Rio Olympics

[sircumvent]

If you were an Olympic athkete, would you participate in the Rio Olympics?
The conditions are horrid and the security is a joke.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Tough question.

A lot of training involved for an opportunity that comes along every four years...

 

[Bray123]

A lot of effort when a Russian turns up and with the full support of the entire state cheats the drugs tests and runs off into the distance.

The IOC refusing to do anything about it (nothing to do with all the cash that ends in their pockets of course) and asking each sports division if they have any personal preference.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Not as an open water swimmer.

http://i.imgur.com/ulCbb3P.jpg
http://www.picturescollections.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/rodrigo-de-freitas-lake-pollution.png

Security is not an issue with me. I'm not scared of shit like that. Don't go wandering in bad parts of town. Have all the security you want then bad guys set bombs off in another part of town. Bad guys would be way more active in trying to bomb or shoot up a US Olympic venue. Nothing in Rio to worry about that the Brazilians don't face every day.

 

[MrHotnspicey]

NO!!! Hell NO

That place is a mess. Just saw an article where Australia, New Zealand, and another country refused to live in the unfinished housing, because of electrical, plumbing and unfinished construction.

 

[thør]

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[pink]

I will be the first to thank the flag carrier from Tonga, for just being himself.

 

[removed9556]

 

[Super-Surprise]

http://i.imgur.com/1ObDTyr.gif

 

[Noor]

http://i.imgur.com/1ObDTyr.gif

Where? when?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

There. Now, in four seconds...


Now


Now

 

[phrodeau]

Brazilian law states that all swimming pools over a certain size must employ a lifeguard.

There they are, at poolside, watching the Olympics.

 

[Aglaopheme]

People need to stop crying about the fact that conditions for the athletes are not quite what they would like. They are infinitely better than conditions for the thousands of favelas children evicted to make way for the circus of the Games.

This^^^^^^

I was explaining that to my middle daughter as we were watching the last half hour of the opening ceremony last night.

 

[hashtag45]

http://i.imgur.com/1ObDTyr.gif

I liked the two guys who put themselves in harm's way in order to protect the torch bearer.
Even though they didn't know what it was or how serious it could've turned out to be.

 

[FknNemesis]

If you were an Olympic athkete, would you participate in the Rio Olympics?
The conditions are horrid and the security is a joke.

The Olympics never were about providing athletes with 5 star accommodation. As for the unfinished buildings...
A. One doesn't usually doesn't know that while training and qualifying
B. Looking at the track record of many large scale events which provide 'villages'... gotta be a dreamer to not expect that to be the case.


Would I participate? Depends the discipline.
As track and field athlete, swimmer, or judoka... yes. The Olympics or the summit. As football player (the beautiful game played solely by feet by 20/22 players), golfer or cyclist... not necessarily. There's other events on the calendar which leave a larger [trophy] legacy.

 

[MankoZ28]

Enjoying the cycling road race.

 

[FknNemesis]

Related: https://twitter.com/OllieW/status/761944995523952640

Enjoying the cycling road race.

I'm Belgian, Flemish to be precise. So cycling truly starts early March for me with the classics. Tour de France tends to be the end, until September Classics and the World Championships.

Still haven't gotten used to Vuelta being in September. Even if already for two decades lol.

 

[Disgustipated]

People need to stop crying about the fact that conditions for the athletes are not quite what they would like. They are infinitely better than conditions for the thousands of favelas children evicted to make way for the circus of the Games.

This^^^^^^

I was explaining that to my middle daughter as we were watching the last half hour of the opening ceremony last night.

I disagree- to a point.

The Olympics is the only way some of these children know. The competition, being thrown out there by controlling parents and coaches. Many of the Olympic sports have no professional league/team and this is their only source of income to do the job they were essentially bred to do.

To feed them to the turd sharks floating in the bay is an unavoidable cost for some.

Mind you, I'm talking about the Croatian tween gymnast, not Michael Phelps.

 

[MankoZ28]

Related: https://twitter.com/OllieW/status/761944995523952640





I'm Belgian, Flemish to be precise. So cycling truly starts early March for me with the classics. Tour de France tends to be the end, until September Classics and the World Championships.

Still haven't gotten used to Vuelta being in September. Even if already for two decades lol.

I'm with you on the Classics, unfortunately we don't get much TV coverage of them here in the US.

The Vuelta depends on who is contending for the GC. Since Alberto will be riding I'll follow it.

 

[Disgustipated]

Does the Lit chat work in Rio?

 

[thør]

Screw the Olympics.

Now tell us how you really feel.

 

[pink]

I enjoy watching the different sports but now, I could care less about france and Australia men's basketball.

 

[lovetoread]

What they should do is hold the Olympics in the same place every year - build solid facilities to last for years. But then the IOC couldn't extract bribes from the cities that way. And they'd have to take responsibility for the conditions of the venues - whereas now they just shrug and count their money as they send athletes into a disease-infested crime-ridden hellhole.

They wont even ban the cheaters cause that might get them less money.

 

[MankoZ28]

Cycling

Certainly a lot of crashes in this road race.

 

[hashtag45]

I like watching the Olympics, for the same reason that I like watching more superficial shows like Eurovision. Seeing all those people of diverse nationalities in one place.
And I like the fact that they're held in different countries, every time.

I don't quite understand the objections. How many ordinary citizens got screwed by the process?