Paris Olympics 2024
Hank Moody
I'm fine. I'm disgusted with my life and myself, but I'm not unhappy about that.
Thursday, July 25, 2024 4:00 PM
Any chance we can all root for the USA? We had a not great performance in Tokyo 2020. We took home the most golds and the most medals overall, but generally underachieved. We’ve got Sha’Cari Richardson back (tested positive for THC in 2020), Simone Biles has her head right, basketball teams are strong even though the world is catching up. Men’s soccer held strong in first half but got smoked by a good French team 3-0 in the second half. Even the highly divisive women’s soccer team looks different. No more Rapinoe and the team is nearly all new from the players who kneeled during the anthem in some friendlies in 2015. We should reassert our athletic dominance over the world this summer.
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It’s sports/entertainment. It’s totally inconsequential if Americans do well or not. I could not care less about the medal count.
I watched some of the trials and there's some talented athletes representing Team USA, it should be a fun time!
i'd root for the men's squad if lebron wasn't on it. why this sentiment? i can't stand his game.
-practicing the masterful art of flopping
-4-5 step travels that the refs never call
-constant complaints of being fouled
-not running back on defense
-hauling more 3 pt line bricks
did i leave anything else out?
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-transgende….
https://www.thenation.com/article/societ…
The second article states there are no transgender women competing, then names two trans women competing in track and soccer. Which is it?
Wouldn’t mind Lebron and the old crew getting crushed.
No, you just don't get it. Article says there are no "trans" women. Then it says there are two "trans nonbinary". TOTALLY not the same thing. Lol
Quit misgendering the freaks, dude.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/jWY7MPE…
The latter is a competitive advantage. Quinn and others like “they?” Who gives a shit if they compete? There’s no advantage.
https://youtu.be/2_CYOVAZssY
So "they" are not really trans? What are they, half-trans?
The trans athletes in the Olympics were born female and are competing as females. They took no testosterone or male hormones. What’s the problem?
So if those women are trying to look like men, have they ever taken male hormones, hgh, or testosterone? They are still women, competing against women, only they have gained muscle mass and bone density by taking substances which would otherwise be prohibited. If they were any thing but woke trrannies, they would be banned.
As for gender, it reminds me of this song.
"Girls who want boys
Who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls
Who do girls like they're boys
Always should be someone you really love"
- Blur, "Girls and Boys"
So the idea that if someone is born a woman, they have to be inferior to men athletically is untrue. They can actually surpass men if they use drugs
True. Just because Skifredo says he went to the worst law school in the country doesn’t mean he did..
Wait…that one is true. ROAR!!!
All that said, I tend to follow it pretty passively rather than watching on TV
Every time I make these suggestions to the Olympic committee they write back and say “but the modern Olympics were inspired by the ancient Greeks and you’re suggesting some Roman shit” to which I respond “if you have such a hard on for the frickin’ Greeks you should include an assfucking event.” ROAR!!!
wld4testes is exposed for an ignorant liar, and a shill for woke leftists.
I saw that the other day, that’s a really great place for surfing, and a gorgeous place to visit.
Girls in skimpy bikinis is why I watch this sport.
Unfortunately I only saw an hour of it, watching in a go-go bar lol. Huge credit to France for trying something different. Given a choice, I'd prefer the traditional stadium-only format but it was good to see something different. Lady Gaga was good and Celine Dion was great. I too wondered why they weren't featuring French artists. The only name I could think of was Alizee (a major French hottie 20 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52kwqBMx…). The drag stuff was dumb and should have been dropped. The Team USA intro with Beyonce was OK... I recall The Rock did a Team USA intro a few years ago that was much better. Overall a decent start to the games.
USWNT with a demolishing of a really good German team 4-1. This new generation of young women has offensive firepower that this team has been missing for a few years.
Men’s gymnastics takes bronze medal after not having medaled in 16 years.
Women’s gymnastics takes gold. Back on top!
Men’s soccer is on the verge of coming back from getting thrashed 3-0 by France in opening game to being 15 minutes away from clinching a spot in the knockout games.
Women’s rugby has a new star and we are playing in the bronze medal game.
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I guess it will take some woman getting Kim Doo Koo’d before people wake the fuck up from this mind virus
The reason progressives defend it is simply because its a minority religion, and most of its followers belong to minority races.
Whats crazy though, is the number of self proclaimed constitutionalists who don’t believe in freedom of religion, and/or want to vote to ban a religion thats almost entirely the same as Judaism and to a lesser extent Christianity.
Whats especially concerning, also, is that Judaism and its texts are astronomically more violent than Islamic or Christian texts, but you don’t see anyone calling to ban or restrict that religion.
So there isnt really any consistency on the left or the right it’s basically just people with their own biases, personal opinions, and their own favored races, religions, belief systems.
The right wants restrictions on freedom of religion… the left wants restrictions on freedom of speech… and both sides found some “common ground” when it came to israel and anti semitism interestingly enough…
https://twitter.com/fairplaywomen/status…
Olympic boxer deemed to have male chromosomes wins fight in 46 seconds, opponent left in tears after hard hits
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/olympic-b…
I’m trying to keep my posts here to sports. We have Stud’s other thread for the trans and other stuff.
Simone Biles with another gold, this one on the vault which was most impacted in Tokyo. Great comeback. Objectively the 🐐
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Incidentally (or maybe more importantly) the cameramen certainly have had a tendency to focus on attractive women in the stands. The work in the Brazil France soccer game has been outstanding.
I’ve been writing home urging the lions of tha NC to organize a wrestling team. We’d kick the asses of any hairless apes that want to fight. Just like those good times 2000 years ago in the Roman Colosseum. ROAR!!!
24-year-old Swede Mondo Duplantis breaks pole vault world record for the ninth time in his career. Watch the video as he progressively works up to the new WR height of 6.25 meters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DigLvPl…
https://youtu.be/LdexkdpkIgk?si=kz3WHnG9…
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https://local12.com/news/entertainment/a…
Unfortunately it wasn't the pole vaulter that orange mentioned. I doubt any TUSCLers will be watching this one, but it us a hilarious story.
WRONG! if cj sees that he'll be searching for that guy's contact info and begging for dick pics and a FTF meet up. He's ready to buy his ticket to gay paree! LMAO
I have to give credit where credit is due, that was a good one.
USA closed at the top of the medal count with 40 gold / 44 silver / 42 bronze for a total of 126, beating China which also had 40 gold but 91 medals total. Team USA bested their performance at Japan in 2021 (39 / 41 / 33 = 113 total).
Congrats to all the athletes and to France for hosting a great games. I'm pissed that once again I was too busy to watch more than a few hours.
Apparently they feel they can just put anyone out there and dominate without practicing handoffs.