2024 Paris Paralympics

[King Ellis]

All this talk about the Canadian women's football team sending drones to spy on their opponents training session, they don't know they're born. Back in my day Marcelo Bielsa had to send his interns to look through a gap in Derby County's fence with their own eyes.

[lanky316]

Upset in the womens handball (as I understand it, I'm sport starved so I'll take it) South Korea beating Germany, despite a late sending off for a cynical trip. The Korean keeper made some great saves which was just about the edge in the end.

[Lineker]

Can't be a cupset if they're competing for a medal, I suppose. 

[Szumi]

This is disgusting. I cannot wrap my head around how he's allowed to still be a coach! Just insane.

 

 

[Berober]

Ireland fucked it in the rugby 7s

[Chris2K]

Australian hockey player has finger amputated so he doesn't miss the Olympics.

This feels like taking things a bit too far.

[Colly]

I'm not sure I'd do it, but in his position knowing that it might not be functional anyway? Would like to know detail on which finger and whether it's his dominant hand, but no Olympics or a missing potentially useless finger? Not done Dan Burn any harm...

[gunnar hendershow]

There was a coordinated attack on the French railways, which could disrupt up to 800,000 riders to and from Paris over the long weekend.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cxe24vg59lzt

[stokeriño]

Maintaining security for lineside assets like cables is nigh impossible over the thousands of miles railway networks cover. In a way I'm surprised this sort of thing hasn't been done more often.

[Your Mom]

The hell is Peyton Manning doing at the opening ceremonies?  

[Bobfoc]

3 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

The hell is Peyton Manning doing at the opening ceremonies?  

It's probably because the next Olympics are in the USA, so they do some handover thingies. Snoop Dogg is there as well.

[gunnar hendershow]

6 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

The hell is Peyton Manning doing at the opening ceremonies?  

Drinking red wine and eating baguettes. Rough life.

[lanky316]

Splitting various skits to take place during the long winded parade is a change I can get behind.

I can't forgive however the presence of Andrew Bloody Lloyd Bloody Webber getting royalties for the brief Phantom of the Opera homage.

[Your Mom]

Best opening ceremony ever!  

[gunnar hendershow]

Mike Tirico sounds like a dad who dragged his kids to Paris and won't shut up about all the little factoids he's proud about knowing.

[FLiam]

This is very weird.

[lanky316]

There's Gojira, enjoy your breadcrumbs fans of alternative music.

[gunnar hendershow]

Lol it started raining as soon as the metal band started.

[GoGo Yubari]

32 minutes ago, Bobfoc said:

Snoop Dogg is there as well.

oh, Snoop Dogg is part of the American broadcast team because we're just a deeply silly country.

I saw that can-can number and maybe "deeply silly" is just the vibe this year, though, and NBC is matching it.

[GoGo Yubari]

This has been a really disorienting opening ceremony, especially the way NBC are covering it. When I tuned in it was a couple ladies whose names I didn't catch covering the parade of nations and they didn't seem to know nearly anything about anything beyond the names of some of the performers (not Gojira, though) so they were just going "oh that's cool!"

Now they have switched over to a guy whose name I didn't catch who does in fact have factoids for every single country he's covering... and Peyton Manning, who has said maybe one thing.