Top 5 events You are most looking forward to in Paris 2024

[rafalgorka 1,572]

And another Paris build-up thread.

 

My early thoughts:

 

1. ATHLETICS - M High Jump

2. ATHLETICS - W High Jump

(cause i love the event)

3. ATHLETICS - W 100m (Ewa Swoboda)

4. ATHLETICS - W 400m (Natalia Kaczmarek)

5. SPORT CLIMBING - W Speed (POL 1-2????)

[rafalgorka 1,572]

OK, 5 is not enough

 

6. VOLLEYBALL - M Tournament (will POL make it through QFs finally???)

7. SWIMMING - M 200m Butterfly (hard to find one the most entertaining event for swimming - almost all the swimming events are extremely entertaining for me - but this is biggest chance for a medal for POL due to Krzysztof Chmielewski)

8. ATHLETICS - W 800m (this is a favourite event for my family members)

9. CYCLING ROAD - M Race (because it's men's road cycling at the olympics)

10. BASKETBALL - M Tournament (because it's men's basket at the olympics)

 

I surely have missed sth...

Edited November 29, 2023 by rafalgorka

[rafalgorka 1,572]

11. TENNIS - W Singles (I want Iga to win, but i also hope EVERYBODY will show up...)

12. GYMNASTICS ARTISTIC - W Beam (because it's beam)

 

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[Josh 10,637]

I’ll go with my top 15, in no particular order:

 

3x3 Basketball: Women’s Tournament

Basketball: Men’s Tournament

Soccer: Men’s Tournament (depends on who plays)

Judo: Women’s -57kg (top 2 judoka in the OQR, unfortunately only one will qualify)

Volleyball: Men’s Tournament

Volleyball: Women’s Tournament (only if Canada qualifies)

Beach Volleyball: Men’s Tournament

Beach Volleyball: Women’s Tournament

Athletics: Men’s Decathlon (Pierce LePage and Damian Warner both in contention for gold)

Athletics: Men’s Pole Vault (cause Mondo )

Athletics: Women’s High Jump (cause Olyslagers )

Tennis: Men’s Singles

Swimming: Women’s 400IM (guaranteed gold for Summer McIntosh barring anything disastrous)

Boxing: Women’s 75kg (Tammara Thibeault is looking unstoppable right now)

Swimming: Women’s 400m Freestyle/Men’s 100m Butterfly (If Milak and Dressel can get back to form in time for Paris, men’s 100m butterfly would be tied on my list with women’s 400m freestyle and the highly anticipated battle between Katie Ledecky, Ariarne Titmus, and McIntosh)

 

Also men’s 200m butterfly for Illya Kharun. 

 

IMO Wasick is more of a medal favourite in the women’s 50m freestyle than Chmielewski in the men’s 200m butterfly considering how consistent she’s been, but we’ll see what times he can produce at the US Open in a couple of days. 

Edited November 29, 2023 by Josh

[Jinzha 702]

If I stick to five, I'd say:

 

Athletics 400mH W

Athletics 4x400m W

Road cycling M race

Cross country cycling W race

Swimming 100m freestyle W

 

 

If Femke Bol, Mathieu van der Poel, Puck Pieterse and Marrit Steenbergen all win a medal that would be amazing! 

 

I also wanted to include the athletics 400m W, road marathons, rowing w1x, beach volleyball and sport climbing (boulder+lead), but five was not much...

[Belle 977]

Men’s Pole Vault, Men’s Pole Vault, Men’s Pole Vault, Men’s Pole Vault. Did I forget to mention Men’s Pole Vault? 

Edited November 29, 2023 by Belle

[mpjmcevoy 362]

With my three hats on....

 

 : IRL

Women's 400 metres

Men's Pommel Horse

Women's 1500 metres

Men's 1500m freestyle

Men's golf

 

 : GBR

 

Women's 800 metres

Men's 4 x 200 freestyle relay

Men's Pommel Horse (my event of the whole Games)

Women's Madison

Women's 57kg taekwondo (Jade Jones)

 

Left out Women's floor (but see below) and Women's skateboard park due to injuries likely undermining GBR hopes

 

 : GLOBAL

Women's floor - Biles' swansong

Men's 1500 metres

Men's road race

Women's 100 metres

Men's 200 metres freestyle

 

...and the rugby sevens, 'cos I' love the sevens

 

: Will not watch if you paid me, and my own brother was in it.

 

Breaking.

 

[Josh 10,637]

Completely forgot about the men’s and women’s 100m in athletics 

[mpjmcevoy 362]

8 minutes ago, Josh said:

Completely forgot about the men’s and women’s 100m in athletics 

You always have to watch certain blue riband events, but the women's 100m looks far more intriguing than the men's truth be told.

[phelps 7,703]

can't wait for Marcel Jacobs doublin' up Tokyo's Gold and get GBR and USA completely mad, especially after switching to Reider as a coach 

 

outside that, I just can't choose only 5 events...even 5 sports is not enough

 

I can only name the 5/6 sports I won't watch for any reason in the world (who wants to guess?  )