Olympics

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Grant Fisher's bronze in the men's 10,000m run makes him the first American in fifty years to win a medal in this event! Ugandan phenom Joshua Cheptegei won the gold.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

USA men's soccer team is eliminated! Morocco mopped the floor with them in the quarterfinal, 4 - 0! What a punishment!

But it wasn't all doom and gloom for USA today.:

Mixed relay team set a new world record, in the semifinal heat.

 

[Isabeau]

Spectator dragged from arena for holding up Taiwan banner during Olympic badminton match

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Lexxi]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Totally why I would never win.

 

[Free]

You could say it didn't give him a leg up.















*cough*

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I love scenes like this so much. I have my favorite events that I like to watch, and I get excited watching them, but I think my most favorite thing altogether about the Olympics is watching the celebrations. Especially the surprise winners, and small nations winning medals for the first time.

I know that it's not bliss for every athlete and team and crowd of supporters, there are only three medals and most participants will not get them, that's how it goes and what everyone knows going in. But that doesn't kill the joy of triumph, though.

 

[Free]

Of COURSE I'm posting something about the memes... Sheesh.

The Paris Olympics has been incredible for athlete memes

Tons of people are watching the 2024 Paris Olympics, and that may be part of why we're seeing so many memes and images take off.

awfulannouncing.com

 

[Free]

This is adorable.



Maglink

 

[Lexxi]

Was fun to watch USA's Kristen Faulkner win the road race. First USA women's gold in, I think, 40 years. And Faulkner wasn't even supposed to be in the event.

Faulkner Stuns in Win

 

[Free]

Of course the American press has to note he's an American competing for Sweden, but still.

American Mondo Duplantis breaks pole vaulting record competing for Sweden at the Olympics

Even better, he had to get in on the Yusuf Dikec pose meme.

 

[Free]

And that name: Mondo Duplantis.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

The video

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Rebeca Andrade of Brazil wins gold in the women's individual floor final!

 

[Free]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

USA defends men's shot put gold and silver

But Canada wins gold with the hammer, its first hammer-throw medal in a century!

 

[Free]

Oh my, nature in the middle of our Olympics.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

This guy