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These Olympics have been so iconic, chaotic, and such a fun time they will be missed dearly
Today is sadly the last day of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Before we get to the closing ceremony and the official countdown of the 2026 and 2028 Olympic games, I just have to say these games have been the most wild, unpredicted, chaotic, and entertaining Olympics I have ever had the enjoyment of watching. So many amazing memes and legends came from these Olympics. So many new countries and athletes won their very 1st medal. So many defended a title, came up as underdogs, and powered through to the tops of the podiums. The sportsmanship and encouragement of the athletes between each other, the teasing and lighthearted fun between the audience was something that teared me up and made watching all the more fun. I know Paris will hold a special place in all of us. 🥂Here's to Milan 2026 LA 2028 and thank you Paris 2024 may we have an amazing closing ceremony 🥂
Now on to what everyone is wondering, will the faceless parkour phantom make a reappearance 👀
I think she has eight gold medals now? Yeah.
katie ledecky 🤝 max verstappen 2023
i need you all to understand how absolutely fucking monumental beating someone by SEVENTEEN seconds in a swim race is. normally, in olympic swimming, all the swimmers finish within the same few seconds. notice how in the event replay, all the other swimmers are roughly in a line during the race… (admittedly, swimmers tend to finish further apart from each other in longer distance races, but not by that much.) people spend months, years of their lives doing brutal training just trying to one-up other swimmers by a single second, because that can mean a win. every hundredth of a second matters.
and then. imagine being ledecky and finishing your olympic race, sitting and waiting on second place to arrive for seventeen entire seconds.
Sometimes you may think you're alone when you're just ahead of everyone else
Sometimes you may think you're alone when you're just ahead of everyone else
Sometimes you may think you're alone when you're just ahead of everyone else
https://www.teamusa.org/News/2021/May/21/Can-Katie-Ledecky-Become-A-10-Time-Olympic-Gold-Medalist
The women’s 1,500 makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo, and it’s Ledecky’s strongest event. But getting to the final will require that she compete in the 200 and 1,500 preliminary heats in the same evening session, Then assuming she qualifies, the finals of both events are in the same session a day later.
"I would point out that the men do not have that double, so any male swimmer who wants to compete in all [the freestyle] events does not have to double,” Ledecky stated during a Team USA Media Summit in April.
Will she ever stop being amazing?
I'd bet good money that if Katie Ledecky started identifying as trans and competing against men in the Olympics, TRAs would change their minds pretty fast about pushing for legislation allowing trans people on opposite sex sports teams. I've heard there are men who won't even train in the same pool as her because she is so fast that it's intimidating.
Katie Ledecky breaks the Olympic record for the women's 1500m freestyle to win gold.