Nah, one more set.
Nah, one more set.
This Buatsi is a cracking boxer for such a young lad. I've been very impressed with him throughout this competition.
Cracking fight this.
Some tennis match this bugger too.
That was an epic. Murray makes history and caps off a brilliant night for Team GB. He dug in deep while Del Potro gradually faded, despite some unbelievable returns in the latter half. Big comeback for Del Potro after all of his injury troubles - I hope he goes on to be competitive in the Slams over the next few years.
Jesus, I didn't see johnson's 400m record going for a long time yet. Nobody has even looked close and this track wasn't even supposed to be fast...and from lane 8 too. Wow.
Bolt doing Bolt things. Proud of De Grasse though. Getting Bronze is amazing.
Missed the start by about two minutes and still won in a canter.
Freak.
Grand Theft Auto IV theme an obvious choice for this:
I understand this being a sport included in the Olympic games, I can see why idiots maybe don't think it should be considered either. It's peculiar and pretty sure it causes nightmares.
They could synchronise a bunch of other events. There's already synchronised Diving and Trampolining. Synchronised Javelin maybe? Synchronised 100m? Such possibilities.
Also, obviously the gymnasts have gender-specific apparatus, but are there any sports remaining which the blokes compete in which the ladies do not?
Anyone else think because of Bolt's size and obvious ability that it looks like a little league thing with a kid who's clearly a few years older competing in the wrong age group?
My goodness this man is the perfect sprinting machine.
What a terrible attempt at a tackle that was.
Conlon is on a war path. I think putin might get a hiding here
No Americans going to day in taekwondo but enjoying the matches I am streaming so far. Americans won't go until Friday and Saturday.
I'm not sure how much this was an issue but I guess there was some backlash that this woman basically dove across the finish line to win gold? It seems fair game to me, but if diving really does help (and it seems that it did cause her to beat the other woman here) then shouldn't all sprinters/runners dive across the finish line every time?
Not against the rules to dive but most of the time diving actually slows you down and won't help you. So on this level you typically won't see it. This is one of the minority instances where someone won with diving. Been doing some reading on this.Basically the backlash is coming from casual fans that don't know rules and what not. People that follow track and what not were fine with the result.
To be fair I think she might well have won it if she hadn't done it.
Its just oust a more extreme example of ducking for the finish line as far as I'm concerned.
When watching it I felt like she was losing her balance a bit and the dive was the best option to just give that last little push.
There were some pretty awful ignorant reactions to that. I guess they could eliminate the potential for that type of finish by measuring when the back of the torso crosses the line instead of when the front reaches it, but the rules are what they are. Personally, I'd love it if they all had to pancake over the line to finish on every race. It's good slapstick.
BMX is starting in a sec. I remember watching the X Games when I was younger, I take it that's still a thing? Wonder if it's an issue having the Olympics steal their thunder, because Skateboarding is currently set to be introduced at the next games in Tokyo also...
I still enjoy the X-Games but I think it gets burned out because they do it twice a year (winter and summer). They should go at most once a year where summer and winter alternate years. I never know when it's going to come on because there's no hype for it anymore, but every 6 months when I see it on TV I'll tune in for the good events.
I do think that the Olympics is smart to adopt those sports though. Half pipes and big air and all that.
soooo I guess Ryan Lochte made up being robbed and Brazil wants to seize his passports but he fled the country before they could seize them
hm.
On a lighter note, this guy ...
Inconvenient Penis Is A Huge Problem For Japanese Pole Vaulter Hiroki Ogita In Rio
... may return home a national hero.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ial-media.html
Not sure if this Lochte/U.S. swim team story is getting play outside the U.S. but it's become quite the ordeal over here. These guys are real assholes. Lochte always has been. Fuck that dude.
I'm still curious as to why they made up the robbery story. Seems they could have gotten away with being assholes at the gas station and this never would have been a big fiasco if they didn't lie about being robbed which brought attention on themselves.
Yeah, I wouldn't really go by that particular news source, pretty much UK's version of the Enquirer. I was almost convinced by it this morning after another similar story, this time about a British athlete also being robbed at gunpoint, but there's too much conflicting information. They seem like a bunch of wankers, they probably are and it's probably a story to sell somewhere, I'll wait to see more.
True enough, I know what Daily Mail is but I just included that link (instead of CNN) because it had all the videos from the incident and everything. It's not like they're going out on a limb on this one.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/18/sport/...ons/index.html
Yeah, sorry I get it, it's definitely a 'dishier' article, no foul. They tend to sensationalise. The first one I read on BBC simply said they damaged a bathroom door, the Daily Mail describes it as "destroying a bathroom", and now the CNN one (via the local newspaper) says public urinating and throwing stones. It's just funny, and whichever one's more accurate, I'm trying to work out why they felt the need to make up the story if they satisfied the payment of any damage caused.
Wonder how they'll be punished. I've heard Brazilian jails are nice.
I hope Lochte is banned from the Olympics (by the U.S.) assuming everything is as it seems and he made up the story. Not that I'm so pissed at what he did just that if you get the chance to represent the nation and pull some punk shit like this which embarrasses everyone and takes away the spotlight from other athletes, you should just stay home. He might be too old in 4 years anyway but I think he plans to swim in Tokyo.
The dumbest fucking reaction they could have had.
So. The women's relay. What happened?
Never seen this before. Apparently they challenged an obstruction by Brazil that caused one of them to drop the baton, so were allowed to re-run. That'll cheer the host nation up.
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It's the Chinese who are most upset since they lost their spot. Brazil wasn't close to qualifying anyways.
Well the Brazilians got disqualified.
China would only have been happy with gold anyway.
I just watched the replays, the Brazilian athlete stayed in her lane, they were all running right at the edge of their lanes in every lane, 2 per lane. America got hit in her non-baton hand and somehow the thing went flying.
These games are so stressful this year.
Once again Bolt will Bolt. So dominant for 3 Olympics in a row. Amazing.
Well in for the Canadian De Grasse though, definitely looking like the future.
200m race. 100 on track, 100 in water. Bolt vs Phelps. Who wins?
World's greatest ever sprinter.
World's greatest ever swimmer.
World's greatest ever gymnast (in the making).
These games...
Bolt owns the current 100m world record by a ridiculous full tenth of a second+. Phelps on the other hand has never touched the fastest 100m ever timed in a pool, and his best is over half a second behind the current world record.Originally Posted by Fro
Now of course we don't know how well Bolt can swim or Phelps can run, but just going by who does their best 100m versus their competitive peers, I'll lean toward Bolt a little on this.
Phelps would win probably pretty handily. Simply because even a record running Bolt runs 100m in 9.58 seconds. An average athletic person can run 100m in 14 seconds without really training.
Phelps this year did a 47.12 second split in 100m free relay. Getting under a minute is good for your average athletic person who has been training.
While both events require technique, the total time difference between an elite and an untrained is just going to be so much greater in swimming compared to running.
That is a pretty big split. Think I just have a mental block for imagining Phelps running.
The one I think back to is that one case in the 2000 Olympics in the heat. The guy from Africa who ended up swimming by himself.
He allegedly had even been practicing swimming in ponds/lakes but never in an Olympic size pool. Now obviously Bolt would do much better and I'm sure rehabbing some injuries he's done swimming. But just seeing this video reminds me how important training specifically for elite swimming is.
Watched Aaron Cook lose in taekwondo a little while ago. Wow. Didn't see that coming. He is 2nd in the world and the matched was called with 20 seconds left due to point gap. He has to hope that guy gets to the final so he has a chance at bronze.
What a result for the GB women's hockey team!
http://www.medalspercapita.com/#medals-per-capita:2016
Medals per capita- kind of a cool way to look at things
Shinzo Abe as Super Mario was so ... well, Tokyo. Can't wait for 2020.
I feel a bit bad I didn't watch more of this, watched swimming,a bit of track and thats it, only happens once every 4 years but with my state of mind I just haven't been able to get into anything.
Maybe I can give the Paralympics more attention.
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