Toe precision, running, jumping, throwing

I didn't watch any of the evening replays of the morning events yesterday, * but I'm up now watching things live. The long jump part I actually like the best is the close-up of the foot not going over the foul line (the sandy end of the white board). Mihambo of Germany fouled the first two times (toe over). Her third time she had the attention and control to launch herself before she even got to the white board. She's good enough that she still was flying for over 6 meters.
https://olympics.com/en/news/long-jump-athletics-rules-history-world-records-olympics-techniques

US runner Kendall Ellis being interviewed. She ran well today, but said that she was so down yesterday that she considered not even running today. Received a lot of emotional support, went ahead, won her heat.

Commentator advice about javelin - start stretching young, keep stretching. (also some stuff about the way you run before throwing, but stretching).

Watching men's hurdles heats. With my usual weird memory, I always think of a short scene from a TV mini-series forty years ago about the 1896 Olympics, when some of the events were being re-invented based on scenes from urn paintings, for example. The USians trying to figure out hurdles were not managing until a maid (?) showed them the way to do it. In an instant gratification way, the exact scene is available on Youtube.
https://youtu.be/qw9eWsruZHc?si=EOuL0Ri_E7mQqxjp

I claimed in this post that I would train in the rain
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/834626.html
Nah. Staying in the house this morning. My training has been goofed with due to life events multiple times already, what's another day?

* I did see Mondo Duplantis set a new world record in pole vault on Twitter
The cool thing about that was while it was the last event of the day, and the only thing happening (as opposed to most of the day, when it's a more-than-three ring circus), the stadium was still full of people who stayed to watch.

teenagers

The male speed wall climber from New Zealand is young enough to have visible acne.
The best camera angle for this sport seems to be from the side. If you're looking straight on it just seems like they are crawling along a floor with red knobby things in the way. I suppose there is an official name for the knobby things, but I'm not bothering to look it up. There is a rock wall gym not far from the North End. I suppose I could go in and ask.

online relationahip advice

Quoted elsewhere without naming the original TikTok poster:
>>one of their non negotiables for a future partner was, "are you going to let me love something without ridicule?" <<

I think it would be good for people's family relationships as well as romantic ones. It doesn't necessarily mean the extraordinary level of support many of the families of the Olympians provide, but at least not mocking or trying to discourage someone. As an example, Arthur's mother always has found me inexplicable in many ways, but never has said anything actually negative. When I was in a group singing women's traditional Balkan music, she said it was "interesting." Clearly not to her taste, but nothing disparaging.
My parents were also very supportive, within the limits of what they felt a teenager should not do.

Tim Walz

I got the news first from the Liza Minelli outlives twitter account (in this case, that LM has outlived the wait for the VP pick). NPR's web page top line is still that Mark Kelly is the most likely. I know that NPR's policy is to wait for three confirmed sources before publishing something, but maybe sometimes one is enough.