Olympics 2024 - discussion thread

[manqiangrexue]

This Liu Yang also got gold in 2021. He is usually not part of the team event. He just shows up for the rings for China.

He was on the team this time with a huge rings performance of 15.500 if I remember correctly.

 

[coolgod]

C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker!

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WTF?

When you make yt eat their words.

 

[FriedRiceNSpice]

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Another one bites the dust.

How do you spend 1.5 billion cleaning up failing to clean up a river?

 

[CMP]

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When you make yt eat their words.

Is it true Kyle Chalmers unfollowed Brett Hawke? Seemed like maybe he was trying to distance himself from Brett's controversial post, even after he gave it a like at first. It's a shame it's deleted now.

 

[manqiangrexue]

How do you spend 1.5 billion cleaning up failing to clean up a river?

Open water swimming competition ends in doctor stoppage LOL

(Joke for those of you who watch combat sports. Doctor stoppage is when one side has not given up fighting but the onsite doctor stops the fight declaring that the combatant is defeated on the grounds that s/he is medically unfit to continue fighting as that would pose a danger to his/her life or long term well-being.)

 

[siegecrossbow]

Given this is the Seine we are talking about, I think you mean another one bites the shit. One has to be all sorts of stupid to swim in raw sewage aka completely untreated piss and shit.

There are some pretty large wels catfish in the river so it still has some semblance of an ecosystem…

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But then again there are large wels catfish near Chernobyl as well. I guess at least the Olympian swimmers can be grateful for the fact that the pollution is all natural organic.

 

[zbb]

An old article about therapeutic use exemptions.

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In 2015, there were 1,330 TUEs entered into WADA's data management system. According to an analysis by the U.K.'s Sports Integrity Initiative, 63 per cent of these exemptions were granted in three countries — the United States, Australia and France.

"The U.S. in 2015 received 653 TUE applications and it granted 402 of those. So 61 per cent were granted, and that was a 46 per cent increase over the previous year, so a massive increase," says the Sports Integrity Initiative's Andy Brown. "Australia received 369 TUE applications and it granted 234 of those, about 60 per cent."

 

[Index]

There are some pretty large wels catfish in the river so it still has some semblance of an ecosystem…

You can also find some large Welsh catfishes in British pubs

 

[Feima]

Team China has to settle for the silver in the Badminton Men's Doubles. Losing by the slimmest of margins. (17-21, 21-18, 19-21)

Congrats to Chinese Taipei team.

Only dissatisfaction I have with Chinese Taipei winning gold against mainland team is missing the drama that would have ensued on the island had they lost. Like in previous cases, some celebrities with mainland careers would rage against the defeat and inadvertently out themselves as taidu, which then killed their lucrative mainland gigs. One example is the H in SHE.

 

[CMP]

Congrats to Chinese Taipei team.

Only dissatisfaction I have with Chinese Taipei winning gold against mainland team is missing the drama that would have ensued on the island had they lost. Like in previous cases, some celebrities with mainland careers would rage against the defeat and inadvertently out themselves as taidu, which then killed their lucrative mainland gigs. One example is the H in SHE.

What anthem gets played when Chinese Taipei wins gold?