JUL 22, artistic weightlifting + special events (Paris Olympic Games, 2024)

  

a) Reprise of material posted on July 22 in previous years

2020: at heart, myocardial ischemia (illustrated poem)
2021: death and afterlife, cardiac arrest (illustrated poem) 
2022: at  heart, arteriopath (poem)
2023: patients and maladies, nervous bladder (poem)

To access any of these items, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... arteriopath), into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath each item you will find a further link to explore a collection of items (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.)  on the relevant topic.

b) Today's offering (Jul 22,2024): 

Authors' Note:   In the currently televised Olympic summer games, Paris 2024, the term artistic is used to cover all gymnastic events (four for women and six for men), and is now used exclusively for what was once called "synchronized swimming" (synchronized retains usage in duet platform and springboard diving).

All of these events, and scores more, such as standard weightlifting, provide awe and inspiration for viewers. In certain cases, there is wonderment that a global athletic community has developed around the particular competitive activity. Artistic weightlifting is an apocryphal mind-sport concocted by the author.

c) additional photo-collage

actual date of the opening ceremony: July 26, 2024
Thanks to the CBC! 

Readers can find reminiscences of some key Olympic moments in Giorgio's photos that are  appended randomly to certain posts in the previous three months. To find them, search for "Olympic sport, 2024").