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Thread: Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
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08-15-2024, 08:56 AM #676
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08-15-2024, 08:57 AM #677
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08-15-2024, 09:26 AM #678
Have you seen Slater's surf ranch? The wave is gorgeous, shot right it would look great on TV. It would also enable a caliber and style of surfing that is ideal for an Olympic audience--high performance maneuvers and mind-blowing aerials that you're never, ever going to see happen on mid-summer SoCal mushburgers.
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08-15-2024, 09:43 AM #679
Would the LA organizing committee go for this, though? Southern California is very much sold as being a beach destination. That's a tough pill to swallow to have them say, with all that Pacific coastline, we can't really stage a decent surfing competition in the ocean.
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08-15-2024, 09:44 AM #680Registered User
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I totally forgot about that wave place and I’ll wager no one has Lemoore on their Olympic Venue bingo card. Let’s do it. And add cow tipping as an event
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08-15-2024, 10:27 AM #681
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08-15-2024, 10:33 AM #682
i'm for the wave pool - or go to Peru...
surf on the west coast in summer - blah
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08-15-2024, 10:42 AM #683
One of the spots in contention is Trestles which is more consistent in summer than most of SoCal, but there's still a decent probability that it could be flatsville. Also, the Olympics are fundamentally different than a WSL event. The subtleties of wave selection, position/priority, etc. are lost on a general audience. There's huge upside to being guaranteed to be able showcase the highest possible caliber surfing.
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08-15-2024, 11:09 AM #684
Maybe a longboard nose riding epic in Malibu and/or windansea followed by a longboard whomping session at the wedge.
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08-15-2024, 11:31 AM #685Registered User
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There's plenty of time for them to build a wave pool before the event.
They didn't need to worry about spectators at Teahupo'o so it was more of a made for TV venue. Given the fact that they didn't show shit on TV for surfing, did it really matter?
For a surf contest, Trestles with a swell like last weekend would be ideal.
For a spectator event, Trestles would be a shit show. E-bike sales would explode though.
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08-15-2024, 11:34 AM #686Registered User
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Yeah, they need to build a wave pool on the beach. The Best of both worlds. I don't know anything about surfing, just a casual spectator, but it seems unreasonable to me that winning or losing can be determined just by what waves arrive during the set. A wave pool would remove that element of luck and let surfing ability determine the winner and loser
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08-15-2024, 11:47 AM #687Registered User
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Wave pool with a stadium around it right on the beach would be pretty awesome. Very spectator and tv friendly.
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08-15-2024, 12:13 PM #688
You guys don't quite grasp the scale of these "pools." The one in Lemoore is over 2,000 ft long and 250 ft wide and the foil is pushed by a locomotive engine. You're not building one on the beach.
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08-15-2024, 12:19 PM #689
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With all the success this Olympics I wonder if USATF found something in their training. Whether it is rest cycle, nutrition, strength. With all the data from wearables maybe one little thing made a difference.
I know in swimming the study done at places like Cal Berkeley looks to identify 1/1000 second advantages of certain techniques. I learned so much at their clinics. Volumes more in a couple hours than I did in years of hs and college swimming.
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08-15-2024, 12:38 PM #690
Why not Pickleball in LA?
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08-15-2024, 01:13 PM #691
It’s too loud. The birds. Think of the birds.
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08-15-2024, 01:57 PM #692Registered User
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I hate nimbys but they kinda have a point. Plus I hate pickleball
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08-15-2024, 02:21 PM #693
Yes, pickleball.
And then we could include all the sports that are just lazy old man versions of the original sport.
-Basket between the rear wheel tricycle racing.
-Paddleboard holding doggy paddle.
-Pool volleyball with a beer in one hand.
-Darts again with a beer in one hand.
-Daisy BB gun shooting at beer cans.
-Drunken consecutive forward rolls.
-Pony rides.
-Wrestling with your dog.
-Austin Power style karate chops.
-Hiking.
-Rythmic hot yogaWell maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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08-15-2024, 02:22 PM #694Registered User
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08-15-2024, 02:37 PM #695
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08-15-2024, 03:14 PM #696
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08-15-2024, 04:28 PM #697
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08-15-2024, 04:42 PM #698
Dang.
Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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08-15-2024, 05:16 PM #699
If curling is an Olympic sport, why not Cornhole?
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08-15-2024, 05:36 PM #700Registered User
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If curling has a sweeper, cornhole should have a wiper
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