Olympic 2016 : News & Discussion

[StLucieBengal]

The olympics should either only be held in a few places or not at all.

No reason to have the olympics in these countries that can't even sort themselves out.

US, Europe, Russia, Canada, Australia.

Is there any need to have the olympics anywhere else?

 

[Toro]

The most ridiculous sport is horse prancing, aka "dressage."

My father likes that.

I think it's ridiculous.

 

[Abishai100]

Historic Display(?)

Tonight's men's soccer match between host nation Brazil and politically-troubled Iraq represents a sort of Louis-Schmeling matchup to complement the recent stories surrounding ISIS.

 

[Abishai100]

The Marine: Ancient Marathon

Why not hype this globe-show to 'fitness heaven'?

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

The problem with NBC: There's all these events going. At 7:30 primetime, there is only one of their affiliates showing anything; and it's double diving. They should commit. Be showing stuff 24 hours, even if some of it is on tape delay and allow people to immerse themselves. This is just crap. That one two person dive is all I watched so far. And I used to watch all the Olympics that I could.

 

[StLucieBengal]

Looking forward to women's fencing.

Team Italy was ridiculously hot in London and I'm certain that hasn't changed since they rolled everyone.

 

[IsaacNewton]

The US women's gymnastic team is poised to destroy all the rest of the competition. They one the qualifying by 10 points over the field.

 

[yiostheoy]

Looking forward to women's fencing.

Team Italy was ridiculously hot in London and I'm certain that hasn't changed since they rolled everyone.

I can never tell when or if the fencing or archery is going to be broadcast.

 

[IsaacNewton]

The US women's gymnastic team is poised to destroy all the rest of the competition. They one the qualifying by 10 points over the field.

One or won. It's a mystary. Or a mystery.

 

[Unkotare]

Looking forward to women's fencing. .....

I think we have a good chance of bringing home the aluminum in the Chain Link division.

 

[Unkotare]

The most ridiculous sport is horse prancing, aka "dressage."

My father likes that.

I think it's ridiculous.

According to the most recent Gallop Poll it's quite popular.

 

[yiostheoy]

So far this is the medal count as of 8/7/2016:

(Gold/Silver/Bronze/Total)

USA 3/5/4/12

China 3/2/3/8

Australia 3/0/3/6

Italy 2/3/2/7

S.Korea 2/2/1/5

Hungary 2/0/0/2

Russia 1/2/2/5

UK 1/1/0/2

Sweden 1/1/0/2

Japan 1/0/6/7

 

[StLucieBengal]

Looking forward to women's fencing.

Team Italy was ridiculously hot in London and I'm certain that hasn't changed since they rolled everyone.

I can never tell when or if the fencing or archery is going to be broadcast.

Fencing is this week. Starting today. 8am eastern all day.

 

[StLucieBengal]

The most ridiculous sport is horse prancing, aka "dressage."

My father likes that.

I think it's ridiculous.

I used to think the same until I saw it live.

 

[Unkotare]

Fencing is this week. Starting today. 8am eastern all day.

You gotta admire the athleticism, but I'm wondering if drug testing was done.

 

[Unkotare]

The most ridiculous sport is horse prancing, aka "dressage."

My father likes that.

I think it's ridiculous.

I used to think the same until I saw it live.

I wonder if the poor animals agreed to this.

 

[StLucieBengal]

Women's rugby. BZ vs GB.

Pretty good stuff on NBC sport right now

 

[IsaacNewton]

6 pictures that show Katie Ledecky's 800-meter freestyle dominance

Good lord look at the images of Ledecky in the 800m. Super human.

 

[Vikrant]

U.S. women's hockey team has pulled some major upsets. It is team to watch.

 

[Vikrant]

^
Team USA is playing its best hockey right now on the world's biggest stage.

Behind another stellar effort from Katie Bam, Team USA shut out India 3-0 to stay undefeated in pool play.

Both teams got out to a sluggish start. It wasn’t until the end of the first quarter that Bam scored the first of her two goals on the first shot of the night for either team. Katelyn Falgowski made a reverse-stick pass to Bam who chipped the ball over a defender’s stick and into the goal.

From there it was all Team USA.

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Team USA bests India 3-0, stays undefeated