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ElwoodCuse posted:Pretty good chance Russia boycotts/is banned from them again too For some reason, the hilarity of Russia nearly being completely banned from the Olympics this year, but is still hosting the Summer games in four years just got to me. It like sums up the whole problem with the Olympics.
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exploding mummy posted:At least he isn't hosting a golf show That would be so much better!
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Bird in a Blender posted:For some reason, the hilarity of Russia nearly being completely banned from the Olympics this year, but is still hosting the Summer games in four years just got to me. It like sums up the whole problem with the Olympics.
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The fact Beijing is getting the 2022 winter games, now that's pure IOC
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Sash! posted:Just stick them in Greece permanently so we can be spared the nonsense, but also still probably end up with a corrupt and shoddy affair. This would be double sweet because the Greeks wouldn't be able to maintain them so there will be two distinct sets of crumbling Olympic ruins.
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Spoeank posted:This would be double sweet because the Greeks wouldn't be able to maintain them so there will be two distinct sets of crumbling Olympic ruins. The 04 Olympic sites are already crumbling o it'd be 3
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I wonder if somewhere there's a papyrus scroll detailing the corruption of the original Olympics. Like, all the olive oil they put on their bodies was rancid, and the chariots fell apart during the races and poo poo
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Crazy Ted posted:Ummm no they're not. Tokyo is hosting in 2020. He might be thinking of the 2018 World Cup
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chunkles posted:I wonder if somewhere there's a papyrus scroll detailing the corruption of the original Olympics. Like, all the olive oil they put on their bodies was rancid, and the chariots fell apart during the races and poo poo I remember once reading about how the Romans had building codes for stadiums after one fell down and killed a whole mess of people, so probably yes.
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Oh, hey. A new bad thing about Rio! https://twitter.com/HuffingtonPost/status/760265871713562624
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Henchman of Santa posted:It's really an incredible show and I always kick myself for not watching it more. Dominique Moceanu. The sister, Jen Bricker, also did gymnastics, but seems to mostly do speeches now with her adoptive parents. One of the local gymnastics places brought her in a few years ago.
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My bad, I went with the only non-American gymnast I can name.
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Henchman of Santa posted:My bad, I went with the only non-American gymnast I can name. Dominique Moceanu was American! I had a big crush on her when I was 10.
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My bad, I went with the only gymnast from the 90s I can name. Comenici is mentioned in that story as well IIRC Also her parents were Romanian! Henchman of Santa fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:My bad, I went with the only gymnast from the 90s I can name. Comenici is mentioned in that story as well IIRC Comeneci was the 70s
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really curious to see how deep this rabbit hole of complete and utter lack of gymnastics knowledge goes
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Sash! posted:Just stick them in Greece permanently so we can be spared the nonsense, but also still probably end up with a corrupt and shoddy affair. Or just pick countries that can actually handle this poo poo. I know people want to be inclusive to developing nations but you're doing them no favors by having them host these events.
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Noctone posted:really curious to see how deep this rabbit hole of complete and utter lack of gymnastics knowledge goes *Googles American gymnast ankle* Kerri Strug GOAT
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speaking of american gymnasts this still gets me hyped as gently caress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNG0QJw7-4A
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Henchman of Santa posted:He might be thinking of the 2018 World Cup I am, oops.
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Niwrad posted:Or just pick countries that can actually handle this poo poo. I know people want to be inclusive to developing nations but you're doing them no favors by having them host these events. Pretty wide definition of developing country, they have mostly selected summer game sites that absolutely can handle it (Australia, US, Greece, China, Japan). When Brazil was selected it absolutely had the resources and was not really a developing country, it's just their economy collapsed afterwards. The entire process is completely corrupt though and just having a 20-year rotation of cities makes way more sense (though 6 years ago I might have included Brazil as one of the potential 5 cities).
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Ah yes, the internationally famous city of Brazil E: but yeah the Brazilian economy took a hard downturn in the last few years and the World Cup mess was a pretty clear sign the Olympics were going to be a disaster. DJExile fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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DJExile posted:Ah yes, the internationally famous city of Brazil  Oh you know what I mean.
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Noctone posted:really curious to see how deep this rabbit hole of complete and utter lack of gymnastics knowledge goes I can name several of the girls that won in London as well as Kerri Strug.
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I read a decent article recently about redesigning the Olympics and the gist of it was to have the events be held in different places, and have them maybe rotate. But instead of having to build some $allofit swim center in some new place, just keep having it at one that already exists. And then you can get more countries involved because you only have to worry about a single event rather than the $allofit that comes with every event. It's not like they can't do liver coverage from multiple locations on the globe, either. I of course can't find this article anymore so...
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Inspector_666 posted:I read a decent article recently about redesigning the Olympics and the gist of it was to have the events be held in different places, and have them maybe rotate. But instead of having to build some $allofit swim center in some new place, just keep having it at one that already exists. And then you can get more countries involved because you only have to worry about a single event rather than the $allofit that comes with every event. It's not like they can't do liver coverage from multiple locations on the globe, either. yeah but how are the bribes gonna work
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Inspector_666 posted:I read a decent article recently about redesigning the Olympics and the gist of it was to have the events be held in different places, and have them maybe rotate. But instead of having to build some $allofit swim center in some new place, just keep having it at one that already exists. And then you can get more countries involved because you only have to worry about a single event rather than the $allofit that comes with every event. It's not like they can't do liver coverage from multiple locations on the globe, either. Honestly, I'm surprised the IOC hasn't done this solely to bilk multiple countries out of cash instead of just one. Like, the IOC turns from one massive organization with untracable accounts to a thousand LLCs with untracable accounts.
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What the hell is Sallofit
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morestuff posted:What the hell is Sallofit Like $texas but more.
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morestuff posted:What the hell is Sallofit I'm more worried about what "liver coverage" means. Is organ harvesting going to be a new sport in the Olympics?
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chunkles posted:I'm more worried about what "liver coverage" means. Is organ harvesting going to be a new sport in the Olympics? They're just going to make it official now.
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chunkles posted:I'm more worried about what "liver coverage" means. Is organ harvesting going to be a new sport in the Olympics? Soylent Gold.
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Y'know how olympic villages are basically just nothing but athletes loving each other, so they hand out a shitload of condoms? Now they're worried about journalists loving one another all day https://twitter.com/wyshynski/status/760156119402708993/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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lol how did Wyshynski get to go to the Summer Olympics?
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Oh also apparently the amount of contamination in the waters at Rio has actually gone up since last year..quote:Despite a project aimed at preventing raw sewage from flowing into the Gloria Marina through storm drains, the waters remain just as contaminated. The first sampling there, in March 2015, showed over 26 million adenoviruses per liter. This June, over 37 million adenoviruses per liter were detected.
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ElwoodCuse posted:lol how did Wyshynski get to go to the Summer Olympics? Yeah this is what I would also like to know
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Wyshynski covered the 2014 Olympics for Yahoo! because of hockey so he has experience. Also he's been a sports journalist/writer for a decade and a half so it's not that weird?
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Inspector_666 posted:Oh also apparently the amount of contamination in the waters at Rio has actually gone up since last year..
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morestuff posted:What the hell is Sallofit It's like Crossfit, but with rape and poo poo-eating.
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