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Staff in the luxury IOC hotel have gone on strike in Paris one day before Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Honest to God, bless the French for being exactly as French as I'd hoped.
Still waiting for the tractor protest blocking the cycling competition.
It's like NBC hears the nonstop criticism every Olympics about how they won't shut up and just doubles down on it every time. Hey, let's put this giant moron on the broadcast that won't keep her mouth shut during musical performances and makes a crack about never hearing about some of the countries when Eswatini comes in.
Oh, it's f*cking Kelly Clarkson. Jesus Christ.
It is a least better than when they effed up Simone Biles's adoption story.
hey, this just dawned on me and i'm gonna put this out here cuz it might save a career...
there's a song jay-z and kanye did back when they were cool that someone will think will be PERFECT to play during the paris olympics at some point and i'm telling DON'T DO IT.
"hey, we need to go into commercial during team usa basketball. you know what's got a dope beat?"
STOP THEM RIGHT THERE.
Comparing the opening ceremonies:
London 2012: we have the NHS, James Bond, and a monarchy
Paris 2024: well, we have people who F*CK
I also love the French meeting the UK's "We have a Monarchy!" with "Yeah, we had one of those."
Female African athletes are just let down so much by the corrupt shitheads who run their sports.
PARIS (AP) — The Nigeria women’s basketball team wasn’t allowed to board the delegation’s boat for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, said a person familiar with the situation.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on Friday condition of anonymity because the Nigeria delegation has not publicly commented.
Once the team made it to the area where it was supposed to board the boat for the ceremony, the group was denied entry by a Nigerian official who told the players and coaches there were too many people on board. The team then made its way to the athletes village after being turned away. The rest of the Nigerian delegation shared a boat with Niger and Norway.
Messages were left seeking comment from a Nigeria press officer.
The team had been sent logistics for the event before the group made the 2-hour, 28-minute, 138-mile (222 km) trip as part of a bus caravan of several teams from Lille, where the preliminary basketball rounds are being played. The buses had a police escort.
It's like NBC hears the nonstop criticism every Olympics about how they won't shut up and just doubles down on it every time. Hey, let's put this giant moron on the broadcast that won't keep her mouth shut during musical performances and makes a crack about never hearing about some of the countries when Eswatini comes in.
Oh, it's f*cking Kelly Clarkson. Jesus Christ.
She's just filling in for 99.9999999% of Americans. How many people here had heard of it? Swaziland, the previous name which I did know and could locate on a map, might be slightly better known.
And honestly, that's one of the things I like most about international sports competitions -- hearing about someplace new, looking it up, and learning something new.
Comparing the opening ceremonies:
London 2012: we have the NHS, James Bond, and a monarchy
Paris 2024: well, we have people who F*CK
I also love the French meeting the UK's "We have a Monarchy!" with "Yeah, we had one of those."
Is this going to be awkward when I watch it with my pre-teen kids later this evening?
Matters how awkward you find the metal band Gojira.
Upside: You get to explain why the lady is holding her own severed head while the metal band plays!
She's just filling in for 99.9999999% of Americans. How many people here had heard of it? Swaziland, the previous name which I did know and could locate on a map, might be slightly better known.
Those people aren't commentating on TV. The commentators should be providing information about these countries for the people watching that may not have heard of them. Not just say "OMG countries are hard."
You’re gonna have to find people who aren’t dumb-f*cks from America if you want that kind of commentary.
The only awkward part was Kelly Clarkson going WOW BLAH BLAH BLAH over it.
This is the first time I’ve actually ever watched the opening ceremonies (my daughter wanted to watch — I’d just as soon skip it) and none of this was as offensive as I was led to believe it would be. Tori I does a good job MCing a big parade and Clarkson and Manning were almost completely silent.
I feel like a band with that name would have fit in better during the Tokyo Olympics.
They also flew the flag upside down:
Olympic Flag Accidentally Flown Upside Down at Opening Ceremony
I was like WTF is that Peyton Manning? There's no football in the Olympics.
But yeah of the extra non-sports-anchor people commenting he was by far the least offensive. 
learning that there was an entire, complete separate Opening Ceremony in Tahiti beyond that little bit they showed during the one in Paris & that it focused on Polynesian traditions including every athlete bringing soil from their home country... and it wasn't aired here at all?
Nothing more consistently exciting in sports than a 4x100FR Oly final.
Ah water polo, that thing I only watch once every 4 years. That was this morning.
USA basketball looked solid today though. Focused.
The difference between the USWNT I saw at the World Cup and the one I saw today...
...goodness gracious. Emma Hayes, I love you.
Meanwhile, this madness was happening between Australia and Zambia women's soccer teams.
Bravo to NBC for just giving away the result in the video title.
Obviously, the NYT can't show the races, but their idea to get around it on Twitter is genuinely kinda hilarious.
That is funny.
What's not funny is how my rooting interest in that race missed out on a medal by .01.
I think we've found the photo of the Olympics already:
Pidcock coming back from a puncture to win the mountain bike race the highlight of the Olympics so far, gets bonus points for annoying the French fans as well.
So NBC put an NFL RedZone-sque (including Scott Hanson) feed on Peacock called GoldZone. It... well, let's put it this way; you blink during a basketball game and suddenly it's judo. At least with RedZone it's bouncing around the same sport.
I have to put up with Scott Hanson enough during the football season. I'm not going to voluntarily watch more of him.
Does the Olympics have a Witching Hour?
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