st1LL_51ngl3 posted:

I should be an athlete so I can participate in the Olympic Village orgies.

e: I'd get the gold for fastest loving

Kurtofan posted:

the us hasn't medaled in racewalking since the seventies, you know what to do.

Veib posted:

These Olympics have shown me that goons as a whole are incapable of running, jumping, swimming, diving, and really all other basic human movement functions related to everything except walking because the only event where people come out like "I can do [x] I should be an athlete" is racewalking.

unpacked robinhood posted:

French commentators on pole jumper Sandi Morris : "this athlete who owns a snake collection at home, snakes which are like soft poles when you think about it"

unpacked robinhood posted:

French commentators on pole jumper Sandi Morris : "this athlete who owns a snake collection at home, snakes which are like soft poles when you think about it"

Say Nothing posted:

Sonofsilversign posted:

so based on all the locktee stuff thats come out looks like

he was being a drunk dick but didnt do anything that merited getting a gun pulled on them
they got robbed by gas station security (lmao)
then he caused an international incident by reporting it in a stdh style
he ran and left one of his bros to get robbed again to the tune of $10000 by vengefully corrupt (corruptly vengeful?) officials

Veib posted:

These Olympics have shown me that goons as a whole are incapable of running, jumping, swimming, diving, and really all other basic human movement functions related to everything except walking because the only event where people come out like "I can do [x] I should be an athlete" is racewalking.

nerdz posted:

To be fair, if you're working security and poo poo gets broken during your turn, you'll probably be fined for it. Add the language barrier and some drunk gringo being combative screaming at you at weird hours and you'll point a gun at him and tell him, you break it you pay for it. Who knows what the real story is though, the gun being pointed thing already changed quite a bit.

Sonofsilversign posted:

i think we can all agree the olympics shouldnt be held

st1LL_51ngl3 posted:

"These racewalking competitors have spent nearly their entire lives training for this event when you think about it."

"This competitor in the men's hurdles lives on a third-floor apartment and must take the stairs everyday and of course, stairs are like small hurdles when you think about it."

e:


Holy poo poo I missed this from the last page, this is adorable as hell!

unpacked robinhood posted:

Adjusting to the local tradition of throwing garbage into the water

Wizard Master posted:

Well the closing ceremonies are nearly upon us and it looks like the entire event has gone off without a hitch. I seem to remember GBS gleefully anticipating worldwide pandemic levels of Zika outbreaks, non-stop carnage as the athletes are robbed/kidnapped/murdered and incompetence at every level of planning.
Instead we had:

-some debris in the water during the rowing events ()
-some algae in the diving pools (WTF!!!!!!!!!)

On the other hand we've seen the pinnacle of human athleticism and displays of sportsmanship and unity that define the Olympic games for normal well-adjusted people. My advice for all you computer Nerd's is to soak up the last day of events to see what hard work and discipline looks like before you go back to WoW raiding in your Mom's basements.

Ms Boods posted:

Heh -- Mr Boods and I watched her match live; she flipped her coach not once, but twice, then hoisted him up her shoulders and took a victory lap. And she was really starstruck by winning her medal and going up on the first place podium, as well, as can be.

Sonofsilversign posted:

Both these things are filled with lovely assholes but only one will be on a rio beach 4 years from now.

can you solve my riddle

nerdz posted:

To be fair, if you're working security and poo poo gets broken during your turn, you'll probably be fined for it.

tater_salad posted:

Brasil and Racewalking?

Sonofsilversign posted:

Both these things are filled with lovely assholes but only one will be on a rio beach 4 years from now.

can you solve my riddle

Say Nothing posted:

Kurtofan posted:

Lochte is lucky this isn't north korea, ask otto wambier

TimeWaster posted:

Do Americans learn reading comprehension at school? Your own athlete confessed that Lochte pulled a secured metal advertising sign from off a wall. You visually see it falling down in the camera footage. The security guards were happy with $50 to repair the damage... THEN poo poo got stupid.

Hope this shorter summary helps you all.

8-Bit Scholar posted:

I'm just astounded how many fat loving Americans see it as their god-given right to sneer at Olympians. Like, yeah, Lochte clearly didn't behave entirely above the board here, but I find it infuriating to go on Facebook and some fat sports fan has a huge blog post about how Lochte has "brought shame to America" or some poo poo like that. Yeah, alright, the guy who has won 12-gold medals failed to live up to the high expectations of a guy who can't fit in a single airline seat. I bet they can have a real fruitful conversation on the topic of personal responsibility.

And was it true that people were mad at Gabby Douglas too? What even is that poo poo? Have some perspective.

TimeWaster posted:

Do Americans learn reading comprehension at school? Your own athlete confessed that Lochte pulled a secured metal advertising sign from off a wall. You visually see it falling down in the camera footage. The security guards were happy with $50 to repair the damage... THEN poo poo got stupid.

Hope this shorter summary helps you all.

SelenicMartian posted:

In 2013, Myrtha Pools called the current in Barcelona an “anomaly” and took measurements by floating a plastic bottle on the water’s surface, which found no pull in either way. A similar test using a large jug was conducted in Rio, which also found no current. The Journal previously reported that Myrtha was “devising an instrument to detect water currents”.

PathAsc posted:

The Rio lap pool

Illuyankas posted:

It doesn't matter how prestigious you may or may not be, you act like an rear end in a top hat you're gonna get called an rear end in a top hat

And Ryan Lochte is an rear end in a top hat

8-Bit Scholar posted:

I'm just astounded how many fat loving Americans see it as their god-given right to sneer at Olympians. Like, yeah, Lochte clearly didn't behave entirely above the board here, but I find it infuriating to go on Facebook and some fat sports fan has a huge blog post about how Lochte has "brought shame to America" or some poo poo like that. Yeah, alright, the guy who has won 12-gold medals failed to live up to the high expectations of a guy who can't fit in a single airline seat. I bet they can have a real fruitful conversation on the topic of personal responsibility.

And was it true that people were mad at Gabby Douglas too? What even is that poo poo? Have some perspective.

MisterOblivious posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2fVDlk21IA

8-Bit Scholar posted:

I don't necessarily disagree, but y'know, one should have some self-awareness still. I'd have no objections to other athletes or coaches or even professional sports journalists weighing in one way or the other, and I don't object to people voicing their criticism...I merely think that a fat rear end who can't stop drinking soda for one week, let alone train for years and years, isn't exactly the in any position to be lecturing an Olympic medalist on how to act.

st1LL_51ngl3 posted:

(can any of you're friends or famil name another Olympian besides Phelps or, as of the last few days, Lochte?)

8-Bit Scholar posted:

Yes, far more than I can TBH. I can think of Jesse Owens, Bruce Jenner, and the Dream Team, but I'm extremely confident that my family can name far more from their own childhoods.

I just think that people seem to think Olympic athletes need to be "taken down a peg" or something like that, and I find this a staggering attitude. You want to bring an arrogant person down, that makes sense--like, a rich heir is an easy target for a bit of scorn. But even if Lochte is an rear end in a top hat (and how exactly are we quantifying that? Does he just not behave in a manner you like?) he's an rear end in a top hat who has worked harder than probably any person you have ever known. He has literally been pushing his body against the frontiers of what human beings are capable of, and those frontiers are much farther out than they ever were.

Hell, I saw that video comparing the 1950's Olympic games to this one and you can see just how much more we have managed to coax out of the human body. The gymnastics flips are double the height, the speeds are relentlessly faster and faster. What you are seeing is the cutting edge developments in the most valuable technology of all: the human body. Yet while these people are showing what the human being IS capable of, those who are the most vicious in their critique of Lochte (or Douglas, which is in my opinion the vastly more disgusting criticism) seem to be demonstrating the opposite. I guess, ultimately, Jesus said it best:

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.