RIO 2016 - Games of the XXXI Olympiad - August 5-21
 

Team USA soccer over New Zealand last night 2-0...we play France on Saturday at 4pm....woohoo!

I love the Olympics!

Check it out......ha ha.....:p

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When the Australians stayed at my place back in '84 when we had a pro contest here......they ALL had walkmans...boom boxes.....music was their second occupation after surfing....lol....

Good stuff....

LOTS of Olympic history in my family... here's a post I made a while back about my grandmother

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/6834743-post1.html

Wow...that's awesome!

Cycling and rowing so far.....don't forget we play France at 4pm!

Coverage on NBC....

That was very enjoyable...what a perspective.

US wins GOLD in shooting this morning. News media probably won't mention it, just because!

Team USA Shooter Virginia Thrasher Wins First Gold Medal Of Rio Olympic Games

FYI, with a VPN to UK, you can stream all Olympic events free from BBC.

Men's Olympic road race (cycling) was good. I'm personally very happy w/ the winner.

Women's tomorrow, starting 5:30 am, entire race broadcast.

We beat France 1-0 in soccer! Very competitive game albeit low scoring.

Swimming tonight!!!

New York Times has a whole article on her.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/sports/olympics/american-virginia-thrasher-rios-first-gold.html?_r=0

+1
1 day event every 4th year. All in or nothing.

side note: Big fail on Dura Ace for the MANY chain drops. Jezzuz, this is the Olympics after all and modern equipment should be flawless.

^^^^^ OK, I normally try not to post stupid post like LOL etc. But oh my gosh....LOLhttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/clap.gifhttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/clap.gifhttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/clap.gif

WOOOHOOOO..........USA wins GOLD, with Phelps on 400m relay!

USA!
USA!
USA!
USA!
USA!

Did anyone catch the women's bike wreck yesterday? Leader, full speed downhill, literally 10 minutes left in the multi hour race lost it on a sharp curve and went face first into the curb at 50mph. On camera. It was...queezy...

The other racers (including second place who was chasing her) had to ride by her crumpled body (she was completely unconscious, in a forest region, very little aide).


She's alive, but has a broken back.

Yeah, I saw that happen. Didn't look good at all. Hope she isn't paralyzed.

That was a Dutch rider and she survived. But when she went down - the Team USA rider behind her was left by herself to finish the race and in doing so was caught by the 3 person chase group which included another Dutch rider - who eventually won the gold.

Hmmm...