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Nice shot there having the flame for the anniversary!!!

For now, he still is and i hope he remains like that forever.

The lines remind me of Rio 2016, in a good way. Nice combo of lines with oil paint.

Welp, my hope is that the loonies of the us fail to mingle with the loonies of mine...

At least, it's better late than never. (Also the fact that there is a second wave; dear lord, usa... Hope my country doesn't get the same fate.)

inb4 Saudi Arabia actually happens.

If he does that, he will lose his IOC membership...

Congrats on the Olympic Cup, France!

Ah, celle magnifique est jeux. Merci beaucoup. Valeu, Paris!

Or if you're one lucky person...

Now the sport is really done. The Paras were an more golden experience. While you were sleeeping, an Brazilian got a medal. While you were writing at the board in a Art Class, another one, gold. Lunch? Medal. Cozy in home? Even more medals. In the psychologist? Two golds in 10 minutes. Scrolling bluesky after twitter got shot down because Musk is a prick? Our equestrian hopes were dashed by a bee. This was indeed the best games ever for us, in a stark contrast for the Olympics: where those lacked in golds, our Paralympic athletes gave us in abundance, and i thank them for that. Glad that we sacrificed that X so the media gods (Globo) let us see the IPC streams legally as well at least; their coverage is locked in a pay-tv channel for the Paras but it has indeed good quality, it was just that having no free option was sacrilegious. That could be solved if they didn't think their free-tv channel schedule as holy and passed something more than the Blind Football semifinal and some bulletins. At least it was something, but given that is by far the biggest one in Brazil to the point i feel some people forget that remote controllers exist... yeah. But, now, i have to congratulate you Paris. You did it all your way, and about you i can only feel sad that the IPC still needs to have adverts at the field of play. From the start of this adventure, at the lighting of the olympic flame in Olympia to the end of the Paraympics of Stoke Mandeville, thank you. 10/10, please keep making the games wide open!

The cycle of life. Hopefully the rain isn't as bad as that day.

May you do! A tip that i can give, we have our national lottery as an big sponsor of the movement, a percentage of the money raised, if i recall, it's given to the Brazillian Paralympic Commitee. Also, if you doesn't have one already, an athlete "scholarship" program, this is giving them money to focus on the sport, with bonuses for competition results can really help the less fortunate sports at the program. If i recall, every single one of our medals come from athletes from the "Bolsa Atleta" program, if not the overwhelming most of them. Those two really help out our Paralympic movement, alongside having an actually well adjusted national commitee. The difference between our Olympic and Paralympic hauls can also be felt on the organization of both, with the sport federations included. But, good luck to you all too!

Well, it was Ça Ira, to bookend these 2024 games brightly. We had some setbacks, more notably at the team sports; Goalball and Blind Football all lost at the semis, the latter in a heart-wrecking penalty shootout, oh my god! AND IT WAS AGAINST ARGENTINA OF ALL PEOPLE! But, we made up for it by proving our might at Swimming and Athletics, even if some events didn't go as expected, most of it was memorable medals. We had that top 5 performance on our targets for quite a while, if i recall; finnaly getting it after a wild fortnight, especially with Italy, France, Ukraine and Netherlands getting close and overtaking us for a while was insane, Netherlands themselves winded up at forth actually. At the final days, or nemesis were the Italians and literally our best day ever at the Paras yesterday was necessary to cover some days without golds, even if they still got that 100m at the end of the day. Then, a miracle out of nowhere, the chinese miss her WR attempt, and our Taynara succeed hers final regular one to go to the powerlift and sinpe that gold, alongside the expected Rufino's gold at the Canoe, and we just needed a miss from the Italians at the women's KL3...and we got it, thanks to your country! Thanks a lot!! Medals every days do fell nice, isn't it?

You all really did well, a very good haul. I have special congratulations to your cyclists and swimmers, i feel there wasn't a day those didn't got a medal barring today.