And who are you rooting for in the upcoming events?

My only Olympic hero is Kurt Angle. Man won gold with a broken freaking neck.

USA female rugby team for now

Gojira during the opening ceremonies.

Team Gojira!

Alex Yee, GBR, Triathlon, Gold.

The skateboarders both mens and womens because that teal rail was fucked up and everyone that fell went off it.

The womens BMX, some of those women got screwed by the judges because they didn't understand the difficulty of the stunts they were doing. The judges at the olympics are notorious for being shady ignorant fucks that have no business being there.

I ran track so I'll wait to answer after they have their turn

The BMX has been amazing

Pommel Horse Guy for US Gymnastics - everything about his story is great, hope he places again in the individual event!

This guy.

Needless to say this caught my attention

https://www.eurosport.com/surfing/olympic-games-paris-2024/2024/paris-2024-watch-the-moment-behind-the-incredible-surfing-viral-image-of-the-olympics_vid2196178/video.shtml

and the trampolining today was something else

I want to toss in an honorable mention for the French Pole Vaulter Anthony Ammirati. May not have won the vault, But definitely made a statement.

Today's heros go to anyone that competed in the swimming in that shit filled river in Paris. All the billions they spent in cleaning it up and it still was not safe to swim in until today. Many people have already reported getting sick in that mess. It was supposed to be so clean the mayor was going to swim in it.

My question is if they can do the surfing in Tahiti, why not the swimming relay? Or what about having it in the pool that they are not using for events. So what if you swim 100 laps, at least you won't get ecoli.

Toby Roberts - wins gold medal in climbing.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/05ae/live/551e8e20-5646-11ef-8f0f-0577398c3339.jpg.webp

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cpw8r1r4ne9o

https://i.imgur.com/qqbqpZ9.png

Celine Dion.
Closely followed by diver Jules Buoyer.

Australian women's breakdancer, Ray Gun. She's getting roasted by the world right now. I caught the performance on Reddit last night. It's really something...

I have seen comments about how Australia is defending her saying you said send your best. We did.

No heroes, but the memes are PEAK.

Cheese gymnast
Turkish gun guy
Aussie broke dancer

Most memeable olympics by far

I found an article explaining how the Australian break dancer qualified for the Olympics. It seems when you contribute to starting the national federation for break dancing in Australia, you get a better judging. There is video in this article of her qualifying competition, clearly showing she was not the best. The woman in green was better than she was.
https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3522241/australian-break-dancing-sensation-raygun-receives-a-heros-welcome-home-but-how-did-she-ever-qualify-for-the-olympics-in-the-first-place

I'll add women's boxer Imane Khelif, who won gold and endured so much disgusting cyber bullying from morons and bigots.

Léon Marchand for the host country. Since I am American and live in the Washington DC area, the athletes from the DMV that medaled led by Katie Ledecky (Bethesda, MD) and Noah Lyles (Alexandria, VA) who won the men's 100 meter dash by the slimmest of margins. I'm also happy for Kevin Durant (Seat Pleasant, MD) becoming the all time leading scorer in USNBT history, male or female helping Team USA secure the 5th consecutive gold medal in Men's Basketball and the 17th overall gold in the sport (sans the "Munich Screwjob" of 1972 where the Soviets were gifted a tainted gold by the refs, the 1980 boycott and winning Bronze in 1988 and 2004 ) since it's inclusion during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. As a whole, there were some memorable moments that include probably the first ever Parade of Athletes in boats on the River Seine, Simone Biles performance in both individual events and team competition and the U.S. and China tying for overall Gold medals although the US won the overall tally with the most medals since Los Angeles 1984. Can't wait for Los Angeles 2028 but looking forward to the Winter games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo in 2026.