Your Own Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024 Daily Schedule

[diable 27]

No fixed schedule here, I’ll watch as much as I can. My college summer term is finishing when the Olympics starts and I’ll have exams so I won't be able to watch everything during the first week, but it won't be too bad. The last few days might be tricky bc I’m flying on vacation and will be 12 hours behind Paris time… but at that point, I’ll be either overwhelmed or disappointed with the results 

Edited July 9, 2024 by diable

[Triplecast 215]

9 hours ago, heywoodu said:

07.00 Wake up, have breakfast, perhaps check out the last things I hadn't yet from the day before, prepare my schedules for the day, make sure phone and tablet are charged, and so on

 

08.00/08.30 Turn on the TV and the streams on the devices and start watching the Olympic day

 

23.00 Turn everything off and go to bed

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Olympicsnell said:

Honestly i thought i was the only one like this. I'm glad to find out i am not broken. Also extremely happy for a games back in European time

Got two TV's and laptop ready to go, i am in the process of re-decorating the living room, sneaking things downstairs every night. wife currently hasn't made a comment...

(1) Just change the above times to US Eastern Time and (2) you aren't the only ones.

 

So 2-4 AM wake up, depending on what on before 1000 in France.  2.  6:00-7:00 pm go to bed.

 

I'm watching in my basement and my wife will join me for much of the coverage. 

 

I have 2 TVs and multiple PCs/laptops/tablets/iPhones ready to go.

 

 

[heywoodu 16,465]

7 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

but don't let yourself become the meme of Squidward watching everyone else have fun either.

I won't be watching anyone else having fun, since I won't leave the house  

[IUBryan 35]

I teach at a university so I have a very flexible schedule in the summer. I’m using that flexibility and some PTO to take the entire Olympics off. I’m still working on figuring exactly what I’ll be watching, but my overall plan for each day is as follows:

 

Wake up around 1:30 AM EDT (7:30 AM CEST)

 

Shower, have breakfast

 

Update any new documents or info in my Olympics database. I use a FileMaker database to track all the events and download/store all the official report PDFs. I use the Olympic Data Feed’s Common Code system to automatically label every file I import.

 

Then, start watching events around 2:30 or 3:00 AM. Pretty much watch nonstop with minor breaks until 4 or 5 PM EDT (10 or 11 PM CEST).

 

I will then go to bed by 6 PM EDT and repeat again the next day.

 

Any days where surfing takes place will result in much less sleep.

 

I might try to adjust my body clock a bit a couple days before Wednesday next week, but we will see.

[hckošice 16,630]

55 minutes ago, IUBryan said:

I teach at a university so I have a very flexible schedule in the summer. I’m using that flexibility and some PTO to take the entire Olympics off. I’m still working on figuring exactly what I’ll be watching, but my overall plan for each day is as follows:

 

Wake up around 1:30 AM EDT (7:30 AM CEST)

 

Shower, have breakfast

 

Update any new documents or info in my Olympics database. I use a FileMaker database to track all the events and download/store all the official report PDFs. I use the Olympic Data Feed’s Common Code system to automatically label every file I import.

 

Then, start watching events around 2:30 or 3:00 AM. Pretty much watch nonstop with minor breaks until 4 or 5 PM EDT (10 or 11 PM CEST).

 

I will then go to bed by 6 PM EDT and repeat again the next day.

 

Any days where surfing takes place will result in much less sleep.

 

I might try to adjust my body clock a bit a couple days before Wednesday next week, but we will see.

That´s our Olympics life last couple of Games Quite unusual that I´ll finally going to experience Olympics in my time zone, man, last time it was in London 2012, well, technically Sochi 2014 with only 2 hours time ahead (looks like eternity, was really time this return also to europe )

[OlympicIRL 6,308]

11 minutes ago, hckošice said:

That´s our Olympics life last couple of Games Quite unusual that I´ll finally going to experience Olympics in my time zone, man, last time it was in London 2012, well, technically Sochi 2014 with only 2 hours time ahead (looks like eternity, was really time this return also to europe )

Enjoy it now because we back to late night viewings for 2028 and 2032  

 

I changed my sleep schedule for Tokyo and it honestly worked well as I started changing gradually in the week before the Games. But I’m excited to be back to “normal” for this Olympics. 

[hckošice 16,630]

20 minutes ago, OlympicIRL said:

Enjoy it now because we back to late night viewings for 2028 and 2032  

 

I changed my sleep schedule for Tokyo and it honestly worked well as I started changing gradually in the week before the Games. But I’m excited to be back to “normal” for this Olympics. 

PC 2018, Tokyo 2020 & Beijing 2022 were all hard for sure, but still manageable, the program started around 01-02 AM so I (we) had at least some sleep to past midnight, but Vancouver 2010 was de facto the biggest hardcore, I still remember being like a zombie the games ended. Each of the 16 days infront of my TV from 19:00 to 08:30 and yes, without falling to sleep even a single time. That was and is still the biggest achievement of my life I was and still I am very proud of

 

So yeah, a bit afraid of LA 28 to be honest

[OlympicIRL 6,308]

1 hour ago, hckošice said:

PC 2018, Tokyo 2020 & Beijing 2022 were all hard for sure, but still manageable, the program started around 01-02 AM so I (we) had at least some sleep to past midnight, but Vancouver 2010 was de facto the biggest hardcore, I still remember being like a zombie the games ended. Each of the 16 days infront of my TV from 19:00 to 08:30 and yes, without falling to sleep even a single time. That was and is still the biggest achievement of my life I was and still I am very proud of

 

So yeah, a bit afraid of LA 28 to be honest

Brisbane 32 is probably going to be even worse but we can and will do it  

[hckošice 16,630]

17 minutes ago, OlympicIRL said:

Brisbane 32 is probably going to be even worse but we can and will do it  

Australia is from midnight to 15-16:00 for us, there a room for sleep until midnight, western USA/Canada is the most difficult start the evening and end late morning

Edited July 18, 2024 by hckošice

[heywoodu 16,465]

1 hour ago, OlympicIRL said:

Enjoy it now because we back to late night viewings for 2028 and 2032  

 

I changed my sleep schedule for Tokyo and it honestly worked well as I started changing gradually in the week before the Games. But I’m excited to be back to “normal” for this Olympics. 

I'm actually looking forward to those 2028 and 2032 time difference Olympics. Oddly, it was super chill to have Pyeongchang, Tokyo and Beijing especially all be in like the middle of the night for a significant part of the day. Basically nothing going on - at least in terms of non-Olympic sports or other distractions - so full focus entirely on the Olympics. And especially in summer, it was a lot more comfortable watching the Olympics at night with reasonable weather than during hot days (during Tokyo we had some hot days but for a majority of the day I was simply sleeping, so I managed to avoid that)  

 

Whether the Olympic day starts at 01:00 or 14:00 or 19:00 in my local time really makes no difference at all for me in terms of difficulty, I just change my daily routine accordingly for 2,5 weeks and it's all fine (but with the aforementioned preference for the night Olympics).

Edited July 18, 2024 by heywoodu