Six days ago, tennis superstar Naomi Osaka lit the Olympic cauldron and kicked off just over two weeks of sporting excellence. Now, sports fans around the globe have been glued to their screens to support their national teams and athletes competing in the biggest event of high-level athleticism.
So amid the salty caramel popcorn, loud cheers and tears of disappointment, people are taking their emotions and laying them all out in these funny tweets that we collected below. So let’s get that Tokyo Olympics vibe up and rolling, and be sure to upvote your favorite ones!
After you’re done, I totally recommend you check out our previous post with crazy photos of Olympians and other athletes that will give you an entirely new perspective on the human body and its capabilities. No amount of respect is too much for these incredible people!
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With so many fans not being able to attend the Olympics this year, the post-pandemic sports event seems very different from what we were used to. Just like most professional sports, Olympic events feed off crowd energy that transfers onto the screens for viewers at home.
Commenting on the very different kind of Olympic experience this year, Rick Burton, a professor of sport management at Syracuse University and the former chief marketing officer of the US Olympic Committee for the 2008 Beijing games, called the experience “sterile.” “The sponsors are going to be thinking the ratings will be down. They’re worried they’re not going to get their money’s worth,” he added.
Transport of everything! The logistics of the Olympics is impressive... they have to get the athletes, horses, rowboats, kayaks, canoes, bikes, bedding, uniforms, guns, punching bags.... there is a TON of stuff that has to be shipped to the Olympics
Load More Replies...A lot of thought has to go into transporting a horse anywhere, but with the Olympics it's inevitable that it will include air transport. You also have to think about which host city the Olympics are being held in. When Melbourne held their Games in 1956, Australia has very strict quarantine laws regarding animals entering g the country, so all the Equestrian events were held in Stockholm. In Beijing for the 2008 Games, because of the high levels of air pollution, they moved the Equestrian events to Hong Kong.
Does anyone else not like Equestrian in the Olympics? The horse does all the work to be honest, yeah it is trained but it is the athlete not the person riding...rant over.
Have you ever seen a fat rider at this level? It's hard work for the rider, and takes decades of training to be able to ride at this level. Many riders also have several horses in training at one time. The rider isn't just plopped in the saddle, they are sat carefully, giving subtle cues to the horse at the proper time, feeling what the horse is doing so they can give the cues at the right time so the horse does the maneuver smoothly. And that's"just" dressage. 3 day eventing, which is like horse moto cross, is rough, and even show jumping in the ring is a challenge!
Load More Replies...Yes and we all saw the horses on a plane and people weren't too happy https://www.boredpanda.com/fascinating-rarely-seen-things/?comment_id=7191492
Horses who compete internationally fly all the time with food,water, and grooms.
Load More Replies...Here's a GREAT video showing how OLYMPIC horses fly - much cushier than military horses or shorter flights! https://youtu.be/9U0wZi-XRAA
Moreover, sports psychologists are now observing an Olympics without fans as a real-life science experiment. It’s thought to help researchers and clinicians to measure the impact of a crowd of fans on its players—and on spectators at home. The unprecedented times offer an entirely new glimpse into what is the social and psychological makeup of the Olympic Games and how the competing athletes are affected by it.
Some athletes have already stressed the pressure that’s been building for not having an audience of spectators. On Tuesday, superstar gymnast Simone Biles dropped out of the women’s team event, blaming “not the right headspace” for competition. “It’s been really stressful this Olympic Games. Just as a whole, not having an audience. There are a lot of different variables going into it,’ she told the Washington Post.
The findings made on viewers’ engagement also show that sports without fans may be way less enjoyable. Kantar, a research firm that measures consumer enthusiasm, found that two-third of American sports spectators announced that watching sports during the pandemic was not as engaging and enjoyable. “[The Olympics] could be a little bit less engaging, a little bit less fulfilling for the viewer,” Ryan McConnell, Kantar’s senior vice president for consulting, told Quartz.
Damn, BP's censoring has gone to (present tence cat in french)
Coolest thing I did at 13 was a trick on a bike that later caused me severe pain (when I landed) and would have made Tony Hawk laugh, b/c he could do it on a skateboard. So, yeah, no coolness whatsoever.
Keyboard warriors and couch potato's are always the ones criticising other people.
I would dress like ryan lochte just to see him lose miserably
Because most countries don't accept Taiwan as a country. Doing so would greatly damage their relationship with China. I.e. Taiwan is officially a part of China. But putting a Chinese flag next to Taiwanese athlete's name would insult Taiwan. So no flag is better than an international scandal or worse, a war because of Twitter post.
Here is another kind of Olympics from Remi Gaillard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBkyth_KT3E
Here is another kind of Olympics from Remi Gaillard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBkyth_KT3E