• edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    801·
    3 months ago

    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?

    • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      189·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • Yondoza@sh.itjust.works
        92·
        3 months ago

        Always warms my heart to see the amount of respect these athletes have for their competitors. Sometimes people are awesome!

        • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
          361·
          3 months ago

          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.

      • WanderingVentra@lemm.ee
        16·
        3 months ago

        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.

  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
    68·
    3 months ago

    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.

      • theherk@lemmy.world
        10·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • suction@lemmy.world
          33·
          3 months ago

          They’re reacting to something else off camera. We’ve been though this, even on this site, a few times now

          • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 months ago

            Any information on what they are reacting to? Its actually the question that i am asking. When i asked it 2 days ago it did not seem like this had been answered.

            Sorry to waste your allocated words for the day on this though.

            • suction@lemmy.world
              21·
              3 months ago

              I don’t know. But I can imagine a lot of reaction-worthy things happening in a stadium at the Olympics. Or maybe they’re just American then all bets are off. You guys start screaming when a new marvel movie is announced.

    • Krzd@lemmy.world
      425·
      3 months ago

      They’re a lesbian couple from China where LGBTQ people aren’t exactly accepted or welcomed by society.

      EDIT: Done some research and I couldn’t find them confirming being romantically involved, however there’s a different image where Chang (the one being carried) makes a heart shape with her arm, so who knows really ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

      • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
        28·
        3 months ago

        Its interesting. After some looking around and linked posts, this is not entirely true or at least confirmed.

        Chen picked up Chang in a bridal carry for a photo after they receiving their gold medals, which led many netizens to joke that Chang and Chen are in a romantic relationship

        Is the ‘bridal carry’ what the american diver next to them is surprised at? Seems like an overreaction to me if its only that

        • flicker@lemmy.world
          121·
          3 months ago

          That’s a totally believable action if you just saw someone doing something you perceived as romantic, and you didn’t know they were together, and also you’re a big fan of them so you like that they’re together.

          That’s exactly the face I’d make I’d I realized two people I liked were a happy couple.

          • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
            8·
            3 months ago

            I am just surprised that lifting someone, especially for a celebration pose, means that they are romantically involved

            • flicker@lemmy.world
              3·
              3 months ago

              It’s the type of lift. Culturally, in the US, that’s called the bridal carry because that’s how a groom will carry a bride into their home after marriage.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        81·
        3 months ago

        Thanks, I didn’t even notice same gender, and just assumed it was a breach of courtesy or something to not just stand there

  • you_are_dust@lemm.ee
    402·
    3 months ago

    I don’t know what is actually going on, but I’m interested in the Olympic level giant wedge of cheese hugging competition.

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
    252·
    3 months ago

    I have heard nothing about the Olympics this year aside from the shooting competition. It’s very weird.

      • kagrocery@midwest.socialEnglish
        36·
        3 months ago

        No, they got the memo. At least in the US, the Peacock app had every single event broken out into live events, replays and highlights. Or you could watch the gold medal stream and just mainline finals. They did a pretty good job, IMO.

        • rothaine@lemm.ee
          25·
          3 months ago

          I haven’t watched the Olympics in a long time but I thought the experience was kinda shit, especially compared to ye olden days of it being on every channel. My experience was basically:

          My wife: What’s the difference between “Women’s all around final” and “women’s all around final (TV)”?

          Me: googling I think we want the “TV” one?

          30 second ad

          20 seconds of a commentator talking over a view of Paris

          2 minutes of ads

          15 minutes of the camera just looking at an empty apparatus while there’s clearly other stuff going on in the background

          2 minutes ads

          30 seconds commentators discussing the event

          2 minutes ads

          Ok they actually fucking start, finally

          Someone does something, 2 second MICRO AD??? This is a thing now apparently? Randomly throughout there’s these insanely short ads that are super jarring

          Zoom in on Simone Biles face

          Watch someone do a warmup on vault

          Simone itches her nose

          We can clearly hear other competitors doing things in the background, but Simone is looking to the right, so let’s focus on that

          2 minutes ads

          Watch a competitor do uneven bars, neat

          Back to Simone, she’s talking to Suni now, we can’t hear it, but it must be important

          Literally can see people doing flips and shit in the background, but let’s watch Simone as she sits in this chair

          2 minutes ads

          BREAKING NEWS: Simone blinks

          “What did that other girl get for a score? Did they show it?”

          Attempt to rewind 30 seconds. Big mistake, 2 minutes ads

          Simone does a vault

          2 minutes ads

          …

          Like I love Simone Biles, I do. Obviously I want to see all of her events. But holy shit, I’m here to watch the Olympics, not the “Simone is waiting for her turn” show. Also it was like 90% ads, they didn’t even show some of the highest scoring performances (since they only showed like 3 other people besides Simone), and half the time didn’t even show the scores they received. It was just…pretty bleh.

          • Benjaben@lemmy.world
            10·
            3 months ago

            Completely agree, and I have watched a ton. The quantity of ads is outrageous, and the “ongoing coverage” streams make you watch a pile of ads before you even find out what’s playing.

            The video was always stuttering and just shy of unwatchable on the “live” streams, the ads were out of hand, commentary audio was super inconsistent, even the camera work was pretty shit overall. Like, missing critical moments when that was the only thing going on.

            I thought NBC / Peacock did a pretty bad job.

        • jqubed@lemmy.world
          16·
          3 months ago

          My two complaints about Peacock were:

          1. Even taking the raw World feed there were often still segments cut out which I assume is where they ran ads. Watching replays with the “ad-free” plan there were no ads there, but the content was still gone.

          2. Even though the entirety of the events were produced in 4K/UHD, only HD content was available. I understand that they did this because none of their broadcast facilities run in UHD yet and I guess they don’t have their streaming apps supporting it yet, but it’s definitely time for that to be supported. Claiming they don’t need to go UHD because their affiliates aren’t using ATSC 3.0 yet is patently false; the signal is live in my market and dozens of others as well.

          That definitely needs to be fixed by Los Angeles, and really should be by Milano Cortina.

        • aasatru@kbin.earth
          8·
          3 months ago

          In Europe HBO covered it, I think you could even get a free trial during the Olympics if you didn’t have an account from before. My partner has an account so I didn’t check.

          It worked great, and it was nice to easily change the language of the commentary. Really couldn’t have asked for a better viewing experience, as I don’t want public broadcasters to support this corruption shit show.

          That said, it bothers me that it’s impossible to find clips online.

        • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
          3·
          3 months ago

          That’s what I heard from friends who were watching, they said it was a massive improvement over the last Games.

      • deranger@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        3 months ago

        lol the cookie accept prompt on that site:

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