What's actually nuts is how much security they needed for that ship. Do you think they're allowed to bring a foreign athlete on-board, you know; to get some?

riotjune

United States3393 Posts

August 03 2016 03:00 GMT

#23

lol that's awesome

RvB

Netherlands6213 Posts

August 03 2016 06:57 GMT

#24

On August 03 2016 11:44 TheFish7 wrote:
What's actually nuts is how much security they needed for that ship. Do you think they're allowed to bring a foreign athlete on-board, you know; to get some?

Of course. What else are you gonna do there? I'm sure they're allowed to bring some Brazilian 'athletes' as well.

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51485 Posts

August 03 2016 08:29 GMT

#25

On August 03 2016 07:51 amazingxkcd wrote:
Im going to fix the OP panda.

Lols oh nice you changed the colour scheme, ill use this for future reference. I am html noob so i just copy pasta totodiles premade stuff xD

Otolia

France5805 Posts

August 03 2016 09:27 GMT

#26

This is going to be such a shitshow with terrible accomodation, dubious water quality and highly controversial event timings.

PS :FUCK NBC, I HOPE FRANCE WINS THE 4X100m FREESTYLE SO I CAN HARVEST YOUR FUCKING TEARS

Mafe

Germany5966 Posts

August 03 2016 13:12 GMT

#27

So, it's the olympics again. Will be a tough competition with TI6 for my viewing time.

Just looking at the (great) opening post again made me realize that what people think of as a "notable" event is highly subjective.
Pande surely mentioned the most popular ones, even though I sometimes wish it would be otherwise. A school friend once said that he wouldnt watch a sport where "a trained animal/monkey could beat a human", and nowadays I feel pretty much the same. I feel that sports which are inherently about maximizing a few select physical aspects of your body, are just too prone to doping: Swimming, running, road cycling I think are the prime examples I think. Even though I enjoy swimming myself and I respect any honest athelete, I just find it boring to watch and cant get the suspicions out of my head.

For me, the olympics mainly consist of sports such as judo, hockey, table tennis, taekwondo or water polo, where the athletes really have one shot at glory every 4 years, and the human interaction part is a substantial component.

Also worth mentioning: Competitions start today, with the womens football tournament.

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51485 Posts

August 03 2016 13:18 GMT

#28

Yeah notable events i just put in as many as i could that i thought were big. I personally will watch my bae Jessica Ennis-Hill in the Heptathlon and Mo Farah in the 5k and 10k events. Plus the 100m 200m for Bolt if he is fit. Then i just have a look at all the events as they are always fun, just a bit of a bad time this year with TI6, Football resuming and the timezone factor.

Oh and world records, gimme some :D I want some more Phelps domination.

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

August 03 2016 14:18 GMT

#29

my sports are weight lifting, badminton, shooting, and canoe/kayak sprints (yea, those are in the open water)

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

August 03 2016 17:26 GMT

#30

On August 03 2016 17:29 Pandemona wrote:

Show nested quote +

Lols oh nice you changed the colour scheme, ill use this for future reference. I am html noob so i just copy pasta totodiles premade stuff xD

can always PM me if you need it to look nice :D

also note that the template allows for easy config in the header section of it.


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is the area that should be double checked each time -- you can adjust the important scheme settings here. Usually tweaking the Hex colors for each layout style will do the trick. Can always inject more css code if need be

andrewlt

United States7702 Posts

August 03 2016 17:42 GMT

#31

The open water events are going to be interesting but probably not for the reasons you normally watch.

I'm just looking forward to having some background noise on TV while I play my 3DS. I won't be able to watch anything from Mon-Thurs next week, though, and maybe even this Sun.

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

August 03 2016 18:45 GMT

#32

https://www.reddit.com/r/apocalympics2016

sharkie

Austria18412 Posts

August 03 2016 20:04 GMT

#33

IOC approves 5 new sports for Tokyo 2020 softball/baseball, karate, skateboard, sportsclimbing, surfing

Yay Soft/Baseball is back!

Sermokala

United States13938 Posts

August 03 2016 20:09 GMT

#34

the big reason why they took away soft/baseball away in the first place was beacuse of the cost of building all the fields. Tokyo will put them in massive stadiums that are already built.

Hopefully this is a signal from the IOC that they won't host the olympics in nations too small/poor to afford them.

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

August 03 2016 20:12 GMT

#35

On August 04 2016 05:04 sharkie wrote:
IOC approves 5 new sports for Tokyo 2020 softball/baseball, karate, skateboard, sportsclimbing, surfing

Yay Soft/Baseball is back!

fuck, Squash didnt make it. God damn it when Squash will make it?