The Paris 2024 Olympics were officially opened on Friday, July 26. Over the next 16 days, 10,714 athletes from over 206 National Olympic Committees participated in 329 events across 32 sports. 92 NOCs received at least one medal (93 if you include AIN), with 64 winning at least one gold medal. Albania, Cape Verde, Dominica, Saint Lucia, and the Refugee Olympic Team won their first medals. Hosts France won 16 golds, 26 silvers, and 22 bronzes for a total of 64 medals, almost doubling their total of 33 medals (10 golds, 12 silvers, and 11 bronzes) from Tokyo.
I saw quite a few people requesting a cooldown thread to soothe the pain of their post-Olympics Withdrawal/Depression, so here it is! I figured it would be a centralized place to discuss everyone’s favourite memories of the past two and a half weeks and share photos/videos. I made a list of some superlatives that we can talk about:
- Favourite overall memory
- Favourite event to watch
- Favourite events that you watched for the first time
- Favourite moment from an athlete/team from your country
- Favourite moment from an athlete/team not from your country
- Favourite moment from a French athlete/team
- Favourite upset or underdog story
- Favourite performance from an athlete you were already rooting for coming into the Games
- Favourite athlete(s) that you discovered through the Games
- Funniest moment
- Most wholesome/heartwarming moment
- Favourite venue
###Important Reminder Many of you will already know this, but for those who don’t, there will also be daily threads for the Paralympics, starting on August 28 and ending on September 8. Come join us then for 11 more exciting days of sport – the party in Paris isn’t quite over yet!
For first time viewers new to the Paralympics, the mods strongly encourage you to try watching wheelchair rugby (AKA murderball). It’s possibly the single best event to introduce yourself to the Games.
###Links to Previous Megathreads
Day -2 | Day -1 | Opening Ceremony Part One and Part Deux | Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four | Day Five | Day Six | Day Seven | Day Eight | Day Nine Part One and Part Two | Day Ten | Day Eleven | Day Twelve | Day Thirteen | Day Fourteen Part One and Part Two | Day Fifteen Part One and Part Two | Day Sixteen | Closing Ceremony Part One and Part Deux
Anyone know how long Peacock will have replays available on the app? I plan to take my time and watch events I missed but don’t want to log in one day and they are all pulled.
Normally at least until the Paralympics are over.
But when they are taken down you should be able to access the replays from the Olympics site as the NBC exclusivity period is over by that time.
Seems like everything except gymnastics and artistic swimming still has the world feed version up.
I’d assume it’s staying up until at least the Paralympics start.
They already took down the televised versions of the basketball games! I wanted to watch replays and now they only have the world feed versions up. The difference in announcing is palpable.
Eventually they’ll end up on the Olympics site and their official YouTube channel. Not the NBC televised versions but the world feed versions will be there (without ads and showing the full events including medal ceremonies).
Good to hear!