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)
I don't understand why people are upset about skateboarding. It's the summertime equivalent of snowboarding, which is just less-pretentious skiing.
it should really be a separate thing
Load More Replies...ADD ALL THE SPORTS! CHEESE ROLLING! ZORB BALL! CARCASONNE! GREASY HAM POLE! RUNNING OUT OF THE DARK BASEMENT! WATERBOARDING! GOOSE PULLING! PAINTBALL! MEDIOCREMINTON! CALVINBALL! SPEEDWALKING! DODGEBALL! EGG AND SPOON RACE! HORSE HOLE! PUNCH THE FREUD! GRANDMA TOPPLING! BATHTUB SLIDE! SLANDER! BEING THE SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL AND LETTING THE CHEAPEST TAXI COMPANY TAKE THE CHILD TO SCHOOL! PHALLIC BUILDING CONSTRUCTION! STARING AT THE SUN! GURNING! WIFE CARRYING! HUSBAND CARRYING! NONBINARY SPOUSE CARRYING! DEFENESTRATION! CS:GO! BAD FLYING! CHESS BY MAIL! PONG! RED ROVER! ANALOUGE TELEVISION! FIGURING OUT HOW TO PLAY "DIVE TO THE TITANIC"! WALUIGI LAUNCHER! THE FLOOR IS LAVA! BORDER CONTROL! SKY POLO! TOTAL WIPEOUT! SPECULATIVE EVOLUTION! TWITTER FLAME WARS! BURNING THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN TWITTER FLAME WARS AT STAKES! COOTIES! RECOGNIZING TAIWAN AS A SEPERATE COUNTRY TO CHINA! RECITING THE LYRICS TO "THE MOST UNWANTED MUSIC"! PAT THE DOG! PLANKING! MEME SHARING! DWARF TOSSING! UNDERWATER BASKET WEAVING! CHEATING IN MINECRAFT SPEEDRUNS! STRIP INTERCONTINENTAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR!
Don't forget competitive twister, hide and seek, underwater basket weaving, red rover, dance aerobics.... oh, so many!!!
Load More Replies...More skill then most other sports id say... like footbal (the real one! Soccer*) doesnt need as much cordination as skateboard, to manipulate an object not attached to you is no joke. Been doing it for 20 years and i still suck at it compared to the standard today😆
Load More Replies...Surfing and skateboarding are not only fun to watch, but imo require quite a lot of athleticism. More than golf, shooting or horseriding.
I'm not annoyed, I love both sports. I'm just wondering what happens when they go to a place that doesn't have surf for the surfers?
sometimes they have to stretch the definition of 'host city' a bit. So for the Paris olympics in 2024 I believe the surfing will be in Tahiti (French Polynesia) - about 9000 miles from Paris.
Load More Replies...I will not be satisfied until Morris dancing and darts are Olympic sports
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