[Hondaracer]

Haven't really read too far into the problems regarding infrastructure, cost over runs, etc nor have the athletes got too much press yet.

Beleive Canada is setting their sights at 15-20 medals which would be decent for a summer games.

Phelps qualifies for a record 5th games, and to pad his record medal count.

Really though, I made this post to share this amazing moment which I had never heard of or seen till today, the world and Olympic record for long jump was set in Mexico City in 1968 by American Bob Beamon, it stands as the oldest record in athletics:

https://twitter.com/olympics/status/752918418328739840

[The_AK]

This is cray, meanwhile I'm on the path of becoming a legendary Pokemon master

brb level 9
brb my Metapod is sitting at a solid level 17 and climbing
brb i've already SEEN 18 unique Pokemon as per stats in my Pokedex and I'm just a junior trainer
brb your mom played with my Pokeflute, nom saiyan?

[Sid Vicious]

China might have a change to sweep every gold medal in olympic weightlifting from 56-85 kg weight class

56 kg: long qinquan
62 kg: chen lijun
69 kg: liao hui
77 kg: lu xiaojun
85 kg: tian tao

[Manic!]

Part of that record has to do with the high altitude in Mexico city. The Rio games are a gong show.

[Mr.Money]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zika_virus
10 to 12 years for a Vaccine,with cases of it being Sexually transmitted.

[Hondaracer]

Mcllroy and Spieth both pulled out saying fears for health and safety.

Can't really blame them, also to win a medal isn't really the pinnacle of a golfers career, majors and the masters especially probably weigh far heavier in ones career than going to the olympics.

Also golfers are probably amongst the wealthiest athletes going to the games, unless you had a full security detail all the time it could probably get a little sketchy there

[IMASA]

All the Reasons the Rio Olympics Are Fucked (http://gawker.com/all-the-reasons-the-rio-olympics-are-fucked-1782463214)

I hope it goes well as I enjoy watching the games, but a part of me also hopes it turns out to be a gong show.

[punkwax]

Telus will be showing the games in 4K :awwyeah:

Friend of mine from HS is competing this year so will be sure to watch whichever women's running events she is in.

As for golfers, I don't blame them. Most Olympic athletes really have no glory opportunity aside from the Olympics. The guys pulling out don't need the recognition and will likely play in 4 years where there is no zika threat.

[6o4__boi]

All the Reasons the Rio Olympics Are Fucked (http://gawker.com/all-the-reasons-the-rio-olympics-are-fucked-1782463214)

I hope it goes well as I enjoy watching the games, but a part of me also hopes it turns out to be a gong show.

:heckno:

water activities in shit water?
high ass murder/crime rate with under/unpaid essential services?

this is shapin up to be a massive gong show

honestly only gonna be watching the olympic soccer/basketball and some of the short distance track events

[punkwax]

Don't forget women's beach volleyball :ifyouknow:

[quasi]

Don't forget women's beach volleyball :ifyouknow:

The absolute best Olympic Sport, two thumbs up!!

[unit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_World_Championships_in_Athletics_%E2%80%93_Me n%27s_long_jump

wiki says that long jump record was broken in 1991. it might still be an olympic record but it's no longer a world record.

[MG1]

China might have a change to sweep every gold medal in olympic weightlifting from 56-85 kg weight class

56 kg: long qinquan
62 kg: chen lijun
69 kg: liao hui
77 kg: lu xiaojun
85 kg: tian tao

WTH? I was waiting for Gulololol to post something about China.

[MG1]

I got my Lucky Loonies with me....... not that it'll do any good. Only works in Winter Olympics, lol. Bury that sucker in................ oh, wait, no ice.

[Sosodef]

Jordan Speith will not be competing. Too bad, the first time golf is in the olympics... Even though golf in the olympics seems pretty dumb...

It should be match play too. Not tournament style.

[punkwax]

Jordan Speith will not be competing. Too bad, the first time golf is in the olympics... Even though golf in the olympics seems pretty dumb...

It should be match play too. Not tournament style.

Not true.. hasn't been in the Olympics for a long time but the last Gold medalist golfer was a Canadian back in 1904: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lyon_(golfer)

[JD¹³]

Don't forget women's beach volleyball :ifyouknow:
I grew up with one of the girls who's pair qualified for Rio (Broder/Valjas). Broder's from Victoria (#1 in photo) and won a CIS Championship with UBC. I'll be cheering hard for her and hope you all will too!

https://cdnolympic.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/broder-and-valjas-instagram.jpg?quality=100

[320icar]

All the Reasons the Rio Olympics Are Fucked (http://gawker.com/all-the-reasons-the-rio-olympics-are-fucked-1782463214)

I hope it goes well as I enjoy watching the games, but a part of me also hopes it turns out to be a gong show.


Lol, what a shit editorial with so many mistakes

[CorneringArtist]

Looking forward to see how well the women's rugby sevens team does with the sport being the first year it has been included in the games. Men's team ate shit in qualifying again, even though they looked good when I went to the tournament in Vancouver a few months ago.

[dat_steve]

The absolute best Olympic Sport, two thumbs up!!

Three**:ifyouknow:

[Traum]

For the record, I can't wait to see how this Olympic is gonna turn into a gong show. Infrastructure and venue problems, pollution concerns, Zika woes, crime, etc. The IOC has too much -- especially their face and reputation -- to lose, and they are pressuring the WHO into submission.

I seriously hope things will turn out fine. But so far, all the evidence is pointing towards at least a somewhat fxxked up game.

[Sid Vicious]

WTH? I was waiting for Gulololol to post something about China.

i'm just a barbell sport enthusiast, and china's olympic weightlifting program is really something else, their athletes are almost superhuman in terms of their strength and coordination

[Traum]

i'm just a barbell sport enthusiast, and china's olympic weightlifting program is really something else, their athletes are almost superhuman in terms of their strength and coordination
Surely you know why that's the case and how their athletes got trained up, right? :badpokerface:

[Sid Vicious]

Surely you know why that's the case and how their athletes got trained up, right? :badpokerface:

every country uses PEDs, yet China's WLers still come out on top in head to head competition

there's more to sports than just steroids; you don't just inject steroids and become a champion

[Traum]

every country uses PEDs, yet China's WLers still come out on top in head to head competition

there's more to sports than just steroids; you don't just inject steroids and become a champion
I wasn't really referring to PEDs, but more of the practice with scooping young children up by the masses -- often from smaller, poorer, and more remote villages -- and sending them off to children athlete training camps, away from family etc.

I don't particularly want to shxt on China too much in this thread -- or at least, I don't feel like doing so now. But if you do a little research, you'll see why China excels in certain type of Olympic sports.

The irony is, hardly any of the sports that China excels in is commercially lucrative. But what's what your old school authoritarian governments do -- spend millions on programs that prop up the country's "image" to pump out a selected few elite athletes while ignoring the welfare of the masses...

[Sid Vicious]

I wasn't really referring to PEDs, but more of the practice with scooping young children up by the masses -- often from smaller, poorer, and more remote villages -- and sending them off to children athlete training camps, away from family etc.

I don't particularly want to shxt on China too much in this thread -- or at least, I don't feel like doing so now. But if you do a little research, you'll see why China excels in certain type of Olympic sports.

The irony is, hardly any of the sports that China excels in is commercially lucrative. But what's what your old school authoritarian governments do -- spend millions on programs that prop up the country's "image" to pump out a selected few elite athletes while ignoring the welfare of the masses...

common practice with ex communist countries, pretty much every ex soviet bloc countries used the exact same practices.

plus if you asked some poor ass farmer kid would he rather be a farmer for the rest of his life toiling in obscurity vs an olympic gold medalist...

oly lifting is becoming a lil more lucrative every year with the popularity of crossfit in north america too! you'll see many athletes like klokov touring north america giving out seminars and stuff

[Traum]

plus if you asked some poor ass farmer kid would he rather be a farmer for the rest of his life toiling in obscurity vs an olympic gold medalist...

^^ Yes, of sure. The old standard ex soviet bloc practice. With Soviet Union being the ideological mentor for Communist China, of course China is doing what his old master taught him.

The obvious problem is, only 1 in a thousand (or less) can meet the cut for Olympic caliber. The rest of the children more or less get sifted out at the provincial or municipal level. If you are lucky enough, you can still land a trainer job back in the same national / provincial training machinery, and you'd still have what we conceive as a "regular" working career. If you don't make the cut and you didn't land yourself a position back in the training machinery, however, you are effectively stuck without any real transferable life skills and your life is fxxked because you don't know anything else.

But alas, I am not really here to shxt on China this time. If anything, I should really be shxtting on the Rio Olympics instead. :badpokerface:

[Hondaracer]

on that topic i've watched and listened to a few pod casts in the past month or so discussing PED's and the olympics.

As mentioned, these eastern block countries, especially the USSR had some really fucked up practices when it came to their athletes

it's documented in the kind of prime years of the soviet power, their top-star gymnasts, mostly ages 12-16 were all impregnated by their trainers 2 months prior to the olympics to greatly improve their testosterone and whatever other chemical advantages you gain.

Funny enough that edge was JUST enough to win, as i think they beat out china, or another large state in the gymnastics competitions by literal fractions of points

then of course they all went home and had abortions lol :badpokerface:

[Mr.C]

Brazilian here.

I hope this isn't a total and absolute shitshow.

Also, the only thing I care about is if the Men's Soccer team will win the Gold Medal or not. The rest is secondary.

[Gululu]

The obvious problem is, only 1 in a thousand (or less) can meet the cut for Olympic caliber. The rest of the children more or less get sifted out at the provincial or municipal level. If you are lucky enough, you can still land a trainer job back in the same national / provincial training machinery, and you'd still have what we conceive as a "regular" working career. If you don't make the cut and you didn't land yourself a position back in the training machinery, however, you are effectively stuck without any real transferable life skills and your life is fxxked because you don't know anything else.


uh your understanding is still stuck in 1990s and earlier I see. nowadays, most professional athletes in china are from wealthy families or at very least moderate middle class families. Gone are the days where families send kids off due to poverty like u mentioned.

[Gululu]

The obvious problem is, only 1 in a thousand (or less) can meet the cut for Olympic caliber. The rest of the children more or less get sifted out at the provincial or municipal level. If you are lucky enough, you can still land a trainer job back in the same national / provincial training machinery, and you'd still have what we conceive as a "regular" working career. If you don't make the cut and you didn't land yourself a position back in the training machinery, however, you are effectively stuck without any real transferable life skills and your life is fxxked because you don't know anything else.


uh your understanding is still stuck in 1990s and earlier I see. nowadays, most professional athletes in china are from wealthy families or at very least moderate middle class families. Gone are the days where families send kids off due to poverty like u mentioned.

[GS8]

I grew up with one of the girls who's pair qualified for Rio (Broder/Valjas). Broder's from Victoria (#1 in photo) and won a CIS Championship with UBC. I'll be cheering hard for her and hope you all will too!

https://cdnolympic.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/broder-and-valjas-instagram.jpg?quality=100

cheering hard

So will I

:ifyouknow:

[Manic!]

uh your understanding is still stuck in 1990s and earlier I see. nowadays, most professional athletes in china are from wealthy families or at very least moderate middle class families. Gone are the days where families send kids off due to poverty like u mentioned.

So what you are saying is that the Olympic process just like everything else in China is corrupt and only people with money get in.

[Traum]

uh your understanding is still stuck in 1990s and earlier I see. nowadays, most professional athletes in china are from wealthy families or at very least moderate middle class families. Gone are the days where families send kids off due to poverty like u mentioned.

For someone who has said:

Communist Party has achieved so much it is a gift to human civilization. Xi also announced pledge return to Marxist roots.


Let's just say I tend to take things you say with a grain of salt. A HUGE grain of salt. :fuckthatshit:

[threezero]

on that topic i've watched and listened to a few pod casts in the past month or so discussing PED's and the olympics.

As mentioned, these eastern block countries, especially the USSR had some really fucked up practices when it came to their athletes

it's documented in the kind of prime years of the soviet power, their top-star gymnasts, mostly ages 12-16 were all impregnated by their trainers 2 months prior to the olympics to greatly improve their testosterone and whatever other chemical advantages you gain.

Funny enough that edge was JUST enough to win, as i think they beat out china, or another large state in the gymnastics competitions by literal fractions of points

then of course they all went home and had abortions lol :badpokerface:


Impreganate athelete to win?? Where is the source on this?

[Hondaracer]

Impreganate athelete to win?? Where is the source on this?

Sorry it seems like with quick search it was actually the East German teams which were doing this. May have been USSR as well but just quick Wikipedia search points towards east Germany.

I originally heard it from a few different pod casts with PED experts

[Hondaracer]

So far, day one, two potential bomb threats remotely detonated and 2 people killed, one a mugger, and one, a woman being mugged. Jesus lol..

[StylinRed]

Can we merge the threads :P

I thinkninspotted 1 hot female rugby player, she was on the Colombian team, the rest looked like hobbits


Did u guys see the vaulter break his leg upon landing? Just saw it on YouTube... Ouch oh god why...

Not even going to put it in here I'll throw it up in nsfw

[Hondaracer]

Canada gets the bronze in woman's 4X100! Great race!

Tones of great swimming and volleyball was great today too, not to mention rugby 7's

[FerrariEnzo]

Samsung Delivers 12,500 Galaxy S7 edge Olympic Games Limited Edition Phones to Rio 2016 Olympians (https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-delivers-12500-galaxy-s7-edge-olympic-games-limited-edition-phones-to-rio-2016-olympians)

Dayum.. thats a lot of S7s...

[SkinnyPupp]

it's documented in the kind of prime years of the soviet power, their top-star gymnasts, mostly ages 12-16 were all impregnated by their trainers 2 months prior to the olympics to greatly improve their testosterone and whatever other chemical advantages you gain.


lol why would they do that when they could just dose them with turinabol like everyone else

The communists did some nasty shit to their athletes, especially the women who are obviously affected much more when you load them up with male hormones.

Here's a related story worth checking out: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/east-germanys-forgotten-olympic-doping-6949436

Here is one of the East German female olympians now:

http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article6948270.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Andreas-Krieger-formerly-Heidi.jpg

[Marshall Placid]

Canada gets the bronze in woman's 4X100! Great race!

Tones of great swimming and volleyball was great today too, not to mention rugby 7's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n3Mhj0pgz4

[Marshall Placid]

If you guys want to watch just the highlights, CBC's youtube channel has everything:

https://www.youtube.com/user/CBCSports/videos

[N.V.M.]

im waiting for a bit a dancing.

https://media.giphy.com/media/3aJK2uawY3Ely/giphy.gif

[MG1]

LOL at the chick in the background.......... must have nice view.

[GLOW]

LOL at the chick in the background.......... must have nice view.

the expression on her face is like
http://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0an6ccSEa1rqfhi2o1_500.gif

[Durrann]

did you guys see the french gymnast break his leg?
Viewer discretion is advised lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LA4COr7xKs

[pastarocket]

Canadian women's gymnastics team is literally falling on the balance beam routine.
:facepalm:

[kunoman1]

im waiting for a bit a dancing.

https://media.giphy.com/media/3aJK2uawY3Ely/giphy.gif

https://www.instagram.com/mjenneke93/?hl=en

[MG1]

Medal count per capita, Canada is does okay.

Winter Olympics, however, we rock it!! Then some.

So, men's volleyball team shows up after being absent from the Olympics for a while and beats the Americans!

Canada shocks United States in men's volleyball (http://olympics.cbc.ca/news/article/canada-shocks-united-states-men-volleyball.html)


Three sets to zero, nada, nil, void, nothing, empty...............

[MG1]

Canada's women's rugby team advances to semifinals (http://olympics.cbc.ca/news/article/canada-women-rugby-team-advances-semifinals.html)

Will most likely play for bronze, but you never know............

[Mr.Money]

ffffuuuu that was hard to watch....mistakes happen..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8EDD6KLu7I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyxgToqzKR0

[MG1]

16 year old Canadian takes silver in swimming.

http://news.nationalpost.com/sports/rio-2016/canadas-penny-oleksiak-storms-the-podium-again-with-silver-medal-in-100-metre-butterfly

[MG1]

Canadian women's soccer team is also doing well.

Janine Beckie stars as Canadian soccer women advance (http://olympics.cbc.ca/news/article/janine-beckie-stars-canadian-soccer-women-advance-quarter-finals.html)

[Mr.C]

Brazil's men soccer team is shit. Literal fucking shit. I hate those assholes so much right now.

[SkinnyPupp]

If you guys want to watch just the highlights, CBC's youtube channel has everything:

https://www.youtube.com/user/CBCSports/videos
Is this anything but a list of useless lame profile videos for anyone else?

I don't give a shit about Canada's first velodrome or swimming nose plugs, I want to see some Canadians performing in the olympics! SwiftRage

[Jmac]

ffffuuuu that was hard to watch....mistakes happen..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8EDD6KLu7I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyxgToqzKR0
Over 2 minutes to get medical attention... :heckno:

[StylinRed]

Brazil's men soccer team is shit. Literal fucking shit. I hate those assholes so much right now.

I couldn't believe it lol

[MG1]

5 Olympic events to watch on Monday (http://olympics.cbc.ca/news/article/olympic-events-watch-monday.html)

Field hockey? No ice! You gonna bury that lucky loonie in soil?

Anyway check out the Sandrine Mainville video at bottom.

[punkwax]

Wow... Brazil's $12 billion Olympic legacy lies in ruins | Daily Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4241412/Brazil-s-12-billion-Olympic-legacy-lies-ruins.html)

[CivicBlues]

^Failed you for bumping a 1 year old thread with a 6 month old article.

I just got back from Rio and while I didn't tour the Olympic sites, I did see some of the legacy of the games. The metro is pretty good considering the city's reputation huge trains and the stations are clean and well signed. Tourist map signs are now everywhere and it's easy for non-Portuguese speaking visitors to way-find around. I never visited before this, but from other people's anecdotes crime is much reduced and the streets are cleaned up quite a bit from prior to the Olympics.

There's more to Olympic legacy than empty stadiums. Shit happens. They said the same thing about Beijing and Sochi, heck even Vancouver. They'll keep saying it until Cities with big egos stop bidding for the Owe-lympics.


But seriously...The Daily Mail...? Seriously.

[punkwax]

Just saw the images on TSN now and found that article had good comparison pics... Failed right back for Judge Judy behaviour. :lol

[320icar]

I was gonna thank him cuz he used the search function instead of making a whole new thread.

Out of curiosity, what "wasted ruins" does Vancouver have from its olympics MG1? All I can think of is the torch barely being lit (it should be on all the fucking time) and there was some controversy about the Olympic village or wtv apartments and selling those off. The oval is thriving, the Canada line is a huge success. The sea to sky is a beautiful highway to drive now. What were the huge failures?

Edit: genuine question, not being a smartass

[Ch28]

I was gonna thank him cuz he used the search function instead of making a whole new thread.

Out of curiosity, what "wasted ruins" does Vancouver have from its olympics MG1? All I can think of is the torch barely being lit (it should be on all the fucking time) and there was some controversy about the Olympic village or wtv apartments and selling those off. The oval is thriving, the Canada line is a huge success. The sea to sky is a beautiful highway to drive now. What were the huge failures?

Edit: genuine question, not being a smartass

I can't believe you think CivicBlues is MG1.

https://i.imgur.com/9zxpvgI.gif

[CivicBlues]

I was gonna thank him cuz he used the search function instead of making a whole new thread.

Out of curiosity, what "wasted ruins" does Vancouver have from its olympics MG1? All I can think of is the torch barely being lit (it should be on all the fucking time) and there was some controversy about the Olympic village or wtv apartments and selling those off. The oval is thriving, the Canada line is a huge success. The sea to sky is a beautiful highway to drive now. What were the huge failures?

Edit: genuine question, not being a smartass


I didn't say Vancouver was a failure. I meant that people (the media, news articles) were saying it was going to be a failure. It clearly wasn't. Sorry for the confusion.

[Bouncing Bettys]

Out of curiosity, what "wasted ruins" does Vancouver have from its olympics MG1?
You mean Surrey didn't host the entire thing? :troll:

[MG1]

What? What did I miss?

CivicBlues one of my.......... kids I don't know about? yet.......... damn, when your past comes around to haunt you.........

[RRxtar]

I think thats partly a result of building mega Olympic parks for the Olympics. It seems like such a cool idea building all brand new venues and having them all together in one big mega complex, but once things go back to real life, they end up unused and out of the way. Vancouver did it right by building city amenity buildings (like the oval) in places that made sense spread around the city in places to house events that would continue to be used after the games were over. Whatever your feelings on the Olympics are, Vancouver was one of the few cities that actually did it right from a future use, legacy, and economic standpoint.

sydney, socchi, rio, etc all did it and as far as i know, most of them are unused now.