Athletes from other Countries that you will support in Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[mpjmcevoy 362]

South Sudan in basketball

Pogacar in the Road Race - I just like the thought of the nutter trying to get the triple crown AND Olympic gold in one calendar year - the smiley Cannibal

Hannah Rpberts in BMX freestyle

Djokovic in the men's singles

[MatiReimundo 347]

My picks:

 

 and  Diving athletes

 De Grasse for the 100m gold

 Uriel Canjura and  Kevin Cordon (badminton)

 3x3 basketball team

 Chinyemba (boxing)

 boxing and wrestling team

 Vidaurre (mtb)

The  Fencing Mens Epee team

 Kruz Schembri and  Doig (Fencing)

 football team

 Mens Handball team

 Xander Schauffele (golf)

Table tennis the  mens team,  Ma Long and Wang Chuqin, the  womens team,  and mixed team,  Miño, the  girls and  Diaz

 Bernardo Pie and  Cerezo (taekwondo)

 Blummenfelt (triathlon)

 and  Mens volleyball team and  womens team

Beach volley Mens  Alayo/Diaz,  Grimalt´s,  Herrera/Gavira and  Ahman/Hellvig

 Stam/Schoon (womens beach volley)

 

and for Tennis too many i put it separately:

Mens:  Sinner, Alcaraz, Novak,  Hurkacz,  Musetti,  Draper,  Lajovic,  Wawrinka,  Vavassori/Bolleli

Womens:  Iga,  Navarro,  Haddad Maia,  Osaka,  Sherif,  Osorio and  Pigossi

 

 

If i had to make a top 3 without order (and without tennis):

 Diaz/Alayo

 Stam/Schoon

 3x3 basketball team

[vinipereira 3,240]

100% sure I'm forgetting many names, but off the top of my head:

 

Alcaraz

Swiatek

Gauff

Garcia

 Schuurs

 

Yulo

 McClenaghan

 Nemour

 Moreno

 Heron

 Yeo

Chiles

 dos Santos

 Downie

 Black

 

Daley

Olvera

 

 Díaz

 

Far too many in team sports but in the absence of Brazil I will be rooting for . Always wishing a great Games for other latin american nations + .

Edited July 6 by vinipereira

[heywoodu 15,135]

Hard to make a list off the top of my head, but Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson are definitely both on it. I'll have to do some more reading on one of my favourite categories of athletes: those who tried many times, but always came up just short, ran into injuries, that sort of thing. I basically cheer for anyone in that category by default, no matter the sport. Not without reason that Noriaki Kasai's silver in Sochi and Gerard van Velde's gold in Salt Lake might be my favourite medals ever  

Edited July 6 by heywoodu

[Illya 511]

Obvious picks aka partners of Ukrainian girls: 

 

Luigi Samele  (fencing)

Victor Montalvo  (breaking) 

 

Another picks: 

 

Alberto Gines Lopez , Janja Garnbret , Ola Kalucka  (climbing)

Canada's  all basketball teams 

Arianna Errigo , Theodora Gkontoura  (fencing) 

Seonaid McIntosh , Nina Christen  (shooting)

Lana Pudar , David Popovici  (swimming) 

Gaby/Stefi Stoeva , Carolina Marin  (badminton) 

Jelena Ostapenko  (tennis)

French  men's table tennis team + Dimitrii Ovcharov 

[Griff88 1,952]

Some that I can quickly list from my head (might update later)

 

Athletics:

 Kyron McMaster
Thea LaFond
Julien Alfred

Swimming:

Lana Pudar

Artistic Gymnastics:

Carlos Yulo

Badminton:

Kim Astrup/Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
Dechapol Puavaranukroh/Sapsiree Taerattanachai

 

Weightlifting:

Emily Campbell

[heywoodu 15,135]

Lonah Salpeter, how could I forget her  

 

As always I'm hoping she'll get a well-deserved medal, especially after the Tokyo drama.

[Jinzha 702]

Some athletes I particularly like are:

 

 Nafi Thiam

 Jaroslava Mahuchikh

 Laura Muir

 Summer McIntosh

 Bartosz Kurek

 Joanna Wolosz

 Janja Garnbret

 

Purely coincidental that two of my favorite volleyball players are Polish.

Other than that I usually cheer for the Dutch or the underdogs.

[dodge 1,024]

On 7/6/2024 at 5:53 AM, heywoodu said:

Hard to make a list off the top of my head, but Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson are definitely both on it. I'll have to do some more reading on one of my favourite categories of athletes: those who tried many times, but always came up just short, ran into injuries, that sort of thing. I basically cheer for anyone in that category by default, no matter the sport. Not without reason that Noriaki Kasai's silver in Sochi and Gerard van Velde's gold in Salt Lake might be my favourite medals ever  

These are my favourite types of medal winners. People who were favourites to win medals at different stages of their career but just never did for various reasons. 
 

In Ireland, Sonia O’Sullivan is the all time example. 4th in 1992, sick in 1996 (when favourite for gold and reigning world champion), her silver in 2000 was such an emotional moment 

 

 

[Joshi 123]

From athletics alone I'm a huge fan of Kenny Bednarek after following him on his YouTube channel. Comes from a really small town in rural Wisconsin, adoptee, really interesting story behind him. Love Noah Lyles especially when he stirred the pot with about the NBA, I mean he's not wrong lol. Tebogo, Simbine, Sydney Mclaughlin, Perez, Adeleke. Would absolutely love it if Nuguse upsets the apple cart in the 1500m, and overshadow both Kerr and Ingebretsen but can't see it. Would love to see Alex Rose win a medal in the discus for Samoa our near neighbours.

Edited July 7 by Joshi