2016 rio olympic thread

[CheesePritchard]

Short track

 

[deacvision7]

Asterisks that shit

 

[ChrisL68]

And a great story about his 74 yr old coach.

And his mom.

 

[Ayo]

9.80, meh

 

[deacs1995]

wow. dude makes them look like they are standing still

 

[Dekin]

The Bolt strikes again

 

[deacs1995]

midway thru i thought gatlin had him

 

[Dekin]

Gatlin had the lead until the last 20 m

 

[Kory]

Imagine if he had a good start.

 

[deacvision7]

Imagine if he had a good start.

Correct. His start is ALWAYS terrible and it doesn't matter. I feel sorry for his coach trying to correct it.

 

[avalon]

I'm dying laughing at the Olympics mascot getting Usain Bolt to carry a stuffed Olympics mascot around as he was celebrating. WTF?

 

[liveanddiedeac]

I'm dying laughing at the Olympics mascot getting Usain Bolt to carry a stuffed Olympics mascot around as he was celebrating. WTF?

See my earlier post. The Greco-Roman wrestling coaches have to throw a stuffed Olympic mascot out onto the mat to issue a challenge, now that's funny.

 

[PhDeac]

Got some live USA Women's Beach Volleyball going on right now.

 

[Say Hey Deac]

Rio is an hour ahead of ET, right? How do they keep having all these events after midnight?

 

[PhDeac]

Because other events run long?

 

[wsc8521s]

They're scheduled to start at 1 AM local.

Not all cultures are as 9-to-5-obsessed as ours. And thank God for that

 

[Say Hey Deac]

No, this volleyball match has always been scheduled for midnight local time. I guess they're just trying to get live airtime for west coast viewers, but kind of weird for the athletes to start events at midnight.

 

[LilburnDeac]

Clearly the best ever at his sport but individual swimmers win multiple medals (4+) every single Olympics. They have more events than anyone, with similar skills sets, and it's a low impact sport that allows for daily training at a really high intensity.

I'm not arguing that he is the best athlete ever but he has 28 total medals. Phelps has more Gold medals than the next best has total. And the closest swimmer to him has 12. Only 17 swimmers have ever won more than 4 medals in a single Olympics.

 

[bluefish]

They're scheduled to start at 1 AM local.

Not all cultures are as 9-to-5-obsessed as ours. And thank God for that

Copy that. Pos rep.

 

[bluefish]

With the 200 yet to be run and, as always, figuring in the cool factor, I'm ready to declare Usain Bolt as my favorite track dude ever. I'm dating myself, but he's eclipsing the great Edwin Moses.