Totallympics Introduction Thread

[OlympicIRL 6,303]

It’s always good to see new faces on the site as the Olympics come into view. So just want to welcome the following new users to Totallympics. Hope you all enjoy the Olympics and don’t be afraid to post  

 

 

@PanchoB   welcome and good luck to Mexico 

 

@Rigters welcome and best of luck to Portugal 

 

@Jaymz  welcome! I hope you are excited for a home Olympics 

@JockCartier  good luck to team Canada 

 

 

@erw  nice to see a Korean user here. Good luck to all your athletes at Paris 2024 

 

 

Edited July 10, 2024 by OlympicIRL

[Jaymz 14]

50 minutes ago, OlympicIRL said:

It’s always good to see new faces on the site as the Olympics come into view. So just want to welcome the following new users to Totallympics. Hope you all enjoy the Olympics and don’t be afraid to post  

 

@Jaymz  welcome! I hope you are excited for a home Olympics 

Thank you.

 

And yes you can really speak about home Olympics since I live at less than 60m of one of the Olympics stadiums according to Google Map

[OlympicIRL 6,303]

12 minutes ago, Jaymz said:

Thank you.

 

And yes you can really speak about home Olympics since I live at less than 60m of one of the Olympics stadiums according to Google Map

Wow that’s awesome! The atmosphere will be incredible once the Games kick off  

[heywoodu 16,459]

1 hour ago, OlympicIRL said:

It’s always good to see new faces on the site as the Olympics come into view. So just want to welcome the following new users to Totallympics. Hope you all enjoy the Olympics and don’t be afraid to post  

 

 

@Rigters welcome and best of luck to Portugal 

 

 

@Rigters Any chance you happen to be Dutch former footballer Maceo Rigters?  

 

Welcome!

[hckošice 16,605]

1 hour ago, Jaymz said:

Thank you.

 

And yes you can really speak about home Olympics since I live at less than 60m of one of the Olympics stadiums according to Google Map

Teahupo´o ?

[Jaymz 14]

35 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Teahupo´o ?

There’s also water but no

[Rigters 1]

7 hours ago, heywoodu said:

@Rigters Any chance you happen to be Dutch former footballer Maceo Rigters?  

 

Welcome!

No, but I was a fan at the time and have used it as a nickname since. 

[heywoodu 16,459]

3 minutes ago, Rigters said:

No, but I was a fan at the time and have used it as a nickname since. 

So it's not even coincidence, that's cool  

[Sir Rols 23]

Hi Everyone! Just popping in here to thank @Sindo for his kind invitation over on GamesBids for us members there to pop over and enjoy the Paris 2024 fun here as well. I know there‘s already a few members who cross over between our two sites, and it‘s great to see some cross board cooperation when we all share a common passion for the Olympics.

 

In turn, I‘d also like to invite any Totallympics members who feel the urge to pop over to GamesBids and join us to celebrate the Games on our board too. It‘s a big time for us as well, and we‘ve got lots of activities, and competitions, in store for the festivities. It‘d be great to see some of you join our membership and join us to discuss the pageantry, politics and minutiae of the games (as well as the sweaty stuff happening at the competition venues). Our LIVE CHAT during the opening ceremony is always particularly popular, and fun.

 

Anyway, enjoy Paris 2024 everyone! 

Edited July 21, 2024 by Sir Rols

[clemsonbeav 561]

Hi all,

 

I'm happy to have found others who love the Olympics as much as I do.

 

Random facts about me:

1) I'm an almost 40-yr-old dad from the States (South Carolina).  I'm teaching my girls to watch international sport/the Olympics...they know that when it's Olympics time, the TV doesn't tune in to anything else.    And now that I've discovered the international federations and the competitions in the 'off years', my wife/kids know there's no telling what sport I'll be watching...currently watching the table tennis for today's finals at the Europe Smash.

 

2) I grew up loving geography, maps, cultures, languages, etc.  (I'm a Spanish teacher now.)  I always watched the Olympics growing up, and my favorite part has always been the Parade of Nations (which I know makes me an outlier among all of my friends who are there for the sport).  Have always just loved the idea of having people from virtually every nation all together.  And to see the sportsmanship and the Olympic spirit on display between the nations is so inspiring.  I'm a Christian, and one thing we believe is that one day in the afterlife there will be peace among all, and while the Olympics isn't a perfect representation of that, it's a nice glimpse.   

 

3) I had the opportunity to go to a baseball game during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta (just a couple of hours from me)...I think it was Netherlands and Nicaragua.  I got to see one of the bronze medals that the USA won in baseball that year, as one of the players (Matt LeCroy) was previously a student at my high school and he came to talk at our church afterwards.  I also got to see the torch relay before 2002 in Salt Lake as it also came through South Carolina.

 

4) I grew up always liking figure skating and gymnastics, and of course swimming/diving/artistic swimming and track/field (athletics) were always fun to watch.  But now, my sport that I follow most closely is Sport Climbing.  I discovered it at the Tokyo Olympics and have been in love ever since.  I didn't really think about it much after Tokyo, but leading up to Paris, I caught some of the Olympic Qualifier Series and discovered the IFSC.  After Paris, I started watching all the comps in between.

 

5) Though Sport Climbing is my absolute favorite, when people ask what sports I watch in the Olympics, I have to honestly reply that I watch them all.  I try to catch a little of each sport, trying to learn about sports that I'm less familiar with.  Current secondary favorites are Table Tennis, Weightlifting, and Modern Pentathlon (and Curling in winter, and SkiMo has recently caught my eye).  It also helps that I discovered more about the structure of International Sport, in that each one has their own federation, like the IFSC.  I took some time to follow each of them on YouTube and Facebook, and I'll try to pay attention if there are some major competitions in the sports.

 

6) As I watch the Olympics, I also try to be intentional about watching athletes from as many nations as I can.  Here in the USA, it's of course not surprising that NBC shows primarily stories related to our athletes...but I know other nations are just as proud of their athletes.  So, in looking at other sports, I get to see other nations shine for a bit.  I also try to watch things like the opening heats for the 100m in the pool or on the track to see athletes from all over the world compete.

 

7) I may or may not have purchased the soundtrack to the 2024 Opening Ceremony and listen to it quite frequently.    (I also have gone back and watched the opening ceremony from the Olympics site a couple of times now, where it's ad-free and without NBC commentators checking in on Team USA.  And interestingly enough, in the replay they uploaded, they fixed the error where North/South Korea were introduced as the other nation.)

 

8) Super happy to have found this site because of how it highlights qualification procedures.  Growing up, I always wondered how people made it to the Olympics, and now that the Internet exists, I have found the Qualification docs on the Olympics site, and now there are sites like these that show when these events (and many more!) are taking place.

 

I'm sure I have many other thoughts, but I'll let these suffice for now.    Looking forward to following international sport over the next few years as we prepare for LA!  (I hope to be there!)