There was another controversy involving the open-water swimming marathon, which was held in the Seine River. It is known to be heavily polluted. The President of France & the Mayor of Paris tried to give the illusion that it was safe to swim in the river by announcing that they were personally going to swim in it on June 23rd. When that happened, there was an announcement of a protest happening on the same day. Protestors were going to express their discontent toward the President & the Mayor in general, including the high spending on the bid & renovations for the Games, and the pollution in the river. They were planning to express their discontent by using the Seine River as a toilet while the President & the Mayor swim in it. The pre-Olympic swim was re-scheduled several times until it was finally cancelled. The open-water swimming marathon was held, and multiple swimmers had to be taken to the hospital after becoming ill.
@sharcrum
Ай бұрын
I did not laugh until the guy riding a horse lost his trousers!!!!!!😂
@bobbiscrittercave2348
Ай бұрын
Can't believe they left off the French pole vaulter...
@shaneb4612
Ай бұрын
The speed skater, that you said was a free ride to the line. Is Australia's first winter Olympics' gold medallist Steve Bradbury. He is from here in Brisbane. He owns an Ice-skating rink. He also owns a brewery called "Last man standing". His book or memoirs goes by the same name "Last man Standing". This was his 3rd & final Olympic Games.
@tomaskennedy
Ай бұрын
4:32 If memory serves me correctly, this guy had missed the cutoff point for registering in another sport like shot put or javelin or something, and they had a spot vacant on their sprint team. As the coach said in Invincible, "I’ve seen icebergs move faster!"
@steeljawX
Ай бұрын
Was it that? For some reason, I'm remembering it as their one representative runner was injured or had to pull out due to an illness or something and so that guy, who normally does one of the throwing track and field events, stepped up and just did it. I could be thinking of 2 different stories and mashing them together though.
@tomaskennedy
Ай бұрын
@@steeljawX I’m a little fuzzy on the details myself. All I remember is he was there to do some completely different sport, like one of thx field events, and switched to the 100m lineup for whatever reason.
@ArmyGrunt1986
Ай бұрын
9:24 The guy trying to extinguish the torch was during the Rio Olympics, and he wasn't the only one to try to extinguish that torch in Rio. There was a lot of controversies during that Olympics, to many to list here. But mainly having to do with the poorer citizens getting removed and their houses getting bulldozed to "Beautify" the city and the taxpayers money used to construct Olympic facilities that would never be used again. Ect...
@Wellch
17 күн бұрын
But not too many to list.
@Wellch
17 күн бұрын
No, I didnt watch it 5:47
@revgurley
Ай бұрын
I love the surprise stories. A hundred years ago, I was a competitive gymnast, so I'm always amazed at what the gymnasts do now versus when I was competing. There's no way I could vault like they're doing, even at my prime. But I love the story of the "Clark Kent/Superman" pommel horse specialist. Looks all mild-mannered, squinting, thick glasses on. Then he takes the glasses off, somehow finds the pommel horse, and knocks out an incredible routine! Then puts his glasses back on and sits down. I mean, wow. What a story! And Simone Biles, she's just the GOAT. I hope she finds happiness in training others or doing sports reporting, because at 27, I'm pretty sure she's accomplished everything she wanted.
@stonecoldku4161
Ай бұрын
8:41 The Russian player who had the ball bounce off his face is Sasha Kaun. He actually had a pretty incredible basketball career going all the way back to high school. His mother sent him to the USA to get an education when he was a teenager. He had never played organized competitive basketball before moving to the US. Standing at nearly 7 feet tall as a 16-year-old the high school basketball coach at the US school noticed him walking around school and asked him to join the high school team. Two years later Kaun accepted a basketball scholarship to the University of Kansas one of the premiere college basketball programs in the country. He played there for four years. His team and he won a NCAA National Championship in his final year at the University in 2008. He got drafted in the second round of the NBA draft by Cleveland. He however chose to move back to Russia and play professional basketball there for many years. He would also make the Russian Olympic team in 2012 and helped them win a bronze medal. A few years later he and his American wife who he had met in college decided to move back to the USA, where he wanted to see if he could still play in the NBA. He would have to tryout with Cleveland first because they had drafted him and earned a roster spot. Cleveland would win the 2016 NBA championship that year. Although he did not see much playing time his teammate Lebron James would give him a shoutout during the championship celebration in Cleveland. Thanking Sasha for making the team better with his effort. He retired from playing after that season and lives with his family in US.
@ESUSAMEX
Ай бұрын
The Canadian skater tripped over the rug on the ice at 1:27.
@beverlybennett963
Ай бұрын
wonder what Snoop would have done had someone tried to put the flame out on him. bahaha..
@Heidi51616
Ай бұрын
The large guy running the race was actually a field competitor like a shot put thrower or something like that. Either he was filling in for an injured teammate but his team was a man short. I think by running, he kept his team in the event.
@randalmayeux8880
Ай бұрын
When getting my Masters in Art History, I don't recall seeing Dionysus at Leonardo's Last Supper. Did l miss some subtle symbolism here? I think not! The Olympic opening ceremony looks like it was cobbled together by a bunch of high school sophomores, looking to get a little giggle. Okay, you've had your fun, now let's get on with the games!
@stevenprobst4917
Ай бұрын
the competition in the pool was amazing
@RowdyRuth
Ай бұрын
I’ve been watching Snoop Dogg at the Olympics 😂
@Heidi51616
Ай бұрын
I thought the big guy did great. It wasn’t his event and he certainly wasn’t built to be a sprinter, but he gave it his best. For a big man, he was fantastic.
@gotham61
Ай бұрын
About half of these clips are not from the Olympics. If you see advertising signs at the venue, it's not Olympics, and horse racing is not an Olympic sport.
@vortexathletic
Ай бұрын
I loved watching Cole Hocker beat out Kerr and the Norwegian guy in the 1500meters as well some of the other exciting races. Then I also like watching all the USA stars play along side each other in basketball
@TommyBuskulic-u2k
Ай бұрын
0:48. Prime example why the pole-vault is the most dangerous event in track & field. 1:02. I think I saw something like that in the women's 3,000 meter steeplechase, today. 1:36. No different from when any Detroit Red Wings fan throws an octopus onto the ice. 5:24. Not the first to ever happen, and won't be the last. 7:26. A true f**inist. 7:49. A great disappearing act. 8:30. You normally don't see a full moon at the racetrack. 8:50. Trying to go viral, even if it means receiving backlash.
@JIMBEARRI
Ай бұрын
The Guy from Tuvalu tried. Pacific Islanders make great US Football players, but they're probably not the ones I'd choose as sprinters.
@ayejay5603
Ай бұрын
The hit at 6:22 was clean.
@ArmyGrunt1986
Ай бұрын
1:42 You can see the Olympic rings on the barrier. Hockey has been part of the Winter Olympics for over century(1920)
@gotham61
Ай бұрын
That's at a NHL game, not the Olympics. Look at the score box at the top of the screen, it's Pittsburgh Penguins vs Nashville Predators. The NBC Olympic logos are just advertising the fact that NBC hosts the Olympics. Advertising signs are not allowed at Olympic events.
@dianedavid3052
Ай бұрын
I’ve been watching the Olympics since I was a small child and I love the athletes stories, the emotion of all the effort, sacrifice and training to become the winner or the loser and becoming part of sporting history. Tbh as I’ve gotten older I don’t really watch anything except sport on tv.
@samantoinette9838
Ай бұрын
SHE SHOULD BE ON THE DIVING TEAM ❤😂😂😂
@frankisfunny2007
Ай бұрын
Besides the very controversial opening ceremonies, and that boxer, I really haven't been watching the Olympics. Thanks to the internet, I know about those Japanese, and Turkish shooters. Same with that French pole vaulter who was eliminated, but is still winning.
@Wellch
17 күн бұрын
We can not criticize that boxer here
@sirpakuparinen7309
Ай бұрын
I am watching right now 💖🇫🇮
@Wellch
17 күн бұрын
2:53 a bee?
@hifijohn
Ай бұрын
Havent watched the Olympics in many years if it wasn't for all the controversy I wouldn't have even known the olympics were going on.
@ClaireRedfieldKennedy-ld2lx
Ай бұрын
4:40 Yes, this guy snuck onto the track. He's not a real athlete.
@SunDevilBryant
Ай бұрын
My favorite events at this Olympics has been the Rugby 7s. Intense games every time.
@1perfectpitch
Ай бұрын
Bring back amateur athletes.
@LancerX916
28 күн бұрын
About half of these are not even from the Olympics.
@propertylady57
Ай бұрын
I always looked forward to the Olympics but I haven’t watched them at all this year. I took offense to the opening ceremony because I am a Christian. They would not dare do something like that involving any other religion put it’s okay to do it to Christians? Then that travesty with the woman boxer? She was robbed. The Brazilian surfer who had a picture of Jesus on his board was told he couldn’t compete until he took it off? No I haven’t been watching.
@FollowingGhost
Ай бұрын
My ex wife was related to Dick Fosby, who invented the Fosby Flop. That's the technique used by high jumpers.
@JoeVideoed
Ай бұрын
Fosbury. It's the Fosbury Flop.
@randalmayeux8880
Ай бұрын
Hi Kabir, the guy with the firextinghsher was just being an A-Hole!
@JoeVideoed
Ай бұрын
A bunch of these aren't even from the Olympics. Looks like you got clickbaited, mate.
@michelleanderson8370
Ай бұрын
I've not watched a single moment of 2024 Olympics...the opening was a disgrace... also will never support a group that has made men beating up women as a spectator sport. The reputation of the Olympic games has been forever ruined for me
@lowdown1222
24 күн бұрын
Sorry but I saw nothing funny about any of the footage.
@ScottyM1959
Ай бұрын
Since that rude, insulting, and inconsiderate opening, I chose not to. Also, by what I hear about the "climate agenda," Paris chose to put in place, I'm surprised there weren't more fails with more injuries at these Olympics. In case you didn't hear, the French supplied no air conditioning, less than comfortable beds, and no meat for athletes to where they were checking into hotels. One Italian swimmer was found outside with a sheet because it was too hot indoors to sleep. That athlete had won a backstroke competition the day before and failed to qualify for a 200 meter event "because I was tired." The Olympic committee was forced to get 4000 pounds of meats brought in for the athletes. So anti Christian opening, letting to men claiming to be women box against women boxers that tested in 2022 and 2023 by the IBO that proved both were XY chromosome carriers which made them ineligible to fight as women. The French said, "Their passports said they are women, so it doesn't matter what's between their legs." I bet if the same fraud was perpetrated on them, they would be mad as hell to say the least.
@edithroberts8959
Ай бұрын
Because of the blatant mocking of God and Christianity, we haven't watched any of the Olympics. Not interested in this either. So bye.
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