Rio Olympics disaster watch

[Ding Dong Johnson]

[Derwood]

 

I was fully expecting one of those to fall into the pool during a race and electrocute the entire field of swimmers

 

I always wonder about them falling, but I doubt there was any risk of electrocution.

 

Normally there wouldn't, but the cam the Rio government bought off Craigslist might have a few anomalies

[Guest]

 

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http://i.giphy.com/OXDVrAKkPgt7G.gif

 

He's so juiced up. But then again, they all are.

[Guest]

I think Bolt is a bad guy in the same way i think Lance Armstrong is a bad guy.

[Sammy Sofa]

http://deadspin.com/malaysian-diver-executes-flawless-belly-flop-1785329513

 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4ovo1a_amsyar-ahmad-azman-de-malasia-hizo-uno-de-los-peores-clavados-de-los-juegos-olimpicos_sport

[Sammy Sofa]

I think Bolt is a bad guy in the same way i think Lance Armstrong is a bad guy.

 

Bolt seems cool as hell; did Armstrong ever NOT seem like a dick?

[philosophizer75]

I don't understand the Bolt hate. I've never heard anything bad about him and he seems to always have fun with something he is incredible at.

[Guest]

If you believe he's juicing, he's a bad guy.

[jersey cubs fan]

If you believe he's juicing, he's a bad guy.

WTF?

 

 

Is this sports or not sports?

[Sammy Sofa]

I think he's more of a smoothie guy.

[Liam Neeson]

Olympic boxing judges strike again!

 

http://www.rte.ie/sport/olympics/2016/0816/809698-conlan-robbed-of-olympic-medal-by-judges/

[Banedon]

Boxing is an awful sport anyway.

[Liam Neeson]

Boxing is an awful sport anyway.

 

I agree with this but Olympic boxing is its own special brand of bad.

[Guest]

I think he's more of a smoothie guy.

 

of the horse molecule type.

[Guest]

If you believe he's juicing, he's a bad guy.

WTF?

 

 

Is this sports or not sports?

 

if he's juicing and lying about it, he's a bad guy. if he's not, he's not.

[Guest]

nobody runs 9.58 without juicing, that's absurd.

[Sammy Sofa]

A lot of us just don't care. It's really fun to watch. Armstrong was an ass who lead a sport only dorks care about.

[treebird]

i guess I'm just a broken cynic in this regard, but i generally just assume everyone at the top is cheating and probably lots of other people too. bolt is that much faster than everyone else naturally? surrrrre. katie ledecky wins all her races by 15 seconds without cheating? likely story.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

what? girls can't do steroids.

[Guest]

A lot of us just don't care. It's really fun to watch. Armstrong was an ass who lead a sport only dorks care about.

 

people care about cycling once a year, people care about track and field once every four years. lance armstrong is a bad guy because he built an empire on performance enhancing drugs. he was the most inspirational story ever until he got caught. Bolt may get caught, but it's hard to track down the truth in a third-world country, I'm sure.

[WrigleyField 22]

nobody runs 9.58 without juicing, that's absurd.

Do they run 9.81 or 9.89?

[Sammy Sofa]

A lot of us just don't care. It's really fun to watch. Armstrong was an ass who lead a sport only dorks care about.

 

people care about cycling once a year, people care about track and field once every four years. lance armstrong is a bad guy because he built an empire on performance enhancing drugs. he was the most inspirational story ever until he got caught. Bolt may get caught, but it's hard to track down the truth in a third-world country, I'm sure.

 

I dont know what to tell you; the only thing I care about less than whether an athlete is using PED's or not is whether track or bicycling is more popular. And I was one of the cool kids that thought Armstrong seemed like an obnoxious dick when he "was the most inspirational story ever." He was a hyper-competitive, mildly sociopathic ass loathed by his teammates and everyone else in the sport, and not in a good way like prime Jordan or Tiger. Bolt is a likable guy clearly having a blast and he provides bite-sized moments of amazingness and then he goes away and I don't have to see his stupid bracelets and books and everything else like stupid Armstrong.

[SouthSideRyan]

A lot of us just don't care. It's really fun to watch. Armstrong was an ass who lead a sport only dorks care about.

 

European dorks at that.

[SouthSideRyan]

i guess I'm just a broken cynic in this regard, but i generally just assume everyone at the top is cheating and probably lots of other people too. bolt is that much faster than everyone else naturally? surrrrre. katie ledecky wins all her races by 15 seconds without cheating? likely story.

 

If lots of other people are cheating too, how come they're getting beaten so badly?

[philosophizer75]

It's pretty sad to me that people assume cheating. I get it, I just think it's sad.