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That's kind of stupid.

Black definitively deserves recognition, she's done so much for artistic gymnastics in Canada.

And now is appealing the decision, claiming they have video evidence that the inquiry was filed with 13 seconds to spare, not four seconds late. Once again, reminder that no matter what the athlete that should be in third won’t get a bronze medal regardless of the outcome.

The fact that each esport depends on a commercial product with a privately owned IP is indeed one of the big issue the IOC has to contend with (though definitively not the only one). But I do think that if the IOC looks at it as a commercial event it would be a mistake, esports event run that way don't tend to have a lot of longevity, wheras the more community minded esports events have done better.

Ironically I don’t think anyone is more skeptical of the esports Olympic games than the members of the various esports communities. Making the event viable is going to be a huge challenge for the IOC. I feel like most people don’t really understand that the esports Olympics are shaping up to be one of the biggest failure in the history of the IOC. But either way, the existence of the esports Olympics kills any chance of esports being added to the summer games. If the esports Olympic games thrive as a standalone event then there won’t be a reason to add esports to the summer games. If the esports Olympics fail then the IOC will be extremely hesitant to add esports to the summer games.

Ya I think people can relax about esports, they likely won’t ever be in the Summer Olympics. The esports Olympic games are going to be a standalone event that will succeed or (most likely given how the IOC is approaching esports) fail on it’s own terms.

I think there needs to be a balance between having stability in the program and also evolving. I think adding sports like climbing, skateboarding and cricket were all overdue changes, I’m just not super keen in how it was done.

I'm probably going to take a bit of a break (I'm traveling for the Paralympics so I'll probably watch very little of it). For me the real excitement of the Olympics is more following how the Olympic program evolves and qualification moreso than the games proper, so I'll def be around a lot over the next few years!

Awesome. Those are all among the events I hope to see (I'm def one of the rare fan of the "urban" sports on this forum xD )

Ya, so snowboarding, freestyle skiing, surfing, skateboarding, freestyle BMX, heck even climbing all had these concerns too. It’s a very common concern among those “action” sports.

Ya, if I had my way the quotas / events freed up from eliminating lightweight rowing would have gone to canoeing.

I am! I live in Seattle so going to LA is sort of a must for me.

Yup. The most ridiculous part of this situation is that the person who should actually have the bronze medal isn’t even in the conversation to receive the bronze medal.

This might be a hot take but I actually think the 50s are the most boring swimming events.

Four years out is pretty normal. I’m hoping there won’t be any real cut (except maybe for the mixed judo team event and the mixed medley relay, those can go at any time :P ) other than lightweight rowing. We knew before the Olympics lightweight rowing was on it’s way out, and I feel like, generally, we find out when events get cut earlier than when we find out new events come in.

And we also know this should be three event: men’s single scull, women’s single scull and a mixed double scull.

And there likely won’t be a CBC by LA so that will be fun too.

This is why I loved watching in the US - no commercials with Peacock! I couldn’t even tell you about a single Olympic related commercial.

I don’t think there is a precedent for a medal being taken away due to a judging error, and plenty of precedents for it being shared (1992 women’s solo artistic swimming, 2002 pairs figure skating and, most recently and imo most relevant, 2022 women’s ski cross)

Best individual Canadian moment was the men’s 4x100m relay. I also have a real soft spot for Summer’s win in the 200m IM and Harvey’s foil bronze. And of course Katie Vincent’s win setting the non-boycotted gold and medal records was very special. I’m also still so happy that Deguchi won her gold medal, even though the final itself was not her best fight. A dark horse for one of my favourite moment was actually seeing Philip Kim win gold, it was special to see someone who truly would only get one shot at this step up and perform at their very best. In hindsight Kim had the most dominant performance of any Canadian athlete not named Summer McIntosh or Ethan Katzberg. Also a shout out to the women’s 7s team for doing so much better than expected. Best non-Canadian moments were three moments involving the host nation: the men’s Rugby 7s final, Vaast winning surfing gold at how in Thaiti and Teddy Riner clinching his fifth gold medal. Best non-Canada and non-host moments? Lydia Ko winning gold in women’s golf, Alfred winning gold in the women’s 100m and Sjostrom winning the women’s 100m free. And of course Lopez winning a fifth individual gold medal in a row. The worst moment of the games for me was definitively the 3x3 semi final loss.

Nicole Hoevertsz also seems like a likely continuity candidate.

has benefited from “teen sports” as much as any other country. Feels like fundamentally the wrong place to look if that’s your concern.

There is a real chance that the will be one gold medal behind because McEwen refused to share gold with Kerr xD Both the US and China are heavy favourites to win one gold tomorrow (women's basketball and women's +87kg in weightlifting). China doesn't have any other real gold medal chances, while the US is in two other finals (women's volleyball and women's -76kg in wrestling) and I believe favourite in the women's omnium

Lol how ironic that a certain user was complaining about doping after the 800m race.