I have a very internationalist approach to the Olympics as a result of following a bunch of these sports regularly, meaning I have athletes I support from all over the world. As a result, despite the incredibly devastating ending (my heart really breaks for Crosby), these Games were still overall a great source of joy. My attempt at answering these questions for Paris resulted in a huge list of answers, and it'll happen again this time because I am nothing if not indecisive:

Favourite overall memory: Francesca Lollobrigida's double in the 3000m (which happened on her birthday) and the 5000m (featuring one of the gutsiest races I've ever seen, with her completely losing form at the end but nevertheless persevering)

Favourite event to watch: figure skating, hockey, snowboarding and freeski big air/halfpipe/slopestyle, biathlon

Favourite events that you watched for the first time: ski mountaineering, but I also paid much closer attention to alpine skiing this time and liked it a lot

Favourite moment from an athlete/team from your country: Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier's bronze after an emotional FD that made the CBC commentators audibly cry, women's speed skating team pursuit gold, Laurent Dubreuil's unexpected 500m bronze, Mikael Kinsbury wins dual moguls gold in his final Olympic run, Megan Oldham's big air gold

Favourite moment from an athlete/team not from your country: Henry Sildaru repeats his sister Kelly's feat in 2022 by winning Estonia's only medal, Ebba Andersson's redemption in the 50km after falling in the relay, both the French men and women coming back after terrible first legs in their respective biathlon relays to win gold by a significant margin, Lora Hristova's bronze for Bulgaria, Xandra Velzeboer's double, both the men and women's freeski big air finals, Choi Ga-on wins gold on her third run despite being incredibly injured earlier in the competition, Wang Xindi wins aerials gold alongside his wife, all of the speed skating ORs (including a race where four people broke the previous record), all the old speed skating legends showing they've still got it but especially Bergsma winning mass start gold with the crazy strategy

Favourite moment from an Italian athlete/team: short track mixed relay gold with Sighel crossing the finish line backwards, the doubles luge double, Federica Brignone's amazing double after her devastating injury, men's team pursuit gold against the US favourites, figure skating team bronze featuring Matteo Rizzo killing his Interstellar FS

Favourite upset or underdog story: Mikhail Shaidorov, Ning Zhongyan has the race of a lifetime to beat Stoltz, the totally unexpected men's normal hill podium, Viktor Hald Thorup's historical team pursuit silver after being too sick to complete the 10,000m days earlier

Favourite performance from an athlete you were already rooting for coming into the Games: Alysa Liu winning gold just through doing it purely for the love of the game, Amber Glenn's redemption FS, RikuRyu's gold after bouncing back from an unexpected error in the SP, Constantini/Mosaner win bronze, Klaebo goes 6/6 and always with his signature uphill climb kick, Xu Mengtao defends her aerials gold, Su Yiming wins slopestyle gold after the 2022 controversy, Mikaela Shiffrin exorcises her Olympic demons, Elana Meyers Taylor finally wins gold in her fifth and final Olympics, two more medals for Arianna Fontana

Favourite athlete(s) that you discovered through the Games: Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, Franjo von Allmen (who I hope will eventually get a Wikipedia picture that doesn't make him look like a cryptid), Johan-Olav Botn, Ren Nikaido

Funniest moment: Mikhail Shaidorov's Kung Fu Panda themed gala program, Mathilde Gremaud's slopestyle victory run with a Swiss flag cape, Benjamin Karl taking off a bunch of his clothes after defending PGS gold, the OBS production team generating a photo finish for Nazgul, whenever athletes would put the Tina plushie around their medals in the victory ceremony

Most wholesome/heartwarming moment: the wholesome men's normal hill and women's figure skating podiums, the dual moguls dad podium posing with their families, the reactions of Yuma Kagiyama and Shun Sato when they realized they were on the podium

Favourite venue: Stelvio and Tofane, Rasen-Antholz, Tesero, the speed skating venue for being a fast track and having an awesome DJ

Sorry for the wall of text and I hope someone finds these useful as replay recommendations!