Your Top Ten Paris 2024 Favourite Moments

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A brand new tiny thread for a weekend 

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1. Novak Djoković Gold

2. Serbia Mens Water Polo Gold

3. Zorana Arunović/Damir Mikec Gold

4. Milica Žabić beating Olympic Champion in mixed team

5. Aleksandra Perišić Silver

6. Serbia Mens Basketball Bronze

7. Strahinja Bunčić 5th

8. Marica Perišić 7th

9. Djoković beating Nadal

10. Opening Ceremony 

 

 

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Tom Pidcock forcing the French guy to ride into a tree in the men's Mountain Bike

Alex Yee's last 500m kick in the triathlon

Andy Murray fighting his way through each tie like it was a Wimbledon final.

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Top 3 is quite easy:

1. Mondo Duplantis gold and WR

2. Sarah Sjöström gold in 100 free

3. Truls Möregårdh beating the world #1. 

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Netherlands beats : britain, germany,italy in the table of medals ... 

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my non politically correct POV   

 

1.Angela Carini's farce vs  Imane Khelif in women's boxing

2.big time robberies in that farce named olympic boxing

3.Organizers showing the most indecent lack of respect for the Olympic Games, Sports in general, Italy, Catholic Religion, world's most important artistic masterpieces, many Heads of Foreign States in that farce known as the Opening Ceremony

4.the farce in the  vs  men's football game

5.repeated shameful refereeing/judging in Fencing and Judo

6.the athletes getting sick after swimming in the river Seine in Triathlon and Open Water Swimming

7.the men's Waterpolo scandal ( vs  or rather the whole FINA: refs, judges, officials, politicians -Italian NOC President Malagò included)

8.the carrot eaten by the rabbit AKA, as expected, Jannik Sinner pulling out of the men's Tennis tournaments just before the start of the Games after saying for months (years) he wouldn't do it once again like in 2021

9.the ridiculous farce of the Australian breakdancer

10.Claudia Mancinelli 

Edited November 29, 2024 by phelps

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From INTERNATIONAL perspective - TEN is not enough. So it will take some time to make a list for that... Stay tuned.

 

From POLISH perspective (early thoughts):

 

10. TRIATHLON - W Individual - Roksana Słupek 13th place because I think it was a really really good result for this underdog athlete and she was celebrating this nicely while crossing the finish line

 

9. ATHLETICS - W Hammer Throw - Anita Włodarczyk 4th, she lost bronze by 4cm but still it was a very sweet 4th place because we got to know SHE CAN DO IT still, she's not done yet!

 

8. TENNIS - W Singles - Iga Świątek QF win vs Danielle Collins because she advanced to Last 4 and a medal was almost certain but... - it's bitter-sweet actually because Collins retired and some shitshow happened because of that and what Collins said and how she behaved, all that unnecessary drama... and then THE WORST Paris moment was next: SF lost to Zheng Qinwen

 

7. ROWING - M Quadruple Sculls - bronze

 

6. FENCING - W Team Epee - bronze medal vs CHN 32-31 - Aleksandra Jarecka celebration after last point went viral here... and fencing venue was ICONIC

 

5. CANOE SLALOM - W K1 - Klaudia Zwolińska silver medal, a first medal for Poland in each olympics is always sth special

 

4. SPORT CLIMBING - W Speed - Aleksandra Mirosław Gold - our only Gold in Paris, damn it

 

3. VOLLEYBALL - M Tournament - quarterfinal: POL-SLO 3-1 - cause as you know we lost QFs in 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2021...

 

2. VOLLEYBALL - M Tournament - semifinal: POL-USA 3-2 win coming back from 1-2 and 14-25 in set 3!!! (remontada)

 

1. ATHLETICS - W 400m - Natalia Kaczmarek bronze because I cherished this medal the most - a medal in a classic running event

Edited November 30, 2024 by rafalgorka

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Edited November 30, 2024 by rafalgorka

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"I lost my appetite"

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From international perspective Ten is not enough, like i said.

 

But let's do it this way.

What i watched and what i liked:

 

DAYS -2, -1, 0

 

1. RUGBY SEVENS - M Tournament - very entertaining, stadium full of people, i was rooting for Team Fiji. I usually watch Rugby World Cup only but i really liked this thing

2. RUGBY SEVENS - W Tournament - less entertaining than Men's tournament, but i was rooting for team US because i think Ilona Maher instagram content is really funny

3. Daria Saville instagram content straight from the vilage was really good, team Aussie coffee house was my fav

4. OPENING CEREMONY - I want to say it loudly. I LIKED IT A LOT. The only thing i didn't like was THE WEATHER. If the weather was better, this boat parade would be much more entertaining. I was worried about safety issues, but it turned out my disbelief in the professionalism of French police etc. was not good THIS TIME.

My fav moments:

Aya Nakamura cause i listen to her on Spotify constantly

Passarelle Debilly section - yes, i liked it. I may even loved it. I am anything but a religious person so it wasn't controversial to me personally. I understand some people might have been offended but for me - personally - as your Raffa - it was VERY REFRESHING, VERY ENTERTAINING. The only bad thing was the weather. Maybe Phillippe Katerine as Blue Dionysys in the end wasn't that funny but all what happened before in this section was supercool imo.

Dancers on the barge, they were just great.

Celine Dion performance - at first, i didn't like it that much. But it gets better and better after every next watching on YT.

And i was watching it all on France 2 TV to get the mood so i luckily avoided our Polish TV - "Je suis Babiarz" controversy.

 

DAY 1 coming up next

Edited December 1, 2024 by rafalgorka