kungshamra71

6 gold medals in 128 years of Olympics. Only this year we got more medals (total of all time) than… Michael Phelps…. so yeah, that is the reason why. Football mania from people, and most of all, the media. Everything goes around Benfica/Porto/Sporting in that country

Yeah i'm gonna need some context here i thought iuri was in germany for the tour for this next days

In Portugal the "unofficial prize" is to be invited to multiple football tv shows and then as the football season starts (as it did) to jump directly into oblivion (as they did... ). Also this is only valid for one of gold medallists. All the other three medallists (one gold, one silver and one bronze) never even got invited to radio/tv... i guess the new signing of benfica is what matters ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think this has to be quite some moment haha, starting inside a shopping center This picture in particular

Femke Bol comeback epic win on the 4x400 Iuri Leitao medals, both the silver and of course the gold at madison All the "live" experiences i got to take part on three weekends i spent in Paris, especially watching my big four in medal events (athletics, artistic gymnastics, track cycling and my all time favorite, swimming), the visit to the mythic Roland Garros, and of course watching live my country win a medal. The olympic flame at night. Incredible happy and sad feeling when seeing it for the last time before leaving Paris on the last saturday

would love to but i need to think about it, mostly because: way more expensive - not even the flights but everything, from accommodation to tickets, after all it's USA so i expect to be way pricier than Paris difficulty to move around - what i did loved and enjoyed on Paris was the ability to go everywhere quickly and easy, going through the center while passing multiple venues or just going from A to B by metro/rer with no problems. My experience in LA and public transport was not that good (2016 so things might have changed) so i expect it will be super car-oriented olympics, which sucks. organization - french did an outstanding job organising everything, help was provided almost literally everywhere in the city and entrance in the venues were incredible smooth. americans... i dont know, somehow i feel i'm gonna be disappointed based on how copa america was organised for example.

1. 10. It was literally the best performance ever in history of Olympic Games for Portugal. Besides having equalized the maximum amount of medals in a single games (4) as done in Tokyo, this time they managed to do it but with one gold, TWO silvers and one bronze. unbelieable edition for teamPT . 2. What were the suprises and heartbreaks ? heartbreak was Pimenta in sprint canoeing, very sad for him as he missed a lot of his child events to train for this and ended up 6th. also pichardo, I was not expecting gold but after his first jump I thought that was it. 3.Was your country's goal achieved? yes, the official goal were 4 medals, no matter the color. 4. Which are the sports that will be invested more in future? Hard to tell, Portugal still lives around football. Hopefully track cycling, after what happened this week. Also triathlon team did a great job. 5. Who could be some the potential star for your country in LA? hard to tell. The big ones will soon retire, so not sure who can be there in 2028. one last sad thing: today, on the day of the closing ceremony of the best Olympic Games ever for Portugal, the president of our national committee died. he was president since 2013 and completely revolutionized professional sports in Portugal, and was one of the main responsible for the facility improvements and the increase in financial aid that helped the record medals of 2020 and 2024. All Olympic athletes loved him, so it was quite a sad news for them today as well.

Obviously! This is a unique community that I’m glad I found about 10 years ago or so, it’s easy to find people that follow sport A or B, but this shared love about Olympic sports I don’t think I see it anywhere else. Plus the TISC which is like Eurovision on steroids, so how can I not keep coming to a forum that has the two topics I like the most? (Olympics + world music competition)

Also it’s only the SIXTH gold medal EVER for Portugal, so you have to understand how huge this is!!! I hope this guys get the f*cking president receiving him at the airport with all the honors they deserve!

Such an historic gold for Portugal!!! first gold ever that is not in athletics. and iuri is the first one EVER from Portugal to win two medals in the same Olympics!!! so proud!!!!

Portugal has a total of 31 medals in the whole 30 editions of Summer Olympic Games. I was able to witness the number 31 live. Wish I could go back in time just to say to my younger self, watching his first Olympics of Sydney 2000 and falling in love with the Olympic concept, that 24 years later the dream would become real! So yes, with no doubt, best Olympic Games ever!

It is also interesting the evolution of track cycling in Portugal. The sport was pretty much inexistent until they decided to build a national velodrome about 15 years ago or so, and even though the result has not been incredible good (only iuri so far), there are now much more kids and youngsters cycling indoors than before I would hope such a medal on a country that has so few that we all know our medalist names (it’s not that difficult when it’s just two per year haha) will increase the interest in track cycling, but it’s difficult in a football-centered country: yesterday I checked Portuguese tv, they did showed the news but spent much of the night talking about possible transfers of Portuguese football clubs….

Historical silver medal in track cycling for !!!! Giant Iuri!!! So proud of this guy! Honest question: when Benjamin Thomas fell and got back to the race, did he had to run extra laps to catch up with the rest or does the rules say that you come back and are automatically at the same place as the rest of the gang?

In terms of sports, it has been good. But I give it a 10 because of being the games where I had the change to be there, and because this idea of organizing the events in the center of the city, specially in a place like Paris, was the greatest idea ever! The vibe there is awesome, you hear people cheering everywhere from some event happening somewhere nearby, the venues are incredible, and the fans zones are really nice. The organization, for the athletes, might not be that good (crappy Olympic village, mistakes with flags several times, the Seine river drama, etc), but for the public it is perfect, everything goes smoothly and there is help and directions everywhere. I frequently come to Paris for visiting (it’s a quick not expensive 3h train ride from NL) but from now on I will always look this city in a different way, it will always be the Olympic city

Not really! There was a queue to enter , some food and traditional stuff . This park has several houses of different countries, is pretty awesome!

I’m joking of course But I did found the house

I found your team house @hckošice!!

Oh and if you think "yeah but it's just a bronze medal...", remember that Portugal gets very few medals per games so any medal should (and is, by those who appreciate it) be celebrated as an historical moment. A curious fact about this one: the medal won by Patricia Sampaio resulted in Portugal to finally have more medals (29), in our entire history, than Michael Phelps (28 in total)

For you to realise how much "football-dependent" is Portugal. It's so sad but so hard to change unfortunately....

Giant Patricia!!! Portugal caralhoooooo

Greetings from Paris! Barely any sleep and rainy typical Dutch day but well worth it . (Sorry for the bad quality video but could not upload it otherwise due to file size limitation ) IMG_3319.mov

Les miserables followed by Marie Antoinette and Gojira and opera, that to me is the highlight of this ceremony, never I got so much wowed in so little time. In general it was quite an incredible ceremony. But now 6 hours of bus travel awaits me (sponsored by whoever were those terrorists that broke the French railways ) so see you tomorrow, hopefully from Paris

That was a joke btw. Turkmenistan is a highly censured and closed country , pretty much North Korea but without the American hate. so no way any Olympics would be organized in such a place (I hope!)

Fun fact: when I was in Turkmenistan this spring, the (clearly brainwashed) Turkmen guide that was with us told us that “all the megalomaniac sport infrastructure was built because they are going to organize the Olympics very soon” so get ready all to “Ashgabat 2036”