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2016 rio olympic thread

 
I'm watching delayed: Jager through easily in 3k steeple. I know the results of women's steeple, so excited to watch.

Women's 400 was ridiculous. That diving bullshit was one thing, but then she laid around on the ground for twenty-five minutes. My feed has no commentary and never cuts away, so it was literally twenty-five minutes of watching this bahamas lady lay on the ground. Very un-Olympic. Get up.
 
OOH False start in women's steeple finals! Haven't seen that since the 800 prelims yesterday (LOL)
 
I love how the women just slap the hip numbers on their legs. Like maybe 10% of those stay on for the entire race.
 
Man, I don't know how anyone could compare the swimmers to these track and field guys. These people are fucking done after their races, dying many deaths on the track. Is there a single athlete (other then multis/hep/dec) that are tripling events? It just doesn't happen.
 
I mean, swimming is hard. Really hard. Like, it's one of the only sports that if you get really tired, you die.

But still, none of them are vomiting in the pool or pulling hamstrings or jumping into the crowd.
 
No one is tripling individual events as far as I know. Even if Rupp had qualified in the 5k I don't he would have run it. I think your boy Craig Engels was the only American with the stones to run the 800/1500 double in qualifying.

In swimming they win gold and hop back in the pool twenty minutes later for a relay. They are incredible fit but they don't take a pounding, so they can easily spend 10 hours in a pool training and come back and do it again the next day.
 
LOL, Craig Engels might have stones, but he is the biggest fucking clown alive. The way he behaved while on the team at State was just fucking ridiculous, and I respect the hell out of Rollie Geiger for telling him to fuck off. Kicking a guy with that kind of talent off of your squad takes real stones. And Geiger has had to do it a number of times (Eric Mack comes to mind).

His wikipedia is hilarious, and was most certainly written by a friend or Engels himself:

Engels first attended North Carolina State with an athletic scholarship. During his freshman year, he was redshirted and experienced chronic injury problems.[SUP][4][/SUP] In the summer after his freshman year, he traveled with the US junior national team to Colombia to compete at the 2013 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships, where he won the 1500 meters. Just four months after this, during winter break, Engels decided to terminate his enrollment at NC State. He considered stopping competitive running altogether, but was urged by his high school coach, Chris Catton, not to quit.[SUP][4][/SUP] During his winter of uncertainty, he sent gifts individually to his teammates at NC State as a sign of goodbye, and also bought a used recreational vehicle on Craigslist, which broke down immediately after purchase.[SUP][4][/SUP]
By early 2014, with some persuasion from Mississippi coach Ryan Vanhoy, who had tried recruited Engels as a high schooler two years earlier, Engels transferred to University of Mississippi.[SUP][4][/SUP]
 
I kinda love Vanhoy, but he is also a total clown. Came up to Wake to visit one year to go to the Third Eye Blind show with me. That was cool.

Catton is a boss, obviously. I forget how you knew those dudes, but I remember that you lived in that house with at least a couple of them.
 
LOLOL. Good one, Wikipedia. I'm sure that's exactly how it happened.

Just four months after this, during winter break, Engels decided to terminate his enrollment at NC State.
 
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