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I would have used the headless singer to represent the opening ceremony.
Yes! Gojira’s performance was amazing!
According to who? Because i don’t recognize most of these, and i don’t see some that are very shared like bad breakdancing woman
Pole vault dick and break dancer are videos, not still images. Maybe that will be a different category
No they’re definitely highly shared still images
I haven’t seen break dancers 🤪
https://fedia.io/m/news@lemmy.world/t/1068741/Australian-breaker-Raygun-becomes-an-instant-viral-hit-at-2024
According to who?
Other people? I know that’s a foreign concept to people here. That other people exist, but it’s true. There’s over a million of us. Crazy right.
If by other people you mean something like the PR firm of the IOC, then sure. The word “popular” doesn’t just mean “something one person or entity prefers”
Ahh Jesus Christ your one of those cunts.
Yeah, my first thought was it was missing the dude whose dick cost him a medal.
Wait… What?
His big dong messed up his pole vault attempt and knocked the bar
There was major meat malfunction is what he’s saying
He should have kept his pole in a vault during competition.
Isnt that several years old? Or did it happen again?
It literally happens every Olympics and people lose their mind every time. Same with “funny shooting stance” memes.
You’d think they would start wearing a cup or something.
That’d give them a larger bulge = less margin = more dickbars. Less painful though!
That was a Japanese dude last time. The tip of his teepee messed up his jump.
This time is was a French guy, I believe. You could see his giant equipment bouncing around as it slammed the bar.
There it is!
Lmao that’s incredible how did I miss this
Should have practiced kynodesme, like the ancient Olympic athletes.
Apparently if you watch the replay it’s clear that he had already failed his attempt before his bulge hit.
He had. Hit his feet, knees dick and hips.
Pretty terrible vault really.
feet, knees, dick and hips, dick and hips
feet, knees, dick and hips, dick and hips
And eyes and ears and mouth and nose.
feet, knees, dick and hips, dick and hips
Damn you beat me to it. That’s all I know about this year’s Olympics
Or the mooning surfer.
They left out the cuban wrestler Mijan Lopez. After winning his fifth consecutive Olympic Gold Medal in his discipline, the Cuban giant retired from wrestling. His sneakers on the middle of the mat were certainly an Olympic image, considering the discipline and his achievements.
That was an extremely powerful moment. I’ll never forget it.
Great collection. Though I feel like the picture of Remco Evenepoel (cyclist) should have been the one where he stands legs and arms wide open with the Eiffel tower in the background.
Why do they give them individually boxed giant novelty cigarettes?
Oh right, France.
Is that a cheese wheel?
Yup, that Italian athlete is sponsored by Parmesan
Strategic hand placement
Much ado about nothing.
Sponsored by Big Parma?? I’ll see myself out…
dangit, there it is.
nice.
┻━┻ ヘ╰( •̀ε•́ ╰)
That’s great!
┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
ノ┬─┬ノ ︵ ( \o°o)\
If you would add a couple random additional fingers and scramble the text, the absurdity of the picture really looks like AI generated content
Two of my favorite things, but I wasn’t able to find more cheese pictures
cheeese wheels and sponsorship
Excellent! More Olympians should have such fun (and tasty) sponsors!
Nothing’s surprising anymore.
hahha what a perfect gif for that sentiment
For me, it was Gojira
who was that
The metal band who played during the opening ceremony
Can I please change with the Parmesan, even if she cuts me open afterwards.
Missing the dudes dick hitting the bar, Raygun and Gojira.
It hit all those things??
Knocked the raygun right out of my hand.
The mystified Chinese girl is one of the cutest pics ever. When in Rome…
Her expression is like “Is that what we’re supposed to do?”
Pretty sure they were in Paris dude 🙄
Not sure if the eye roll indicates sarcasm or real incredulity but the other girls were Italian. So I guess, when in Paris do as Romans do.
I’ve never wanted to be a round of cheese more XD
What’s the one bottom left corner? What’s up with the opposing team in their uniforms?
Some cultures allow women to cover their bodies. While others allowed them to show as much as they’d like.
require*
They don’t get to choose their uniforms, and I’m sure many of them would choose shorts like the men get if they did.
It’s not always that simple. For beach volley, I saw athletes commenting that shorts are worse because of the sand getting in the way. Men would chose something better in a different culture. There’s sexism I believe, but it’s not always what we would expect.
What country is in the red?
Some cultures allow women to cover their bodies. While others allowed them to show as much as they’d like. Oh they’re allowed to cover themselves? They’re forced to wear it.
A truly insane way of phrasing repression - I guess Jews in nazi Germany were allowed to wear a star of david? No, I don’t care how liberating some women say the enforced coverings are, when there isn’t a choice - it’s repression. Plain and simple. Try being a woman in saudi wearing normal clothing in public and see how permissive the regime is.
Ok but like, how is it any better to force them to wear skimpy bikinis they don’t want to wear? Is it not better for the regulating body to offer choice to everyone, rather than enforcing coverage or non-coverage that will inevitably upset someone?
I think you misread. The commenter said no choice is bad in general.
The commenter I replied to said, “when there isn’t a choice, it’s repression”. This goes the other way, too. When the volleyball teams didn’t have the choice to cover up because the regulating body enforced “less than 10cm coverage” - which is a fact, this is a thing they did until recently - it’s just as bad. No woman should be forced to wear more or less clothing than they want. My comment was specifically in reference to the change in rules by the governing body allowing teams to come to their own decisions regarding appropriate uniform. Will some teams enforce regulations that are also bad? Yes, but progress is progress. A smaller group of people being forced to follow shitty regulations is always better than a huge group of people being forced to follow shitty regulations. That individual teams do not allow choice in no way undermines the progress of the regulating body.
I’m not saying that all the women need to wear ‘skimpy bikinis’, I’m just making the point that the teams that are wearing the ‘sport hijab’ aren’t doing it because they have any kind of freedom, but because there is enormous societal pressure and political/legal/religious oppression, that extends beyond the games into their daily lives. Calling that ‘freedom’ is unreasonable, because the choice is either ‘wear these specific clothes (men-excluded) or face social outcast/death’
I completely agree that the frequent sexualisation of women’s sporting outfits is something which is still shitty and I’m not defending the objectification of talented athletes who want to be seen as skilled, rather than oggled for their body - but claiming that because the voluntary admission sports-team outfit is more revealing than necessary, doesn’t mean the athletes were forced into wearing it, and in the broader society, people in those same countries actually have the freedom to wear whatever they please, whether it’s ‘skimpy’ or not.
Sure, the women on the western team are perhaps pressured into the bikinis from decades of objectification and commercial sex-appeal underwriting womens sports, but in their daily lives outside, they aren’t beholden to a religious dress code, and consequently have much more ‘freedom’. The argument can also be made that even though the ‘skimpy’ outfits are objectifying, the athletes would have known what the prevailing dress code at the sport was before they signed up, and were ‘okay’ with it - at least to the extent that they still participated.
well nobody is forcing anybody to wear anything in the western countries - the huge difference is that outside of the sporting environment, women can choose to wear or not wear ‘skimpy bikinis’ - but in a sharia observant country, there is no such allowance made, so the sports team outfit actually is indicative of the dress standards forced upon women and expected by society.
I think you’re misunderstanding me. I’m talking about the change in the regulating body now allowing the teams, or at least the countries sponsoring them, to make their own choices. It used to be that the regulating body enforced skimpy bikinis, and now they don’t. That’s progress. Individual teams using that choice to be shitty in no way undermines that progress. Less people being forced to do or wear things against their will, better judgement, or desire is always better, even if there’s still progress to be made.
And this is tangential and I don’t really wish to get into an argument over it, but I have to point out that the logic of “well they knew what they were getting into so they by default consented to it” is really fucking terrible logic. Here, make the choice between being objectified so you can continue competing, or give up your dreams to maintain your dignity! What the fuck kind of choice is that? That’s coercion hiding behind choice. That’s one step below “have sex with me or you’re fired”. Fuck that noise.
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At first I thought they were scuba divers.
Same. I was wondering why there were scuba divers at an Olympics beach volleyball game
It’s beach volleyball. In the 2020(2021) Tokyo games there was a lot of controversy because the men could wear loose-fittings shorts and shirts, but the women were required to wear bikinis with no more than 10cm of cloth along the side.
After a lot of backlash to the sexism of the uniform rules, they relaxed them this year. Some chose to still wear skimpy stuff, but it was noonger a requirement.
So was the opposing team wearing those as a form of protesting or what? I’m confused.
The Egyptian team is covered head to toe for religous reasons. The rule change allowed them to compete.
Muslim women must be covered head to toe at all times. This their sport attire.
Oh makes sense.
WTF, what was the justification for that rule before they changed it?
It’s the Olympics. They don’t need to justify things. Their entire purpose is to make money by selling ads. This is obviously to get more viewership by requiring the women to be almost naked.
The idea was that nobody would watch women play without them being sexy for the cameras.
It was disgusting.
Needs more Australian break dancing
What’s happening in the first picture on the fourth row?
It’s from the badminton. The Chinese player was in the semi-final against Carolina Marin of Spain. Marin had won the first game and was leading in the second before having to retire injured.
So He Bingjiao held up a pin with the Spanish flag on it as a mark of respect for Marin, who should really have been in her place on the podium.
Always warms my heart to see the amount of respect these athletes have for their competitors. Sometimes people are awesome!
Well, it’s all part of the Olympic spirit and what it’s all supposed to be about.
Competing at a high level but with graciousness and respect for each other.
🥹
I love that! I love the international sportsmanship and comraderie that can pop up here. It just goes to show we’re all just people.
Gojira and the beheaded Marie Antoinette needs to be included. The Korean sharpshooter too. Also, what is the Chinese athlete holding on the leftmost, second-to-the-last row?
A tiny badge with a spanish flag.
Her Spanish semi-final opponent in badminton injured herself during their match and had to withdraw. source e.g. here
What a cool thing for her to do. Mad respect.
I think it’s spelled “madd rezpexx”
