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Report: Russian boxer who won controversial match won't fight again in Rio Lol whoops, the Russian guy who 'won' the other day is so jacked up he can't compete anymore. "Russian coaches indicated Nikitin’s “face is a mess". A whole bunch of Russian bribe money gone with nothing to show for it I guess.
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Aug 18, 2016 18:14
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Ryan lied to his mom because he was embarrassed about breaking something and peeing in the store http://deadspin.com/report-ryan-lochte-and-his-rowdy-swimming-pals-defiant-1785452472 Shameful behavior for any 3 year old
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Aug 18, 2016 18:18
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WhyteRyce posted:Ryan lied to his mom because he was embarrassed about breaking something and peeing in the store "The Associated Press is reporting that Conger and Bentz have admitted to police that Lochte fabricated the story. The AP’s police source says that a security guard had a gun, but didn’t brandish it. From the report:" Ryan is a class A douche for leaving his friends in Brazil.
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Aug 18, 2016 18:21
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I thought about posting this as a new thread but it doesn't really deserve one so I'll just ask it here: Why is virtually every sport separated into Men's and Women's? I mean, it makes sense for the majority of events related to strength or speed, but what about table tennis? Shooting? Archery? Same goes for winter events...Bobsledding, Curling, hell even some of the snowboarding events could be co-ed since it's not a race or anything. As far as I can tell Equestrianism is the only one that's currently co-ed. But is there any reason whatsoever to have both Men's Sailing and Women's Sailing??
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Aug 18, 2016 18:25
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Aug 18, 2016 18:27
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timp posted:I thought about posting this as a new thread but it doesn't really deserve one so I'll just ask it here: There's mixed doubles tennis. I think badminton too.
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Aug 18, 2016 18:31
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Partial CCTV of the Lochte debacle: https://twitter.com/rioproblemas_/status/766310467979456512
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timp posted:I thought about posting this as a new thread but it doesn't really deserve one so I'll just ask it here: Strength and speed are factors and everything you've listed there with the exception of shooting I believe. This is not the social justice hill you want to die on considering you clearly don't understand most sports.
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Aug 18, 2016 18:35
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CubanMissile posted:Strength and speed are factors and everything you've listed there with the exception of shooting I believe. This is not the social justice hill you want to die on considering you clearly don't understand most sports. Oh...........
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Aug 18, 2016 18:40
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Besides. It's BOB sledding. Not EVE sledding.
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Aug 18, 2016 18:44
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Isn't there something physiological about women that make them better shooters? I am sad, though, that I never got to see Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky race. I'd love to know who would win that one. They'd swim so fast the water would light on fire.
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Aug 18, 2016 18:46
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Bean posted:Isn't there something physiological about women that make them better shooters? I can tell you with certainty who would win
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Aug 18, 2016 18:49
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Saint Freak posted:Report: Russian boxer who won controversial match won't fight again in Rio Not nothing, he gets a bronze medal as a semi-finalist.
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Aug 18, 2016 18:50
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timp posted:I thought about posting this as a new thread but it doesn't really deserve one so I'll just ask it here: Part of the reason people think ski jumping was not allowed too be done by women is that they might have a longer record distance than men, and that can't happen.
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https://www.theguardian.com/observer/osm/story/0,,543962,00.html
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Aug 18, 2016 18:54
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Bean posted:Isn't there something physiological about women that make them better shooters? We looked at their times for one of the 200m races, and it looked like Ledecky is faster. Also Lochte is clearly being framed by a Brazilian government employee wearing an Anderson Cooper wig in these faked videos.
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Aug 18, 2016 18:56
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Viruswithshoes posted:Partial CCTV of the Lochte debacle: he's probably regretting that stupid hair color now.
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Aug 18, 2016 18:59
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Kurtofan posted:Not nothing, he gets a bronze medal as a semi-finalist. Putin didn't shell out for a loving bronze so I hope he enjoys his time in the gulag.
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Aug 18, 2016 19:01
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WhyteRyce posted:Ryan lied to his mom because he was embarrassed about breaking something and peeing in the store Somehow this story is even better than "Rio is a shithole where everyone gets robbed."
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On the bright side, women also have the edge in living longer, being more resistant to disease, and better overall mental health Just, cant really make mamy olympic sports out of those (let alone find the bribe money)
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cravius posted:I can tell you with certainty who would win I've just compared her 400m freestyle to the men's finals, and she would have finished like 8 seconds after the last finalist. So, um, yeah.
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chitoryu12 posted:Somehow this story is even better than "Rio is a shithole where everyone gets robbed." Well yeah cause that's true regardless.
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Earlier in the thread someone enlightened us by revealing that at least in shooting men and women used to compete together until women, y'know, got good and might've won a title or something so they needed to be given their own competition ASAP. These days everyone is mostly cool with it because it means more people, both men and women, get to compete in the Olympics, even if this time that is a pretty dubious honor to bestow upon someone.
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First three stories on the front of cnn.com on my phone are about Ryan. lmao
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Did anybody catch the story on NBC just now? They made it sound like Lochte et all got robbed after they pissed on the gas station.
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Aug 18, 2016 19:13
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Good job NBC for on-site reporting at the gas station in question catching a camera guy coming out of the bathroom zipping up his fly. Still sounds like they paid the security guard to let them go since the police never responded.
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Naxuz posted:Earlier in the thread someone enlightened us by revealing that at least in shooting men and women used to compete together until women, y'know, got good and might've won a title or something so they needed to be given their own competition ASAP. These days everyone is mostly cool with it because it means more people, both men and women, get to compete in the Olympics, even if this time that is a pretty dubious honor to bestow upon someone. "men don't compete with women in sports because they're scared of being beaten" - salon.com
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It is unfair that transsexuals can not run in the Olympics. I want to see wig extensions and stuffed bras flapping as they run goddamn it.
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Aug 18, 2016 19:20
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If there were a sport where women were better then it should be segregated for obvious reasons.
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Aug 18, 2016 20:00
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Cthulu Carl posted:There's mixed doubles tennis. I think badminton too. There is a mixed sailing class or two also based on the schedule, although I didn't catch any of it.
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Aug 18, 2016 20:04
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synchronized swimming is just plain dumb, it's like a holdout from the 50s or something
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Internaut! posted:"men don't compete with women in sports because they're scared of being beaten" Remember when a supposed world class soccer team got beat by some jr high boys? and serena williams challenging that one male tennis player and after losing being all " holy poo poo I didn't think it'd be that HARD" men don't compete with women so as to give women an actual chance.
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timp posted:I thought about posting this as a new thread but it doesn't really deserve one so I'll just ask it here: Table tennis? Men hit way harder than women. We're not talking about basement ping pong. High level men's table tennis players use their legs and hips to whip their relaxed arm as fast as possible. Longer arms generate more speed than short ones as well. The top chinese women's players could do well against many men as they are so good but still they might not crack the top 50 men. CarlosTheDwarf fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Aug 18, 2016 |
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Crusty Nutsack posted:synchronized swimming is just plain dumb, it's like a holdout from the 50s or something on that note modern pentathlon is the worst it's only still there due to politics, shock
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More tragedy, less d&d chat! Rio Olympics 2016: Boxing chief moved from role after criticism http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37125939 The man in charge of the Olympic boxing tournament has been "reassigned" after criticism of judging decisions in Rio. The International Boxing Association (Aiba) said its executive director Karim Bouzidi would be given "a new role within the organisation" and and another official put in charge. Loving the clandestine use of inverted commas
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Just pulling a bow requires a great deal of upper body strength. It's incredibly difficult. Good bobsledding relies heavily on a very fast push start, women just can't run as fast. In snowboarding, women can't consistently catch the same air as the men which gives them less time to do spins and everything. For curling I imagine the faster you are able to push that broom thing means you can have more control over the stone. I don't know anything about sailing but I'd have to assume men would have an advantage cranking those sails into the wind. Mixed sports just doesn't make any rational sense. I suppose you could force coed teams but I imagine both sides of the sport would suffer from it. I doubt USA women's gymnastics wants the men anywhere near their team.
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CarlosTheDwarf posted:Table tennis? Men hit way harder than women. We're not talking about basement ping pong. High level men's table tennis players use their legs and hips to whip their relaxed arm as fast as possible. Longer arms generate more speed than short ones as well. The top chinese women's players could do well against many men as they are so good but still they might not crack the top 50 men. Didn't the Spanish team have a man in his 50's do considerably well? You telling me there's not one woman who could hit harder than that geezer? I'm sure he's more skilled, being older, but to say that it's an unfair matchup from a strength standpoint, eh, I'm a bit incredulous on that one. He didn't even look like he was in excellent shape or anything. e: here he is, he's 54 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Zhiwen
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yeah, men have a whole lot more upper body muscle mass than women and this is a factor in almost every single sport. and even in sports that shouldn't have a difference (like chess lol), having women tournaments helps them start out at the same level of everyone else in sports that were previously only allowed to be played by men apart from crazy people I don't see anyone complaining about male and female tournaments as some sort of "biologic inequality" which is totally not the point. people fight for equal rights, not biological equality, it would be the same as gay people fighting for the right of procreation from same sex and minorities to change their skin color. the whole transgender thing might complicate things though
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So the US women's 4x100 relay team gets to run alone tonight as a do-over for another team's runner interfering with a US hand-off. The runner that interfered? Brazilian. So Brazil is now disqualified. I hope they practiced running while getting booed and maybe garbage thrown at them. And apparently, they have to beat 42.70 seconds which will knock China out and the Chinese are just fine and dandy with tha-phhhhbbtt haha just kidding. They already filed a protest. http://www.sbnation.com/2016/8/18/12537698/rio-2016-us-womens-4x100-relay-empty-track-rerun Cthulu Carl fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Aug 18, 2016 |
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