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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Athletes climb a wall, you give them a medal. Dude climbs the Eiffel Tower and everyone assumes he's some sort of terrorist... 🙃 he was just trying to get a better view of the closing ceremony...he's not trying to upstage the athletes, geez.

especially after this guy running on rooftops:

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Your name suggests that you mean the guy should have been chordially invited to the closing ceremony as a result.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean...do the organizers genuinely respect freerunners or are they just trying to sell videogames while telling people to "siddown"? If this isn't some drunk russian trying to plant a bomb on the tower, people should just be cool with it.

PS: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-eiffel-tower-evacuated-shirtless-33438745