Official Olympics thread
 

Results, events etc, thread for sports fans :thumbsup

First negative note - dopester Russian swimmer was allowed to participate. :error I guess money talks.

Second negative note: Hasn't some Moroccan boxer just been done for raping 2 women workers ??

Undercover SAS are protecting team GB :2 cents:

Undercover SAS guard Team GB athletes in bid to stop ISIS terror attacks at Olympics - Mirror Online

Summer Olympics aren't as fun

should be a blast

USA will win the most medals

we have ferst gold medal :thumbsup:1orglaugh
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Grats...

sorry to hear about the paraolympics, I find it of bad taste, not right & trying to use this situation to put a stamp on drugs in the Olympics.

I think Russia has a choice to stand tall & either, say, no, this is not on & make forth to run in the ParaOlympics or, to be humble & say, correct, we, as a country is not accepted due to just a couple of drug abusers & this must stop.

Good luck to Russia, no matter the out come :thumbsup

must be fair competition.
otherwise it all would simply not interested.

Children in Rio
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The USA won Gold in the shooting.

Who would have thought ?

cute blonde :)
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Olympics suck and are boring to watch. They have speed walking as an event? Absurd

It could be worse, they could have Korfball... like they did in 1920 and 1928 :1orglaugh

Wow never heard of that one..


looks like basketball to me lol

It promotes "gender equality" :1orglaugh I bet they did not have that line in 1920 :1orglaugh

It's a weird game.

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This picture sums up the situation in Brazil :Oh crap

Stay on topic :pimp

CHIMPOUT (noun)

- Venus and Serena out of singles and doubles, without even requiring a drugs test :thumbsup

What is up with drug tests? I do not remember they ever (and if they were, certainly less times than they were not) being caught, why this time should have been different?

My suspicion is that there's some affirmative action at play when it comes to drug testing. With all the preaching about diversity in opening ceremonies, it's much easier to pick on the Russians.

Serena makes 1980's East German shot-putters look feminine by comparison. Yet Sharapova has been banned for something that may or may not have been intentional, while Serena's integrity is never called into question. Weird.

there's a huge amount of theft from the children in Rio, but wondering if the games will generate enough money for the whole community to be upgraded & not just the commercial areas :(

I'm not sure that it will remain something for the poor because of the corruption of local politicians :disgust

like i said in the other thread, it's a jab from western powers @ Russia to show them they can do it. It's not a coincidence this happens only with Russia out of all countries, right after the anti-Russia propaganda went full force, the provocations along the Russian border, etc. It's all very transparent.

I agree. but also drugs someone has used...

It is also the fact that doping is very common in Russia, I watched an interview with one coach who worked in Russia, he was surprised how in the open it was happening and that most of the coaches did not care or even suggested using that.
It is happening on the bigger scale than in most western countries, that is for sure.

it is not true. we do not have high level medicine for produce doping. all buy in the US and Europe. One of our sports official said - they sell us 5-6 generation of doping. and themselves use 7-8 generation. :1orglaugh

Seems the pool turned green because of Algae, heat with no wind. They say it should be back to the usual color for the next water events this week

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...0db3be07c901d?

I did not say anything about producing it...

Yesterday, what an amazing day for teamGB with diving & many other events giving gold medals! The Brits are saying #WonderfulWednesday

I see Spain's also won gold in the 200mtr Butterfly, putting Spain from 40th place to 22nd...

here's to Spain & GB winning many more gold medals :thumbsup

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Watched the Handball match Denmark vs Croatia and was pretty good

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india have 0 medal :1orglaugh
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Surprising, maybe not the biggest sport nation, but 1 billion people + :helpme

Just announced on CBC the Russian women's 4x100 relay team from 2008 Olympics has been stripped of their gold.

Poor Russians being picked on.

I had to watch the 100m sprint finals the other day. Bolt is awesome. I may watch the Basketball finals too. But I usually like watching some of the powerlifting, even though they are probably juiced to the max, those are some impressive feats of strength.