Tokyo 2020 Olympics (14 Viewers)

[JuveJay]

The US have a rock climber from Boulder, CO.

 

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[JCK]

Men's Pole Vault Final today
Hopefully a thriller and not a Duplantis steamroll

Why the Duplantis hate?

 

[Post Ironic]

The US have a rock climber from Boulder, CO.

Boulder is kinda the centre of climbing in the US and the outdoor community in general.

 

[JuveJay]

Boulder is kinda the centre of climbing in the US and the outdoor community in general.

I can't imagine why.

 

[lgorTudor]

Why the Duplantis hate?

I like this guy, just wanted a really close fight with whatever winner. So I wrote 'hopefully not a Duplantis steamroll' rather than 'hopefully not a Duplantis win'
He is incredible, had the altitude at 6.19 even but hit the bar with his chest on the way down.

Personally, I know international football is often a proxy war between nations. And certainly the USA and the USSR turned the Olympics into a proxy Cold War.

But the premise is tiresome. Maybe it's just me being in Portugal where we're excited just to see someone win a single bronze all week. But the whole gold medal count competition between China and the USA comes off as a tasteless analog of the billionaire dick-measuring contest between Space X, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic.

Thank you. Absolute cancerous affair between two rotten to the ground systems. You could discuss the reasons and implications ad infinitum and end up dumber than before. Olympics for me is about individual stories and special moments, variety of sports and density of highest level performances, not GLORIOUS CCP vs ONE NASHIUN UNDER GAWD

 

[swag]

The US have a rock climber from Boulder, CO.

Still not as good as losing to someone named Loser.

Boulder is kinda the centre of climbing in the US and the outdoor community in general.

Hey, Joshua Tree ftw.

 

[Cerval]

wait Simone Biles performed again after the mental illness thing?

 

[Post Ironic]

Still not as good as losing to someone named Loser.



Hey, Joshua Tree ftw.

Joshua Tree is cool, I’ve done a few climbing trips there over the years, but it’s not really a place to live. Boulder and Salt Lake City are the two cities everyone in the outdoors community seems to eventually end up in.

 

[Fab Fragment]

Poor guy. How can one name their child as Loser? Granted English was not the parents primary language but someone must have bought the parents attention to this.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Poor guy. How can one name their child as Loser? Granted English was not the parents primary language but someone must have bought the parents attention to this.

That's his surname.

 

[lgorTudor]

Poor guy. How can one name their child as Loser? Granted English was not the parents primary language but someone must have bought the parents attention to this.

General Alvear was a shitty father, he wasn't around a lot because of the Falkland War

 

[swag]

wait Simone Biles performed again after the mental illness thing?

Sounds like the Twisties-Away pills worked.

Joshua Tree is cool, I’ve done a few climbing trips there over the years, but it’s not really a place to live. Boulder and Salt Lake City are the two cities everyone in the outdoors community seems to eventually end up in.

It is a place to live if you like sitting on a cactus, 45°C heat, and neighbors who decorate their yards with collected horse bones. And you don't like health care and think culture is something grown at the bottom of a sawed-off Pepsi liter bottle.

 

[Fab Fragment]

General Alvear was a shitty father, he wasn't around a lot because of the Falkland War

I just noticed. Its one thing after another for this kid.

 

[JuveJay]

That's his surname.

Must be one of those escaped Nazis.

 

[lgorTudor]

decathlon and decathletes

not getting half the credit and attention they deserve

 

[Post Ironic]

decathlon and decathletes

not getting half the credit and attention they deserve

I prefer watching the Heptathletes.

 

[Mark]

Poor guy in the long jump.

 

[Mark]

He felt something pull in his leg before that. Tried but...

 

[Fab Fragment]

He felt something pull in his leg before that. Tried but...

That’s worse than Zaza’s penalty

 

[Post Ironic]

That’s worse than Zaza’s penalty

The comment “serious case of the twisties.”

@Bjerknes