Blaze (he/him)Most popular pictures of the Olympics
Geometrinen_GepardiWhat’s happening in the first picture on the fourth row?
It’s from the badminton. The Chinese player was in the semi-final against Carolina Marin of Spain. Marin had won the first game and was leading in the second before having to retire injured.
So He Bingjiao held up a pin with the Spanish flag on it as a mark of respect for Marin, who should really have been in her place on the podium.
Always warms my heart to see the amount of respect these athletes have for their competitors. Sometimes people are awesome!
Well, it’s all part of the Olympic spirit and what it’s all supposed to be about.
Competing at a high level but with graciousness and respect for each other.
I love that! I love the international sportsmanship and comraderie that can pop up here. It just goes to show we’re all just people.
According to who? Because i don't recognize most of these, and i don't see some that are very shared like bad breakdancing woman
Yeah, my first thought was it was missing the dude whose dick cost him a medal.
SecretSaucesWait… What?
Altima NEOHis big dong messed up his pole vault attempt and knocked the bar
There was major meat malfunction is what he’s saying
He should have kept his pole in a vault during competition.
Isnt that several years old? Or did it happen again?
It literally happens every Olympics and people lose their mind every time. Same with “funny shooting stance” memes.
You’d think they would start wearing a cup or something.
That’d give them a larger bulge = less margin = more dickbars. Less painful though!
That was a Japanese dude last time. The tip of his teepee messed up his jump.
This time is was a French guy, I believe. You could see his giant equipment bouncing around as it slammed the bar.
Lmao that’s incredible how did I miss this
VindictiveJudgeShould have practiced kynodesme, like the ancient Olympic athletes.
There it is!
Or the mooning surfer.
Stefen AurisDamn you beat me to it. That’s all I know about this year’s Olympics
Apparently if you watch the replay it’s clear that he had already failed his attempt before his bulge hit.
He had. Hit his feet, knees dick and hips.
Pretty terrible vault really.
feet, knees, dick and hips, dick and hips
feet, knees, dick and hips, dick and hips
And eyes and ears and mouth and nose.
feet, knees, dick and hips, dick and hips
According to who?
Other people? I know that’s a foreign concept to people here. That other people exist, but it’s true. There’s over a million of us. Crazy right.
If by other people you mean something like the PR firm of the IOC, then sure. The word "popular" doesn't just mean "something one person or entity prefers"
Ahh Jesus Christ your one of those cunts.
Pole vault dick and break dancer are videos, not still images. Maybe that will be a different category
No they're definitely highly shared still images
I haven’t seen break dancers 🤪
As much as I despise the Olympics it does some entertaining moments!
I despise the IOC, but I love all the athletes competing in the event. So much emotion, such dedication. For me, it’s the best reality TV there is.
I have heard nothing about the Olympics this year aside from the shooting competition. It’s very weird.
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simpleIt was still relatively popular but the olympics has been in decline due to being shackled behind paid cable channels. Everybody’s moved to streaming but apparently they didn’t get the memo. Just knowing where you can find the olympics is such a nightmare they have a giant table explaining which channel you should go to depending on where you live
No, they got the memo. At least in the US, the Peacock app had every single event broken out into live events, replays and highlights. Or you could watch the gold medal stream and just mainline finals. They did a pretty good job, IMO.
That’s what I heard from friends who were watching, they said it was a massive improvement over the last Games.
I haven’t watched the Olympics in a long time but I thought the experience was kinda shit, especially compared to ye olden days of it being on every channel. My experience was basically:
My wife: What’s the difference between “Women’s all around final” and “women’s all around final (TV)”?
Me: googling I think we want the “TV” one?
30 second ad
20 seconds of a commentator talking over a view of Paris
2 minutes of ads
15 minutes of the camera just looking at an empty apparatus while there’s clearly other stuff going on in the background
2 minutes ads
30 seconds commentators discussing the event
2 minutes ads
Ok they actually fucking start, finally
Someone does something, 2 second MICRO AD??? This is a thing now apparently? Randomly throughout there’s these insanely short ads that are super jarring
Zoom in on Simone Biles face
Watch someone do a warmup on vault
Simone itches her nose
We can clearly hear other competitors doing things in the background, but Simone is looking to the right, so let’s focus on that
2 minutes ads
Watch a competitor do uneven bars, neat
Back to Simone, she’s talking to Suni now, we can’t hear it, but it must be important
Literally can see people doing flips and shit in the background, but let’s watch Simone as she sits in this chair
2 minutes ads
BREAKING NEWS: Simone blinks
“What did that other girl get for a score? Did they show it?”
Attempt to rewind 30 seconds. Big mistake, 2 minutes ads
Simone does a vault
2 minutes ads
…
Like I love Simone Biles, I do. Obviously I want to see all of her events. But holy shit, I’m here to watch the Olympics, not the “Simone is waiting for her turn” show. Also it was like 90% ads, they didn’t even show some of the highest scoring performances (since they only showed like 3 other people besides Simone), and half the time didn’t even show the scores they received. It was just…pretty bleh.
Completely agree, and I have watched a ton. The quantity of ads is outrageous, and the “ongoing coverage” streams make you watch a pile of ads before you even find out what’s playing.
The video was always stuttering and just shy of unwatchable on the “live” streams, the ads were out of hand, commentary audio was super inconsistent, even the camera work was pretty shit overall. Like, missing critical moments when that was the only thing going on.
I thought NBC / Peacock did a pretty bad job.
jqubedMy two complaints about Peacock were:
Even taking the raw World feed there were often still segments cut out which I assume is where they ran ads. Watching replays with the “ad-free” plan there were no ads there, but the content was still gone.
Even though the entirety of the events were produced in 4K/UHD, only HD content was available. I understand that they did this because none of their broadcast facilities run in UHD yet and I guess they don’t have their streaming apps supporting it yet, but it’s definitely time for that to be supported. Claiming they don’t need to go UHD because their affiliates aren’t using ATSC 3.0 yet is patently false; the signal is live in my market and dozens of others as well.
That definitely needs to be fixed by Los Angeles, and really should be by Milano Cortina.
WahotsDamn, the Olympics are free in Canada. The US needs to do the same.
lol the cookie accept prompt on that site:
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Hère un France they had almost all the sports on the two public channels, everyday for two weeks. Impossible to miss.
On the BBC in the UK. I’ve had a great few weeks of uninterrupted Olympics coverage with no advertisements at all. Bliss.
I thought it was pretty good and watched as much as I could everyday. But then I have Peacock.
XtallllI would have used the headless singer to represent the opening ceremony.
Yes! Gojira’s performance was amazing!
I don’t know what is actually going on, but I’m interested in the Olympic level giant wedge of cheese hugging competition.
Olympic gymnast Giorgia Villa is sponsored by parmesan and takes many photos with a wheel of cheese - Sopuli
https://www.si.com/olympics/italy-gymnast-giorgia-villa-parmesan-cheese-endorsement-deal [https://www.si.com/olympics/italy-gymnast-giorgia-villa-parmesan-cheese-endorsement-deal] [https://files.catbox.moe/c8fez7.jpg]
Technically not an Olympics photo. She’s an Italian gymnast who does promo for Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese. That’s an ad she did.
It’s actually a Trampling competition.
Why do they give them individually boxed giant novelty cigarettes?
Is that a cheese wheel?
Yup, that Italian athlete is sponsored by Parmesan
hahha what a perfect gif for that sentiment
Strategic hand placement
Much ado about nothing.