Zika, drugs, and medals: The Rio Olympics thread

[Josquius]

Team events... hmm...
Stuff like relay and the ilk definitely belongs in the Olympics.
But football, baseball and other sports with their own world cups (or which should have them, does basketball? Not heard of it); no.

I'd be sad if they took Volleyball off the Olympics because it's basically the only time they televise it. But maybe Tyr hasn't heard of the Volleyball World Cup.

[Liep]

Rowing qualifying heats! Wow that's boring.

[CountDeMoney]

Rowing qualifying heats! Wow that's boring.

The fun is to see how much debris they hit.

[Liep]

Rowing qualifying heats! Wow that's boring.

The fun is to see how much debris they hit.

The fun picked up with the side wind, the Serbs couldn't handle it.

[Liep]

FUGLSANG!

[crazy canuck]

A girl from my sons' high school made the final in womens 400 IM 

[Tonitrus]

We let Puerto Rico have their own team?

Time to kick them out grant them independence then.   

[lustindarkness]

We let Puerto Rico have their own team?

Time to kick them out grant them independence then.   

We've have had an Olympic team for like ever.

[mongers]

FUGLSANG!

That was a fairly epic one day classic of an olympic road race.   

[crazy canuck]

A girl from my sons' high school made the final in womens 400 IM 

She qualified 8th and finished 5th in the final.  Not too bad for an 18 year old 

[MadBurgerMaker]

A girl from my sons' high school made the final in womens 400 IM 

She qualified 8th and finished 5th in the final.  Not too bad for an 18 year old 

  Nice.  Oleksiak, a 16 year old Canuck, made the final in the 100 fly too.  Good young swimmers coming out of Canada, it seems.

[crazy canuck]

A girl from my sons' high school made the final in womens 400 IM 

She qualified 8th and finished 5th in the final.  Not too bad for an 18 year old 

  Nice.  Oleksiak, a 16 year old Canuck, made the final in the 100 fly too.  Good young swimmers coming out of Canada, it seems.

And the 4x100 just won the bronze with 2 16 year olds, including Oleksiak.  The future looks bright 

[Liep]

FUGLSANG!

That was a fairly epic one day classic of an olympic road race.   

Yep

Also the first time in forever a Dane has been that good. (Without [obvious] medical help, but then I could never really root for Rasmussen because he looked perhaps worse than Froome on a bike.)

[crazy canuck]

That Women's road race was also epic.  I hope the Dutch rider is going to be ok after that crash.  Looked very bad. 

[MadBurgerMaker]

That Women's road race was also epic.  I hope the Dutch rider is going to be ok after that crash.  Looked very bad. 

Concussion and three spinal fractures.  Not good.