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has been investing more into other sports or at the very least their athletes are getting better. While this was still technically their best Olympics ever, I thought they were actually unfortunate and could have won more medals this time around.
yes, I had some hopes for Pimenta and Jorge Fonseca for example. Also the triathlon guys did a great job, wasn’t expecting medals but their race was really good.
i believe that with a better sport culture (not great for now) and a bit help from the media (giving proper space to non-football sports) things would be better.
unfortunately media interest only come after the success, and last for little time.
My best example was when Rui Costa became the first Portuguese ever Road Cycling World Champion, and not a single one Portuguese tv channel was showing his race, I was following it via YouTube or something like that.
when he won, and specially because he had beaten a Spanish in the finish line, everyone got sudden interest (tv show guest, memes, congratulated by politicians). And, like Iuri now, that interest died the next weekend when club football started again 
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6 gold medals in 128 years of Olympics.
Only this year we got more medals (total of all time) than… Michael Phelps….
so yeah, that is the reason why. Football mania from people, and most of all, the media. Everything goes around Benfica/Porto/Sporting in that country
ExpandIn fact the Madison Gold Medallists are being punished by having to do six hours a day of hard manual labour for the benefit of a gang of Belgians for the next three weeks.
Yeah i'm gonna need some context here 
i thought iuri was in germany for the tour for this next days
ExpandDear Lord, I'm always surprised how massive the prize money is in countries outside of my own
Of course a country like Guatemala doesn't have to divide it between that many athletes, but still. Awesome.
In Portugal the "unofficial prize" is to be invited to multiple football tv shows and then as the football season starts (as it did) to jump directly into oblivion (as they did... ).
Also this is only valid for one of gold medallists. All the other three medallists (one gold, one silver and one bronze) never even got invited to radio/tv... i guess the new signing of benfica is what matters ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Femke Bol comeback epic win on the 4x400
- Iuri Leitao medals, both the silver and of course the gold at madison
- All the "live" experiences i got to take part on three weekends i spent in Paris, especially watching my big four in medal events (athletics, artistic gymnastics, track cycling and my all time favorite, swimming), the visit to the mythic Roland Garros, and of course watching live my country win a medal.
- The olympic flame at night. Incredible happy and sad feeling when seeing it for the last time before leaving Paris on the last saturday
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10. It was literally the best performance ever in history of Olympic Games for Portugal. Besides having equalized the maximum amount of medals in a single games (4) as done in Tokyo, this time they managed to do it but with one gold, TWO silvers and one bronze.
unbelieable edition for teamPT
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2. What were the suprises and heartbreaks ?
heartbreak was Pimenta in sprint canoeing, very sad for him as he missed a lot of his child events to train for this and ended up 6th.
also pichardo, I was not expecting gold but after his first jump I thought that was it.
3.Was your country's goal achieved?
yes, the official goal were 4 medals, no matter the color.
4. Which are the sports that will be invested more in future?
Hard to tell, Portugal still lives around football. Hopefully track cycling, after what happened this week. Also triathlon team did a great job.
5. Who could be some the potential star for your country in LA?
hard to tell. The big ones will soon retire, so not sure who can be there in 2028.
one last sad thing: today, on the day of the closing ceremony of the best Olympic Games ever for Portugal, the president of our national committee died.
he was president since 2013 and completely revolutionized professional sports in Portugal, and was one of the main responsible for the facility improvements and the increase in financial aid that helped the record medals of 2020 and 2024. All Olympic athletes loved him, so it was quite a sad news for them today as well.
Portugal has a total of 31 medals in the whole 30 editions of Summer Olympic Games.
I was able to witness the number 31 live.
Wish I could go back in time just to say to my younger self, watching his first Olympics of Sydney 2000 and falling in love with the Olympic concept, that 24 years later the dream would become real!
So yes, with no doubt, best Olympic Games ever!
In terms of sports, it has been good.
But I give it a 10 because of being the games where I had the change to be there, and because this idea of organizing the events in the center of the city, specially in a place like Paris, was the greatest idea ever! The vibe there is awesome, you hear people cheering everywhere from some event happening somewhere nearby, the venues are incredible, and the fans zones are really nice.
The organization, for the athletes, might not be that good (crappy Olympic village, mistakes with flags several times, the Seine river drama, etc), but for the public it is perfect, everything goes smoothly and there is help and directions everywhere.
I frequently come to Paris for visiting (it’s a quick not expensive 3h train ride from NL) but from now on I will always look this city in a different way, it will always be the Olympic city
I’m joking of course
But I did found the house 
ExpandMy personal favorite segments from the ceremony were the Le Mis/French Revolution tribute (the entire sgement), the love/literature segment, and the march to the Trocadero.
Celine Dion also did a magnificent job of ending the ceremony on a high note.
Les miserables followed by Marie Antoinette and Gojira and opera, that to me is the highlight of this ceremony, never I got so much wowed in so little time.
In general it was quite an incredible ceremony.
But now 6 hours of bus travel awaits me (sponsored by whoever were those terrorists that broke the French railways ) so see you tomorrow, hopefully from Paris
Edited by kungshamra71ExpandVery sorry to tell you AHMEDABAD 2036 is Narendra Modi's pet project.
India is trying all its soft powers to get the hosting rights of Olympic 2036.
That was a joke btw. Turkmenistan is a highly censured and closed country , pretty much North Korea but without the American hate.
so no way any Olympics would be organized in such a place (I hope!)
Fun fact: when I was in Turkmenistan this spring, the (clearly brainwashed) Turkmen guide that was with us told us that “all the megalomaniac sport infrastructure was built because they are going to organize the Olympics very soon” 
so get ready all to “Ashgabat 2036”
Also, I don’t think this “out of stadium” idea should be something to be repeated.
that being said, what the French did here has been, so far, pretty awesome!!
Crazy, mad, all over the place, everything mixed (parade with musical acts), love it!
I’m loving this special edition of Eurovision btw
So this is the part that is gonna be blocked in all conservative countries? Can’t imagine any of this in any Islamic country for example
I applaud this concept for the athletes from The Netherlands, as they will feel pretty much at home in a “canal” with all this rain. Gezellig!
I wonder, will they say “Republic of Korea” when North Korea comes out?
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The only nation to have a football as their national symbol.
It’s their national yurt! I learned that this year when I went there
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Things are gonna get a bit wetter later on in the ceremony
Omg Les Miserables and metal in the same sequence. I love this!!!
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By Siddhartha Talukdar · Posted
For me, a 6 team tournament for Cricket is not ideal but a good start. Anyways, US don't have an exclusive stadium for cricket and 2024 T20 World Cup was a poor viewing experience because of poor pitches. I don't want automatic quota for the host nation but wish for one qualification spot for the Americas to ensure atleast one island from the West Indies as cricket there has been on a steep decline. Just yesterday, West Indies Women team lost to Scotland in the World Cup qualifier. I expect Cricket to grow in 2032 in terms of teams, ticket sales if also held in nearby venues like Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, broadcast revenues. Australia themselves will be serious as they are genuine gold medal contenders especially in the women's game -
By JoshMartini007 · Posted
I know they want to minimize travel, but I really wish they would mix the Americas and Asia countries. I want to see them compete against each other. -
By JoshMartini007 · Posted
So here are the difference between 2024 and 2028 and my opinions: Aquatics In swimming the 50m backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly were added while the women's water polo tournament will now have 12 teams. Additionally, 11 men's athlete quotas were transferred to the women's side. In general, I'm okay with the 50m events and despite women's water polo having shallow depth I am happy they are now equal to the men. The IOC still wanting to keep the core sport quotas to 10,500 is a bit ridiculous, but I'll go into that at the end. While the athlete split isn't shown for the disciplines it's quite likely swimming loses 11 men and women quotas each (maybe they might take a couple from diving/marathon swimming). Archery Mixed compound team was added. I've been a big supporter for compound archery being added to the Olympics. Unfortunately the individual events were not added which I dislike. If you are going to have athletes in team event then they can also compete in the individual. I would like to imagine World Archery is slowly bringing the event in. Since no new athlete quotas were added recurve will have fewer archers competing. I imagine recurve will be a 48-52 person tournament. Athletics Mixed marathon walk relay was removed, mixed 4x100m relay was added. I feel the program has become worse with this change. Not that I felt the walk relay is important, it's not and I wish we would get the 35/50km walk, but at least it preserved some race walk. The mixed 4x100m relay adds nothing extra to the program. This will be repeated a few times, but a mixed event should not be added with the gender component unless if fundamentally changes the event. There's no need to have both a men's/women's and a mixed 4x100m relay. Basketball The 3x3 events will be a 12 team tournament. The athlete quota has increased by 32. Great move. It was ridiculous that the event only had 8 teams so the increase was much needed. Honestly, if we weren't stuck on the 10,500 athlete limit I wouldn't mind seeing 16 teams. Boxing Women saw an increase of one event, equaling that of men (7 each). The weight limits of each category was slightly adjusted. Equaling the event size between genders was expected and I'm glad they decided to increase the women's count rather than reducing the men. The women's athlete quota remains the same despite the event increase, but still remains the same as the men. Football The men's tournament was reduced to 12 teams, the women's tournament increased to 16 teams. I'm glad the women's tournament is up to 16 teams. The qualification system for Europe has been brutal and I imagine Asia will be happy too. I wished they didn't reduce the men's tournament, but the 10,500 athlete quota limit forces them to do so. Ultimately, I agree with the move as the women's tournament is more prestigious. Golf Mixed team was added. I await the chosen format, but ultimately I think it's a good idea to have the event. Gymnastics Mixed artistic team was added. What a weird event. As mentioned before since the men's and women's team remain this is a useless event that doesn't need to included. Modern pentathlon The athlete quotas has been reduced by 8 (4 men and 4 women). This was likely done to reach the 10,500 quota limit. Overall I dislike it, but it's not the end of the world. Rowing Lightweight double sculls have been removed. Coastal single sculls and coastal mixed double sculls have been added. I'm not familiar with coastal sprint canoe, but from what I've seen in videos I think it will be a nice event to have. Losing lightweight double sculls is a bit of a shame and I'm not sure I would make that trade given that coastal rowing isn't well developed yet. Shooting Mixed team skeet was removed, mixed team trap was added. The mixed team shotgun events continue to be cycled. Considering they don't use any additional quotas, I don't see why they don't just have both at the Olympics. Sport climbing The combined event was removed and replaced by separate lead and bouldering events. 8 additional athlete quotas were added. Finally the sport has its proper individual events. I still commend the strategy of going with the combined event in 2020 as a type of Trojan horse with the idea that the IOC will want to keep it. Table tennis The men's and women's team events were removed. Men's and women's doubles and mixed team were added. As a person who likes doubles table tennis I am happy with this change. To keep the athlete quota consistent mixed team is almost necessary. Tennis Mixed doubles was removed. Mixed event was added. While I wasn't a big fan of the mixed doubles event (it's barely played during the ATP/WTA calendar, I don't think we need it replaced by a mixed event. The format hasn't been revealed, but I imagine it would be similar to the Davis/BJK Cup format. My fear is if they're attempting to add the event to the second week as I imagine many players will opt-out. LA Only Sports Baseball/Softball, Cricket, Flag Football, and Lacrosse will be 6-team tournaments and Squash will have 32 athletes (16 men, 16 women). While expected, I am very disappointed that the team sports will only have six teams. You can't showcase the sport really well with such few entrants. Cricket is a great example, there are many smaller nations which play the sport, but we are likely to see only the large nations compete. Squash only having 16 athletes is also a bit small, but it's at least manageable. Final Thoughts Some good, some bad moves overall. I need to stress that the 10,500 athlete limit among core sports while increasing the number of events is not sustainable. The 2000 Olympics had around 10,600 athletes yet only had 300 events. We now have 341 core events, an increase of 14%. Even if you want to argue that there was bloat in 2000, the 2024 Olympics had 327 core events, meaning we had an increase of 4% yet no new athlete quotas. While some of these new events don't need more athletes, some of them do. Honestly at minimum the athlete quota for core events needs to be increased to 11,000 while more realistically we should be closer to 12,000. If the IOC doesn't want that many athletes then they need to remove events/sports. -
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My not so brief take on the program: I would have to see 4x100 medley in swimming removed from the program. Still I think we need more quotas for every event. Glad to see women's water polo expanded to 12 teams. Please remove women's artistic team and just leave a 24 women's and 12 mixed duets in the program; their quotas given to Open Water and Diving. I'm glad they decided to add the mixed compound events, but at the same time I'm afraid that would take the recurve teams to be contested by only 8 teams per gender, or even try a 2 person team format of which I'm not a fan. Great another change at the Race Walk events and another mixed relay that serves for nothing, FUCK YOU COE!!!! Good thing they expanded 3x3 basketball tournaments, but 16 or 20 teams per gender would have been better. Boxing with less than 20 competitors per event is a complete miss. Canoe sprint distances still doesn't make any sense, particularly women's C1. Just drop the idiocy that is Kayak Cross and bring back the C2 boats. BMX quotas in both racing and freestyle should be raised to 20 and 32 respectively. For God's sake, ¿couldn't they have 36 places for each event in fencing? And please add an extra place for the "reserve" in team events. Keep football tournaments at 12 teams per gender, add 3 players to each roster. Golf should have its quota droped to 48 per gender; tired of seing top players just refusing to attend the Olympics; plus it would really save some time from the long daily schedule. And make the mixed team a separate event with a direct face-off format. ¿Mixed team in artistic gymnastics? Watanabe should stop taking those pills. And since there are now more specialists per apparatus, then please distribute the quotas according to the individual events. Increase the number of individual gymnasts in rhytmic gymnastics and in trampoline gymnastics. Drop mixed team from judo. Modern pentathlon is sure to be axed sure; not only the insist in the "ninja warrior" format, but they cut the number of quotas. Pathetic. Glad to see lightweights in rowing gone, but I would say that a double sculls beach sprint per each gender should been a better option than singles and mixed sculls. Make the air pistol and rifle open events, as the level of men and women is similar. Then drop the mixed teams, and bring back the prone rifle and 50m pistol for men, plus a similar event of the later for women. ¿Could some one explain why do we need Park & Street events in skateboard? Leave the most visually attractive in with 30 quotas per gender, distribute the others. Glad to see they dropped that silly combined format for sports climbing, but they should add more quotas. Go for 32 quotas per gender for surfing. Leave out that mixed team in table tennis. Please, just please, add two more weight classes in tae kwon do or just drop it from the program, Increase beach volley to 32 teams per gender. Stop belittling weightlifting and wrestling, they both need an increase in athlete numbers. Increase general athlete quota to 11200, but without considering the temporary additional sports. -
They could take the quata limitation of 10500 and do a switch between those numbers in bold and bam, you got enough quotas for plenty of other things , it’s just a bad starting point for things like compund to be on the expense of other instead of just getting x amount of quotas and then a place -
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Not sure how are they in France now but i remember looking at the Equipe newspaper and being jealous of the headlines they gave to non-football (of course football is still the big headline majority of times, but i remember seeing several times big covers for other sports, either after they win or just because some big competition was coming up).
There has been good improvements in some newspapers though. But the big problem are the tv channels, that's where the attention is given 100% to football clubs drama (almost every night there are "sport talkshows" in every channel, lasting for one or two hours, where they only talk about benfica/porto/sporting topics).
But tv channels also are mostly just a reflection of how majority of people think. For example, one of the saddest things i remember seeing while i was still living there: Nelson Évora, at the time one of the only four gold medallists in our entire history, after he won the medal, decided to change his training club (for the same reason anyone changes jobs, to get better compensation), and decided to leave Benfica and join Sporting (football club rivals from Lisbon).
Did anyone cared about triple jump at all? About athletics? No. And yet, the backlash of this was so big that people started to hate him, boo him, stop following on social networks, all this things just because he had left one football club to join some other. This was in 2016. Today, 2024, and there are still a lot of people that got happy because he didn't make it to the Olympics, because of what happened back them...
Football clubism in Portugal is a super toxic disease and one of the things that i hate there (and that i'm glad is not as bad here in NL
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