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What a win, and what a year for this guy!

You should send Jerry Heil one day, she's really good!

Cooling down after Olympic with the Cycling world champs, and some football Champions League games

Ah interesting! And you know if they will have some World championship event next years or will it only be again during the next world games?

Btw are the competitions of park and street in the world games “the” world championships? Or does skateboarding have a separated event for that?

This was a fun one. Portugal scored a goal that went through the net and the referees didn’t allow it that’s why nobody (except from Portuguese for some reason, and I guess Spanish and Italians) care about this sport haha

Man this made me miss home... frango assado....

And another one. This mf just does not stop I do feel this international breaks are here to remind me how much i hate Roberto Martinez for being the most useless coach i can remember seeing in the Portuguese national team, even worse than Queiroz (which was stubborn, but at least had ideas. Martinez looks like me if they ask me to do work for which i have no qualifications for it. "Fake until you make it" is for sure his motto )

WSL Finals ended up with John John Florence becoming World Champion (2-0 against Italo Ferreira) and Caitlin Simmers beating by 2-1 Caroline Marks great finals, specially the first heat of the women’s title match. Also impressive Ítalo beating everyone from the 5th spot until the title match, too bad John John was better this time but I believe he’ll do it again soon.

In case someone's into Surfing, today are the WSL finals where a new champion (male and female) will be crowned

900 is a pretty big number. Also nice that this happened during a Portugal national team match, while playing for a home crowd in Lisboa.

For this TISC, I bring you back to the late 70s/early 80s, a very important period in Portuguese history: this was the early years of democracy, which returned to Portugal after almost 50 years of cruel and hard fascist dictatorship, which included a 13 year war in Africa that no one wanted to fight except our dictator. The dictatorship ended in 1974, April 25th with our bloodless democratic revolution, and the following years had some political instability (communists trying to take over, democratic forces trying to put things back on track), but in general the feeling in the streets was that of a nation forced into silence for half a century and that now had the freedom to speak, to sing, to kiss and to dance in the streets. So as you can imagine, a lot of artists and songs came up in this years, all in a particular style that we would associate to this era. Among them, was a man called Antonio Variações, a barbershop man who liked to sing during his work, and that got the attention of one of his clients: a famous tv show presenter. He became incredible famous for his happiness and joyful while singing, and later on for sadly becoming one of the first big public figures to die of AIDS, at the very early age of 39. He produced and sang several hits that are now great classics of Portuguese music history. For TISC Open 2024, Portugal presents the most famous of his songs, released to the radios moments before he got admitted to the hospital where he would die a few days later. I hope some of you enjoy it PORTUGAL António Variações - Canção do Engate

This one will forever be - to me - the corona song, due to that amazing kpn advertisement "ode aan nederland". Kippenvel everytime i see it

I remember the Porto defeat to this day, with Artmedia (which everyone would call "Artmerdia", that looks like portuguese word for crap - merda - in order to make fun of Porto fans after the defeat ), that was quite a surprise haha

is in of course

Not sure how are they in France now but i remember looking at the Equipe newspaper and being jealous of the headlines they gave to non-football (of course football is still the big headline majority of times, but i remember seeing several times big covers for other sports, either after they win or just because some big competition was coming up). There has been good improvements in some newspapers though. But the big problem are the tv channels, that's where the attention is given 100% to football clubs drama (almost every night there are "sport talkshows" in every channel, lasting for one or two hours, where they only talk about benfica/porto/sporting topics). But tv channels also are mostly just a reflection of how majority of people think. For example, one of the saddest things i remember seeing while i was still living there: Nelson Évora, at the time one of the only four gold medallists in our entire history, after he won the medal, decided to change his training club (for the same reason anyone changes jobs, to get better compensation), and decided to leave Benfica and join Sporting (football club rivals from Lisbon). Did anyone cared about triple jump at all? About athletics? No. And yet, the backlash of this was so big that people started to hate him, boo him, stop following on social networks, all this things just because he had left one football club to join some other. This was in 2016. Today, 2024, and there are still a lot of people that got happy because he didn't make it to the Olympics, because of what happened back them... Football clubism in Portugal is a super toxic disease and one of the things that i hate there (and that i'm glad is not as bad here in NL )

yes, I had some hopes for Pimenta and Jorge Fonseca for example. Also the triathlon guys did a great job, wasn’t expecting medals but their race was really good. i believe that with a better sport culture (not great for now) and a bit help from the media (giving proper space to non-football sports) things would be better. unfortunately media interest only come after the success, and last for little time. My best example was when Rui Costa became the first Portuguese ever Road Cycling World Champion, and not a single one Portuguese tv channel was showing his race, I was following it via YouTube or something like that. when he won, and specially because he had beaten a Spanish in the finish line, everyone got sudden interest (tv show guest, memes, congratulated by politicians). And, like Iuri now, that interest died the next weekend when club football started again

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)