When I was watching the equestrian events, I thought I saw a temporary pool on the grounds at Versailles, so I suspect that’s the pool for the modern pentathlon.
I don’t think so, or hasn’t been historically, because of Title IX requirements. Every sport but football* has a boys and girls team, and having only a girls’ volleyball program rounds it all off.
That being said, I looked up the history of boys’ HS volleyball in Ohio and their little online history goes back to at least 1988, with a second division (Div I and Div II) being added in 2008. However, it looks like almost every school that competes is a private school, which most likely don’t have to abide by Title IX.
*I do believe wrestling counts as a unisex sport.
Anyone watch the US (NBC) broadcast of women’s beach volleyball? I swear the camera operators seem to purposely focus on the womens’ lower bikini regions to cringeworthy levels. I watched portions of one match and thought maybe it was just a coincidence or accidental. But then I noticed it happened pretty frequently across matches.
P.S. I’ve read none of this thread, so apologies if it’s already been discussed.
I can’t recall if it was discussed, but one they love is the post-ad-break swoop from ground level, behind the volleyball players.
Yeah, they’re selling it.
Once in a while, they are showing one partner hand signaling to another, which is excusable. But during others, there’s really no reason.
There’s a reason. It’s an inappropriate and sexist reason, but it is a reason.
Sexy sells and NBC has a lot of advertisers who want eyeballs on the screen and are pretty shameless about not caring how they get them.
There probably are, but they may not have two pools with sufficient stadium seating.
The one where they held the swimming events was temporary. That is, a temporary pool build on the floor of an existing, large sports arena.l a
Seems like a good way to contain the costs of hosting the Olympics, provided your city has enough existing arenas (or large, open buildings).
I posted upthread that there seemed a huge emphasis on beach volleyball.
That US v Canada match was pretty killer.
I just want to know who greased the balance beam. That final was tragic. It reminded me of Sydney when the vault horse was set to the wrong height.
Alas! The Philippines’ EJ Obiena finished just short of the medal standings. He actually tied with bronze medalist Emmanouil Karalis of Greece, at 5.90 m, but was edged out due to missing a prior jump.
And, yes, around these parts Armand Duplantis is referred to as halimaw (monster).
Really enjoyed the men’s 3000m steeplechase. Never really seen it before, and I thought it would be like a horse racing steeplechase. Kinda-sorta, in the end, but those barriers don’t give like hurdles, and the athletes were using them as footholds, which horses would never do. Good for them!
And the team cycling. Never seen it before. Three members of a team start, one goes to the front while the others take it easy. After one lap, the leader peels away, and one of the two remaining goes to the lead. Then peels away. The last goes for it, and records the team’s time. Fascinating!
I’ve complained here before about “too much basketball, too much tennis,” mainly because those are sports I can watch pretty much anytime (the NBA season, all the tennis tournaments). When it comes to the Olympics, I like to see sports I never get to see. That steeplechase and that team cycling are exactly what I want to see, because I won’t get to see them for another four years.
Hey, if I catch men’s field hockey game on the tube, I’ll give it a crack. Unfortunately I don’t remember ever seeing it…anywhere, lifetime. Based on what my DVR is telling me, there’s about as much of a chance of a major network covering this as making The Voice watchable. Be glad to be proven wrong!
Re. those bikinis: At this point my major peeve is, when is everyone going to grow the hell up? In my whole life, I remember a grand of one person…live, TV, radio, newspaper, Internet…having a problem with how revealing women’s gymnastics leotards are (a Dear Abby column, which should tell you something right there). It was and is a complete nonissue. Because at some point they’re not skimpy outfits, they’re just OUTFITS. Same deal with figure skating, or diving, or track and field. It’s not “too revealing”, it’s the standard, normal wear, which is as revealing as what anyone else should wear for that activity. Frankly, that NBC even thinks there’s anything worth ogling here strikes me as just juvenile. It’s like taking an upskirt shot of a cheerleader. Those are cheer briefs, who CARES? (And to get on my occasional soapbox again, does anyone have any opinion of men’s divers and water polo players? Anything at all? For the record, my opinion is that I’d love to be in the kind of shape where I could wear that tiny a swimsuit without looking disgusting.)
RickJay - And now I just got a brief but vivid picture of the River City Girls going to town with ringette equipment. Damn, this board rocks. 
Oh, Olympic size pools. Paris might be able to put together two of them, but it’d be hard to justify the effort or expense.
EinsteinsHund/Lantern2 - I saw him in a couple Diamond League events. He won one of them fairly easily (2nd or 3rd in the other, I think), and I got the impression that he was capable of a runaway triumph, but he hadn’t shown it just yet. As soon as I can find out which of the 100+ recordings on my DVR has him, I’m watching this. Seeing a generational talent at his or her peak is never to be missed.
Heh. I was a figure skater, as was my sister. Lots of girls at the rink wearing skating dresses, which were little more than a short skirt sewn onto a leotard. Jumps, spins, flying camels, you could see her underwear. Except it really wasn’t; it was her leotard. At any rate, woo-hoo!
The irony? I was called “gay” because I liked figure skating. I figure skated; it was fun. Meanwhile, the so-called “macho guys” at school would spend hours in the hockey rink locker room in nothing but jockstraps.
Me? I’d be guiding a pretty young lady in nothing but a leotard, in my arms, around the rink. Kilian position, reverse Kilian, waltz position, they all required touching and holding the girl. But my so-called “macho” contemporaries would be sitting around a locker room with other guys, clad in jockstraps. No girls in sight; much less any they could hold, as I did. And they seemed to like sitting around a room with other guys in jockstraps. Now, who’s really gay? A bunch of guys sitting around in underwear, no girls in sight, have the temerity to call me gay? Jeez, look at yourselves!
'Nuff said, and let’s end this Winter Olympics hijack.
My only comment on the beach volleyball uniforms is that the women actually have multiple options. They can wear one piece suits, short sleeve or long sleeve tops and longer shorts or leggings. In fact, the initial rounds in Paris were played in cooler weather and a lot of the teams wore leggings. I was frankly disgusted by the kind of comments I saw.
https://www.news.com.au/sport/olympics/storm-erupts-over-olympics-beach-volleyball-attire-detail/news-story/f1f3032c43a93a823b6fdca06f05fd1c?amp
I think the question is more about the camera angles and the editing than the women wearing what they want.
I don’t mind or even seem to think much of any of it. I feel like Beach Volleyball has always looked like this and I actually don’t notice the camera-people zooming in or focusing on butts all that much. Perhaps I’m just desensitized since I have been a fan since the late 1980’s.
I’m looking forward to tonight’s (9pm Paris time) men’s 1500m final. Ingebritsen is favourite, but Briton Josh Kerr is expected to push him harder than anyone. It has the potential to be a classic of the like we haven’t seen in the event since the days of Coe, Cram, and Ovett.
Oops. Swedish guy just fell off his horse. He was the favorite but no medal today. Rule #1 of equestrian is don’t fall off.
Is anyone else thinking what I’m thinking about Brady Ellison? So he’s married now, to another top-rated archer. And they have two kids. So perhaps in 2040 or '44, someone named Ellison will bring home Olympic gold.
Wouldn’t be the first time! For instance, Michael Carter, who got silver in men’s shot-put in 1984. His daughter Michelle was in women’s shot-put in 2016, and got gold, no doubt largely because guess who her coach was! And that’s just one example I know of; there must be dozens, if not hundreds.