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!
Nothing's surprising anymore.
- hahha what a perfect gif for that sentiment
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?

It's from the badminton. The Chinese player was in the semi-final against Carolina Marin of Spain. Marin had won the first game and was leading in the second before having to retire injured.
So He Bingjiao held up a pin with the Spanish flag on it as a mark of respect for Marin, who should really have been in her place on the podium.
- Always warms my heart to see the amount of respect these athletes have for their competitors. Sometimes people are awesome!
- 🥹
- I love that! I love the international sportsmanship and comraderie that can pop up here. It just goes to show we're all just people.

Gojira and the beheaded Marie Antoinette needs to be included. The Korean sharpshooter too. Also, what is the Chinese athlete holding on the leftmost, second-to-the-last 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
- What a cool thing for her to do. Mad respect.

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

It hit all those things??
- Knocked the raygun right out of my hand.

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.

That was an extremely powerful moment. I'll never forget it.

The mystified Chinese girl is one of the cutest pics ever. When in Rome...

Her expression is like "Is that what we're supposed to do?"
Pretty sure they were in Paris dude 🙄
- Not sure if the eye roll indicates sarcasm or real incredulity but the other girls were Italian. So I guess, when in Paris do as Romans do.

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 a ~~lesbian couple~~ from China where LGBTQ people aren't exactly accepted or welcomed by society.
EDIT: Done some research and I couldn't find them confirming being romantically involved, however there's a different image where Chang (the one being carried) makes a heart shape with her arm, so who knows really ¯⁠⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
- 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
- Thanks, I didn’t even notice same gender, and just assumed it was a breach of courtesy or something to not just stand there

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

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.
https://sopuli.xyz/post/15423388
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.

It was still relatively popular but the olympics has been in decline due to being shackled behind paid cable channels. Everybody's moved to streaming but apparently they didn't get the memo. Just knowing where you can find the olympics is such a nightmare they have a giant table explaining which channel you should go to depending on where you live
- No, they got the memo. At least in the US, the Peacock app had every single event broken out into live events, replays and highlights. Or you could watch the gold medal stream and just mainline finals. They did a pretty good job, IMO.
- Hère un France they had almost all the sports on the two public channels, everyday for two weeks. Impossible to miss.
- On the BBC in the UK. I’ve had a great few weeks of uninterrupted Olympics coverage with no advertisements at all. Bliss.
- lol the cookie accept prompt on that site:
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  Yes, I am happy
  No, manage settings
!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.

Needs more Australian break dancing

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

No T-Rex pose?

The “sneaking to steal a cookie” pose?

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

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

What about the aussie breakdancer on her head?

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

Yes! Gojira's performance was amazing!

Can I please change with the Parmesan, even if she cuts me open afterwards.

Where Gojira?

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

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/

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.

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.
At first I thought they were scuba divers.
- Same. I was wondering why there were scuba divers at an Olympics beach volleyball game
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.
- What country is in the red?

She won the gold in Cheese.