Your favourite Paris 2024 olympic athletes from other NOCs than yours

[rafalgorka 1,821]

???

 

Who do you support???

[Josh 13,477]

Oh no

 

Well… a lot. 
 

In curling,  Team Edin,  Team Schwaller and   Team Hasselborg (and to a lesser extent  Team Fujisawa)

 

In freestyle skiing,  Birk Ruud

 

In hockey,  Elias Petterson,  JT Miller,  Thatcher Demko (all three of my favourite Canucks)

 

In volleyball,  Poland’s men’s team (and to a lesser extent  Bulgaria’s men’s team  ), along with  Yuki Ishikawa,  TJ Defalco,  György Grozer,  Isabella Haak,  Tijana Boskovic. As for Polish players, favourites would have to be Sliwka and Leon (Kaczmarek and Bednorz in 3rd and 4th probably).   

 

In badminton,  Viktor Axelsen and  P.V Sindu

 

In volleyball,  Mol/Sørum,  Bryl/Łosiak,  Hüberli/Brunner,  Ehlers/Wickler,  Duda (Not a big fan of AP though),  Mader/Verge Depre,  Brouwer/Meeuwsen,  Cherif/Ahmed

 

In athletics,  Mondo Duplantis,  Femke Bol,  Tobi Amusan,  Miltiadis Tentoglou,  Anna Hall,  Nicola Olyslagers,  Jakob Ingebrigtsen,  Mutaz Essa Barshim,  Karsten Warholm,  Athing Mu,  Jakub Vadlejch

 

In swimming,  Thomas Heilman,  Leon Marchand,  Chad Le Clos,  Ryan Murphy,  Nic Fink,  Lani Pallister,  Caleb Dressel,  Michael Andrew,  Florent Manaudou,  Ruta Meilutyte

 

In alpine skiing,  Aleksander Aamodt Kilde,  Joan Verdu, and  AJ Ginnis

 

In cross country skiing,  Johannes Hosflot Klaebo 

 

In surfing,  Gabriel Medina, Joao Chianca,  Filipe Toledo

 

In soccer/football,  Lionel Messi,  Thibaut Courtois

 

In tennis,  Casper Ruud,  Rafa Nadal,  Hubi Hurkacz, Novak Djokovic, Daniil Medvedev,  Dominic Thiem,  Grigor Dimitrov,  Roger Federer,  Paula Badosa,  Anett Kontaveit

 

In judo,  Peter Paltchik

 

Obviously Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and the rest (2021-22 roster, hate Chris Paul) of the Golden State Warriors (NBA). Along with  Giannis Antetokounmpo,  Luka Doncic, and  Domantas Sabonis and that’s pretty much it. 
 

What about you?

Edited December 10, 2023 by Josh

[rafalgorka 1,821]

17 minutes ago, Josh said:

Oh no

 

 

 

What about you?

 

let me think… it may take a while

[hckošice 16,613]

Every single Paris olympian but Wout Van der Aert

 

[hoversaBR 864]

My Top 10:

 

Ran Takahashi  (Volleyball)

Yuki Ishikawa  (Volleyball)

Micah Christenson  (Volleyball)

Brayelin Martinez  (Volleyball)

Luciano De Cecco  (Volleyball)

Chloe Covell  (Skateboard)

Nora Mork  (Handball)

Gustavo Ribeiro  (Skateboard)

Humana-Paredes & Brandie  (Beach Volleyball)

Fiji Rugby Team 

 

 

[CCB 624]

Shorttrack speedskating - Kim Boutin  

Tennis - Stan Wawrinka  

Tennis - Aryna Sabalenka  

Athletics - Miltiadis Tentoglou  

Athletics - Natalia Kaczmarek  

Road cycling - Wout van Aert  

Gymnastics - Rebeca Andrade  

Judo - Lukas Krpalek  

Speedskating - Isabelle Weidemann  

 

 

 

[phelps 8,695]

most of the athletes I used to support are no longer competing...  

 

however, I still admire all the champions in each sport I follow, so, there are way too many to be named

 

so, among those still in activity I love watching play "pound for pound" there are:

 

Baseball:  Shoei Ohtani,  Roki Sasaki,  Clayton Kershaw,  Mookie Betts

 

Hockey:  Anze Kopitar,  Alexander Ovechkin,  Leon Draisaitl,  Roman Josi

 

Alpine Skiing:  Mikaela Shiffrin,  Marco Odermatt

 

Speedskating:  Jutta Leerdam (well, maybe that's not because of her -however great- skills  )

 

Short Track Speedskating:  Hanne Desmet

 

Athletics:  Mondo Duplantis,  Yulimar Rojas,  Shaunae Miller-Uibo,  Faith Kipyegon,  Tom Walsh

 

Swimming:  Ariarne Titmus

 

Judo:  Uta Abe

 

Wrestling: the  and  athletes in general

 

Boxing:  Vasyl Lomachenko,  Oleksandr Usyk and  Naoya Inoue

 

Basketball:  Luka Doncic

 

Shooting:  Alessandra Perilli (and the  team in general)

 

and many, many more...

Edited October 20, 2023 by phelps

[Josh 13,477]

10 hours ago, Josh said:

Oh no

 

Well… a lot. 
 

In curling,  Team Edin and  Team Hasselborg

 

In freestyle skiing,  Birk Ruud

 

In volleyball,  Poland’s men’s team (and to a lesser extent  Bulgaria’s men’s team  ), along with  Yuki Ishikawa,  TJ Defalco,  György Grozer,  Isabella Haak. As for Polish players, favourites would have to be Sliwka and Leon (Kaczmarek in 3rd probably).  

 

In badminton,  Viktor Axelsen and  P.V Sindu

 

In volleyball,  Mol/Sørum,  Bryl/Łosiak,  Hüberli/Brunner,  Ehlers/Wickler,  Duda (Not a big fan of AP though),  Mader/Verge Depre,  Brouwer/Meeuwsen

 

In athletics,  Mondo Duplantis,  Femke Bol,  Tobi Amusan,  Miltiadis Tentoglou,  Anna Hall,  Nicola Olyslagers,  Jakob Ingebrigtsen,  Mutaz Essa Barshim,  Karsten Warholm,  Athing Mu

 

In swimming,  Thomas Heilman,  Leon Marchand,  Chad Le Clos,  Ryan Murphy,  Nic Fink,  Lani Pallister,  Caleb Dressel,  Michael Andrew,  Florent Manaudou

 

In alpine skiing,  Aleksander Aamodt Kilde

 

In surfing,  Gabriel Medina, Joao Chianca,  Filipe Toledo

 

In soccer/football,  Lionel Messi,  Thibaut Courtois

 

In tennis,  Casper Ruud,  Rafa Nadal,  Hubi Hurkacz, Novak Djokovic, Daniil Medvedev,  Dominic Thiem,  Grigor Dimitrov,  Roger Federer,  Paula Badosa,  Anett Kontaveit

 

In judo,  Peter Paltchik

 

Obviously Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and the rest (2021-22 roster, hate Chris Paul) of the Golden State Warriors (NBA). Along with  Giannis Antetokounmpo,  Luka Doncic and that’s pretty much it. 
 

What about you?

Forgot about  Alicia Schmidt, however it may not be for the reason you think it is… 

Edited October 20, 2023 by Josh

[Jinzha 703]

Not a big list like the others, but I have a few athletes I grew fond of because I watched them live at events in the Netherlands. In Paris I will cheer for:

 

 Volleybal Men team and Bartosz Kurek.

 

 Javelin thrower Anderson Peters

 

Other than that I am a big fan of  Nafi Thiam and  Kevin Mayer in the athletics multi events.

[rafalgorka 1,821]

21 hours ago, hckošice said:

Every single Paris olympian but Wout Van der Aert

 

Why?