fourth gold in the 200m medley

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[stephantom]

About to start a replay of the Men’s Combined (Boulder & Lead) climbing semi-finals. I’m going to predict who I think will make it into the top 8.

Anraku Sorato

Toby Roberts

Jakob Schubert

Alberto Ginez Lopez

Adam Ondra

Colin Duffy

Sam Avezous

Tamoa Narasaki

… ok let’s see what happened. (The event already happened a few hours ago.) I’m sure this won’t be right, and there a bunch of other guys I’d like to see make it. Doyuhn Lee will probably make it in actually. And I might be underestimating Hannes Van Duysen.

[dayisfading]

they just said the e coli levels are too high for the athletes to do the events in the river??

im sorry what level is acceptable???

[llamagoddessofficial]

I can't believe JK has gone fully mask-off and just outright admitted that the reason she's decided those poor boxers must be men is because they "look like men" to her. Like, we all knew TERF ideology discriminated against women that didn't fit the eurocentric standard, particularly women of colour. We all knew TERF bioessentialism was insane and directly harmed cis women in its attempts to exclude trans women. But girl I didn't think she'd make it this glaringly obvious. JK honey I don't think you're supposed to say the quiet part out loud

[valyrfia]

tennis is for sure an interesting sport. why are two grown men moaning at each other across the net in a crowded silent arena.

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[tiger-balm]

[August 4th 2024] ethan katzberg (22, CAN) pumping up the crowd before his final throw after he's confirmed to have won gold. With huge 84.12m throw in hammer toss, 4.15m further than the next best, he earns canadas first ever gold in the event !