Weekend Playlist: Olympic Sports 2

Weekend Playlist: Olympic Sports II

This is a second edition of the Olympic weekend playlist created by Adrian with help from guest curator walt4it looking at X/twitter selections (08/08/2024) with Songs that reference Olympic events, finals and (closing) ceremony.
The closing ceremony and end of the Paris Olympics was on 11th August 2024 where the Olympic flag was handed to Los Angeles for 2028!

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Jack for the spotified list

[Side 1] Going for Gold
Ocean Colour Scene - Riverboat Song 
Saw Doctors - To win just once
Shed 7 - Going for Gold
Vincent Delerm - La Natation Synchronisée
Radiohead - Climbing up the walls
Queen - Bicycle Race

[Side 2] Closing Ceremony
Gene - Olympian
Idlewild - Bronze Medal
U2 - Silver & Gold
UB40 - Champion
Semisonic - Closing Time 
Tina Arena - The Flame

[Bonus]
Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma 
Sound of Music - Climb every mountain
Dr Douglas & Dr Bucknor - Baton in hand

Long list

• Aerosmith - Dream On
• America - Horse with no name
• BA Robertson - Knocked It Off
• Bangles - Eternal Flame
• Belle & Sebastian - Stars of Track & Field
• Ben folds five - Boxing
• Cece Peniston - Finally
• Charlie Parker ft Miles Davies - Steeplechase
• Corrs - Breathless
• Courtney Barnett - Aqua Profunda
• Daft Punk - One more time
• Divine Comedy - Come Home Billy Bird
• Dr Tyron Douglas & Dr Wayne Bucknor - Baton in hand
• Europe - Final Countdown
• Gene - Olympian
• Hans Zimmer - Going for gold
• Idlewild - Bronze Medal
• Irene Cara - Breakdance
• Journey - Don't stop belivin'
• Kenny Rogers - Buried Treasure
• Marley's Ghost - Run on (for a long time)
• New Order - Ceremony
• Ocean Colour Scene - Riverboat Song
• Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma
• Phil Fuldner - The Final
• Queen - Bicycle Race
• Queen - We are the champions
• Radiohead - Climbing up the Walls
• Saw Doctors - To win just once
• Semisonic - Closing Time
• Shed Seven - Going for Gold
• Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
• Sound of Music - Climb every mountain
• Sparks - Let's go surfing
• Spyridon samaras - Olympic Hymn
• Squeeze - Sunday Street
• T-Rex - Cosmic Dancer
• The Cult - Ceremony
• They might be giants - Circular Karate Chop
• Tiffany - I think we're alone now
• Tina Arena - The Flame
• Tom Petty - Even the losers
• UB40 - Champion
• U2 – Silver and Gold
• Underworld - Caliban’s Dream
• Vincent Delerm - La natation synchronisée
• XTC - Yacht Dance
• Yello - The Race

Weekend Playlist: Olympic Sports 1

Weekend Playlist: Olympic Sports

Here's a weekend playlist created by Adrian with help from guest curator walt4it looking at X/twitter selections (25/07/2024) with Songs that reference Olympic Sports.
The start of Paris Olympics was on 26th July 2024 with an opening ceremony highlighting a female gamesmaker holding an umbrella up for Tony Estanguet, hot-air balloon holding the Olympic Flame and Celine Dion.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Jack for the spotified list

[Side 1]
1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2. Herbie Hancock - Rock it
3. America - A horse with no name
4. Surfaris - Wipeout
5. Rod Stewart - Sailing
6. Who - Relay
[Side 2]
7. Dio - Holy Diver
8. Beautiful South - Perfect 10
9. Hamish Hawk - Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion 1973
10. Peter Gabriel - I go swimming
11. Embrace - Target
12. Ian Brown - Marathon Man
[Bonus]
Amy Winehouse - Between the Cheats
Vangelis - Chariots of fire

Long list

• Aloe blacc - Let the games begin
• America - A horse with no name
• Amy Winehouse - Between the Cheats
• Ash - Kung Fu
• Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi
• Bagpuss - The Ballet Shoe
• Beautiful South - Perfect 10
• Blur - No distance left to run
• Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
• Cat Stevens - Father & Son
• Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger
• Dio - Holy Diver
• Drums - Lets go surfing
• Eagles - Long run
• ELO - Livin' Thing
• Embrace - Target
• Gene - Olympian
• Gomez - Whippin Piccaddilly
• Hamish Hawk - Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion 1973
• Herbie Hancock - Rock it
• Hollies - He ain't heavy He's my brother
• Ian Brown - Marathon Man
• Irene Cara - Breakdance
• Jeff Foxworthy - Redneck Games
• Leo Arnaud - Bugler's Dream
• Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push
• Metallica - Don't tread on me
• Micronaut ft Saskia Streck - Fencing
• P!nk - Beam me up
• Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma
• Peter Gabriel - I go swimming
• Pointer Sisters - Jump
• Queen - Bicycle Race
• Queen - Don't stop me now
• Queen - We are the champions
• Quiver & Sutherland Brothers - Arms of Mary
• Radiohead - Climbing up the walls
• REM - Man on the moon
• Rod Stewart - Sailing
• Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
• Snow Patrol - Run
• Spandau Ballet - Gold
• Starsailor - Four to the floor
• Steve Winwood - Arc Of A Diver
• Surfaris - Wipeout
• Tears for Fears - Head over heels
• Trashcan Sinatras - Weightlifting
• Van Halen - Jump
• Van Morrison & Tom Jones - Carrying a torch
• Vangelis - Chariots of fire
• Verve - Drugs don't work
• Who - Relay

Random Musings - Day #303

The Japanese Premier, Yugo Hatoyama maybe launching an attack on the charts. Meanwhile Wham's "Freedom" was #1 many years ago.

It's 1000 days from the start of the Olympics.

Any interesting script in two lines to mess around with a script file and generate a listing ports in a way your mother likes it.

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for I in `cat ,`; do echo "$I/tcp)"; done | sed 's/|/ /'

More bits of useful scripting relate format modifiers and one-liners for sun. Talking of sun here's a blueprints guide

Olympics Wrap-up

The last couple of days were been very eventful. Particularly in the Taekwondo competition.
First of all, there was the quarter-final between Britain's Sarah Stevenson and Chen Zhong who was a former 2-time Olympic champion. The Chinese appeared to have nicked the match 1-0. However, there was an incident where Sarah clearly kicked the Chen in the face and it wasn't picked up by all the judges. In fact, at the end of the bout, there was a little meeting of 4 the corner judges, there was a little conversation and the initial result stood. 3 of the 4 judges have to have seen the kick. To be fair, the position of the women at the time, made it difficult for 2 of the judges to pick it up. The British protested and for the first time in the sport, the initial decision was reversed. A very brave but correct decision because there were jeers from the partisan crowd. Sarah Stevenson went on to win bronze. Here's how the Chinese viewed it

Talking of shots to head, have a look at the controversial finish to the men's 80kg bronze medal match between Cuba's Angel Valodia Matos and Kazakhstan's Arman Chilmanov, which ended up the Cuban being disqualified and giving kick to the referee's head. Absolutely shocking behaviour and surprising considering the Cuban was a former Olympic champion!
The reason for his disqualification was a bit harsh. He picked up a knock on his foot and required some medical attention, which to me appears to slow in arrival. He was given a 10 second warning and he was counted out. It seems a bit harsh if you compare to other sports like football where you would get a yellow card/warning for time wasting. However, reading the WTF rules, it does state in article 19, "The contestant who does not demonstrate the will to continue the contest after one minute, even in the case of a slight injury, shall be declared loser by the referee." By the letter of the law, it would appear the ref was right to award the match to his opponent. However, "the will" makes this rule not a hard and fast rule. Considering the Cuban was 3-2 up at the time and the medical assistance didn't come until late in the minute period, it does seem a little unfair. That said, he should have the experience to realise to get up before the minute expired and also not to lose his cool. This quote sums it up really... "You are allowed to kick your opponent in the head, that's part of the game... You're not allowed to kick the referee in the head"

I have to say all respect to the newest sport in the Olympics, BMX racing. There were thrills and spills in all the races! It looks very dangerous if you come off your bike. Great Britain's own Shanaze Reade found this out twice during the Olympics. Crucially the second time was unfortunately in the final where she clipped the wheel of Gold medalist Anne-Caroline Chausson. The contrast of glory and failure could be seen in the video with Chausson crossing the winning line arms aloft and poor Shanaze sprawled out on ground defeated. At the two-time world champion has youth on her side and She will probably have a crack at London 2012 Olympics