My favourite (and probably most nerd) thing I ever did regarding the Olympics was back in 2020.
I spent ages putting it together, trying to find as close to exactly the time that the events happened as possible, and spent two weeks “live-tweeting” the Sydney Olympics day by day as they happened, just 20 years later.
It was so much fun and actually a couple of the athletes who I mentioned in tweets liked or retweeted the stuff, which was a real treat.
If anyone is interested in this sort of nerd nostalgia, take a squiz at the hashtag #Sydney2000memories and go back to the September 13, 2020 tweet, where it all started (with the Matildas, as it turned out). Find some great moments you remember and some you forgot long ago, I just went through it and felt the joy all over again.
One - the platform works
Two - multiple channels so you can hopefully watch any event you want rather than being forced into watching whatever Australian is going to place second last in a sport you’ve never heard of or care about.
wasn’t there something like that, but not the olympics, that was running on the old SFCU forums? I think it was like a WW2 thing or something like that?
The 2024 Olympics will be the most watched surfing event in history, due in no small part to the fact that Tahiti is exactly 12 hours apart from Paris, meaning that surfing will be the only live Olympic sport on TV in the Pacific Prime Time zone. We’ll have an editorial team on the ground — as well as a couple ace forecasters providing guidance for the Games — and will be providing daily coverage from Teahupo’o right here on Surfline and our social channels. The waiting period runs July 27-August 5, with four days needed to complete the event. For fans wanting to watch live on TV — no free webcast here — we’ve compiled the below list for your viewing pleasure."
Things get under way tonight, a few days out from the Opening Ceremony.
Football and Rugby Sevens just to whet the appetite.
Argentina vs Morocco and Uzbekistan vs Spain kick off in football at 11.00pm, and the first of the Sevens games, Australia vs Samoa, gets under way at 11.30.
