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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 127 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Is that a cheese wheel?

Yup, that Italian athlete is sponsored by Parmesan

[–] Deadeyegai@lemmy.world 131 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sponsored by Big Parma?? I'll see myself out...

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

dangit, there it is.

nice.

┻⁠━⁠┻⁠ ⁠ヘ⁠╰⁠(⁠ ⁠•̀⁠ε⁠•́⁠ ⁠╰⁠)

That's great!

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Nothing's surprising anymore.

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[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

If you would add a couple random additional fingers and scramble the text, the absurdity of the picture really looks like AI generated content

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Two of my favorite things, but I wasn’t able to find more cheese pictures

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

cheeese wheels and sponsorship

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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 80 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] golli@lemm.ee 68 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 80 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's happening in the first picture on the fourth row?

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 190 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 35 points 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.

[–] Shmandom@feddit.uk 23 points 3 months ago
[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 16 points 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.

[–] TheHottub@lemmy.world 75 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Missing the dudes dick hitting the bar, Raygun and Gojira.

[–] Pogbom@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 68 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 63 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The mystified Chinese girl is one of the cutest pics ever. When in Rome...

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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What's the story behind this one?

[–] Krzd@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

wheres the cyberpunk asian shooter girl?

[–] vanontom@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where's the big floppy pole vaulter?

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[–] You_are_dust@lemm.ee 38 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 35 points 3 months ago

Technically not an Olympics photo. She’s an Italian gymnast who does promo for Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese. That’s an ad she did.

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[–] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] simple@lemm.ee 59 points 3 months ago (4 children)

It was still relatively popular but the olympics has been in decline due to being shackled behind paid cable channels. Everybody's moved to streaming but apparently they didn't get the memo. Just knowing where you can find the olympics is such a nightmare they have a giant table explaining which channel you should go to depending on where you live

[–] kagrocery@midwest.social 36 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 16 points 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.

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[–] blackwateropeth@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

I’ve never wanted to be a round of cheese more XD

[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Needs more Australian break dancing

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 15 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 77 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, my first thought was it was missing the dude whose dick cost him a medal.

Or the mooning surfer.

[–] SecretSauces@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 months ago (7 children)

His big dong messed up his pole vault attempt and knocked the bar

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[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] nadram@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Ah yes, blue jesus, we will never forget you

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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