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Six days ago, tennis superstar Naomi Osaka lit the Olympic cauldron and kicked off just over two weeks of sporting excellence. Now, sports fans around the globe have been glued to their screens to support their national teams and athletes competing in the biggest event of high-level athleticism.
So amid the salty caramel popcorn, loud cheers and tears of disappointment, people are taking their emotions and laying them all out in these funny tweets that we collected below. So let’s get that Tokyo Olympics vibe up and rolling, and be sure to upvote your favorite ones!
After you’re done, I totally recommend you check out our previous post with crazy photos of Olympians and other athletes that will give you an entirely new perspective on the human body and its capabilities. No amount of respect is too much for these incredible people!
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With so many fans not being able to attend the Olympics this year, the post-pandemic sports event seems very different from what we were used to. Just like most professional sports, Olympic events feed off crowd energy that transfers onto the screens for viewers at home.
Commenting on the very different kind of Olympic experience this year, Rick Burton, a professor of sport management at Syracuse University and the former chief marketing officer of the US Olympic Committee for the 2008 Beijing games, called the experience “sterile.” “The sponsors are going to be thinking the ratings will be down. They’re worried they’re not going to get their money’s worth,” he added.
Moreover, sports psychologists are now observing an Olympics without fans as a real-life science experiment. It’s thought to help researchers and clinicians to measure the impact of a crowd of fans on its players—and on spectators at home. The unprecedented times offer an entirely new glimpse into what is the social and psychological makeup of the Olympic Games and how the competing athletes are affected by it.
Some athletes have already stressed the pressure that’s been building for not having an audience of spectators. On Tuesday, superstar gymnast Simone Biles dropped out of the women’s team event, blaming “not the right headspace” for competition. “It’s been really stressful this Olympic Games. Just as a whole, not having an audience. There are a lot of different variables going into it,’ she told the Washington Post.
The findings made on viewers’ engagement also show that sports without fans may be way less enjoyable. Kantar, a research firm that measures consumer enthusiasm, found that two-third of American sports spectators announced that watching sports during the pandemic was not as engaging and enjoyable. “[The Olympics] could be a little bit less engaging, a little bit less fulfilling for the viewer,” Ryan McConnell, Kantar’s senior vice president for consulting, told Quartz.
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404 Panda Not Found 3 years ago
Damn, BP's censoring has gone to (present tence cat in french)
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Nadja Lambacher 3 years ago
And another American girl won gold anyway, so all the fuzz was pointless.
ApexScavenger 3 years ago
Here's what these fools can't seem to understand. Biles is an athlete competing on a TEAM. She made the very difficult choice to withdraw from certain events IN ORDER TO GIVE HER TEAM THE BEST CHANCE TO WIN.
Whitney Anderson 3 years ago
As someone who has struggled with mental health a lot, I feel so bad for Simone Biles
Vermillion Ace #443 3 years ago
lol, I chalk that up to karma. Perhaps he can go hoarse from shouting about it in public too so that he can't type and talk? Wishful thinking.
Analyn Lahr 3 years ago
If she wasn't in the right headspace then its a good thing she pulled out. She could have been seriously hurt otherwise. It's important in any sport, any activity to be in the right frame of mind.
ChickyChicky 3 years ago
I know what's in that Mystery Egg, it's full of shyte!
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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Coolest thing I did at 13 was a trick on a bike that later caused me severe pain (when I landed) and would have made Tony Hawk laugh, b/c he could do it on a skateboard. So, yeah, no coolness whatsoever.
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cassiushumanmother 3 years ago
Here is another kind of Olympics from Remi Gaillard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBkyth_KT3E
cassiushumanmother 3 years ago
Here is another kind of Olympics from Remi Gaillard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBkyth_KT3E
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