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.
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)
Ok, I see her name again and have no clue whats the fuss, I am not american, so I haven't heard about any controversy about her, could somebody explain please?
And what this meme is referring to, is she has 2 things she does that almost litterally if she even completes them poorly (she is the only person to have ever done either of them), their difficulty is so high, she'd win. They said their weren't going to giver her credit for how difficult they were, to give other gymnasts a chance. People that like to poop on her success say she left in protest of this decision. One of them could easily leave the gymnast paralyzed with the smallest misstep. So was she pouting, not willing to risk it for no recognition, or actually worried about breaking her neck, you decide.
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That girl deserves better. Better from the people in the Olympics who have the power to make decisions that affected how she was scored differently and better from the people at home. I don't know what she was going through, I can't imagine but if she decided to walk away she didn't make that decision lightly. Think of all the blood ,sweat, and tears over her entire career and walking away from all of that. I love her more for respecting herself and knowing that she needed to walk away for her own well-being.
Yeah, she ran into a big wall of "why even?". Big props to her, we all know she's amazing. Now everyone else has a chance to show off their mediocrity.
When I heard that they wouldn't score her accurately, I was like, that's the whole freaking point of gymnastics scoring. Doing moves others can't gets you points.
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.
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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
