Zika, drugs, and medals: The Rio Olympics thread

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alfred russel

#360
August 17, 2016, 12:04:17 PM
Quote from: celedhring on August 17, 2016, 10:53:06 AM
Our last two medals have been won by a Cuban runner that defected in 2013, and an Oxford-born rower with the very Spanish name of "Marcus Walz".  :hmm:

Ah well, the army of the Duke of Alba were mostly Italians and Germans, too. We are used to employing foreigners to bring us glory.

The US wins a lot of medals, but truth be told very few of our winners have Native American names either.
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celedhring

#361
August 17, 2016, 02:52:16 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on August 17, 2016, 12:04:17 PM
Quote from: celedhring on August 17, 2016, 10:53:06 AM
Our last two medals have been won by a Cuban runner that defected in 2013, and an Oxford-born rower with the very Spanish name of "Marcus Walz".  :hmm:

Ah well, the army of the Duke of Alba were mostly Italians and Germans, too. We are used to employing foreigners to bring us glory.

The US wins a lot of medals, but truth be told very few of our winners have Native American names either.

I'm hardly a nativist, it's just that our government really really loves fast tracking citizenships for any half-decent athlete that somehow ends up in Spanish soil. Johan Mühlegg was particularly hilarious.

Malthus

#362
August 17, 2016, 03:03:07 PM
Quote from: celedhring on August 17, 2016, 02:52:16 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on August 17, 2016, 12:04:17 PM
Quote from: celedhring on August 17, 2016, 10:53:06 AM
Our last two medals have been won by a Cuban runner that defected in 2013, and an Oxford-born rower with the very Spanish name of "Marcus Walz".  :hmm:

Ah well, the army of the Duke of Alba were mostly Italians and Germans, too. We are used to employing foreigners to bring us glory.

The US wins a lot of medals, but truth be told very few of our winners have Native American names either.


I'm hardly a nativist, it's just that our government really really loves fast tracking citizenships for any half-decent athlete that somehow ends up in Spanish soil. Johan Mühlegg was particularly hilarious.

He's making a joke ("Native American" = descendants of the pre-Columbian aboriginal population).
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Valmy

#363
August 17, 2016, 03:05:37 PM
Quote from: Malthus on August 17, 2016, 03:03:07 PM
He's making a joke ("Native American" = descendants of the pre-Columbian aboriginal population).

I presume he knows that :P

But I hear Jim Thorpe was always annoyed when some non-American immigrant won.
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celedhring

#364
August 17, 2016, 03:16:55 PM
I thought that AR was just pointing out the fact that every country is made up of immigrants if you look far enough. We are really brazen about giving out passports to guys that wouldn't remotely qualify under our standard citizenship rules though.

Liep

#365
August 17, 2016, 03:24:27 PM
Quote from: celedhring on August 17, 2016, 03:16:55 PM
I thought that AR was just pointing out the fact that every country is made up of immigrants if you look far enough. We are really brazen about giving out passports to guys that wouldn't remotely qualify under our standard citizenship rules though.

At least you're not Qatar'ing it and outright buying athletes.
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The Larch

#366
August 17, 2016, 07:10:51 PM
Quote from: celedhring on August 17, 2016, 10:53:06 AM
Our last two medals have been won by a Cuban runner that defected in 2013, and an Oxford-born rower with the very Spanish name of "Marcus Walz".  :hmm:

Ah well, the army of the Duke of Alba were mostly Italians and Germans, too. We are used to employing foreigners to bring us glory.

At least Walz has been living in Mallorca since he was a baby. Brits and Germans are not foreigners there.  :P

MadImmortalMan

#367
August 17, 2016, 07:35:54 PM
Quote from: celedhring on August 17, 2016, 10:53:06 AMWe are used to employing foreigners to bring us glory.

The Romans did a lot of that. It didn't work out in the end.  :P
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Valmy

#368
August 17, 2016, 08:03:14 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 17, 2016, 07:35:54 PM
Quote from: celedhring on August 17, 2016, 10:53:06 AMWe are used to employing foreigners to bring us glory.

The Romans did a lot of that. It didn't work out in the end.  :P

You can have too much of a good thing :P
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CountDeMoney

#369
August 17, 2016, 09:00:03 PM
So they're not letting some US swimmers leave the country...pulling them off the plane..?

HVC

#370
August 17, 2016, 09:05:02 PM
I heard Brazil wanted to detain lochte and the guy(s?) he was with over the claims they were held at gunpoint claim, but it thought they were already in the states?
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CountDeMoney

#371
August 17, 2016, 09:13:00 PM
Yeah, apparently Lochte left early, is already in the US.  The other guys were on their way, apparently they took them off their plane.


I wonder if the robbed-at-gunpoint claim is bullshit, and they were out whoring and something went wrong.  I could believe either story...

HVC

#372
August 17, 2016, 09:15:39 PM Last Edit: August 17, 2016, 09:19:33 PM by HVC
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 17, 2016, 09:13:00 PM
Yeah, apparently Lochte left early, is already in the US.  The other guys were on their way, apparently they took them off their plane.


I wonder if the robbed-at-gunpoint claim is bullshit, and they were out whoring and something went wrong.  I could believe either story...
looked it up and daileymail (great source I know :P) has photos of them coming back on that night and going through a checkpoint with the stuff they said was stolen.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3746324/U-S-Olympic-swimmers-Gunnar-Bentz-Jack-Conger-REMOVED-flight-Brazilian-authorities-following-Ryan-Lochte-s-claim-robbed-gunpoint.html
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Hubris must be punished. Severely.

CountDeMoney

#373
August 17, 2016, 09:16:46 PM
Quote from: HVC on August 17, 2016, 09:15:39 PM
looked it up and daileymail (great source I know :P)

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Josquius

#374
August 18, 2016, 05:18:41 AM
Apparently a bit of a wrestling scandal.
Russia beats Ukraine. ...where the ukrainian guy should have won- the judge it turns out is a Georgian-Russian.
Even having  a Georgian judge seems a bad idea before you get into the Russian part.
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