Sir Rols

Hi Everyone! Just popping in here to thank @Sindo for his kind invitation over on GamesBids for us members there to pop over and enjoy the Paris 2024 fun here as well. I know there‘s already a few members who cross over between our two sites, and it‘s great to see some cross board cooperation when we all share a common passion for the Olympics.
 
In turn, I‘d also like to invite any Totallympics members who feel the urge to pop over to GamesBids and join us to celebrate the Games on our board too. It‘s a big time for us as well, and we‘ve got lots of activities, and competitions, in store for the festivities. It‘d be great to see some of you join our membership and join us to discuss the pageantry, politics and minutiae of the games (as well as the sweaty stuff happening at the competition venues). Our LIVE CHAT during the opening ceremony is always particularly popular, and fun.
 
Anyway, enjoy Paris 2024 everyone! 

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Hi Everyone! Just popping in here to thank @Sindo for his kind invitation over on GamesBids for us members there to pop over and enjoy the Paris 2024 fun here as well. I know there‘s already a few members who cross over between our two sites, and it‘s great to see some cross board cooperation when we all share a common passion for the Olympics.
 
In turn, I‘d also like to invite any Totallympics members who feel the urge to pop over to GamesBids and join us to celebrate the Games on our board too. It‘s a big time for us as well, and we‘ve got lots of activities, and competitions, in store for the festivities. It‘d be great to see some of you join our membership and join us to discuss the pageantry, politics and minutiae of the games (as well as the sweaty stuff happening at the competition venues). Our LIVE CHAT during the opening ceremony is always particularly popular, and fun.
 
Anyway, enjoy Paris 2024 everyone! 

Hi Everyone! Just popping in here to thank @Sindo for his kind invitation over on GamesBids for us members there to pop over and enjoy the Paris 2024 fun here as well. I know there‘s already a few members who cross over between our two sites, and it‘s great to see some cross board cooperation when we all share a common passion for the Olympics.
 
In turn, I‘d also like to invite any Totallympics members who feel the urge to pop over to GamesBids and join us to celebrate the Games on our board too. It‘s a big time for us as well, and we‘ve got lots of activities, and competitions, in store for the festivities. It‘d be great to see some of you join our membership and join us to discuss the pageantry, politics and minutiae of the games (as well as the sweaty stuff happening at the competition venues). Our LIVE CHAT during the opening ceremony is always particularly popular, and fun.
 
Anyway, enjoy Paris 2024 everyone! 

Hi Everyone! Just popping in here to thank @Sindo for his kind invitation over on GamesBids for us members there to pop over and enjoy the Paris 2024 fun here as well. I know there‘s already a few members who cross over between our two sites, and it‘s great to see some cross board cooperation when we all share a common passion for the Olympics.
 
In turn, I‘d also like to invite any Totallympics members who feel the urge to pop over to GamesBids and join us to celebrate the Games on our board too. It‘s a big time for us as well, and we‘ve got lots of activities, and competitions, in store for the festivities. It‘d be great to see some of you join our membership and join us to discuss the pageantry, politics and minutiae of the games (as well as the sweaty stuff happening at the competition venues). Our LIVE CHAT during the opening ceremony is always particularly popular, and fun.
 
Anyway, enjoy Paris 2024 everyone! 

I didnt see any activity from australian friends and Rugby-7s starts today... so i opened the thread for day to day news and results of Team Australia !!

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Great documentary on the planning behind the opening ceremony. Part two coming later this week…
 
 

Hi Everyone! Just popping in here to thank @Sindo for his kind invitation over on GamesBids for us members there to pop over and enjoy the Paris 2024 fun here as well. I know there‘s already a few members who cross over between our two sites, and it‘s great to see some cross board cooperation when we all share a common passion for the Olympics.
 
In turn, I‘d also like to invite any Totallympics members who feel the urge to pop over to GamesBids and join us to celebrate the Games on our board too. It‘s a big time for us as well, and we‘ve got lots of activities, and competitions, in store for the festivities. It‘d be great to see some of you join our membership and join us to discuss the pageantry, politics and minutiae of the games (as well as the sweaty stuff happening at the competition venues). Our LIVE CHAT during the opening ceremony is always particularly popular, and fun.
 
Anyway, enjoy Paris 2024 everyone! 

The Team Aus digs:
 

 

 

The Team Aus digs:
 

 

 

The Team Aus digs:
 

 

 

Hi Everyone! Just popping in here to thank @Sindo for his kind invitation over on GamesBids for us members there to pop over and enjoy the Paris 2024 fun here as well. I know there‘s already a few members who cross over between our two sites, and it‘s great to see some cross board cooperation when we all share a common passion for the Olympics.
 
In turn, I‘d also like to invite any Totallympics members who feel the urge to pop over to GamesBids and join us to celebrate the Games on our board too. It‘s a big time for us as well, and we‘ve got lots of activities, and competitions, in store for the festivities. It‘d be great to see some of you join our membership and join us to discuss the pageantry, politics and minutiae of the games (as well as the sweaty stuff happening at the competition venues). Our LIVE CHAT during the opening ceremony is always particularly popular, and fun.
 
Anyway, enjoy Paris 2024 everyone! 

The Team Aus digs:
 

 

 

Hi Everyone! Just popping in here to thank @Sindo for his kind invitation over on GamesBids for us members there to pop over and enjoy the Paris 2024 fun here as well. I know there‘s already a few members who cross over between our two sites, and it‘s great to see some cross board cooperation when we all share a common passion for the Olympics.
 
In turn, I‘d also like to invite any Totallympics members who feel the urge to pop over to GamesBids and join us to celebrate the Games on our board too. It‘s a big time for us as well, and we‘ve got lots of activities, and competitions, in store for the festivities. It‘d be great to see some of you join our membership and join us to discuss the pageantry, politics and minutiae of the games (as well as the sweaty stuff happening at the competition venues). Our LIVE CHAT during the opening ceremony is always particularly popular, and fun.
 
Anyway, enjoy Paris 2024 everyone! 

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Yea, at this point mostly a lot of political bluster.  I don't think the IOC needs to be searching for an alternative just yet.

The way Agenda 2020(+5) awards the games is a big mistake. The complete lack of transparancy and awarding the games this far (11 years!) in advance seems bound to create issues.

It is official in all but the rubber stamping: there will be an Olympic Esports Games.
 
https://olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-eb-proposes-creation-of-olympic-esports-games-to-ioc-session
 
I believe I am the biggest (only?) esports fan on this forum. One might think that I'm happy about this news, but I'm honnestly completly disgusted. Not because I don't think esports deserves to be in the Olympics in some form of fashion, but because of the disgusting lack of respect for esports the IOC is displaying.
 
Just going through the announcement:
 
I really hope this is PR spin, because the event was widely seen as a complete flop among the esport community. Notable names ignored it, no notable esport was included and the viewership numbers were simply not impressive. Many of the "esports" that were included are considered complete jokes by the community and simply do not have competitive scenes.
 
This essentially limits us to... chess and motorsports. That's it. No other IF has an "e-version" of their sport that has a significant competitive scene (I mean, zwift I guess, but that's... I mean that's just biking but indoor, and somehow still managed to create one of the dumbest cheating scnadal in the history of esports). FIFA is the closest to a third IF, but they no longer have control of the most popular Football game, and e-Football is a relatively minor esport anyway.
 
This is going to be the death nail. All the popular esports "fail" this test.
 
There will be no MOBA (League of Legends / Dota 2), no tactical shooter (CS2 / Valorant), no RTS (StarCraft), no Rocket League, no fighting game... there is just not going to be anything of what makes esports, well, esports. It's just going to be worse versions of real sports, and chess.
 
The IOC is just way too out of touch with people under the age of 75 for this to work.

Hi Everyone! Just popping in here to thank @Sindo for his kind invitation over on GamesBids for us members there to pop over and enjoy the Paris 2024 fun here as well. I know there‘s already a few members who cross over between our two sites, and it‘s great to see some cross board cooperation when we all share a common passion for the Olympics.
 
In turn, I‘d also like to invite any Totallympics members who feel the urge to pop over to GamesBids and join us to celebrate the Games on our board too. It‘s a big time for us as well, and we‘ve got lots of activities, and competitions, in store for the festivities. It‘d be great to see some of you join our membership and join us to discuss the pageantry, politics and minutiae of the games (as well as the sweaty stuff happening at the competition venues). Our LIVE CHAT during the opening ceremony is always particularly popular, and fun.
 
Anyway, enjoy Paris 2024 everyone! 

Hi Everyone! Just popping in here to thank @Sindo for his kind invitation over on GamesBids for us members there to pop over and enjoy the Paris 2024 fun here as well. I know there‘s already a few members who cross over between our two sites, and it‘s great to see some cross board cooperation when we all share a common passion for the Olympics.
 
In turn, I‘d also like to invite any Totallympics members who feel the urge to pop over to GamesBids and join us to celebrate the Games on our board too. It‘s a big time for us as well, and we‘ve got lots of activities, and competitions, in store for the festivities. It‘d be great to see some of you join our membership and join us to discuss the pageantry, politics and minutiae of the games (as well as the sweaty stuff happening at the competition venues). Our LIVE CHAT during the opening ceremony is always particularly popular, and fun.
 
Anyway, enjoy Paris 2024 everyone! 

The Team Aus digs:
 

 

 

Hi Everyone! Just popping in here to thank @Sindo for his kind invitation over on GamesBids for us members there to pop over and enjoy the Paris 2024 fun here as well. I know there‘s already a few members who cross over between our two sites, and it‘s great to see some cross board cooperation when we all share a common passion for the Olympics.
 
In turn, I‘d also like to invite any Totallympics members who feel the urge to pop over to GamesBids and join us to celebrate the Games on our board too. It‘s a big time for us as well, and we‘ve got lots of activities, and competitions, in store for the festivities. It‘d be great to see some of you join our membership and join us to discuss the pageantry, politics and minutiae of the games (as well as the sweaty stuff happening at the competition venues). Our LIVE CHAT during the opening ceremony is always particularly popular, and fun.
 
Anyway, enjoy Paris 2024 everyone! 

For all olympic history enthusiasts, 17 minutes of exclusive (?) footage from the 1924 Olympics