Olympics - does anyone actually care anymore?

[Daemon]

Rio Olympics 2016: Mayor offers kangaroo in athlete's village for Australians

 

[cpr]

Wait, Russia are allowed in, but Stepanova isn't?

What's Russian for 'Big brown envelope'?

 

[Burgey]

I'd be highly surprised if this Olympics ends with at least half of the athletes not being robbed or murdered.

Apart from Jo'burg, Rio is easily the dodgiest city I've ever been to from a safety POV. Never, ever felt safe there. Beautiful city to look at, seedy as **** at ground level.

 

[Burgey]

Sorry, apart from Jo-burg and Catford.

 

[social]

See your opening sentence, how much of that do you reckon would be down to a lack of variety in televised live sport?

Definitely plays a part as there isnt much of a novelty value attached to seeing great athletes perform anymore

As an example, I watched Bolt run live on the weekend and the US basketball team play yesterday

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Wait, Russia are allowed in, but Stepanova isn't?

What's Russian for 'Big brown envelope'?

Yeah that's a bit dodgy.

(However, Stepanova hobbling a 2.30 800m wouldn't be great optics...she's not fit to run)

Look I probably rationally agree that the IOC, having awarded the Games to Sochi, need to take some accountability for that and follow their own rules. At the same time the pharma culture of athletes isn't just confined to Russia (see Sharapova who has basically been running her operation out of Florida) and it's that that needs to "change" if anything.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Please tell me this story is a wind up.

Rio Olympics 2016: Athletes could face sanctions over controversial rule 40 - BBC Sport

 

[Magrat Garlick]

A very traditional wind up

 

[andruid]

IOC ducked out of being the ones to be mean to the Russians for misbehaving.

 

[Burgey]

Fire in the Olympic village and athletes evacuated. Splendid

 

[Pratters]

Haha.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Did anyone see the Sky documentary The Fall about the incident between Mary Decker and Zola Budd in 1984?

 

[Burgey]

Did anyone see the Sky documentary The Fall about the incident between Mary Decker and Zola Budd in 1984?

I saw the version which was shown everywhere across the world except the UK called "The Trip".

 

[GIMH]

I saw the version which was shown everywhere across the world except the UK called "The Trip".

Nobody wants your opinion bell end

 

[vogue]

Nobody wants your opinion bell end

Things back to normal it seems

 

[Burgey]

Apparently the fire in the village was set by workers in the basement who then went through the athletes' rooms and rifled them for cash and other goodies while the occupants were evacuated.

They should get the first gold of the Games imo.

 

[Smudge]

I saw the version which was shown everywhere across the world except the UK called "The Trip".

Coogan and Brydon imitating the voices of Mary Decker and Zola Budd?



Sorry.

 

[King Pietersen]

 

[Lillian Thomson]

The Budd/Decker reunion is all a bit too lovey dovey. It's almost as if they've discovered they had the same biological mother.

 

[NZTailender]

Don't care too much for the nationalism but I always found the Olympics fun to watch for the sports you'd rarely see on TV, and learning the new countries you'd never heard of (this was when I was a kid).

Plus the Olympics video games for SNES and PS1 were always solid af, though I can't say the same of recent times.