Olympic Games Paris 2024

No, that's unique.

It's like, do you remember during the Paris Olympics when they had Rafa and Serena on a boat together? Yes, yes.

Just like a random group of people forced to spend slightly longer together than it looked like they really wanted to.

I think after dinner with all of us, with me, Joe Wilfred, Sanga, Queen Latifah, and Michelle Obama, we would leave feeling very well acquainted on this deserted island, I guess.

And in swimming, French Olympic swimming star Leon Marchand says Japanese swimmers will be his main rivals at the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

The four-time Paris 2024 champion admits he feels scared and stressed about competing against them.

Marchand is currently in Japan attending the Asian Games.

It's another mild September day with the weather set to remain dry and mostly sunny.

Turning to sport and in swimming, French Olympic swimming star Leon Marchand says Japanese swimmers will be his main rivals at the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

The four-time Paris 2024 champion admits he feels scared and stressed about competing against them.

Marchand is currently in Japan attending the Asian Games.

And a new 28,000 square metre sports complex is taking shape at the entrance to Mondorf, with completion planned for 2029.

Then came another enormous step, France.

Schurke had played for France at youth level and was part of a French squad that won a silver medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

But in June 2025 came the senior team.

France against Spain.

then...

And then recently for the Paris Olympics, you also, I guess, became a fan as well and posted a really lovely video.

So thank you.

Yeah, no, it's a joy to watch you play.

In 2024, he argued that marriage as a union between one man and one woman was not merely a Christian definition.

He has criticized gender-affirming care, complained about transgender-inclusive programs and options in video games, objected to drag performers appearing during the Paris Olympics, and previously said LGBTQ people had co-opted the rainbow and that Christians needed to take those things back.

I'm like, I'm not sure if people realize that like a rainbow is like a weather phenomenon.

Like, it's a play of light and water and light refraction.

I think the first week it rained and then Paris.

When we were there for the Olympics, the first week was very hot like it is here now.

But just even talking to the locals, like this is not normally this hot here.

And even the locals are having a hard time with it.

So if you're thinking about taking that trip, but you're nervous or wondering if you can do it, take the trip.

Maybe start small.

We started with road trips and then we decided to be brave and go all the way to the Paris Olympics.

And look at us now.

I don't know like what proportion of those, you know, be hard to kind of measure what proportion of those are related to gambling.

But I do know during the Paris Olympics, it skyrocketed.

because one people are trying to mess with athletes heads to it to set up their eyes in their favor and like you said they deform they deform these really weird parasocial relationships with athletes who if they don't win for them um they get mad and you know like we haven't even had to talk about because i think on this podcast everyone's on the same page of just the like incredible public health issue that gambling is to begin with but you have all of these um you know, people being engaging in this like predatory scheme, losing lots of money.

And, you know, when they do lose money, they get really angry and they have to have a place to put that anger.