r/olympics 8h ago

BBC's Ski Sunday to end after nearly 50 years

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r/olympics 7h ago

I built a LA28 tracker focused on country dashboards and qualifications

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I kept finding myself switching between schedule PDFs and time-zone converters, so I built a small independent tool for LA 2028:

https://games28.paulzuiderduin.com/

Games28 lets you browse the schedule in your local time, save country dashboards, follow verified qualification updates, and export confirmed sessions to your calendar.

It is free, independent, and not affiliated with LA28 or the IOC. I’m still improving it, so I’d genuinely love feedback: what would make this more useful as we get closer to 2028?


r/olympics 13h ago

Harry Edward inducted into England Athletics hall of fame

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r/olympics 3h ago

The fate of the Sarajevo olympics flame

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Hi everyone, first and maybe last post on this subreddit, I just want to share that yesterday i take a taxi in my town and the driver, a bosnian, tell me that is dad carry the Sarajevo olympic flame in 1984 and now, this guy, the driver, as the flame in his basement in Sherbrooke, Québec. I you ever wonder what happen to the flame, now you know it. (As you can see, english his not my first language)


r/olympics 9h ago

Hockey Small web tool to rebuild 2010 Olympic hockey rosters

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Built a 2010 Olympics hockey roster tool: pick a custom 23 and get a text match in the browser. Russia vs Canada is ready to play.

https://seve28.github.io/Dream-Roster-Simulator/


r/olympics 14h ago

Youtube series called THE JOURNEY TO LA - interviews with athletes

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Youtube series called The Journey to LA. A series of short interviews with athletes that are training towards competing at LA 2028. Very interesting to hear about all the different sports. The playlist is regularly updated with new interviews


r/olympics 1d ago

Which athletes have held a short lived world record?

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Just watched another video posted here about Powell’s Long Jump record and it made me think how common is this?
Not just track and field, but other events too.

When Powell set the world record of 8.95m in 1991, Carl Lewis also jumped 8.91m just before him (but was wind assisted, so it didn’t could as WR) but it got me thinking that there must be cases where someone breaks a WR and then loses it in the same meeting to someone else.
Ideas?

Also might interesting in races/events where the winner sets the WR and the lower place finishers beat the OLD WR (Eg World Champs in 1991 when Carl Lewis and Luther Burrell both beat the old WR time in the 100m final).


r/olympics 1d ago

FIFA World Cup vs Olympics

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Curious for those who attended World Cup soccer games in the USA in 2026. Were face value tickets cheaper than Olympic tickets? Looking for comparisons of team sports in large venues. And was the markup for World Cup insanely high like we're seeing for Olympic tickets now? Asking this to see what we can expect for resale Olympic ticket prices for soccer, baseball, basketball, track etc.


r/olympics 2d ago

Gianmarco Tamberi in training

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r/olympics 1d ago

My John Williams Legacy vinyl copy arrived featuring the 1984 Olympics Theme!

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It's hard to tell from the photos, but the text and Deutsche Grammophon logo on the front cover are metallic gold and a different, shinier texture. A nice touch for a stunning product!

I got mine here: https://www.johnwilliamslegacy.com


r/olympics 2d ago

Thailand women volleyball team qualified for olympics beating China

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r/olympics 6h ago

Should the Olympic Tennis competition have rules concerning grunting?

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Ever since Jimmy Conners, grunting has been normal in tennis. I can understand why tennis players grunt. Even I grunt when I play tennis, but in recent history we have seen the grunting going too far in tennis. From Maria Sharapova to Michelle Larcher de Brito, we have been hearing grunting which is going too far. I feel that the Olympic tennis competition should have a certain level of decorum since it is the Olympics after all. I don't think you can ban grunting, but I think there should be rules against these excessive grunts that often sound like the cry of a Yorkshire terrier.

Should the Olympic tennis competition have rules established to regulate grunting? And if so, how can I be done?


r/olympics 1d ago

Cricket success drives Bangladesh's ambition for first Olympic medal

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r/olympics 2d ago

What is the most ridiculous rule you have ever seen in an Olympic sport?

146 Upvotes

r/olympics 2d ago

When Mike Powell set a World Record of 8.95m in the men's Long Jump in Tokyo!

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61 Upvotes

r/olympics 1d ago

Police Make Surprise Discovery of Stolen Statue of Olympic Gymnast

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r/olympics 2d ago

Hockey Belgium players join the celebrations after Argentina wins Field Hockey WC

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r/olympics 2d ago

Hockey ARGENTINA ARE THE WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPION IN FIELD HOCKEY WORLD CUP

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r/olympics 2d ago

Hockey Field Hockey Women's World Cup 2026 Final Match HLs

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r/olympics 3d ago

At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, due to the absence of high-speed cameras, the running event required 22 observers to determine the final results.

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r/olympics 3d ago

Anyone else here....

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check the box for "sit in a cheering section for a random" team when buying their LA28 tickets?


r/olympics 4d ago

Sailing Norway's King Harald dies at 89: he competed in sailing in '64, '68, and '72.

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r/olympics 4d ago

Which Olympic event do you find the most boring to watch?

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r/olympics 5d ago

Sheer numbers of LA 2028 are staggering

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I just read that LA '28 organizers are expecting between 3 and 5 million unique visitors to travel to the Olympics. Greater LA is home to >18M residents. We've heard there are about 14M tickets for both the Olympics and Paralympics.

Holy smokes ... every event is going to be a hot ticket. Just not enough tickets to go around. Not even close.


r/olympics 4d ago

Football NFL players get acclimation camps in first step toward Olympic flag football

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