Photo by Andrew Bone via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/andreboeni/)
Time for a round of MeFi's posts about the 2024 Olympics! There's a post about the amazing swimmer, Katie Ledecky, another covering the photo of surfer Gabriel Medina celebrating his win, the difference between USA and AUS broadcasts of the opening ceremonies, and finally a question about specific events that are really worth watching. All these and more are under the Olympics2024 tag!
577 - Olympic Rings Texture by Patrick Hoesly (cc by)
Best Olympic news of the day?; Where can I find nation agnostic coverage of the Olympics?; Watching the Olympics - Obscure sports edition; What is the the best way to stream the Tokyo Olympics?
Lewis Hamilton by Mubarak Fahad (cc by-nc-nd)
In Ask Metafilter, Hactar wonders, "Which sports are completely dominated by a single person currently?"
By si.robi - Townsend RG19 (29), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80164672
America hating fat Black women — it’s just part of life. It’s in the culture. It’s in the health-care system. You see it in Hollywood, you see it in sports. You don’t have to look around very hard. misskaz posts a superb personal essay by tennis pro Taylor Townsend.
Krocketbällen hintereinander aufgestellt by marcoverch (cc by)
Carillon posted the excellent article "How Two Kentucky Farmers Became Kings Of Croquet, The Sport That Never Wanted Them," which — bonus stroke! — turns out to have been written by Mefi's own gottabefunky! It's a good read.
Come watch the college basketball tournaments in Fanfare!
If you have March Madness, come fill out NCAA basketball brackets - hurry, they're due by Thursday! Also time for fantasy baseball signups!
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Baseball fans come on along - Dodgers vs Red Sox, the MLB World Series chat and watch is happening on Fanfare.
Baseball! The heroes, the villains, the extra inning games. Come to Fanfare for all your baseball playoff discussion needs: first the division series, then the NLCS and ALCS (Brewers/Dodgers and Astros/Red Sox).
Join today's livewatch and discussion in Fanfare for the World Cup Final!
Come share your excitement for the World Cup! There's also a bracket thread, and we'll sidebar Fanfare threads for livewatching as they go up.
Hoop Clouds by sclboston (cc by-nd)
It's March and that means college basketball! Did you see the historic upset last night? Come join the NCAA basketball discussion on Fanfare for the next couple weeks, and share your brackets on Metatalk.
Curling by BC Living (cc by)
Join us in Fanfare for the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, and for ongoing discussion of all the events of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics !
Unhappy owl by krishna.naudin (cc by-sa)
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