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Colin Jost is studying the laborious approach that browsing on the 2024 Paris Olympics isn’t for a faint of coronary heart — and ought to be left to the professionals.
“You recognize it’s going nice if you’ve been to the Olympic medical tent greater than any of the athletes,” Jost, 42, joked by way of Instagram on Monday, July 29.
The comic, who has been on location in Tahiti for all of the Olympic browsing occasions, shared a photograph of his foot bandaged after some form of accident. Three of Jost’s 5 toes are wrapped up within the snap, which is his second damage up to now in the course of the weeks-long sporting competitors.
As Group USA takes on the 2024 Paris Olympics, the American athletes have already made an impression on the summer time Video games. The 2024 Olympics kicked off on Friday, July 26, with an illustrious opening ceremony that passed off completely open air on the River Seine and featured performances from the likes of Celine Dion and Girl […]
“This would possibly smash my WikiFeet rating however I simply arrived in Tahiti for the browsing Olympics and the reef was excited to greet me #paris2024 #showfeet,” Jost wrote by way of social media three days prior.
The Saturday Evening Stay star revealed on the time that the majority of his toes have been bloodied and reduce up when he first explored the reef on the French Polynesian island. Tahiti, which is cohosting the water video games, is a part of France’s abroad collectivity. (Joe Turpel and Michael Parsons are helming nearly all of the protection.)
In between sustaining private accidents, Jost has been reporting stay from the browsing competitors.
“Olympic browsing is about to begin right here in Tahiti. I’m prepared if wanted,” he teased by way of Instagram on Saturday, July 27, because the occasions obtained underway. “Group USA already handed on me. Prepared to defect to different international locations.”
When checking in with NBC’s Mike Tirico on Sunday, July 28, Jost gave viewers perception into how his reporting gig was going, calling it a “rural circus.”
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He teased, “I forgot for some time that it was the French Olympics. However then at the moment, I noticed a man bicycling to the surf break with a striped shirt holding two baguettes. I used to be like, ‘Wow, the spirit of Paris remains to be alive right here in Tahiti.’”
Jost additionally revealed how he first reduce up his ft throughout a surf session earlier than the video games. “I did fairly nicely till the primary wave after which I ended up standing on the coral reef,” he stated with fun. “Very similar to the coral reef security skilled however with out coral footwear on. So I obtained somewhat scrapped up.”
Forward of his journey to Tahiti, Jost’s spouse, Scarlett Johansson, poked enjoyable at how and why he was tapped to report as a part of the Olympic protection.
“I’m like, how did he get this gig?” Johansson, 39, teased throughout an look on the Right this moment present earlier this month. “Is that this a job?”
Jason Kempin/Getty Pictures; Gary Gershoff/Getty Pictures As Paris Olympic athletes proceed competing for medals, occasion organizers discover themselves defending parts of the Opening Ceremony. Whereas celebrating the kick-off to the summer time video games on Friday, July 26, some viewers have been offended by a tableau that seemingly evoked Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Final Supper.” Based on organizers, […]
She joked that when Jost’s “dream turned a actuality” and he was requested to fly to Tahiti for 2 weeks she had no sympathy for the truth that he could be working loopy hours.
“I’m like, ‘Poor you,’” Johansson quipped whereas pretending to shed a tear. “He’s like, ‘Poor me, I’m going to be in every single place,’ and I’m like, ‘Are you?’ I believe should you can have a pina colada on air whilst you’re working, that’s not technically work.”
The actress confessed that Jost does have a ardour for the game, so she was glad he earned the prospect to go overseas.
“After they introduced the Paris Olympics, he instantly discovered that they have been doing the surf competitors in Tahiti, which is so cool,” Johansson added. “He likes to surf. Now we have a spot in Montauk, he’s all the time on the market browsing.”
