Rio Olympics

[M.D. Holloway]

Been some great talent so far. USA with 84 medals - 28/28/28 G/S/B...

Toughest race ever has to be the 400M hurdles....good God!

Anyone watching?

[scottmandue]

Yep, watched some swimming, some volleyball, some fencing (yawn), bicycling, track and field is (as expected) my favorite.

Usain Bolt is amazing, my wife didn't like his cocky attitude...

How do you like him now?

[Sicklyscott]

The road cycling was by far my favorite this year due to the crashes and major upsets in both women's and men's competition in the last 400m. What a race!

The swimming also was amazing. Katie is a freakin' beast!

I'm much more into this year than ever before. There seems to be some tremendous competition this year and some real sportsmanship (Egypt incident aside).

[ckelly78z]

Yes, been watching most nights...getting really tired of tennis, gymnastics, and swimming. I wish they would show more of the obscure sports, wrestling, weight lifting, bike track racing, and some of the field events in track/field. I had to watch all night to see a couple of attempts in the high jump. I still haven't seen any of the hammer throw, discus, and shot, or the decathlon participants.

[Nickshu]

I've enjoyed watching the games this time around.

Regardless I recently saw this, really funny:

[tevake]

Just got to see the equestrian steeplechase, WOW, very demanding event, the horses are amazing athletes.
I guess this coverage is better than I have seen before. Great camera angles allowed a good view of just how big and in some cases long the jumps are, and how close together some are.
Watching the horses and riders work thru the course trying to be clean and beat the time limit, was pretty spectacular.

Cheers Richard

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

Yes, been watching most nights...getting really tired of tennis, gymnastics, and swimming. I wish they would show more of the obscure sports, wrestling, weight lifting, bike track racing, and some of the field events in track/field. I had to watch all night to see a couple of attempts in the high jump. I still haven't seen any of the hammer throw, discus, and shot, or the decathlon participants.

Yes, I wish they would focus more on the traditional track and field.

But cute girls playing volleyball gets more viewers (guilty!)

On that note why don't they go really old school and play all the games in the nude like the Greeks?

[Crowbob]

If the Olympians were nekkid, I'd bet viewership would drop.

[legion]

I'm just surprised that nothing has collapsed. Did they ever finish the subway station? If the worst problems are a green pool and an athlete (maybe or maybe not) got robbed, this is pretty good by Rio standards.

[hardflex]

ckelly, you can watch the complete field events at

NBCOlympics.com

I streamed the complete Pole Vault qualifying A and B then the finals. Every jump, it's wonderful. I believe they are stored and you can watch the complete stream after the fact.

I've enjoyed volleyball and beach volleyball. A little swimming and gymnastics.

Not sure, but a lot of the other sports are probably on there as well.

If your cable provider doesn't get you the stream, I think they'll give you 30 min for free regardless. if so be wise in your 1st choice cuz they won't allow it on the 2nd . I thought it would be ok since i didn't use the full 30 min first time. Had to login with my cable provider info.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

If the Olympians were nekkid, I'd bet viewership would drop.

Dunno... if the ladies synchronized swimming was naked it would be the first time I ever tuned in to that sport!

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

If the Olympians were nekkid, I'd bet viewership would drop.

If that were so, then can we suppose if we eliminated nudity in movies more people would go see them. Someone needs to tell the movie makers!The only caveat would be if as with scott, Ms mandue veto'd his watching due to the lack of clothing.

Full disclosure: I am not promoting nude Olympics nor do I support movies that have nudity. I just think that in this cesspool of modern society morals, sex and nudity sells. Just ask Carl's Jr/Hardees.

[WPOZZZ]

Lochte decided to GTFO Rio as the Rio judge was going to seize his passport.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by legion

I'm just surprised that nothing has collapsed. Did they ever finish the subway station? If the worst problems are a green pool and an athlete (maybe or maybe not) got robbed, this is pretty good by Rio standards.

The media has done a pretty good job of sweeping the Brazilian dirt under the rug, but they didn't get it all:

Rio resident spots a SEVERED LEG floating in the water just a few miles from Olympics sailing events
Gruesome find was made by a local yesterday in city's Guanabara Bay
It came as Britain's Scott Giles opened up an unassailable lead nearby
Sailing events on the bay in Rio are scheduled for the next four days
Police were called after residents of Ilha do Governador saw male leg
By MATT ROPER IN RIO DE JANEIRO FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:45 EST, 15 August 2016 | UPDATED: 16:43 EST, 15 August 2016


Sailors competing in the Rio Olympics could have bumped in to a severed leg - if a local hadn’t have spotted the body part floating near the competition.
The gruesome find yesterday in the city's Guanabara Bay came as Britain's Scott Giles opened up a unassailable lead in Finn class, in waters just a few miles away.
Sailing events on the bay in the Brazilian city are scheduled for the next four days.


Read more: Rio resident spots a SEVERED LEG floating in the water miles from Olympics sailing events | Daily Mail Online
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Rio 2016: Open water swimming platform collapses just off Copacabana beach
The starting platform sank after it was hit by a storm
Matt Payton

Swimmers were forced to wade out to the start line after the starting platform collapsed and was washed away Reuters
Competitors in the Olympic marathon swimming event were forced to swim out from the beach after the official starting platform collapsed and sank just off Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach.

The pontoon platform was hit by a storm days before the event was due to start, leaving just a concrete block behind.

The organisers had already come under criticism for hosting the event in the open waters just off the Brazilian shore.

Rio's horror week: Body parts wash up near Olympics beach volleyball site
By Tiffany Ap, CNN
Updated 4:19 PM ET, Thu June 30, 2016
Body parts found near Rio summer Olympics site

(CNN)With just 36 days to go before the Rio Olympics kick off, the situation in the host city just went from bad to worse.

A beach goer Wednesday discovered human body parts that had washed up on the shore, right in front of the Olympic Beach Volleyball Arena on Rio's famed Copacabana beach.
A dismembered foot and another body part still unidentified was found, according to Andre Luiz, an officer of the Military Police. Police believe the victim was a woman or young adult.
Although the circumstances surrounding the person's death are unknown, it is another embarrassing blow to the host country -- already reeling from financial problems, a mishap-prone Olympic torch and an outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

Rio's dirty water claims 'first victim': star Belgian sailor sick after racing on polluted bay

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2016/08/11/rios-dirty-water-claims-first-victim-star-belgian-sailor-sick-af/

[sammyg2]

Rio’s filthy water is already making pro athletes sick. Just ask the surfers.

May 19, 2016 · 2:45 PM EDT
By Will Carless
Barra da Tijuca beach a stinking mess on May 4 — and this was long after cleanup began.


Rio de Janeiro’s main Olympic neighborhood stinks. Literally.

For the last few weeks, residents of Barra da Tijuca, home to the main Olympic park and Olympic village, have woken to the fetid smell of filthy water.

Local biologist Mario Moscatelli blames the latest stink-fest on a couple of huge swells that battered Rio last month. They sent waves into the city’s inland lagoons, where they churned up the seabed and released noxious gases and filth — including layers of human waste — from underwater.

“Excuse my frankness, but the rivers feeding into the lagoons are pure sh--,” Moscatelli wrote in an email, “the feces of thousands of people emptied into the river without treatment.”

The swells, along with peak high tides, also helped rupture an “eco-barrier” — a temporary floating device that traps garbage flowing from inland into one of Barra da Tijuca’s main lagoons. The result: Piles of trash flowed out of the mouth of the lagoon onto one of Rio’s most iconic and most visited beaches a couple of months before the Summer Olympics.

This charming scene happened to coincide with the arrival of the Oi Rio Pro, a top-tier surfing competition and the pride of Brazil’s thriving surf culture. In the days leading to the tournament, dozens of municipal workers scrambled to clean the beach before the world’s top surfers, and thousands of fans, showed up.

But they couldn’t do anything about the slick of brown, smelly water flowing toward the contest site. The organizers moved the first days of the event to Grumari, an idyllic beach about 45 minutes away.

It’s just the latest foul water story to trickle out of this megacity. Last year, scientists said waterways including Guanabara Bay — an Olympic venue — were so filthy they were not safe for human contact. Even the fish hardly want to swim there.

Moscatelli blames the city and state governments of Rio for their abject failure to provide decent sewage treatment facilities and trash collection in local waterways. The city responded to our questions by blaming the state government. The state didn’t respond to calls for comment.

But we did reach Adrian “Ace” Buchan. He’s one of the world’s top surfers and is currently 10th on the official World Surf League rankings. Buchan is the league’s appointed “surfer’s representative.” An edited, condensed version of the interview follows.

Will Carless: You’ve surfed in Rio before. Have you ever gotten sick from it?

Ace Buchan: Yes, I got sick last year and the doctor at the event told me he believed it was from exposure to the water. I was really dizzy and nauseous the day I had to surf and nearly pulled out. A few months later in Tahiti, I was still having problems with my stomach and had to go on antibiotics.

I got sick again this year and the doctor was unsure whether it was food poisoning or the water.

Rio’s filthy water is already making pro athletes sick. Just ask the surfers. | Public Radio International