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2 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

It’s all on eurovisionsports.tv

Also, from USA Swimming:

morning prelims (beginning daily at 3 a.m. ET) and open water events will be streamed on fina.org. 

26 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Seattle would like to have a word with you 

And Washington - Baltimore.  

Devon Allen 110H 12.84 (+1.6).  But he's going to the NFL.

Abby Steiner, University of Kentucky yesterday does 200 21.80 NCAA record, 48.92 4x400 split

Abby Steiner crushes NCAA 200m record, runs epic 4x400m relay leg (nbcsports.com)

16 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Still the smoke & mirrors show? Just announce Salt Lake City and stop the "bidding" nonsense

16 hours ago, George_D said:

there is also Saporro

Just drop the pretense and do a double award.

Salt Lake, Sapporo head race to 2030 Olympics, and maybe '34 | AP News


https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-sports-utah-salt-lake-city-international-olympic-committee-0bda4ce2ddad80bf55637a82b4632a87

This is sad to see:

Kenny Moore   1972 4th place Marathon, 14th in 1968 age 78.

Among other things: 

"Moore spent several years working to try to free Ethiopian marathoner Mamo Wolde, the 1968 Olympic champion (and 3rd in 1972 to Moore's 4th). Wolde had been arrested by Ethiopian authorities who felt he participated in an assassination attempt against the country’s dictator. Moore and the IOC petitioned for his release, which occurred, but only after he had spent six years in prison."

Kenny Moore Obituary - Olympian and Writer Dies at 78 (runnersworld.com)

I couldn't imagine anyone but Macron opening Paris 2024.

  Bernhard Germeshausen   Bobsled 1976 Gold in 2 man and 4 Man   1980 Gold 4 Man Silver 2 Man Age 70

  Alex Gilady   IOC Member since 1998  Age 79

13 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Great Britain could put in a strong bid too. I'd like to see the Netherlands put in an attempt...

If the IOC is serious about a two country rule, a Netherlands-Belgium joint Games would be nice to see.

10 minutes ago, bestmen said:

did italy lose at home ? am not following euro zone ,  north Macedonia has 1 chance to qualify ?

Yes and Yes if they beat Portugal next Tuesday.

9 hours ago, AliciasBlade said:

As for India, wasn’t their CWG bad in 2010? 

 

Yes, said this Olympic spokesman/insider

4 hours ago, RobtheAggie said:

Major announcement today:

 

• Belarus and Russia have been suspended from IBU competitions until at least September 2022.

 

While I try to refrain from rooting for anyone to fail, the ROC’s meltdowns in both relays in Beijing do have an air of schadenfreude to them.

A couple of recent passings:  Henry Herscovici sport shooter, competed in 1968 and 1972.  He was Israel’s flag bearer in the 1972 Opening Ceremony. Was 95 yrs old.

Charlie Greene,    1968,   Bronze in the 100 meters, Gold in the 4 x 100  relay.  A few days short of 77.

5 hours ago, NearPup said:

Literally nobody does this competitively anymore. I don’t even think anyone still make the ski poles for it (acroski requires specialized poles).

 

Acroski is unfortunately extremely dead.

It’s one of those sports that when it missed out on Olympic full-medal status in 1994, it effectively ended the sport.  
 

There was a US sports columnist in the early 1990s who is now on ESPN who derided the sport as “ski-dancing.”

Maggie Ewen at USA indoor championships in SP has done a 19.79 WL PB.

R.I.P. John Landy,   91, second man after Roger Bannister to run the mile in under 4 minutes, bronze medal 1500 m at 1956 Olympics 

https://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/athletics/story/_/id/33372337/australian-middle-distance-icon-john-landy-dies-91

Maybe even this  He brought back the USSR National Anthem, after all.

Tonight, US TV, in the taped replay of the Closing Ceremony, shows the W 30k medal ceremony, but then cuts out the M 50/30 K ceremony. 

4 hours ago, Jinzha said:

Another Olympics is over... So what is everyone looking forward to watching next?

 

 

For winter, alpine skiing and biathlon.  I hope Mikaela can right things.  Then for summer, world championships in aquatics, athletics, and gymnastics for each of the next two years and women's basketball this year.  Also, rowing, to see if US women can come back.   

6 minutes ago, Finnator123 said:

WE WON EVERY SINGLE GAME OF THE TOURNAMENT! ONLY ALLOWING 1 GOAL ON 5v5!!   THIS TEAM WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY!

Congrats!  Are people out celebrating in the streets?

9 minutes ago, NearPup said:

is *finally* ahead of in the all time ice hockey medal table.

As well as  (post 1992)

1 minute ago, NearPup said:

is *finally* ahead of in the all time ice hockey medal table.

40 minutes ago, Quaker2001 said:

NBC cut in on their primetime show, I pulled up the stream so I'm not sure if it was West coast only or not.  Got awkward with the rescheduling.  More fodder for traditional sports fans here that the Olympic schedule isn't the nice neat put together puzzle that we're used to with a lot of our sports schedules.  At least we didn't have to stay up late for it!

 

It's definitely the future.  Hopefully come Paris 2024, there will be greater awareness and less complaining that people don't know how to find schedules (seriously folks, it's not that hard!)

It was definitely West Coast only.  We got our NBC local (Wash. DC) news at 11:00 to 11:35.  When I finally saw the race on NBC, they were about 1 hr, behind the finish.

14 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Peacock was truly the only to watch these Olympics in the US.

Couldn’t agree more.   I think Figure Skating was the only sport where everything was shown live on cable or NBC.