2016 Olympics. - Brazil

Handball is awesome.

I'm watching the opening ceremony, the athletes are walking out, it's taking forever . . . but Damn, there's some hot chicks there

Brahma said:

Do you guys look at any of the obscure events like the trampoline or handball? I saw some shit where this girl was literally just rolling a bowling ball around her body. I'm like WTF?

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Some of the "sports" seem like a real stretch to me, but what do I know.

Synchronized swimming may be entertaining but I don't see any of the sport aspect to it. Personally I think all sports in the olympics should be timed or at least definitive, first one to get there, lift the most, jump the highest etc.. wins. Get rid of the scoring.

Still think it is funny how the USA men's and woman's basketball teams are staying on a luxury cruiseliner, basically giving a big 'fuck you' to all other athletes that are basically enduring living in a 1-star hotel. USA Olympic committee should've just footed the bill for another cruise-liner for the rest of the athletes to stay in.

Borzak said:

Some of the "sports" seem like a real stretch to me, but what do I know.

Synchronized swimming may be entertaining but I don't see any of the sport aspect to it. Personally I think all sports in the olympics should be timed or at least definitive, first one to get there, lift the most, jump the highest etc.. wins. Get rid of the scoring.

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That's why I feel like the Olympics is a joke. I bet a lot of people could just find some obscure sport that no one actually plays. Practice a bit and you could suddenly become a medalist.

Gamma Rays said:

I'm watching the opening ceremony, the athletes are walking out, it's taking forever . . . but Damn, there's some hot chicks there

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Figure young women who are in good physical shape, and it makes sense. That's basically the only thing that could make a woman that age unattractive, is being out of shape; barring physical deformities?

Lost Virtue said:

Still think it is funny how the USA men's and woman's basketball teams are staying on a luxury cruiseliner, basically giving a big 'fuck you' to all other athletes that are basically enduring living in a 1-star hotel. USA Olympic committee should've just footed the bill for another cruise-liner for the rest of the athletes to stay in.

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With the Australian team, Basketballer ( NBA player ) Andrew Bogut is staying in the Athlete's village. I'm sure he has enough money to afford to stay where ever he wants. So is doing it to properly BE a part of the team. Good for him.

He did complain that the bed wasn't big enough for him, he's 7' 2"

You could say, what did he expect. But then you can also say that the organizers would know that they need to comfortable house and bed a number of tall and very tall people.

Gravel said:

That's why I feel like the Olympics is a joke. I bet a lot of people could just find some obscure sport that no one actually plays. Practice a bit and you could suddenly become a medalist.

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China made a concerted effort to do that for the Beijing Olympics in an attempt to maximize their medal count. Along the building of the infrastructures they tried to reorient athletes toward sports they felt was less competitive (notably BMX if my memory serves me well). I don't think that worked so well.

Also, among the criteria for a sport to become, remain or stop being an olympic sport is the number of practitioners (along with world-wide representation, historicity, how telegenic the sport is and also anti dopping policies). So except in modern pentathlon (a sport that only exists because Coubertin invented it), you can't really parachute athletes and expect them to do well in a couple years of training (though there are some examples of top level sprinters that became top level pushers in bobsleigh).

Sebudai said:

Handball is awesome.

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Unfortunately, since the US isn't good at it, NBC won't show it much since they can't make a feel good story out of it.

Burnesto said:

Unfortunately, since the US isn't good at it, NBC won't show it much since they can't make a feel good story out of it.

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I've always wanted to play it. It looks really fun.

Big Phoenix said:

Us there a betting pool for number of Olympian murdered? I'm going with 3-end up dead.

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I'm sure some asshat is looking to recreate the Munich incident.

I say there's probably a much larger group. Probably 7-10 dead, with a few more injured; maybe 20+ taken hostage.

Agenor said:

Wanted to link the video, but the IOC are really being shit lords about posting videos/gifs of the Olympics

French gymnast suffers gruesome broken leg at Olympics (Warning: graphic photo).

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Ouch...fuck that has to hurt

I always feel that this type of injury can only happen in sports that lack the money to have a high level monitoring of the health of the athletes (or maybe to athletes that lack the ability to monitor themselves). The guy missed the previous Olympics too :/