Olympics fans, share your thrills!
Today’s thrill for me: the upset win by Canadian Eleanor Harvey in fencing. It was a hard fought match with brilliant work on both sides.
What are some of the events and athletes you’re watching?
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(Celine Dion’s performance at the opening ceremony was a heart-mover too 
Loved it!)
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Loving the surfing! Such a stunning place too!! Excited for gymnastics and break dancing.
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Me too. I wouldn’t mind being in Tahiti for this 
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Super pumped for this too. Breaking (break dancing) is an exciting new event on the program.
I wonder if the attendees of DJ Kool Herc’s party in 1973 would have seen the future of breaking in the Olympics?
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That’s gonna go down well 
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I wonder if the kids in my 1980s jr high that drug around the cardboard and boomboxes would ever have dreamed it, either! Pretty fantastic 
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I’m always excited for gymnastics and track & field!l and swimming, all the swimming stuff
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Our hometown hero, Elle Purrier St Pierre, a farm kid from Northern Vermont is coming back for a second try at the 1500 meters. Heats are Tuesday. Go Elle, go fast!
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I’m excited for swimming too. I love the sport: it’s so intense and focused - one lane, one swimmer, one direction, no distractions - and that focus makes it a thrilling sport to watch. (Especially that closing lap when it gets really intense!)
I’m excited for basketball too. Canada’s playing Olympic basketball for the first time since I was in school! 
We shall see. They need to play a little more intensely than they did today if they want to get to the podium 
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Australia is killing it! Talk about thrilling contest
https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-australia-swimming-bf6207ee40b78db41347293f887294bf
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Ah the Olympics is just feel good factor all the way.
Ps - back in the day I did discus, shot and 100m sprint relay for my school. I was South Liverpool district champion at shot and discus a number of times, representing Liverpool in the latter.
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Excited about the skateboarding events. Skateboarding is such a physically demanding sport and takes years of practice. Been trying to find clips on YouTube but don’t see much. Not sure if the skateboarding events have started yet. Not sure where to watch it . Hope Nyjah Huston wins the street event. He is such a talented street and park skateboarder. Has been winning competitions for years and putting out amazing street parts for the sponsors he has. He gets hated on by a lot of people for riding for companies like Nike or maybe because he is so good but he has put in the work and truly loves the sport. I don’t think it’s selling out. I think he worked hard and is a athlete. It’s cool people are finally excepting that skateboards are athletes. I see small clips on YouTube. But want to somehow watch the full events.
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I didn’t get a chance to watch skateboarding at the 2020 Games - this will be great to see!
There’s an official Olympics Skateboarding channel on YouTube: it has replays from 2020; maybe they will also stream replays from this year?
https://m.youtube.com/@OlympicsSkateboard/videos
Failing that, it’s worth checking around online, there must be somewhere it can be streamed live.
The Olympics website has an overview of the sport, including videos and an explanation of the rules:
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That explains your passion for running today I suppose
Any pics of you in your track days?
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No there’s no pics of me in my past athletic life. I left school in 1982. We didn’t even have computers in school back then and taking photos of everything wasn’t the every day norm it is today! 
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I’m watching them now!! I didn’t even know skateboarding was an olympic event. I’m watching it on peacock
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I love it. I was always rubbish at skateboarding but love to watch it.
Cycling is a funny one for me. I love watching it but I don’t even like riding a bike at all!!
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