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

[Faramir 367]

"went on to win the heat"...because he was swimming alone.

[Dkats 298]

Still a pretty crazy thing and very unlikely to happen again

2 minutes ago, Faramir said:

"went on to win the heat"...because he was swimming alone.

 

[Josh 10,654]

On 7/5/2024 at 8:44 AM, Josh said:

Well actually, there’s so many that I can’t list them all off the top of my head….

 

If I do, by the time I’m actually finished listing them I’d probably age around 50 years

Here’s some of the athletes/teams that I’ll be supporting…

 

90% of them are in athletics, swimming, volleyball, beach volleyball or tennis. 

 

 men’s volleyball team  (Bednorz, Kaczmarek, and Sliwka are my favourites, but I like them all)

 Anders Mol/Christian Sørum (beach volleyball)

 Duda Lisboa (beach volleyball, not a big fan of her partner Ana Patricia though)

 Mariafe Artacho del Solar (beach volleyball, don’t like Clancy…)

 Anastasija Samoilova/Tina Graudina (beach volleyball)

 Nils Ehlers/Clemens Wickler (beach volleyball)

 Michal Bryl/Bartosz Losiak (beach volleyball)

 Cherif Samba/Ahmed Tijan (beach volleyball)

 Tanja Huberli/Nina Brunner (beach volleyball)

 Timo Bol, Patrick Franziska (table tennis)

 Ma Long (table tennis)

 Caleb Dressel, Nic Fink, Ryan Murphy, Thomas Heilman (swimming)

 David Popovici (swimming)

 Sarah Sjostrom (swimming)

 Chad Le Clos (swimming)

 Lani Pallister (swimming)

 Florent Manaudou, Leon Marchand (swimming)

 Ruta Meilutye (swimming)

 Duncan Scott (swimming)

 Branislav Mitrovic and the entire Serbian men’s waterpolo team

 Marcos Moneta and  Antoine Dupont (rugby sevens)

 Sonja Greinacher (3x3 basketball)

 men’s 3x3 basketball team

 Vincent Fauche, Franck Seguela (3x3 basketball)

 Worthy de Jong (3x3 basketball)

 Dejan Majstorovic (3x3 basketball)

 Stephen Curry (basketball), he plays for my Golden State Warriors 

 Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Karsten Warholm (athletics)

 Kyron McMaster (athletics)

 Jakub Vadlejch (athletics

 Armand Duplantis (athletics)

 Thea Lafond (athletics)

EJ Obiena (athletics)

 Lindon Victor (athletics)

 Kevin Mayer (athletics)

 Eluid Kipchoge (athletics)

 Anna Hall, Tara Davis, Parker Valby (athletics, for Valby it’s one reason and one reason only) 

 Julien Alfred (athletics)

 Marie Josee Ta-Lou (athletics)

 Nicola Olyslagers (athletics)

 Alicia Schmidt (athletics, same reason as above)

 Nafi Thiam (athletics)

 Agate Caune (athletics)

 Miltiadis Tentoglou (athletics) 

 Gabriel Medina, Joao Chianca (surfing)

 Erin Routliffe (tennis)

 PV Sindu (badminton)

 Viktor Axelsen (badminton)

 Agniezska Korneluk, Martya Lukasik (volleyball)

 Gyorgy Grozer (volleyball)

 Rok Mozic (volleyball)

 Honorato Henrique, Gabi Guimares, Ana Cristina, Flavio Gulaberto (volleyball)

 Daniele Lavia, Simone Giannelli (volleyball)

 Jean Patry, Trevor Clevenot (volleyball)

 Paula Badosa, Rafael Nadal (tennis)

 Emma Raducanu (tennis)

 Novak Djokovic (tennis)

 (RUS) Daniil Medvedev (tennis)

 Casper Ruud (tennis)

 Hubert Hurkacz (tennis)

 Dominic Thiem (tennis)

 Matteo Berrettini (tennis)

 

and of course… the entire  delegation 

Edited July 12 by Josh

[Pasolini 251]

4 hours ago, Dkats said:

Is there another version of Eric the Eel? 
 

Someone like that has my support 

There's the Sudanese guy (living in US) who never ran a marathon and got a Universality quota to Marathon

[Benolympique 2,398]

3 hours ago, Josh said:

Here’s some of the athletes/teams that I’ll be supporting…

 

90% of them are in athletics, swimming, volleyball, beach volleyball or tennis. 

 

 men’s volleyball team  (Bednorz, Kaczmarek, and Sliwka are my favourites, but I like them all)

 Anders Mol/Christian Sørum (beach volleyball)

 Duda Lisboa (beach volleyball, not a big fan of her partner Ana Patricia though)

 Mariafe Artacho del Solar (beach volleyball, don’t like Clancy…)

 Anastasija Samoilova/Tina Graudina (beach volleyball)

 Nils Ehlers/Clemens Wickler (beach volleyball)

 Michal Bryl/Bartosz Losiak (beach volleyball)

 Cherif Samba/Ahmed Tijan (beach volleyball)

 Tanja Huberli/Nina Brunner (beach volleyball)

 Timo Bol, Patrick Franziska (table tennis)

 Ma Long (table tennis)

 Caleb Dressel, Nic Fink, Ryan Murphy, Thomas Heilman (swimming)

 David Popovici (swimming)

 Sarah Sjostrom (swimming)

 Chad Le Clos (swimming)

 Lani Pallister (swimming)

 Florent Manaudou, Leon Marchand (swimming)

 Ruta Meilutye (swimming)

 Duncan Scott (swimming)

 Branislav Mitrovic and the entire Serbian men’s waterpolo team

 Marcos Moneta and  Antoine Dupont (rugby sevens)

 Sonja Greinacher (3x3 basketball)

 men’s 3x3 basketball team

 Vincent Fauche, Franck Seguela (3x3 basketball)

 Worthy de Jong (3x3 basketball)

 Dejan Majstorovic (3x3 basketball)

 Stephen Curry (basketball), he plays for my Golden State Warriors 

 Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Karsten Warholm (athletics)

 Kyron McMaster (athletics)

 Jakub Vadlejch (athletics

 Armand Duplantis (athletics)

 Thea Lafond (athletics)

EJ Obiena (athletics)

 Lindon Victor (athletics)

 Eluid Kipchoge (athletics)

 Anna Hall, Tara Davis, Parker Valby (athletics, for Valby one reason, and one reason only) 

 Julien Alfred (athletics)

 Marie Josee Ta-Lou (athletics)

 Nicola Olyslagers (athletics)

 Alicia Schmidt (athletics, same reason as above)

 Nafi Thiam (athletics)

 Agate Caune (athletics)

 Miltiadis Tentoglou (athletics) 

 Gabriel Medina, Joao Chianca (surfing)

 Erin Routliffe (tennis)

 PV Sindu (badminton)

 Viktor Axelsen (badminton)

 Agniezska Korneluk, Martya Lukasik (volleyball)

 Gyorgy Grozer (volleyball)

 Rok Mozic (volleyball)

 Honorato Henrique, Gabi Guimares, Ana Cristina, Flavio Gulaberto (volleyball)

 Daniele Lavia, Simone Giannelli (volleyball)

 Jean Patry, Trevor Clevenot (volleyball)

 Paula Badosa, Rafael Nadal (tennis)

 Emma Raducanu (tennis)

 Novak Djokovic (tennis)

 (RUS) Daniil Medvedev (tennis)

 Casper Ruud (tennis)

 Hubert Hurkacz (tennis)

 Dominic Thiem (tennis)

 Matteo Berrettini (tennis)

 

and of course… the entire  delegation 

thank you for supporting some French people, you won't support the French judokas and fencers?

[Josh 10,654]

1 minute ago, Benolympique said:

thank you for supporting some French people, you won't support the French judokas and fencers?

Nope 

 

In fencing, no one really stands out to me. Speaking of judo, you just made me realize that I forgot about  Peter Paltchik 

[Adriano 590]

Judo : Deguchi  + Team France  

Diving: Cassiel Emmanuel

Rhythmic Gymnastic  GROUP + Raffaelli

Swimming: McIntosh

Tennis: Alcaraz, Nadal  

Field Hockey:  !!!

Handball:

Shooting: Stefecekova trap

Equestrian: dressage

Taekwondo: Wooley  

Badminton: Marin

Cycling: Viviani

Table tennis  

Athletics: Duplantis  

 

 

 

 

Edited July 5 by Adriano

[NearPup 3,072]

I think my biggest non-Canadian wishlist item is for to win a gold medal in table tennis.

 

Beyond that:

and in field hockey

Nadeem in the men's javelin

Wiffen in swimming

Literally everyone who plays against Zverev in tennis

Routliffe and Sun in the women's doubles in tennis

Ondra in climbing

The Alexandri sisters in the women's duet in artistic swimming

McIlroy in golf

Yulo in gymnastics

Nemour in gymnastics

 

And any athlete from a country that has never won a gold medal.

 

[Josh 10,654]

14 minutes ago, NearPup said:

I think my biggest non-Canadian wishlist item is for to win a gold medal in table tennis.

 

Beyond that:

and in field hockey

Nadeem in the men's javelin

Wiffen in swimming

Literally everyone who plays against Zverev in tennis

Routliffe and Sun in the women's doubles in tennis

Ondra in climbing

The Alexandri sisters in the women's duet in artistic swimming

McIlroy in golf

Yulo in gymnastics

Nemour in gymnastics

 

And any athlete from a country that has never won a gold medal.

 

This 

Same for anyone who plays against Ostapenko, Seyboth Wild, Errani, Haddad Maia, and the r***** Van De Velde/Immers (and in athletics I’ll be rooting against Lyles and Richardson)

Edit: Oh and Cheng/Hughes (nothing against Hughes)
 

 winning gold in table tennis isn’t happening, sorry to tell you. If you wished for them to win a medal with one of the Lebrun brothers or their men’s team, then yeah it’s possible.

Edited July 5 by Josh

[NearPup 3,072]

Just now, Josh said:

 winning gold in table tennis isn’t happening, sorry to tell you. If you wished for them to win a medal with one of the Lebrun brothers or their men’s team, then yeah it’s possible.

This is about what I want, not about what is possible :P