Anyone watching the Olympics yet?

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They are swimming in the Seine!

They almost canceled the swimming portion of the triathlon because E Coli levels were too high in the river, and after postponing the event for days, they went ahead and did it today. After spending hundreds of millions of dollars to clean it up all the rain washed away most of that.
 
So I finally watched the men's road race. It was 170 miles, almost the same driving distance as Seattle to Portland. Took over 5 hours.

Remco Evenepoel of Belgium, who won the Gold in the Time Trials as the fastest rider, also blew away the field in the Road Race, making himself a double gold medalist in cycling. Never done in the same Olympics before. He is only 21 years old and finished 3rd place in his first Tour de France only a week prior to the Olympics starting. Had he not have built a minute and a half lead he would have lost, he had a flat tire with 3.8 km left! A car pulled up with a bike replacement and he smoked the finish on a new bike. Amazing turnout for this race, streets packed with onlookers for 170 miles, maybe more so than the TDF even. No mountains on this course though. French riders took home silver and bronze.

Also a great finish in this race and the TDF for the American Matteo Jorgenson of California. He is either 24 or 25.
 
Fucking Romania crying, get some Democracy bitch. Why didn't your coach make an inquiry?
 
Did they check out that replacement bike before they switched the cheat model back to a regular one after the finish ?
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What a great stunt that would have been .

There have been incidents of this happening, but low level races where such chicanery is possible. One rider went down and the back wheel kept spinning.
 
Have suspicions about that Quincy Hall .
What extra weapon did he have stuffed down his shorts to pip our lad on the line in the 400 ?

Great race . Absurdly good times .
That Hall should have stayed with the 400 hurdles which is where he was until a year ago .
 
Team USA won the Gold but France put up a great fight in the final in the Men's Basketball.

 
France didn't play as well against the U.S. as Serbia did in the previous game, Serbia led the entire game until there were only about 4:00 left, when the U.S. finally did what everyone thought they would.
 
I do not disagree. I am against it and have always been against it. And there is just about zero of it happening in the Olympics, so I will not let something that is not happening prevent me from enjoying the games.

But again, I am able to not see the whole world though the lenses of politics....which makes me glad I am me and not you.

And the persons you are so worked up about sucked at the Olympics last time and did not even sniff the podium, these things normally have a way of working themselves out.
This didn’t age well
 
France didn't play as well against the U.S. as Serbia did in the previous game, Serbia led the entire game until there were only about 4:00 left, when the U.S. finally did what everyone thought they would.

Serbia was a better match up against us than France
 

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