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🏅 The 2024 Paris Olympics has kicked off, and we are proudly cheering on the 43 incredibly talented local athletes who have trained their whole lives for this moment! 🌟 If our team were to become Olympic athletes, these are the sports they would choose! 🥇 Which sport would you compete in? Let us know in the comments! #lvpublicrelations #vegasprpro #lasvegaspr #vegaspragency #rhythmicgymnasticsolympics #teamusa #volleyballolympics #tennisolympics #badmintonolympics #swimmingolympics

With the 2024 Olympics now over, we surveyed Brits to understand if they began training today, do they think they could make the Olympic team in 2028 and if so, in what sport? #olympics #YouGov #MarketResearch

Only four Paralympic Track and Field athletes banned for failing to report whereabouts (rule 2.4) In the Anti-Doping Database we have registered 56 paralympic Track & Field athletes sanctioned for violating an Anti-Doping Rule. Out of these, only four has violated the Anti-Doping Rule 2.4 (Whereabout Failures). The three athletes sanctioned has been given sanctions ranging from one year to four years. The para Athletics athlete from Thailand will be the fourth para-athletics athlete we register. In total we have registered 240 athletes sanctioned for failing to provide whereabout information. Most athletes has been sanctioned for two years - 87 registered cases so far. https://lnkd.in/dsyYWdr6 #cleansport #fairplay #para #athletics #thailand #sport #integrity

As the Olympic Games are being held this year in Paris, I thought it would be interesting to explore how the Olympians earn their chance at gold, silver, or bronze. It turns out that, just like in the world of finance, the path to the Olympics is paved with strategic planning, diligent effort, and a fair bit of competitive spirit. Paris 2024 Olympic Games Paris 2024 will be held from 26 July to 11 August of this year and will include Aquatics, Athletics, and Boxing. New categories like breaking (as in break-dancing, I kid you not) will grace the games, as over 10,000 athletes from over 200 countries compete in 306 medal events. The Right Stuff? When it comes to qualifying, each sport has a different metric by which they judge. Some are based on individual performances, others on the collective strength of national teams. Sports like shooting and taekwondo offer quotas for places earned by individual athletes, which helps prevent a small number of countries from dominating any event. However, even then, the final say on who fills those quota places lies with the athlete's respective National Olympic Committees (NOCs). Dream Teams In team sports, nations secure their spots through performances in World Championships, continental competitions, or global qualifiers. This rigorous selection process ensures only the highest-performing athletes represent their countries on the international stage, making each event a (hopefully) thrilling spectacle of skill and sportsmanship. Talk about inspiring! The dedication, coordination, and grit needed to arrive at this global stage is just "awesome" in every sense. Olympics.com, 2024

Fencing is a completely individual sport. When you step onto the piste, it's all you against your opponent. At times, the match could be over in 5 minutes. But these 5 minutes could seem the longest for some fencers. All the training, all the pressure, all the expectations - they disappear in the 5 minutes. It's you against your opponent. What postive self-talk do elite fencers employ? What attentional focus strategies do champions use to focus their attention on their next move? #psychologicalskills #sportpsychology #GTsnippets

Will Bowling and Billiards become Olympic Sports? #Bowling and #Billiards are two sports that were born in the entertainment industry. In most people’s minds they are games or activities and for millions of people around the world, they are sports! Sports that are recognized by the International Olympic Committee – IOC, participating in The World Games and they are a part of ARISF and SportAccord. Sports that are striving to become Olympic Sports in the near future. (Let’s go!) Whether you prefer them as sports, games, activities or even toys you buy for your house, you definitely cannot ignore all the hard work that is been done by the International Bowling Federation and the WCBS - World Confederation of Billiards Sports. It takes years of planning and organizing and communicating and bringing the right team on board in order to bring the sports to their current status and they definitely deserve recognition for that. What do you think? Should they be Olympic sports? Let me know in the comments, your opinion will contribute to thousands of athletes’ dream. (My opinion) They should be Olympic sports. Here are a couple of elements that go unnoticed by the general public: - The Physicality to compete at the highest level for many days and hours during a championship. - The Focus and Calmness you need to maintain for many days and hours during a championship. - The Precision that is required on every single shot. #Olympics #Brisbane2032

The 1908 Olympic Games in London were a groundbreaking event that showcased the world's top athletes in a spectacle of speed, strength, and sportsmanship. Held from April 27 to October 31, 1908, at White City Stadium, the Games saw a record 22 countries participate, with over 2,000 athletes competing in 110 events. The 1908 Olympics introduced several innovations, including the first-ever winter sports, the debut of the decathlon, and the introduction of the Olympic Creed. The Games were marked by memorable performances, including the dominance of British athletes in track and field events, the stunning upset of American athlete John Carpenter in the 400 meters, and the remarkable feats of Swedish gymnasts. As the fourth modern Olympic Games, the 1908 London Olympics set a new standard for international athletic competition, paving the way for the global sporting phenomenon we know today. Here are 12 hashtags related to this topic: 1. #1908OlympicGames 2. #LondonOlympics 3. #WhiteCityStadium 4. #OlympicHistory 5. #AthleticGreatness 6. #InternationalCompetition 7. #Sportsmanship 8. #OlympicCreed 9. #DecathlonDebut 10. #WinterSports 11. #TrackAndField 12. #GymnasticsPioneers

With the Paris Summer Olympics just round the corner, team Spoogle dived deep into its databases and came out with some interesting insights. Being held since 1896, the summer Olympics are one of the oldest multi-sport events in the world apart from being the most prestigious. Thousands of medals have been won by nations across numerous sports and events over the years and we decided to create an all-time list of the most successful countries at the summer Olympics. Points have been awarded for each medal won, 𝟱 for a gold medal, 𝟯 for a silver and 𝟮 for a bronze medal. The 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟭𝟬 most successful nations of all time across all event stagings have been laid down based on medal points earned. Some of the insights that surfaced include: -   The United States easily leads the pack by a huge margin as being the most successful nation at the summer Olympics of all time with 𝟮𝟲𝟯𝟲 total medals won. -   The United States have an almost absolute edge when it comes to the sports of athletics and aquatics. -   The Soviet Union have done the best in Gymnastics and Combat sports More details in the attached document. Power of data in sports, if nothing else!!! #olympics #2024olympics #sportstech #sportsdataanalytics

The data must be known to NBCUniversal. If you watch the NBC coverage, Jordan Chiles' score posts at the 3:28 mark in this video. And the NBC commentator states at the 4:01 mark that an inquiry had been put in on Jordan Chiles' floor routine. For the inquiry to be made and for NBC to know about it means that the time between the scores posting and the inquiry could not have been more than 30 seconds. But we don't know whether this video was edited. Honestly International Olympic Committee – IOC this is a judging error no matter how you slice it. The judges admit they erred on her difficulty score (5.9 instead of 5.8). Now the judges say they erred in allowing a (4 seconds?!) late challenge (which may not have been late). Just give out two Bronze medals FFS. Boxing, judo, taekwondo and wrestling award two bronze medals per competition. Where's the harm in awarding 2 when the judges screw up? And what's with the arbitrary 60 second limit for a challenge anyway? The actual limit is "before the next routine", but Chiles was last so there was no next routine! Does it take into account the time to walk to the judges? Is that miraculously the same at every competition? Should they be sprinting to the judges pushing everyone out of their way? Does it take into account the time it takes a judge to look up from what they are doing? Is it when the coach makes the verbal inquiry or when the judge records the inquiry? It is when the coach begins speaking or when she ends her inquiry. Does it account for language differences between the coach making the inquiry and the judge receiving it? What if the coach is in a wheelchair?! It's just so ridiculous to put that kind of precision on something that cannot possibly be so precise. Mind you, isn't 13.666 versus 13.700 rather over-precision on something subjectively judged in the first place? After all, because all scoring is to only one decimal place in the first place (see my next post) an average of 13.666 should be reported as 13.7 tying the two for Bronze. #olympics #gymnastics #bronzemedal #jordanchiles #data #error #judging