What’s the story behind this one?
Not sure if actually dating or not, but at least joked about the being a couple - https://www.scmp.com/sport/paris-olympics-2024/china/article/3272185/chinese-olympic-gold-medal-winners-pose-sparks-social-media-jokes-about-relationship
Thanks! Sounds like an overreaction doesn’t it?
They’re reacting to something else off camera. We’ve been though this, even on this site, a few times now
Any information on what they are reacting to? Its actually the question that i am asking. When i asked it 2 days ago it did not seem like this had been answered.
Sorry to waste your allocated words for the day on this though.
I don’t know. But I can imagine a lot of reaction-worthy things happening in a stadium at the Olympics. Or maybe they’re just American then all bets are off. You guys start screaming when a new marvel movie is announced.
They’re a lesbian couple from China where LGBTQ people aren’t exactly accepted or welcomed by society.
Thanks, I didn’t even notice same gender, and just assumed it was a breach of courtesy or something to not just stand there
Its interesting. After some looking around and linked posts, this is not entirely true or at least confirmed.
Chen picked up Chang in a bridal carry for a photo after they receiving their gold medals, which led many netizens to joke that Chang and Chen are in a romantic relationship
Is the ‘bridal carry’ what the american diver next to them is surprised at? Seems like an overreaction to me if its only that
That’s a totally believable action if you just saw someone doing something you perceived as romantic, and you didn’t know they were together, and also you’re a big fan of them so you like that they’re together.
That’s exactly the face I’d make I’d I realized two people I liked were a happy couple.
I am just surprised that lifting someone, especially for a celebration pose, means that they are romantically involved
It’s the type of lift. Culturally, in the US, that’s called the bridal carry because that’s how a groom will carry a bride into their home after marriage.
Nice story but the reaction is to something else off camera
I would have used the headless singer to represent the opening ceremony.
Yes! Gojira’s performance was amazing!
I don’t know what is actually going on, but I’m interested in the Olympic level giant wedge of cheese hugging competition.
Technically not an Olympics photo. She’s an Italian gymnast who does promo for Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese. That’s an ad she did.
For me, it was Gojira
who was that
The metal band who played during the opening ceremony
Can I please change with the Parmesan, even if she cuts me open afterwards.
Is that a cheese wheel?
Yup, that Italian athlete is sponsored by Parmesan
Two of my favorite things, but I wasn’t able to find more cheese pictures
cheeese wheels and sponsorship
Excellent! More Olympians should have such fun (and tasty) sponsors!
If you would add a couple random additional fingers and scramble the text, the absurdity of the picture really looks like AI generated content
Strategic hand placement
Much ado about nothing.
Nothing’s surprising anymore.
hahha what a perfect gif for that sentiment
Sponsored by Big Parma?? I’ll see myself out…
dangit, there it is.
nice.
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That’s great!
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ノ┬─┬ノ ︵ ( \o°o)\
Needs more Australian break dancing
What’s the one bottom left corner? What’s up with the opposing team in their uniforms?
At first I thought they were scuba divers.
Same. I was wondering why there were scuba divers at an Olympics beach volleyball game
It’s beach volleyball. In the 2020(2021) Tokyo games there was a lot of controversy because the men could wear loose-fittings shorts and shirts, but the women were required to wear bikinis with no more than 10cm of cloth along the side.
After a lot of backlash to the sexism of the uniform rules, they relaxed them this year. Some chose to still wear skimpy stuff, but it was noonger a requirement.
So was the opposing team wearing those as a form of protesting or what? I’m confused.
Muslim women must be covered head to toe at all times. This their sport attire.
Oh makes sense.
The Egyptian team is covered head to toe for religous reasons. The rule change allowed them to compete.
WTF, what was the justification for that rule before they changed it?
The idea was that nobody would watch women play without them being sexy for the cameras.
It was disgusting.
It’s the Olympics. They don’t need to justify things. Their entire purpose is to make money by selling ads. This is obviously to get more viewership by requiring the women to be almost naked.
Some cultures allow women to cover their bodies. While others allowed them to show as much as they’d like.
require*
They don’t get to choose their uniforms, and I’m sure many of them would choose shorts like the men get if they did.
It’s not always that simple. For beach volley, I saw athletes commenting that shorts are worse because of the sand getting in the way. Men would chose something better in a different culture. There’s sexism I believe, but it’s not always what we would expect.
What country is in the red?
Some cultures allow women to cover their bodies. While others allowed them to show as much as they’d like. Oh they’re allowed to cover themselves? They’re forced to wear it.
A truly insane way of phrasing repression - I guess Jews in nazi Germany were allowed to wear a star of david? No, I don’t care how liberating some women say the enforced coverings are, when there isn’t a choice - it’s repression. Plain and simple. Try being a woman in saudi wearing normal clothing in public and see how permissive the regime is.
Ok but like, how is it any better to force them to wear skimpy bikinis they don’t want to wear? Is it not better for the regulating body to offer choice to everyone, rather than enforcing coverage or non-coverage that will inevitably upset someone?
I’m not saying that all the women need to wear ‘skimpy bikinis’, I’m just making the point that the teams that are wearing the ‘sport hijab’ aren’t doing it because they have any kind of freedom, but because there is enormous societal pressure and political/legal/religious oppression, that extends beyond the games into their daily lives. Calling that ‘freedom’ is unreasonable, because the choice is either ‘wear these specific clothes (men-excluded) or face social outcast/death’
I completely agree that the frequent sexualisation of women’s sporting outfits is something which is still shitty and I’m not defending the objectification of talented athletes who want to be seen as skilled, rather than oggled for their body - but claiming that because the voluntary admission sports-team outfit is more revealing than necessary, doesn’t mean the athletes were forced into wearing it, and in the broader society, people in those same countries actually have the freedom to wear whatever they please, whether it’s ‘skimpy’ or not.
Sure, the women on the western team are perhaps pressured into the bikinis from decades of objectification and commercial sex-appeal underwriting womens sports, but in their daily lives outside, they aren’t beholden to a religious dress code, and consequently have much more ‘freedom’. The argument can also be made that even though the ‘skimpy’ outfits are objectifying, the athletes would have known what the prevailing dress code at the sport was before they signed up, and were ‘okay’ with it - at least to the extent that they still participated.
well nobody is forcing anybody to wear anything in the western countries - the huge difference is that outside of the sporting environment, women can choose to wear or not wear ‘skimpy bikinis’ - but in a sharia observant country, there is no such allowance made, so the sports team outfit actually is indicative of the dress standards forced upon women and expected by society.
I think you’re misunderstanding me. I’m talking about the change in the regulating body now allowing the teams, or at least the countries sponsoring them, to make their own choices. It used to be that the regulating body enforced skimpy bikinis, and now they don’t. That’s progress. Individual teams using that choice to be shitty in no way undermines that progress. Less people being forced to do or wear things against their will, better judgement, or desire is always better, even if there’s still progress to be made.
And this is tangential and I don’t really wish to get into an argument over it, but I have to point out that the logic of “well they knew what they were getting into so they by default consented to it” is really fucking terrible logic. Here, make the choice between being objectified so you can continue competing, or give up your dreams to maintain your dignity! What the fuck kind of choice is that? That’s coercion hiding behind choice. That’s one step below “have sex with me or you’re fired”. Fuck that noise.
I think you misread. The commenter said no choice is bad in general.
The commenter I replied to said, “when there isn’t a choice, it’s repression”. This goes the other way, too. When the volleyball teams didn’t have the choice to cover up because the regulating body enforced “less than 10cm coverage” - which is a fact, this is a thing they did until recently - it’s just as bad. No woman should be forced to wear more or less clothing than they want. My comment was specifically in reference to the change in rules by the governing body allowing teams to come to their own decisions regarding appropriate uniform. Will some teams enforce regulations that are also bad? Yes, but progress is progress. A smaller group of people being forced to follow shitty regulations is always better than a huge group of people being forced to follow shitty regulations. That individual teams do not allow choice in no way undermines the progress of the regulating body.
Why do they give them individually boxed giant novelty cigarettes?
Oh right, France.
Missing the dudes dick hitting the bar, Raygun and Gojira.
It hit all those things??
Knocked the raygun right out of my hand.
No T-Rex pose?
The “sneaking to steal a cookie” pose?
Where Gojira?
wheres the cyberpunk asian shooter girl?
Where’s the big floppy pole vaulter?
You mean the big floppy pole pole vaulter?
I’ve never wanted to be a round of cheese more XD
Great collection. Though I feel like the picture of Remco Evenepoel (cyclist) should have been the one where he stands legs and arms wide open with the Eiffel tower in the background.