There is a girl (Ava Stewart) from my hometown (Lebanon, TN) representing Canada in gymnastics this year.

Nope. who cares.

I hate how commercial they are now and how the IOC seems pretty shady but I do love the stories of each individual competing.

Bud Greenspan captured the spirit of the Olympics better than anyone with his series of documentaries. Highly recommend them if you’re into this stuff.

Also is there an Olympic pinball? Maybe an old EM? I can’t think of one…

Yes, there is actually. Gottlieb The Games
https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/games

Pretty fun too, I might add. I'm sure there are others.

Why?

Simone Biles WTH?

My buddy is coaching some divers for the "Synchronized Diving" event so I'll be looking forward to that.

3M Syncro Dive & Hixon is his diver; Strangely each diver has their own coach.
He'll be the coach w/ the tattoo pumping his arms. I've seen some of the dives but not spoiling anything ,( for myself) till it's on prime Time tonighty

Sounds like she up and quit.

She did and will regret it the rest of her life i feel. To train your ass off and quit on the grandest stage is not going to sit well with her mentally if shes saying the pressure got to her mentally and made it unsafe to her to compete wait till shes alittle older and thinks back on this. I do feel for her and whats happen to her in the past and she is still the GOAT. Wife and I watched her in comparision to who i thought was one of the best ever, Shawn Johnson and Simone is alot better when shes on.

Olympics are great, NBC’s coverage has been horrible.

How so? I honestly haven’t had the time to watch so just curious mostly.

Silver Medal!!

I’ve enjoyed it all. Nbc has had all
The swimming finals live. That has been exciting for me.
Bobby finke was amazing race tonight

Speaking of the prime time coverage last night: Just one example using the women’s gymnastics coverage of the team championships. First, they only show the Americans against the Russians. No coverage of the other teams esp the medal contenders. Then they never show any of the routines of the gymnasts of other teams that won their specific routine (floor, vault, balance beam). They didn’t show the scores of the highest women who will compete against each other in the individual championships. Tonight they show one routine then go to a commercial, show another one or two routines, commercial, etc.. I realize they have to pay the bills but when you cut up the coverage like they are doing, you wind up losing interest.
There are so many other interesting sports going on, they don’t show any highlights of the days events except for a very few. It feels very disjointed. I guess I’m comparing to years past and everyone’s a critic. Hopefully they cover track and field a lot better.

I enjoy it as well. And yes, they have handled swimming better than any of the other sports. I just feel they could have and have done a much better job in the past.

Congratulations The Law. Hixon and Capobianco were excellent.

Alright I watched some tonight mostly had it on in the background but did pay attention for a good 45 minutes or so and have to agree. I felt like they had their focus away from what should have been viewed. I mean since I’m in the US I get they want to focus on those teams but let’s see the champs too!

World records were set and didn’t even see their reaction.

Good to see BMX racing at the Olympics!

Alise Willoughby USA will easily win the Women’s Gold. She’s in a class all by herself.

...as for the Men,
Connor Fields USA is the defending Gold medalist and is the betting favorite. He will be pushed by Joris Daudet FRA, the current USABMX points leader, just ahead of Fields (1995 to 1911).
The NED team of Niek Kimmann and Twan van Gendt will both be pushing hard for a podium finish.
Corbin Sharrah USA will also be in the hunt for a medal.

The Olympics seemed more special in the 70s and 80s. I’m not sure why.
Are today’s Olympic athletes still amateurs? I know that basketball allows NBA players to participate which I don’t believe is a good thing.

Because there was 1/100th the media choices you have now. Try to tell people when I was a kid in the 80s if you stayed up late enough tv channels turned themselves off; look at me like I'm crazy.
Also, this is still Covid life and not a good judge of Olympics but that's just my opinion.

I can see arguments both ways. The problem is, what the heck is a "Professional Pole Vaulter?"
Makes sense basketball men could be college only and you might get a Miracle on Ice and that's great; but then you have have 200 guys sitting around that are better than the players in the Olympics and isn't the point to have the best sportspeople?

https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/olympic-hockey

At the peak of covid when the news was broadcasted from some of the peoples homes, a sportscaster did his segment from his basement and had one of these in the background

I almost had a chance to buy GTB Olympics it’s a wedgehead. I think there were two different variants with a certain country being swapped out.

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Thats because they were every 4 years then with winter and summer combined until the early 90s.

I wish the participants would leave all the protest/political crap at the door and just concentrate on the games. Really takes any little interest out of it for me.

I never knew The Gold medal was this low in actual gold.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/31/sport/olympic-medals-value-explainer-scli-intl/index.html

I like watching the less popular events: table tennis, badminton, javelin, high jump, shot-put, pole vaulting, curling, etc. Watching table tennis now.

The 100 meter race is a display of raw power.

Yikes so don’t bite into them anymore!

Not that I’ll ever have to worry about that.

man I love the olympics

He looked good in the relay as well
The Usa relay had some really poor exchanges with the baton...hate to see that for any team

Warner in decath was another impressive performance.
They said his long jump portion would have medaled in the individual event

I flew a guy from the men's team into and out of a small reserve in Northern Ontario 3 years ago. Super friendly, excited to show the kids some of his tricks. Too bad the team didn't get too far. I was rooting for them.

It was so amazing, really felt like a changing of the guard as Sinclair hands the team over to the new generation.