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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jul 22, 2016 8:27:11 GMT -5
These are only a couple of weeks away, so may as well get a thread up about it. That's right, it's nearly time for that two week period every four years where beautiful gold, so-so silver and shameful bronze is on the line, and 99% of the world actually gives a damn about sports shooting, equestrian and weightlifting.
So... The sailing bay is polluted. Zika-carrying mosquitos are scaring off all the golfers on its big return to the Games. Brazil is an economic and political rabble. And Russia aren't allowed to send an athletics team, or possibly even a team period, because of alleged state-sponsored PED programs. These could be complete and utter carnage.
On the plus side, it's in a good timezone for United States TV. *shrug*
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jul 22, 2016 8:57:07 GMT -5
This thing is going to be a f***ing disaster.
I'm convinced at least one country is going to pull out during the games and just say "Screw this, we're done. We're going home, keep your medals."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 9:31:00 GMT -5
I always enjoy the Olympics. I don't watch everything, but I try to put it on while doing other things. I usually will fall asleep watching whatever is on. I do go out of my way to watching USA Basketball, though. I always enjoy that. On the plus side, it's in a good timezone for United States TV. *shrug* This is definitely going to help this year. Late/early hours or tape delays suck.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jul 22, 2016 9:55:25 GMT -5
Everything about this Olympics smells funny. The amount of shit that has already happened (and the games haven't even started yet) is hilariously terrible. 5 years ago you couldn't make up scenarios as bad as what is going on right now without people thinking you were crazy.
The locals don't want it. The athletes don't want to go there. The Earth itself is doing everything it can to drive people away. The Insect Kingdom has gone full biological warfare. Many buildings aren't complete. (this isn't 'coat of final paint unfinished, this is concrete isn't poured yet unfinished)
We are literally endangering our species by sending so many people into a zika hotbed and giving Nature the middle finger.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jul 22, 2016 10:04:54 GMT -5
Everything about this Olympics smells funny. The amount of shit that has already happened (and the games haven't even started yet) is hilariously terrible. 5 years ago you couldn't make up scenarios as bad as what is going on right now without people thinking you were crazy. The locals don't want it. The athletes don't want to go there. The Earth itself is doing everything it can to drive people away. The Insect Kingdom has gone full biological warfare. Many buildings aren't complete. (this isn't 'coat of final paint unfinished, this is concrete isn't poured yet unfinished) We are literally endangering our species by sending so many people into a zika hotbed and giving Nature the middle finger. Who cares about all that when Rio slips the IOC more cash under the table than anybody else? I agree with something said on Mike and Mike, just make it a rotation of 4 or 5 cities that have hosted the Olympics already and have the infrastructure in place to do it again.
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Post by Renslayer on Jul 22, 2016 10:37:04 GMT -5
I feel so bad for the swimmers. You've got a chance at a gold medal, but you have to swim in water infected by super bacteria to get it. Breh
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Post by Andy Martin on Jul 22, 2016 11:06:52 GMT -5
Everything about this Olympics smells funny. The amount of shit that has already happened (and the games haven't even started yet) is hilariously terrible. 5 years ago you couldn't make up scenarios as bad as what is going on right now without people thinking you were crazy. The locals don't want it. The athletes don't want to go there. The Earth itself is doing everything it can to drive people away. The Insect Kingdom has gone full biological warfare. Many buildings aren't complete. (this isn't 'coat of final paint unfinished, this is concrete isn't poured yet unfinished) We are literally endangering our species by sending so many people into a zika hotbed and giving Nature the middle finger. Who cares about all that when Rio slips the IOC more cash under the table than anybody else? I agree with something said on Mike and Mike, just make it a rotation of 4 or 5 cities that have hosted the Olympics already and have the infrastructure in place to do it again. If the rotation gives me an excuse to go back to London again, I'm all for it.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jul 22, 2016 13:55:30 GMT -5
Britain is going to win shitloads of medals!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 15:06:18 GMT -5
Amateur wrestling, the decathlon and some women's gymnastics is about all I'll watch. (The decathlon is the true crowning of the greatest athlete on Earth, not some guy that can run 100 or 200 yards quickly.)
But that's just a distraction from the mess that is Rio. The police aren't getting paid, hospitals don't have proper medicine, locals living in squalor...HEY LOOK, BUM-BUM GIRLS!
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Jul 22, 2016 23:51:51 GMT -5
Everything about this Olympics smells funny. The amount of shit that has already happened (and the games haven't even started yet) is hilariously terrible. 5 years ago you couldn't make up scenarios as bad as what is going on right now without people thinking you were crazy. The locals don't want it. The athletes don't want to go there. The Earth itself is doing everything it can to drive people away. The Insect Kingdom has gone full biological warfare. Many buildings aren't complete. (this isn't 'coat of final paint unfinished, this is concrete isn't poured yet unfinished) We are literally endangering our species by sending so many people into a zika hotbed and giving Nature the middle finger. Who cares about all that when Rio slips the IOC more cash under the table than anybody else? I agree with something said on Mike and Mike, just make it a rotation of 4 or 5 cities that have hosted the Olympics already and have the infrastructure in place to do it again. Thats the thing a City like Boston could hold it with ease as all the universities and faculties are there. But the IOC demands that all new stuff be built. I bet they would tell a Sydney that their stuff is too old, time to start from scratch.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2016 13:40:57 GMT -5
That's why Boston residents said no Olympics for us.
This is why I'm glad Chicago got turned down for this year's Games.
IOC makes FIFA look like small-time hustlers.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2016 13:46:40 GMT -5
Thinking about it... Zika is actually the least of the concerns at Rio. Sure, people can tout the success of the 2014 World Cup and say Rio will do just fine, but that was spread across the massive country. Here, it's virtually compacted into a 50 mile radius around one of the most polluted bodies of water in the world. And, let's not forget that once the World Cup left, most of those venues haven't been used that often. One is just used to fill buses in their parking lot!
There's security issues due to a funding crisis, the government is in disarray, there's the obvious threats of kidnapping, human trafficking, and even terrorism to consider as well.
Shoot, they even killed the Olympic mascot.
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Post by Nickybojelais on Jul 23, 2016 15:52:45 GMT -5
I'll do my usual viewing of Olympic games - I'll be watching all of the Boxing and a bit of Baseketball, will add the Golf to my viewing this time.
But I cant watch any of the core sports of the Olympics (Track,Field,Swimming,Gymnastics etc), I just cant trust if what I'm seeing is legit in most of those events.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jul 24, 2016 9:29:19 GMT -5
The IOC are not going to ban Russia completely from Rio for their alleged doping programs, seemingly leaving it to the individual sporting bodies to make that call like the IAAF did for the Russian athletics team. www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/36878983
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Jul 24, 2016 13:07:13 GMT -5
love all the sports of the olympics, i'll watch everything
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Post by Spider2024 on Jul 24, 2016 22:59:27 GMT -5
The IOC are not going to ban Russia completely from Rio for their alleged doping programs, seemingly leaving it to the individual sporting bodies to make that call like the IAAF did for the Russian athletics team. www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/36878983I know one guy who's happy:
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2016 10:32:50 GMT -5
So, the Australian team doesn't want to live at the Rio Olympic village, citing it as "uninhabitable". I mean, the rooms look okay, except for the cheap dressers, military-grade cots, cramped dimensions, and the fact that not every room will have running water.
So, what does the mayor of Rio de Janiero say about this, considering that he's been relatively oblivious to the blunders his city has done? He wants to offer them a kangaroo.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jul 25, 2016 12:03:16 GMT -5
That's a dick move. What, is he going to offer the Americans a bald eagle, the Chinese a panda and the Russians a vodka drinking wrestling bear?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2016 16:37:22 GMT -5
So, the Australian team doesn't want to live at the Rio Olympic village, citing it as "uninhabitable". I mean, the rooms look okay, except for the cheap dressers, military-grade cots, cramped dimensions, and the fact that not every room will have running water. So, what does the mayor of Rio de Janiero say about this, considering that he's been relatively oblivious to the blunders his city has done? He wants to offer them a kangaroo. I read when they tested the water pressure by flushing toilets on different floors at once, water started running down the walls. Nah, we straight, brah. Where are the Carnival gals?
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Post by gl83 on Jul 29, 2016 21:30:59 GMT -5
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