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3 hours ago, Sir Rols said:

You’d also hope it will be sorted asap. Be thankful it happened now and not on the day of the opening.

For sure! What a unfortunate timing that happened now, but yeah, it could be worse.

 

3 hours ago, Cyriln said:

An Augmented Reality section has been added th the Olympics/Paris 2024 app. If you think all the secrets of the opening ceremony are hidden into the posters, you have the possibility to dive into the night version of the posters (by loooking at the daylight poster through your phone). The night poster is animated: fireworks, flying planes...

There are also other experiences, like having a Phryge with a moustache doing crêpes, sitting on your head (because why not).

I actually posted some photos of this section earlier, referring to them as “instagram filters ” because of its emphasis on photo experiences.

14 hours ago, Guilga said:

Now, some highlights of the filters;

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A interesting one that I didn't mentioned that day, is the section about Paris 1924, making your camera be your eyes while you explore a stadium full of images of the time. And also two of the other experiences envolve making your head turn into a runner or a b-boy/b-girl. Emphasis in your head.

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4 hours ago, Sir Rols said:

You’d also hope it will be sorted asap. Be thankful it happened now and not on the day of the opening.

And if it had, the russkies would've been on everybody's minds immediately as the culprit. lol

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1 hour ago, Bear said:

The accreditation centre has resumed full operations and all impacted services are back to normal

https://press.paris2024.org/bac-a-sable-wiz/news/paris-2024-statement-on-the-global-technical-issues-affecting-microsoft-software-213e-7578a-2.html

Good news. I already saw in Instagram some athletes who got their accreditation today. 

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Good that they've managed to recover so quickly from the mega-oops. I hope for every European viewers' sake that Discovery Plus are unaffected or at least able to get stable in time :unsure:

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I’m starting to find these village decorations a bit same-ish, to be honest. I suspect they’ve been provided by Paris 2024. I hope the teams eventually start to personalise them more.

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10 hours ago, Sir Rols said:

This is good… 17 minutes of the Olympics in 1924 (Chamonix and Paris)!

 

Great pick.  Loved the sepia tone and found the soundtrack quite hypnotique et beguiling at the same time! Although, of course, the events in Chamonix were only retroactively classified as the First Winter Olympic Games months later when the IOC decided to go ahead and "own" and parcel out a second set of competitions.  
Tennis was in Nice?  Plus didn't know they had flying aerial stunts as an "event"?  Still have to counter-check that one.  

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9 hours ago, Sir Rols said:

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I’m starting to find these village decorations a bit same-ish, to be honest. I suspect they’ve been provided by Paris 2024. I hope the teams eventually start to personalise them more.

For Team USA, I think it was the American delegation that took care of it. They have exactly the same decoration for their celebration venue at the Palais Brognart.

For the rest of the delegations yes, there is a chance that it was Paris 2024 which took care of it (except perhaps a few other large delegations?)

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1 hour ago, sebastien1214 said:

For Team USA, I think it was the American delegation that took care of it. They have exactly the same decoration for their celebration venue at the Palais Brognart.

For the rest of the delegations yes, there is a chance that it was Paris 2024 which took care of it (except perhaps a few other large delegations?)

I know Team Australia also came in the week before to apply the decorations themselves as well. But the look and way it’s being applied is very uniform ans similar across teams (apart, of course, for the colours). Just makes me wonder of the Paris OCOG supplied all of it, or at least issued guidelines as to what sort of decorations were allowed. In past years it has been more ad-hoc and individual.

For example, Australian usually drapes its giant Boxing Kangaroo banner over its building, but no sign of that this year. Indeed haven’t seen the Boxing Roo at all, despite it being the AOC’s official mascot and being a mainstay at past games.

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I guess Biden might have the time to come to Paris now. Though, if the ceremony is after 8pm, he might still want to skip it.

Kamala’s schedule likely just got busier. Don’t think we’ll be seeing her.

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At least 144 LGBTQ athletes to compete in Paris Olympics

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/nbc-out-proud/lgbtq-athletes-paris-olympics-rcna162518

On 7/18/2024 at 8:33 PM, Sir Rols said:

Are you already scouting for the “Hot Bods” thread? :ph34r:

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Brazilian gymnast Arthur Nory Mariano is one of at least 18 out male Olympians competing in the Paris Olympics.

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Germany's Timo Cavelius will be first out gay man to compete in Olympic judo, according to Outsports.

These two should start off the traditional "hot bods" (of Paris 2024) thread, along with Tony's twin! ^_^ 

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22 minutes ago, FYI said:

At least 144 LGBTQ athletes to compete in Paris Olympics

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/nbc-out-proud/lgbtq-athletes-paris-olympics-rcna162518

That’s great. It wasn’t that long ago since ANY Olympic athlete coming out was a huge deal. Still, there’s probably ten times that who are still closeted.

I wonder if some knuckle dragger will attempt another Grindr sting at the games this time.

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A documentary has just been aired on France 2 about Paris Olympics bids (very quickly on 1992 and 2008, longer on 2012 but mainly on 2024). I guess everybody here knows how it went down but it's interesting to discover insiders' points of view (mainly from Paris 2024, but Casey Wasserman and Gene Sykes are also interviewed for LA, and Christophe Dubi and Thomas Bach for the IOC) seven years later.

Here's the link https://www.france.tv/documentaires/documentaires-sport/6256697-paris-l-histoire-secrete-de-la-victoire.html but I'm wondering if it could be published globally, with an English version: it is copyrighted IOC and Bach doesn't speak French in the film...

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