I watched the clip Paris This week, Time GB athletes are asked to choose which is better: World Cup or World Cup. the Olympics?
As expected, we defend the games with peace. All of them, except for B-Boy Sunny Bromit who, with some restraint, says: “Sou um garoto da Copa do Mundo, não é?” “Ainda is waiting for us to return home to participate in the World Cup.”
He clearly loves what he loves and decides to let it happen – even when he's worried out loud that's not what he should be saying.
Maybe there is a better way, but I haven’t found one. I love you both just as much—just as I love my future children or the love children you will have one day. But Olympians and pro-Olympians need to realize that winning two games—or the fact that there are so many different styles, forms, and states of mind to this sport in all its strange forms—is what makes you so special.
The Paris 2024 tournament itself only starts in the morning, but it will also start with the rugby, shooting, men's and seven-a-side football competitions. We attended the first show among the athletes at Vila Olímpica (congratulations to Pablo and Maria), and watched some dinners that reveal so much that it is possible to eat them using a paper bed (the last two dinners were separated, cresça).
There are more sagging, funny, vile, creative videos circulating in Paris than you could ever hope to see at an opening ceremony one year back.
What I've realised since visiting here this week is that it's impossible to convey the extraordinary wealth of stories that are part of every minute of the Olympic Games.
As a result, the first few days were completely overwhelmed. I’m focusing on the next three weeks – covering rowing and paddling – but even if I limited myself to just that, I’d never be able to tell you everything or anything beyond the magical and noteworthy. We’d feel the lack of things!
Since these are your first games working off-road, this is probably a common pain for a beginner.
Moreover – these athletes in this small group of days work with high concentration and abandon the jungle. So, I want everyone to spend their day under the sun.
I want everyone to know about all 36 members of the refugee team, why judoka Clarice Agbeneno has to ask the French president for what she needs to perform and why badminton has become so special to El Salvador. Meanwhile, there’s the best possible farewell to Andy Murray, among others.
But that name is the main point of the Olympics. You find what you find, within the mad confusion. Your new obsession with Greco-Roman wrestling or kayak poetry may not last, but it may.
His future can be mapped out on competition days around the world or on live broadcasts of world champions at his anniversary gala each year, and he still hopes to make friends for the cause.
In the devastating absence of cyclist Katie Archibald, whose Olympic dreams were shattered by a freak accident in her garden last year, the hero here is Team GB's flag bearer, Helen Glover.
And in Paris, where parity has finally been achieved in terms of the number of women competing, they are now set to be supported like never before. This gives more women the opportunity to prolong their stay in elite sport – and shows us all how possible it can be.
Three years ago, the two-time Olympic champion returned to Tokyo after giving birth to twins, finished fourth and said he would never step out of the boat again. Yet here she is, three years later, in position to win her third gold medal, exactly 12 years after her first. And why?
Because she loves it! And because her team has the flexibility and support she needs to be able to do it. That's what friends and sports are all about.
Kate will be with Eurosport throughout the Games, starting with the opening ceremony today – attend live via the Discovery+ app
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