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Tourists are checking out of their hotels, sponsors’ posters are being re-installed at venues, medals are being handed out, some of which are even at home, stored in special display cases or, if left exposed to the elements, degrade with alarming speed.
Yeah, The Olympics It’s almost over, but dry your eyes and prepare to stand up, if you can, for the last time as we recognize our alternate medalists for Paris 2024.
The most disappointed tourist
Bronze: The wife of Gianmarco Tamberi
Silver: Adam Peaty
Gold: Italian swimming commentator
Italian high jumper Tamberi had the honour of holding his country’s flag at the opening ceremony. Unfortunately, he was a little too enthusiastic about his flag-waving task and his The wedding ring fell into the SeinePeaty was not impressed with the food on offer at the athletes’ village. “I like fish and the people are friendly.” finding worms “It’s not good enough,” he said. “That’s fair enough. And spare a thought for journalists around the world who have had to deal with very inferior coffee in press centres. This, unsurprisingly, did not please our colleagues in Italy, who complained that it tasted as if it had been brewed with water from the Seine.
Champion of the people
Bronze: Bob the Cap Hunter
Silver: Ray gun
Gold: Snoop Dogg
As anyone who has been to the Olympics will tell you, the real stars are the volunteers. Well, apart from the athletes. But, you have to say, they are the best. Bob the Cap Hunterthe Speedo-wearing hero who dove into the pool to rescue a cap that had sunk to the bottom. Ray gun gave us Australia’s answer to Eddie the Eagle with his breaking efforts but Snoop Dogg He was the ever-present MVP of Paris with his easy, spontaneous laughs and a truly demanding schedule that seemed designed to take him to all 476 sports this summer.
The least Olympic behavior
Bronze: France vs Argentina
Silver: Tom Craig
Gold: Spying in Canada
A bit of anger from the French football team, whose anger boiled over at the end of their quarter-final match against Argentina in Bordeaux, quite understandable given the racist provocation of their country’s team for the Copa America last month. Australian hockey player The arrest of Tom Craig For allegedly trying to buy cocaine was also not in the spirit of the events. But for pure mischief, it has to be Bev PriestCanadian women’s soccer coach who was fired because her team used drones to monitor an opponent’s free-kick practice.
Best photo
Bronze: Podium for floor exercises
Silver: Duplantis’ record
Gold: Miracle of Medina
We haven’t seen each other often Simone Biles In the women’s floor final, American Jordan Chiles took bronze. They knelt to greet the winner, Brazilian Rebeca Andrade, who had secured gold. Pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis broke the world record and the extended shot, with the pole falling when he had not yet reached the glorious apex of his jump, captured the brilliance of the moment. But it took a trip to Tahiti to get the best image of the Games, where Surfer Gabriel Medina He seemed to be floating mysteriously above the waves, pointing to the sky with his board doing the same in his wake.
James Bond’s best future adversary
Bronze: Raven Saunders
Silver: Yusuf Dikec
Gold: Kim Ye-ji
Saunders looked extraordinary in the shot put qualifying event, wearing a face mask, glasses and gold teeth. But Turkish shooter Dikec had a real gun and played very calmly, without the ear protectors and glasses preferred by most of his competitors. Among them, Kim stands out, whose unparalleled calmness in glasses and backwards cap stole the show in the women’s 10-meter pistol competition.
Team GB’s most satisfying gold
Bronze: Female quadruped
Silver: Tom Pidcock
Gold: Keely Hodgkinson
“I’ve heard reports that rowing is pretty boring,” Hannah Scott said after her team took gold from the Netherlands with the Last stroke of the racePidcock became the king of the artificial mountain with his amazing Victory coming back despite the punctureanother who won his race right at the last moment. But there was no such drama for Hodgkinson, the overwhelming favourite for the 800 metres and who ran a beautifully composed race. Calm under pressure, no need for drama, a very unusual feeling for British fans who normally ache for his golds.
Sport we would gladly miss in Los Angeles 2028
Bronze: Judo
Silver: Surfing
Gold: Rip
Judo is a sport you watch every four years hoping to see fireworks, but then you quickly remember that there never are any. The old criticism of golf on television is that it is mostly televised heaven. Surfing is televised sea, or more accurately, televised people floating in the sea waiting for a wave to come. It rarely does and one great photo does not justify an entire sport. Breaking up felt like a regrettable mistake. For all concerned, in about five minutes since Friday started. It’s nice to try something new, but next time let’s try something new and not talk about it again.
The biggest organizational mistake
Bronze: Olympic flag upside down
Silver: There is no air conditioning in the village.
Gold: Swimming in the Seine
It’s a good start, as the opening ceremony is intended to continue to upset various groups of people. Catholics didn’t like the parody of The Last Supper, South Koreans didn’t like being portrayed as North Korea, but raising the issue Olympic flag upside down The podium is occupied by the usual ineptitude. There is much talk of an environmentally friendly Games, which meant water-based “geothermal cooling” in the athletes’ quarters, which the organisers said would mean temperatures six degrees cooler than outside. All well and good until it reaches 35°C, as happened a couple of times in Paris. But there can only be one winner, and that is the optimistic decision to force triathlon and marathon swimmers to relieve themselves in the river, where dangerously high amounts of the Parisian population’s business are concentrated. Several postponements followed, as well as some horrific testimonies from participants.
The most chilling moment
Bronze: The Stade de France sings
Silver: Leon Marchand’s first gold
Gold: Men’s 100m final
Goosebumps rose on the opening weekend when the victorious French rugby sevens team were treated to a beautiful serenade. No, I don’t regret anything A stadium full of people who realised that it is actually a lot of fun to host an Olympics. A day later, the country’s wunderkind, swimming sensation Marchand, swept the 400m individual medley, the crowd chanting “Allez!” every time his head bobbed outwards during the breaststroke. And as much as you might have been irritated by the histrionics of the new fastest man in the world, Noah Lyles, he contributed to a historic record at the Stade de France in the event that, rightly or wrongly, is considered the highlight of any Summer Olympics. A finish so close that a photo op was needed to separate not just the winners, but everyone who took places first through seventh. A great final, as befits a great Olympics.
