Paris 2024 Summer Olympics: Wednesday PM - Alcaraz/Nadal fall to USA in Team Doubles, Katie Ledecky wins 1500M free in record-breaking time 🥇🥈🥉

[IATT]

Chinese dude was flying

 

[Xennial]

Chinese dude was flying

Xu looking like the heavy favorite going into the final

 

[Xennial]

Peaty vs Qin showdown now

 

[kdawg]

Andy Murray in the tennis doubles was a nail biter. The 3rd set is that weird tie-break thing and they were down 5-9 and came back to win.

 

[IATT]

whoa

 

[Xennial]

whoa

That finish wow

 

[darthska]

I need to see the underwater wall touches on that 100m breaststroke.

 

[IATT]

Wild not a single guy under 59

 

[kdawg]

Yeah, that had to be mm in it. Wild.

 

[darthska]

.02 away from a 3-peat.

 

[IATT]

Don’t know if y’all noticed, but you could really see how shallow the pool is when the guys jumped in on the backstroke start


But it’s really killing underwaters, think that’s why the breaststroke was so slow

 

[DeadsetAce]

swimming my favorite summer olympic event. love this stuff, man

 

[Sinner]

Don’t know if y’all noticed, but you could really see how shallow the pool is when the guys jumped in on the backstroke start


But it’s really killing underwaters, think that’s why the breaststroke was so slow

I'm surprised pool depth isn't standardized/regulated?

 

[rolaholic]

2 of the top 3 from the 400m final yesterday, Ledecky and McIntosh, chose not race the 200m even though they're both the national champions at that distance from their national trials a few months back.

Titmus chose to though and is cruising through the heats, she's the world record holder

 

[IATT]

I'm surprised pool depth isn't standardized/regulated?

I wanna say it has to be at least 2meters deep.. but for pretty much all the big competitions they go to 3 meters

But the pool here is 2.15 meters

Just looked up the article I read:

Paris Swimming Pool Depth Raises First Concerns Of 2024 Olympic Games

The depth of the pool (2.15 meters) for swimming events has raised concerns for swimmers who have come to France for the 2024 Olympic Games

swimswam.com

The rule specifically states:

Depth: 2 Metres (minimum); 3 metres recommended, when using the pool for multi disciplines


Here’s another article on it:

Is the Olympic swimming pool too shallow? Why depth matters in race for world records

The newly constructed Olympic swimming pool at La Defense Arena in Paris is 2.15m deep, which is considerably below the 3m depth recommended

au.news.yahoo.com

But you can really see it with certain athletes, like Marchand who isn’t a huge guy and has great underwaters.. he probably is sub 4:02 with the swim he had

 

[rolaholic]

 

[frink85]

Another thing NBC slacking on is the medal ceremonies

 

[Sinner]

We got all the ceremonies.

It's always cool when they play the entire Italian national anthem.

 

[Mister Meaner]

Always a good time watching women’s volleyball.

CZE2

 

[moe200069]

Simone and Suni LFGGGG

 

[Xennial]

Rebecca Andrade up to #2 all around scores now

 

[frink85]

Lee Kiefer typical azn, going back to med school after the games

 

[Cashflow]

 

[gry60]

I knew the Canadian goal was coming

 

[DripNick]

Poor Sakina