The Olympic Games Rio-2016 Thread

The exceedingly dominant US women's national soccer team has been turfed in the quarter-finals.

 

I don`t get how a posh bird sitting on a horse walking around a ring gets the same medal as the man/woman who wins the marathon. They should give the medal to the horse.

 

GB dressage team take silver.

 

But the horse has to be trained....you could say that is even harder.

 

Medal for GB in trampoline!

 

Fair point. It just doesn`t seem right to me, like a circus act, not a sport.

 

Sweden deserved it. They had a goal taken away on a ridiculous offside call. Never should have gone to pens.

 

Another unexpected silver in the women's trampoline, Bryony Page did incredibly well.

Followed by fantastic stuff in the velodrome, qualifying for the men's sprint. Callum Skinner (GB) set an Olympic record, only for it to be smashed by Jason Kenney (GB), the reigning champion.

We are very good at riding bikes and bouncing, not to mention rowing boats.

 

Good at sitting down and being wet basically.

 

And bouncing, don't forget bouncing.

 

Sitting down, being wet and bouncing = sailing. The perfect GB sport....that's where we win most of our medals.

 

Another world record for our cyclists and they go again later!

 

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Hope Solo (USA footy goalkeeper) being a **** like always.

 

Men's team pursuit quartet smash world record in the knockout phase while beating NZ.

 

Yep. Can't stand her. Absolutely loathesome individual. If the US had to lose, I wish we had been knocked out as a direct result of her howler in the prior game. Should have booted her off the team after her domestic violence incident.

 

That is a truly awful thing to say. The other team play to their strengths....they don't have to play to yours. Very ungracious and unsporting.

 

It's especially rich coming from someone who tried to ice their last penalty taker by stalling the game to change gloves.

 

Ethiopian long-distance runner Almaz Ayana has set the world record in the women’s 10,000-meter race, finishing in 29 minutes and 17.45 seconds. In addition to winning the first gold medal for an African team in the 2016 Summer Olympics, Ayana beat the previous record, in place for the last 23 years, by a remarkable 14.46 seconds.

Just seen this, nearly 15 seconds under a WR?

 

Shows that he doesn't actually understand his sport. The trick is to do every legal thing to win. I've no doubt he will find himself behind a team doing that one day. If he hasn't already.

EDIT: SHE.!

 

Yeah, and it was a WR that has stood for so long because the runner who set it was almost certainly using PED's. It sucks that we have to question what should be an amazing achievement.... but I think we do seriously have to question this one.