Olympics Paris 2024

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Surrey Phil
Surrey Phil
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I wonder what the ancient Greeks would have made of walking, dancing schoolgirls and smiling in a swimming pool as Olympic sports.
Diogenes
Diogenes
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The sailing is a crazy sport to watch, everyone heading out is slightly different directions to ultimately reach the same destination. In a way it’s a bit like orienteering.
Little Nemo
Little Nemo
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Don't underestimate synchronised swimming, it's ridiculous hard to do!
EvilPixie
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Not convinced about “breaking” being a sport!

Race walking is weird but you can’t argue that they are trained athletes
Ocelot Spleens
Ocelot Spleens
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2:03pm, 1 Aug 2024
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They need to bin Golf, and bring back Pankration.

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Cheg
Cheg
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Come on this is a safe space Ocelot. What bad golf experience have you buried down deep inside?
Surrey Phil
Surrey Phil
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Pankration was more than brutal from what I understood from learning classics at school.

Synchronised swimming, breaking and gymnastics are understandably hard. They are arts and not sports.

The Olympic motto is "Citius, Altius, Fortius – Communiter” which translates as “Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together.” Dancier, smilier, more points-ier are not included.
Ocelot Spleens
Ocelot Spleens
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I was mooching about in the ancient games thing. I'd never heard of pankration, I also didn't know about games in different places, like Rhodes, Nemea.

Golf is just rubbish. I played it for a while, no idea why I did, awful places Golf clubs. The trousers were the trousers are terrible too.
NordRunner
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Surrey Phil wrote:I wonder what the ancient Greeks would have made of walking, dancing schoolgirls and smiling in a swimming pool as Olympic sports.
More than getting a medal for town planning like there used to be !
chunkywizard
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2:30pm, 1 Aug 2024
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Surrey Phil wrote:Pankration was more than brutal from what I understood from learning classics at school. Synchronised swimming, breaking and gymnastics are understandably hard. They are arts and not sports. The Olympic motto is "Citius, Altius, Fortius – Communiter” which translates as “Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together.” Dancier, smilier, more points-ier are not included.


by those metrics Dressage should be axed obvs, but what about archery and shooting? I really like watching them and they are very skilful but no in the spirit of the motto?

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Couldn't find a thread so thought I would start one.

Who else is off to watch or who is watching at home?

We're doing Lille and Paris and a mix of sports. Currently trying to find travel insurance that includes ticket cancellation as some of the trains in the UK might be difficult and we have some internal French trains to do as well.

Also need to work out the new Paris metro ticket/app combo (Navigo I think).

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