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re: Olympics in August in Brazil.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 9:13 am to pvilleguru
Posted on 6/17/16 at 9:13 am to pvilleguru
Olympics coverage is usually boring because they put so much focus on track & field, gymnastics, and swimming. I like the swimming, but the other two don't interest me in the least.
I do like some of the more obscure sports that aren't on TV much any other time. Handball, beach volleyball, kayaking, etc. Hell I'll even watch the Chinese dominate some ping pong.
I do like some of the more obscure sports that aren't on TV much any other time. Handball, beach volleyball, kayaking, etc. Hell I'll even watch the Chinese dominate some ping pong.
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Posted on 6/17/16 at 9:16 am to pvilleguru
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Ok. That takes less than a minute. What about the rest of the month?
Basketball
Soccer (if you like it)
Weightlifting
Swimming
Track & Field
This post was edited on 6/17/16 at 9:17 am
Posted on 6/17/16 at 9:37 am to boogiewoogie1978
quote:Meh.
Basketball
quote:I'll watch it, but it's just a U23 tournament.
Soccer (if you like it)
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Weightlifting
quote:Nope
Swimming
quote:Nope
Track & Field
Posted on 6/17/16 at 10:49 am to pvilleguru
The fact that you like soccer and not weightlifting make you Un-American. Do you even lift bro?
Posted on 6/17/16 at 11:13 am to boogiewoogie1978
The feminization of the Olympics telecast has ruined a lot of it. The over-emphasis on gymnastics and the made for tv off-shoots like rhythmic dancing have pushed traditional sports like boxing and wrestling off the screen.
You could make the argument that gymnastics in the last 30 years or so has killed professional boxing. The Olympics were where future champs and stars -Cassius Clay, George Foreman, Sugar Ray Leonard, the Spinks brothers, Evander Holyfield, etc - broke into the American consciousness. You don't have that anymore. There are no "up and coming" stars on the boxing scene anymore.
You could make the argument that gymnastics in the last 30 years or so has killed professional boxing. The Olympics were where future champs and stars -Cassius Clay, George Foreman, Sugar Ray Leonard, the Spinks brothers, Evander Holyfield, etc - broke into the American consciousness. You don't have that anymore. There are no "up and coming" stars on the boxing scene anymore.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 11:15 am to boogiewoogie1978
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The fact that you like soccer and not weightlifting make you Un-American. Do you even lift bro?
I actually do lift, but I'm not going to sit around and watch someone else lift.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 11:50 am to Mister Tee
I think the Zika virus and all the health things have turned me off to it. I have a really good buddy that does a bunch of international travel for work, and says systematic corruption is finally going to destroy South America. He's 100% Cuban(defected when he was 9) but he says in South America the system of bribes is just outrageous and it's going to bring everything to its knees.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 5:33 pm to Mister Tee
I'm usually a lot more excited than I am this year. Part of it is growing up, part is because I like the Winter Games a little better, and part is because of the zika virus (rightfully) scaring some athletes off.
Posted on 6/18/16 at 12:21 am to TbirdSpur2010
The location is really off if I may say.
I would rather travel to Europe or just stay in North America right now.
It is not that hard to fill a city with a sporting event of this magnitude. You literally have the whole world's money at your fingertips.
It is baffling how some Countries in this world f*ck things up this bad...continuously.
How did the Olympic Comittee even approve this site in the first place?
I would rather travel to Europe or just stay in North America right now.
It is not that hard to fill a city with a sporting event of this magnitude. You literally have the whole world's money at your fingertips.
It is baffling how some Countries in this world f*ck things up this bad...continuously.
How did the Olympic Comittee even approve this site in the first place?
Posted on 6/18/16 at 12:43 am to Mister Tee
And...Brazil "fired" their President yesterday.
Who is in charge of that fricking Country?
I would just cancel sending any American athletes from participating this cycle.
Tokyo in 2020 seems way better right now.
Rio is going to be an epic disaster. I don't want America to be remembered or associated with this garbage when history recalls this situation in the future.
Countries always drag our name into these type of situations, but now seems like a good time to stop.
Take care of your own Countries for a while. This is pathetic.
Who is in charge of that fricking Country?
I would just cancel sending any American athletes from participating this cycle.
Tokyo in 2020 seems way better right now.
Rio is going to be an epic disaster. I don't want America to be remembered or associated with this garbage when history recalls this situation in the future.
Countries always drag our name into these type of situations, but now seems like a good time to stop.
Take care of your own Countries for a while. This is pathetic.
Posted on 6/18/16 at 12:59 am to Mister Tee
They have now declared a state of emergency due to their impending and probable inability to host these games this year.
If ISIS and other terrorist groups can kill 50 people in Orlando in a surprise attack over a random weekend, just think about what they could do on a national stage during the Olympics in an obviously failing Country.
The U.S. should send zero athletes to Rio this year.
There is only 49 days left and that Country is nowhere near capable of handling these games.
They had FOUR frickING YEARS to prepare. Embarrassing. The Olympic Comittee should be ashamed.
If ISIS and other terrorist groups can kill 50 people in Orlando in a surprise attack over a random weekend, just think about what they could do on a national stage during the Olympics in an obviously failing Country.
The U.S. should send zero athletes to Rio this year.
There is only 49 days left and that Country is nowhere near capable of handling these games.
They had FOUR frickING YEARS to prepare. Embarrassing. The Olympic Comittee should be ashamed.
Posted on 6/18/16 at 1:23 am to Mister Tee
you seem quite disturbed over all this. Perhaps you should just chill the frick out.
It's just a game(s).
It's just a game(s).
Posted on 6/18/16 at 1:42 am to five_fivesix
It has meant more in the past than just games. The US has boycotted before in 1980 and took 65 other countries with us. Russia did so in 1984 and took the whole of Eastern Europe with them respectively. It seems like a small subject now, but having these countries fail in something this small means a lot for the future. My grandchildren are going to have to pay for these failures in the future, both politically and financially if we aren't careful.
Brazil is on the brink of collapse and who do you think they will ask for help and money from first?
Brazil is on the brink of collapse and who do you think they will ask for help and money from first?
Posted on 6/18/16 at 1:53 am to Mister Tee
We've bigger fish to fry before your grand youngins need worry about the Rio Games of 2016.
Is ISIS even sending a team this year?
Is ISIS even sending a team this year?
Posted on 6/18/16 at 6:17 am to Mister Tee
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It has meant more in the past than just games.
Thank God this isn't the past.
Posted on 6/18/16 at 2:13 pm to Mister Tee
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They had FOUR frickING YEARS to prepare. Embarrassing.
Longer than that
Posted on 6/18/16 at 2:23 pm to pvilleguru
It's going to be a shitshow for sure. Could the IOC move these games to other sites at the last minute?
If I were an American athlete, I'd be having second thoughts about traveling to a failing, "developing nation" right now, with terrorism, Zika and all of the other stuff that can go wrong.
If I were an American athlete, I'd be having second thoughts about traveling to a failing, "developing nation" right now, with terrorism, Zika and all of the other stuff that can go wrong.
Posted on 6/18/16 at 3:39 pm to Mister Tee
Watching it on TV? YAY
Going to the games in Rio? BYE
Going to the games in Rio? BYE
Posted on 6/18/16 at 4:05 pm to Mister Tee
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Rio is going to be an epic disaster. I don't want America to be remembered or associated with this garbage when history recalls this situation in the future.
Everyone said the same about the World Cup. Then it went perfectly.
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