Arena Games of the XXXI Olympiad - Official Rio Summer Olympics (8/5-21) Thread

WADA is calling for an all out ban on Russia for Rio.

 

I'll be honest, I saw this thread bumped and assumed that Rio de Janeiro had exploded. Not because of a gas leak, but just because it periodically explodes. "It's fine, it'll be fine," says Olympic Committee, "the games will go on as planned."

 

I have my doubts Russia will get entirely banned from Rio. I just can't see the IOC (which is a corrupt group itself) having the guts to go through with it. Serious sanctions, maybe, but not an all-out ban.

 

The sanction they need to levy is to force them to give the USA the gold medal in men's basketball from 1972 and right the greatest wrong in olympic history.

 

Heavy favorite to win the equestrian eventing gold just had to switch to his back-up horse. Oh and this replacement horse is the one that won gold in London. Michael Jung has been winning every major event over the last two years with three amazing horses. Team USA has their work cut out for them.


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It's stuff like this that makes me wonder why the Olympics aren't held in a permanent place every four years (one place for the Summer Games, another for the Winter), but then again, the IOC wouldn't get much bribe and corruption money out of such an arraignment.

 

These Olympics, like basically everything this year, is going to be a huge cluster****

 

I don't think they need to be held in the same place but I do think it could be the same for 2 summer olympics to give the next host country plenty of time to get money and get things done. It also seems silly to build all that stuff and then it doesn't get used anymore.


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I see no reason why you couldn't establish six permanent hosts and rotate through the continents.

Edit: other than bribes

 

More Olympic bans for Russia.

Fire at Olympic village being investigated as arson.

Team USA's opening ceremony uniforms:

 

Brazil just fired the Olympic security force, due to "incompetence," a week before the games.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/rio-ol...ligned-police-force-takes-over-221722153.html

 

They should just get Val and Steven Adams to look after security.

 

I love watching the Olympics and I have done since I was a kid. It gets harder and harder to just put all of the dodgy political stuff out of your head and enjoy the competition though. It's a crying shame. It really is.

 

Michael Phelps will be the flag bearer for the USA on Friday. Absolutely an earned distinction. I don't think it's hyperbole, at all, to call him the greatest Olympian in United States history.

 

I would have preferred Ibtihaj Muhammad as a stinging rebuke to Donald Trump, but I can't really argue with Phelps.

 

So Andy Murray's carrying the flag for GB. I hope he's careful not to dazzle the stadium with his smile!

Just joking by the way. I like Andy Murray and he's an amazing athlete.

 

That's so true! For all but a couple of weeks every four years I don't watch a minute of most of these sports, but at the Olympics it all becomes enormously fascinating.

 

I'm mostly interested in the sports for which the Olympics is the pinnacle of achievement. So not tennis, golf, football etc. I watch the pinnacle events for those sports all year long, every year.