Tokyo Olympics

[luka]

version needs music to soundtrack the drama or he gets bored. millenial.

 

[luka]

only 5 foot 6 inches in height from what ive heard

 

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It's pretty fucked up that nobody remembers that Linford won 100m gold in 92

 

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Racist media scum

 

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[luka]

Racist media scum

what people forget in the rush to be anti-wokeism is that the media is demonstrably and rabidly racist

 

[version]

 

[luka]

is tom hardy the one who did those sequinned skull t-shirts in the early 2000s?

 

[luka]

 

[IdleRich]

THIS is commentary.

Who scored that one?

 

[Leo]

I vaguely remember Tommie Smith and John Carlos giving the black power salute when they got their medals, pretty mind blowing to watch as a little kid. Not as mind blowing as the ‘72 hostage taking and massacre, though. That was fucking mental, no pop songs during that one.

 

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Reply to @version

The old guy is Henry Dantor, a millionaire who brought the fairground a few years ago because he used to go to it as a child and wanted to return it to its former glory.

The thanks he got from the Vale of Glamorgan Council was a letter telling him he couldn't call his ferris wheel the Barry Eye.

 

[luka]

lets sacrifice @Corpsey on a stone altar with an obsidian blade. cut out his yellow heart and raise it aloft to the gods

 

[version]

Tokyo Olympics: Tonga's oiled up shirtless flag-bearer Pita Taufatofua steals show (again) at opening ceremony

This isn't the first time that Taufatofua appeared shirtless during the Parade of Nations in the opening ceremonies

www.cbssports.com

 

[luka]

tongans are the master race

 

[luka]

 

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Ha ha, fuck you Communists!

 

[hmg]

there were only 3 channels then and no internet. and the olympics was on during the endless days of the summer holidays.
you would watch for hours. and Britain had its heroes, steve backley, linford christie, colin jackson and his perpetual understudy tony jarret, steve black, kelly holmes, kriss akabusi, johnathan edwards, sally gunnel, john regis

I'm old enough to remember Daley Thomson and his decathlon gold, and the Ocean game in his honour, part of which you had to waggle your joystick as fast as possible to finish.

 

[hmg]

Greg louganis head butting a diving board, the slap heard around the world.

 

[yyaldrin]

so many niche freak sports on the olympics, who cares if you win a golden metal galloping a horse? there's only about 100 people on the entire world who participate in that sport.