The Rio Olympics are going to be AWESOME

[XXX-er]

Maybe you see it now but just wait til Trump builds that wall paid for by the Mexicans

[old goat]

Maybe you see it now but just wait til Trump builds that wall built by Mexicans

fify

[Skidog]

I would sure love to take a dip here or maybe sail a boat and win gold.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...-bay/87525622/

Ugh!

[PNWbrit]

Bernie Ecclestone's mother-in-law reported kidnapped in São Paulo

[alias_rice]

Just watched Real Sports IOC episode. I always assumed the IOC was second only to FIFA when it came to corruption. But I think the IOC is actually a lot worse.

[Elkhound Odin]

Just watched Real Sports IOC episode. I always assumed the IOC was second only to FIFA when it came to corruption. But I think the IOC is actually a lot worse.

I would not be surprised if the IOC & FIFA compete to out corrupt each other.
I thought it was interesting when the Brazilian sailing team said they lost a race in the bay because they hit some garbage and that prompted the city to send out barges to scoop the junk out of the water.

[Vt-Freeheel]

[hatchgreenchile]

In case athletes need an extra hand.

[Skidog]

wow...is that paddleboarder really in an area that Olympians will be competing? Thats atrocious.

And how the fuck isn't he wearing some sort of skin protection? Guys got balls. Looks like he's paddleboarding in a sewer (basically it is from what i have read).

Good job IOC.

[detrusor]

Listened to an interview w the only American member of the IOC selection committee. Total and utter bullshit. She said the water was totally cleaned up, security was awesome, Zika not a threat, no graft in the selection process. It was hilarious listening. I wonder if she knows she sounds like a totally farcical company shill.

[Vt-Freeheel]

Good times to be had.


Sailing-ramp-collapses

www.theatlantic.com

[BmillsSkier]

Think Bob Costas will trot out the conjunctivitis eye again?

Ya know, just to fit in?

[Cono Este]

Brazil certainly had its fair share of corruption and problems. But every Olympics the Western Media trumps up claims how bad the games will be in lessor developed countries.

The World Cup was pretty successful in Brazil.

[plugboots]

^^^ This is true, but the matches were in stadiums, not in polluted water. Also, remember how hot it was for some of the matches?

[Timberridge]

I think the stink, ooze, Zika and crime will add an interesting dynamic to the games.

[Cono Este]

^^^ This is true, but the matches were in stadiums, not in polluted water. Also, remember how hot it was for some of the matches?

True, but the matches were also all over the country where security was probably even more difficult.

Black Lives Matter will be there though to make sure no one pick pockets have their rights violated. And PNW Brit will be there 10 yrs later to file charges of Human rights violations but no one will care by then.

[SB]

Think Bob Costas will trot out the conjunctivitis eye again?

Ya know, just to fit in?

I laft.

[old goat]

True, but the matches were also all over the country where security was probably even more difficult.

Black Lives Matter will be there though to make sure no one pick pockets have their rights violated. And PNW Brit will be there 10 yrs later to file charges of Human rights violations but no one will care by then.

can't you save your spew for threads in which it's at least slightly relevant?

[plugboots]

^^^ ha, I was going to say that it's probably easier to have good security at separate, designed-for-security stadiums, instead of a sprawling megalopolis. Then I read the rest of the BS.

[Cono Este]

Ok, so securing10 airports instead of one is easier?

You guys are obviously high.

And yes, black lives matter sent a delegation to Rio. Hopefully they lost their luggage.

[BmillsSkier]

Black lives matter got sent to Rio? Seems racist.

[BmillsSkier]

[Benny Profane]

NPR had an interview with a marathon swimmer tonight. Now, who knew this was an organized sport, but anyway, it seems that there's going to be a bunch of these fools in that sewage for, like, two hours. Holy, ahem, shit.

[east or bust]

NPR had an interview with a marathon swimmer tonight. Now, who knew this was an organized sport, but anyway, it seems that there's going to be a bunch of these fools in that sewage for, like, two hours. Holy, ahem, shit.

If the water is actually as depicted in that paddle board picture I just wouldn't bother going.

[BmillsSkier]

I know for sure the sailing and rowing events are in severely polluted water that is making people in boats sick.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-0...-venue/7692784

I can't imagine being a triathlete or marathon swimmer (who knew that existed) and putting my entire body in that sewage. Fuck that, I'll compete at the next World's and that will have to be my 'Olympics'.

I was trying to be fair today when thinking about the Games with a co worker and basically we narrowed it down to the biggest risks facing several sports/athletes:

Sailing: body parts/plague/sewage

Triathletes: sewage/plague/body parts

Golf/Soccer/Tennis/Track/Anything outdoors: Zica

Swimming: VD