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germany. ETA: if germany has withdrawn, istanbul i guess or seoul.

we know what's coming but cannot bear the thought of doha after seeing paris in all its splendor this week. another post on here called doha a truly empty, lifeless city with modern architecture but no culture to speak of. who knows. maybe we'll all get lucky and be dead by 2036.

call me a guilliame or misterSG1 or whatever, but i find this incredibly disrespectful. the olympics are not all about YOU and pushing your own AGENDA on the rest of us. she knew she'd go viral and get to write it up for a journal and get better terms for her next book deal. she should be DQ'd and the federation should sanction her and australia. i'm furious and am considering taking legal action for emotional distress.

sending your best i see @Sir Rols

EVERYBODY STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND WATCH THIS. i'm dying. i can't breathe. this is the funniest thing i've ever seen.

yeah yeah that's what i say before someone meets my reserve price on ebay. qatar just needs to up their offer.

don't feel bad. at the end of the day, they're still british and that's punishment enough.

they really need to cancel this one and we'll never speak of it again. i watched some but had to stop when i started praying for the sweet release of death to put me out of my misery.

i support getting naked on the track

well i am shocked by today's race.

i feel like an idiot because i do not understand this at all. you can be sponsored by a sportswear brand but are not supposed to wear their clothes? but now some people are wearing those clothes? uh okay? i guess that's kind of interesting if you have literally nothing else at all to care about.

i mean, i'm in favor of getting rid of them but i think most people would say they need to wear clothes, and i'm not sure if you've noticed but clothes often do contain manufacturer logos.

do i get a least favorite venue?

probably cheating or too cliche to count, but i'll say des rues de paris. if not, versailles probably edges it out over beach volleyball at the eiffel tower. grand palais is great but a bit busy in execution, if i can be as pedantic as a gymnastics judge.

tap in, who's jumping on the bed for us??

our new silver medalist in steeplechase. this is one mormon i'd love to soak me.

hmm hard to tell from this angle but let's take a look anyway:

what i take from this is two current superpowers, two former superpowers and....australia. that's pretty amazing. it really seems like you can take any type A personality athlete with the right build and pour enough money into them to make them elite caliber. (country participation caps help too). china having 1.3 billion people doesn't prevent them from getting bodied by NZ in rowing and cycling or by australia in the pool.

he looks like such a dirtbag. i just know he'd treat me like trash

i would accept that argument; simone lost on beam after all. but being the most sensational athlete is a career-wide accomplishment and she is older than 22.

another overly placating response. yes, yes we all have our home country favorites, though i've never even been to norway and i have no problem saying bjørndalen is the most sensational athlete i've ever 'seen' (on TV) at the winter olympics, even over apollo ono or whoever i might be expected to say as an american. people are more objective when it comes to this kind of thing than you give them credit for.

i guess, though this is kind of a weak and unimaginative response. i think we can safely say a 4-time gold medalist in gymnastics is a superior athlete to 4-time gold medalists in rowing or the third guy in the four-man bobsled. "each and every one of us is special in our own way" has its limits.

how can duplantis be the most sensational athlete of our time at an olympics where simone biles is competing

simone biles is competing at this olympics....

mein ubermensch ist wunderbar, ja.