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It's clear, but we don't have them and I want them

What are those graphics top left

There's an athlete sitting next to me right now who says she'd be very disappointed if this was her first Olympic opening ceremony..

I don't think it works, but I definitely applaud the effort, yes.

Right, next time can it at least be with a large audience that's both visibly and audibly present?

But, they were?

So far I'm kind of disappointed, somehow it feels like the athletes are missing out on the usual party

And has one more 1976 gold medal!

If that's a reference to what I think it is: Kevin, goddammit

For real? Yeah, that sucks.... Also organizationally it's not really going well yet, journalists were more or less randomly sent whereever in the hope they'd arrive more or less in the rightish spot in time for the broadcasts, nobody has any maps or schedules or anything

Yeah, this I just never understood I see it on the forum here sometimes as well, things like this for an individual sport: "Quarter finals will be vs vs vs vs " Just name the athletes, it's about them

ESPN has this, but it's far from complete yet. For tomorrow, for example: https://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/2024/schedule/_/date/20240727 They forgot lots of qualifiers, early rounds in things like judo and so on, but do have a separate entry for every single tennis match (but not badminton) Surely an improvement, but the search continues for something good. Edit: BBC seems to be much more complete, and somewhere in between the official one and ESPN in terms of the amount of space they use. Not great, not terrible. https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/paris-2024/schedule/2024-07-27

I'm using it exclusively on my laptop It's just designed so super unlogically. The grid is fine for the overall calendar (where you can simply see if a certain sport has some action on a certain day), but it's awful to drill down into the actual times and such. I just took a quick look at ESPN's 2022 page and this is just so indescribably more concise: One line per event (perfect, more is just a waste of space and scrolling effort), as to fit a lot on the screen, a simple link towards the results, a easy to see medal sign, no medal winners being mentioned in the schedule (because why on the face of the earth would you mention medal winners in the schedule?! There's the results page for that!). I've never used ESPN before btw, but within seconds I can see this is better. I'll see if they have the same for 2024 with a similar layout and if so, just use that one (of course covering all the headlines).

Oof, three hours by car I see. Yeah, that's unfortunate, but then that makes sense indeed.

Also, Max Kühner is in trouble for an animal welfare thing and court proceedings are going on, but I'm not exactly sure what he is supposed to have done. And it's in Dutch, but equestrian-specific language which I don't know https://www.horses.nl/evenementen/olympische-spelen/strafproces-tegen-olympier-max-kuhner-wegens-barreren/

Damn, nightmare* few days. First his 'main' horse had to be replaced by Diabolo and now he won't even compete at all.. *depending on the reason, if it's an animal welfare thing and his mistake....oh well...

Potentially dumb question, but why is the shooters not staying in the village obvious?

By the way, are there many athletes in your countries who are not staying in the Olympic Village? I got curious, because several Dutch athletes don't. The road cyclists for example are all in a hotel outside of Paris to be able to focus on the competition better, and triathlete Maya Kingma is in her own separate AirBnb because she wants to stay entirely away from all the coaches, staff and other triathletes in the team (like she does for every international race, due to a very shitty culture of fear, bullying and whatnot).

Definitely possible though, plenty of athletes from top tennis players to ultra runners and from triathletes to football and basketball players who are vegetarian. There's no way I'd go for that personally (because meat just tastes so good and I'm weak ), athlete or not, but it is certainly possible.

Besides, how can she get a medal considering she'll obviously be out in the first round?

Oh wait, this is....it?

I'm still just stuck with this page, for example: https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/27-july Surely there is the 'normal' one, where you have the screen full with lots of things in the schedule instead of just 4-5 before needing to scroll? And oh god, there is a 'In case you missed it' block with headlines in between the schedule....motherfuckers

On the other hand, some multisport events have that 'live' thing but also including the live results So, you know, goodbye watching half of the things

Well, this is heartbreak

To think you and me have lost just as many Olympic rugby matches as all of Fiji in it's entire history