#*olympics

[discuspolevault]

Georgia Ellenwood shown winning the NCAA Heptathlon for Wisconsin. Don't pick on her, she is armed and dangerous.

[bunnipenz]

Painting study of Alexandra Trusova

[prelude-numero-2]

A feature-length documentary on Viktoria Onopriienko and her daily life during the war has just been released today.

Link to watch :

[batshit-auspol]

What about that time Australia hired a furry artist for the Olympics. Still better art than the ACT centennial hot air balloon.

2021: The Royal Australian Mint puts out a call for artists to submit portfolios of "Japanese style" cartoons, in preparation for a commemorative series of coins and artworks to be released for the Tokyo Olympics.

The campaign would have a cross promotional tie-in with Australia's largest supermarket, Woolworths where 24 million collectables themed on the artworks would be given away.

It wasn't until the final artist was selected that they realised the people at the Royal Australian Mint had somehow mistaken the anthropomorphised animal-humans that seemed popular on the internet for a popular children's cartoon franchise.

“They knew exactly what they wanted," explained the artist, "we worked together to make sure they got what they envisioned, I tailored what I made to their examples/feedback. They just didn’t know there was a word for it, basically, or that it was SO popular.”

Needless to say, when the artworks were released online people immediately called a spade a spade, headlines were made around the world, and the furry community expressed bemused joy that the Australian government had apparently just released an official fursona.

Unfortunately for those innocent soles that had planned the campaign, given they had just minted $24 million worth of furry coins they couldn't exactly scrap the whole thing, and they were forced to just push ahead while doing their best to ignore the large community of internet oddballs salivating at their every move.

Anyway, here's some of the art:

Here's some of the collectable cards given out free to kids by Woolworths:

[nasa]

Chris Birch

After an academic career at U.C. Riverside and Caltech, Chris Birch became a track cyclist on the U.S. National Team. She was training for the 2020 Olympics when she was chosen as an astronaut candidate. https://go.nasa.gov/49WJKHj

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[retrogamingblog2]

Snom curling

[houjichas]

“so tell us, guys: how can we make hockey more fun? did somebody say puppies?”

(ps: oh my god. if you want to see kittens, rats, and even an octopus on ice, this reblog has incredible details)

[littleguymart]

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[bunnipenz]

Portrait painting of Evgenia Medvedeva skating to "Anna Karenina "Soundtrack, 2018. 🌬🌹💌

[catchymemes]

[i-am-aprl]

A 52-year-old German athlete requested Palestinian citizenship to participate in the Olympic Games under the banner of Palestine in a show of support to the justice of the Palestinian cause.

Christian Zimmermann (born 12 December 1961 in Cologne, Germany) is a German-born Palestinian Olympic dressage rider. He represented Palestine at the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Normandy where he finished 68th in the individual dressage competition with Cinco de Mayo. By doing so, he became the first Palestinian to compete at the World Equestrian Games.

[itszonez]

FLORENCE ‘FLO-JO’ GRIFFITH JOYNER | 1988 Summer Olympics

[peachesodell]

OLYMPIC GREAT JESSE OWENS...track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Elon Musk challenged me to a fencing competition because I insulted him. We had to use Olympic rules, but he decided to use a sabre instead of a fencing sword. I beat him 10 - 0 and he threw a tantrum and then I woke up.