Most popular pictures of the Olympics

Is that a cheese wheel?

Yup, that Italian athlete is sponsored by Parmesan

Sponsored by Big Parma?? I'll see myself out...
- dangit, there it is.
  nice.
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  That's great!
If you would add a couple random additional fingers and scramble the text, the absurdity of the picture really looks like AI generated content
Two of my favorite things, but I wasn’t able to find more cheese pictures
- cheeese wheels and sponsorship
Strategic hand placement
- Much ado about nothing.

What's happening in the first picture on the fourth row?

A tiny badge with a spanish flag.
Her Spanish semi-final opponent in badminton injured herself during their match and had to withdraw. source e.g. here

Missing the dudes dick hitting the bar, Raygun and Gojira.

It hit all those things??

They left out the cuban wrestler Mijan Lopez. After winning his fifth consecutive Olympic Gold Medal in his discipline, the Cuban giant retired from wrestling. His sneakers on the middle of the mat were certainly an Olympic image, considering the discipline and his achievements.

Pretty sure they were in Paris dude 🙄
Her expression is like "Is that what we're supposed to do?"

According to who? Because i don't recognize most of these, and i don't see some that are very shared like bad breakdancing woman

Yeah, my first thought was it was missing the dude whose dick cost him a medal.
- Or the mooning surfer.
- Wait.... What?
- Apparently if you watch the replay it’s clear that he had already failed his attempt before his bulge hit.
- Damn you beat me to it. That's all I know about this year's Olympics
According to who?
Other people? I know that's a foreign concept to people here. That other people exist, but it's true. There's over a million of us. Crazy right.
- If by other people you mean something like the PR firm of the IOC, then sure. The word "popular" doesn't just mean "something one person or entity prefers"
Pole vault dick and break dancer are videos, not still images. Maybe that will be a different category
- No they're definitely highly shared still images

Where's the big floppy pole vaulter?
- You mean the big floppy pole pole vaulter?

Technically not an Olympics photo. She’s an Italian gymnast who does promo for Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese. That’s an ad she did.
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It's actually a Trampling competition.

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.

I have heard nothing about the Olympics this year aside from the shooting competition. It's very weird.

!olympics@sh.itjust.works had most of the discussion
I thought it was pretty good and watched as much as I could everyday. But then I have Peacock.

I’ve never wanted to be a round of cheese more XD

Needs more Australian break dancing

Ah yes, blue jesus, we will never forget you

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.

Where Gojira?

I would have used the headless singer to represent the opening ceremony.

Yes! Gojira's performance was amazing!

That shot of Franz Wagner dunking through three French players would have been nice…

As much as I despise the Olympics it does some entertaining moments!

I despise the IOC, but I love all the athletes competing in the event. So much emotion, such dedication. For me, it's the best reality TV there is.

Why do they give them individually boxed giant novelty cigarettes?

Oh right, France.

IIRC they are posters: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/sporting/a61738783/paris-olympics-medal-box-gift-explained/

What's the one bottom left corner? What's up with the opposing team in their uniforms?

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.
- WTF, what was the justification for that rule before they changed it?
- So was the opposing team wearing those as a form of protesting or what? I'm confused.
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.
- 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.
At first I thought they were scuba divers.
- Same. I was wondering why there were scuba divers at an Olympics beach volleyball game

She won the gold in Cheese.