Olympics 2024 (rename from CAN Drone Recce of NZ Soccer Practice)

[The Bread Guy]

Meanwhile, they allow a convicted child rapist to play volleyball.

Steven van de Velde, the Dutch beach volleyball player convicted of rape, eliminated from Olympics

The Dutch beach volleyball player who was convicted of raping a 12-year-old British girl in 2016 has been eliminated from the Paris Olympics.

apnews.com

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/sport/steven-van-de-velde-olympics-intl-spt/index.html

Just confirms my stance on these games.

IOC can be pretty shady, but I lay both of these at the feet of the national delegations and/or sports orgs for saying, “yeah, everyone’s good to go” than I do on Big Olympic.

 

[Blackadder1916]

never mind the soccer, the bigger scandal is beach volleyball “uniforms.” Now my Hothletes! feed on X will go dark.

And Canada to play for the Gold.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1821578955360739419

 

[The Bread Guy]

Congrats to the first-ever gold-medal winner in break dancing, Canada's Phil Kim (aka Phil Wizard)

Canadian b-boy Phil Wizard wins gold in breaking at Paris Games

Canada's Phil Kim has won a gold medal in men's breaking at the Olympic Games.

www.cp24.com

Canada’s B-Boy Phil Wizard wins first Olympic breaking gold in Paris

The Canadian beat France’s Dany Dann in front of a partisan crowd to take the first-ever men’s gold medal in breaking.

www.aljazeera.com

Phil Wizard dances to the top of the podium in breaking's Olympic debut - Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website

It was yet another history-making moment for Team Canada as Phil Wizard (Philip Kim) won gold in the Olympic debut...

olympic.ca

Wizard showcases breaking to the world at Paris 2024 – and wins gold

Nobody could beat the Wiz in Paris.

olympic.ca

Watched the last-two-medal final face-off (where the 27-year-old Canadian faced off against France's entry, a 36-year-old former nurse who quit his job to take this up full-time), and the commentary sounded just like cricket commentary to me - I understood the individual words, but the groupings made next to zero sense to me

Congrats!

 

[KevinB]

Watched the Men’s Modern Pentathlon, the Egyptian just crushed it, and set a WR in the process of taking home Gold, he then still had the energy to do a victory lap with his National flag incredible performance - I wish they had used live handguns, but…

Women’s is at 0500 tomorrow.