OLYMPICS fans couldn’t help but chuckle after seeing perhaps the most relaxing job of the competition.
After much anticipation, the eagerly-anticipated athletics portion of the Paris 2024 Games is well and truly underway.
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Saturday’s evening session caught the eye of many as it included the javelin throw, a feat many are still astounded by.
But viewers were equally as astounded by how the athletes’ javelins are collected.
They’re no longer run all the way back to the throwing point, they’re transported by REMOTE CONTROL cars.
Footage of the javelins being placed into the small white remote control cars and being driven back to their point of origin by two workers went viral.
The pair easily have the most relaxing jobs of any of the staff at the Games, sitting down and driving the javelins back and forth without so much as barely breaking a sweat.
One watcher of the javelin posted a clip of the duo hard at work with the accompanying caption: “I don’t want money, I don’t want fame.
“I just want to be one of the two blokes whose job it is to sit on chairs in the Stade de France and drive the remote control cars back and forth collecting the Javelins after they’ve been thrown at the Olympics.
“No stress, just sat down with your bestie chatting, driving cool mini-cars and watching Olympians do stuff all around you.
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“Best seats in the house, best job in the world.”
Viewers of the viral post were quick to comment with a series of hilarious thoughts.
One said: “Imagine their parents saying, ‘You can’t play with remote control cars all the time, it’s not a job!'”
And another said: “bet they’re well paid as well hahaha.”
One remarked: “Feet up, dream job.”
Another chimed: “‘Can you work remotely?'”
The men’s javelin throw will resume at the Stade de France on Tuesday afternoon, with the women’s kicking off on Wednesday morning.
What’s happening today at The Games?
WHAT TO WATCH TODAY
TODAY’S BRIT MEDAL HOPES
Keely Hodgkinson is among the favourites to win gold in the women’s 800m final (8.45pm), three years on from silver in Tokyo.
Kimberley Woods, Mallory Franklin and Joe Clarke could secure a triple-header in the maiden Olympic kayak cross finals (3.55pm).
GB will hope to retain their triathlon mixed relay (7am) and the women’s cycling team sprint (6.55pm) offers a real medal chance on the opening day in the velodrome.
BRITS TO WATCH
The sport climbing gets underway with four Brits – Hamish McArthur and 19-year-old sensation Toby Roberts starting with their bouldering in the boulder and lead event (9am).
And the women’s hockey team face a nightmare quarter-final against the all-conquering Dutch (4.30pm).
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Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis will try and break his own latest world record once again in the men’s paul vault final (6pm).
The men’s football reaches the semi-finals with hosts France facing Egypt (8pm) after Spain vs Morocco (5pm).
And this will be the last we see of Simone Biles in Paris. She is set to go in the women’s balance beam (11.30am) and floor finals (1.20pm).
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It is the final day for both the 3×3 basketball and the surfing.
The 3×3 basketball finishes with the gold medal matches from 9pm at La Concorde.
Over in Tahiti, Gabriel Medina appeared to defy gravity with THAT incredible levitating photo and has a shot at gold today.
STATS MAD
0 – A rule change to the artistic swimming (formerly synchronised swimming) means men are now able to compete in the team event for the first time in Olympics history… but the new legislation only came in 18 months and precisely ZERO males were selected.
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