Paris 2024. The Olympics topic

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The arguments are still raging and will continue to I think. As the person who posted the response here said this has been the rule since forever.

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A bit of an update on athletes who became ill after swimming in the Seine.

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I have watched the Olympics my whole life and didn't know the torso counted. It's why I thought Noah lost (not just because Leigh Diffey said he did).

And the Seine - "we tested it tonight so tomorrow's event is a go..." there is a reason pride is a deadly sin.

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The strange thing to me was not that NBC called the wrong winner for the 100-meter race. I thought the Jamaican had won, too. It was that after Lyles started celebrating, they waited nearly 20 seconds before saying anything, which was edited out of the primetime coverage to make it look like they announced Lyles as the winner the second he started celebrating.

The prolonged confusion during the day was very, very odd. And they never said who finished third, which also was edited in for the primetime re-broadcast.

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The strange thing to me was not that NBC called the wrong winner for the 100-meter race. I thought the Jamaican had won, too. It was that after Lyles started celebrating, they waited nearly 20 seconds before saying anything, which was edited out of the primetime coverage to make it look like they announced Lyles as the winner the second he started celebrating.

The prolonged confusion during the day was very, very odd. And they never said who finished third, which also was edited in for the primetime re-broadcast.

Thank you for this explanation. Someone on Xitter mentioned the editing but did not give a clear explanation about what was edited and why.

I saw it live on Peacock and I think everyone thought that Thompson won until both men were shown looking for the photo of the finish line and the time(s). Did they edit all of that out? If so that was kind of silly.

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No, they still showed both men waiting for the photo on both broadcasts. But on the nighttime replay, they moved up the proclamation of Lyles as the winner to the second he started celebrating instead of the actual announcement, which came after he ran down the track celebrating and after they showed his family happy in the stands while neither announcer said a word to fix the wrong call.

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Lyles is running his 200m heat now. Live on Peacock.

Lyles was in Lane 6. A Jamaican man was in Lane 5. The Jamaican didn't automatically qualify coming in 4th behind a Japanese man and a Canadian.

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Duncan Murrell
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No DQs for similar actions during men’s 10K, or Josh Kerr’s semifinal. Or any of the 800s. And Tsegay is known for doing this nonsense.

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Armand (Mondo) Duplantis going for a WR in the pole vault at 6.25m (20.5 feet) - and he got it right on his third try after winning the gold. What a wonderful scene in the Stade du France as the silver and bronze medalists cheered him on.

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