The Olympic Games Rio-2016 Thread

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I like how Lochte has bailed on his team mates. Leaving them to deal with his lies.
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/rio-2016/medals/sports/swimming#swimming

Interesting table of medal success in each event. Not surprisingly we are top in cycling and rowing, but so good to see us second in gymnastics (a brilliant turn around in an event we used to be so poor in). Strange to see Australia fall away so much in cycling....only a few years back, they were our rivals.
 
Le Tissier's Laces said:
Brilliant to see Gatlin run out of it. Good riddance.

And I bagsied Sam Quek long ago, sorry.
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The guilty guys are the authorities not Gatlin. All he has done is play by the book, bend the rules, served his bans, and had them reduced so the fault doesn't really lie with him. The people who really deserve your angst are the authorities for allowing him to participate again.

As for the Russians it is I suspect deeply embedded in their culture and in their view PEDs are taken to perform better and not seen as cheating. 3 years ago I was teaching English in Yekaterinburg. One of the teachers was a former weightlifter. He suffered an injury and so ceased competition, with the resulting loss of bulk. During my time there he was talking his medicine again to resume competing again. Look at Sharapova who was taking medication that was legal until the start of the year. I am sure she was not taking the stuff to gain an advantage over an opponent. As we saw, she was blitzed by Queen Serena. So that is the mindset to overcome. How the Russians will deal with it, I don't know. But with squeaky clean Seb Coe, I suspect a blanket ban for the Russians and other nations who fall foul of Saint Seb!!!
 
The Ides of March said:
The guilty guys are the authorities not Gatlin. All he has done is play by the book, bend the rules, served his bans, and had them reduced so the fault doesn't really lie with him. The people who really deserve your angst are the authorities for allowing him to participate again.

As for the Russians it is I suspect deeply embedded in their culture and in their view PEDs are taken to perform better and not seen as cheating. 3 years ago I was teaching English in Yekaterinburg. One of the teachers was a former weightlifter. He suffered an injury and so ceased competition, with the resulting loss of bulk. During my time there he was talking his medicine again to resume competing again. Look at Sharapova who was taking medication that was legal until the start of the year. I am sure she was not taking the stuff to gain an advantage over an opponent. As we saw, she was blitzed by Queen Serena. So that is the mindset to overcome. How the Russians will deal with it, I don't know. But with squeaky clean Seb Coe, I suspect a blanket ban for the Russians and other nations who fall foul of Saint Seb!!!
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Coe is a tit.
 
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Coe will always be a hero to me. Out of nowhere, we had Coe, Ovett and a little later Cram. For a brief time we ruled the world in 800 and 1500m...Coe and Ovett were just swapping world records. What we wouldn't do to be that good again.
 
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