2016 Olympics

[Sarex]

Serbia won gold in Water polo, along with every other gold medal for the last 2 years.

 

 

OSVOJILI SMO SVE!!!!

Edited August 20, 2016 by Sarex

[Leferd]

Neymar seals it.

[Malcador]

Bah, damn Brazil. German team did well with no stars at all.

[Gromnir]

The US averaged ~101 total medals and 36 golds in the 7 post-boycott Olympics.  So 2016 is roughly on track to match that.   

 

The US Team has done well with some great individual performances and a couple of disappointments from upsets. Which is how every Olympics plays out. 

 

Edit:  FWIW, the over/under was 42.5 golds and 103.5 total.  

one day left and vegas weeps... and our east german judge no doubt.

 

we do feel a bit sad for the numerous competitors that were likely precluded from participating in spite o' having never been part o' the ubiquitous and state-sponsored russian doping scheme. given the extent o' the cheating, russians were gonna get little benefit o' doubt. perhaps the blanket condemnation were deserved. dunno. few whistle-blowers came forward to expose russian cheats. and heck, one whistle-blower were nevertheless prevented from competing, which will no doubt discourage future athletes from calling attention to state-sponsored doping.  regardless, given how meaningful is the olympics in many sports, we nevertheless feel compassion for those innocent russians denied the world's largest and brightest stage.

 

HA! Good Fun!

Edited August 21, 2016 by Gromnir

[HoonDing]

"Bah, damn Brazil. German team did well with no stars at all."

 

Bit sad, having to put Neymar on the pitch in an under-23 match.

[Meshugger]

 

[kgambit]

 

we do feel a bit sad for the numerous competitors that were likely precluded from participating in spite o' having never been part o' the ubiquitous and state-sponsored russian doping scheme. given the extent o' the cheating, russians were gonna get little benefit o' doubt. perhaps the blanket condemnation were deserved. dunno. few whistle-blowers came forward to expose russian cheats. and heck, one whistle-blower were nevertheless prevented from competing, which will no doubt discourage future athletes from calling attention to state-sponsored doping.  regardless, given how meaningful is the olympics in many sports, we nevertheless feel compassion for those innocent russians denied the world's largest and brightest stage.

 

HA! Good Fun!

 

 

Yep, hit the overs in both cases.

 

I agree that Stepanova was treated badly.  The IOC's handling of her situation was ridiculous - especially since the IAAF had cleared her for competition and recommended to the IOC that she be allowed to compete.   Given that she had torn a heel ligament in July, it was unlikely she would have been 100% but it would have been a nice gesture.

[Leferd]

Really good hoops for the bronze. But Australia got hosed by the officiating.

[BruceVC]

Well done USA for winning the most medals but the UK also did exceptionally well

 

Compared to the last couple of Olympics how did Russia do now that they couldn't just dope ?I wonder if they did as well?

[HoonDing]

Russia in 4th place like last Olympics.

IOC Maffia need to try harder.

[Malcador]

That assumes every one banned was doping. But they are down 20 or so from the previous two games.

[Volourn]

'Well done USA for winning the most medals but the UK also did exceptionally well"

 

brexit looks well on them.

 

Hillarious after all that whining and  attempts to destroy, mock, beat up Britain by rest of Europe... they gladly count Britain  as one of their own when it comes to Lympic glory. LMAO

[Gromnir]

Russia in 4th place like last Olympics.

 

IOC Maffia need to try harder.

kinda depends on how you count.  82 medals in the last olympics were good enough for third mostest. 2016 medal total for russia were 56.  russian 2016 gold total also decreased from 2012 mark by 1/5... smidgen more.  

 

am thinking the east german judge is having more number troubles.

 

HA! Good Fun!

[Sarex]

Congratulation on the gold to the USA basketball team, a well deserved win.

[HoonDing]

If they hadn't missed so many open shot chances in first quarter...

[Sarex]

They didn't play their own game, the US set the tempo and our guys followed it. When they played like a team it worked, but sadly we didn't see much of it.

[Leferd]

Classic.

 

 

I suppose Uzbekistan finally got their revenge 800 years later. #TooSoon?

Edited August 21, 2016 by Leferd

[HoonDing]

Tokyo 2020 will have 8 Archery on Horseback events. Mongolia redeemed.

[ManifestedISO]

Rad Games, Rio, great job, loved every minute. Except Ryan Lochte, who can go to hell/and/or Florida.

 

The only difficult part, I've been waiting for the Winter Games two years, now I have to wait TWO MORE years.

[Amentep]

When Rio started, I pondered to myself - "Why can't I remember the London Games?"

 

After watching NBC's coverage of Rio I have my answer - NBC doesn't actually show any competitions, they only show what the USA did and *maybe* one or two other competitors.  Because they're all about telling the "athlete's story" and not actually showing athletic competition, apparently.

 

~40 minutes dedicated to Lochte on Saturday saying he "over exaggerated" instead of lied and less than 5 minutes of the Women's high jump (and not even the gold medel winning jump, at that, much less the silver or bronze).  Maybe its just me but I'd rather have had a sport - any sport, even water polo - given that time than spending one iota of time on anything Lochte had to say.

Edited August 22, 2016 by Amentep

[Bartimaeus]

Yeah, NBC's coverage was apparently absolutely atrocious. I wouldn't know, personally, since I never actually watched anything on TV - why sit around and listen to their idiot talking heads ramble for hours on end for so little action? I can just barely stomach them while watching football games - I surely cannot for the Olympics, which I care significantly less about, and which has even less meaningful action than the often-derided slow pace of football. So I just watched copyright-infringing clips that were posted on reddit instead.

Edited August 22, 2016 by Bartimaeus

[Gromnir]

to be fair, the women's high jump were a train wreck.  four women made 1.97.  then all four failed to make 2.0.  really? you got each woman making 3 attempts at 2.0 and failing.  twelve attempts. nobody expected that gold would be won at 1.97.  gold, silver and bronze were all the result o' a 1.97 jump.  folks in booth musta been shocked.  

 

HA! Good Fun!

[Amentep]

to be fair, the women's high jump were a train wreck.  four women made 1.97.  then all four failed to make 2.0.  really? you got each woman making 3 attempts at 2.0 and failing.  twelve attempts. nobody expected that gold would be won at 1.97.  gold, silver and bronze were all the result o' a 1.97 jump.  folks in booth musta been shocked.  

 

HA! Good Fun!

 

1.97 was a shocking height (Vlašić, Lowe and Betia have all done better; I think Demireva matched a personal best) but I'd still have taken that over any time spent on Lochte explaining how he "over exaggerated".

Edited August 22, 2016 by Amentep

[Leferd]

Track and Field coverage through the NBC streaming app is miles better. Different announcing crew, no interruptions, brief bios on most -- if not all the competitors, and best of all, it's live or on demand. There are also separate dedicated feeds of all the field events.

[HoonDing]

The woman who won the heptathlon actually jumped over 1.98m.