The "I can't believe there isn't a Rio thread" thread

[grateful]

I do enjoy the word "peloton".

[Space Freely]

That parade of of nations thing last night had to be the most boring thing I've ever watched on television. It actually had me wishing my father in law would turn the channel back to his Fox News. At least I was able to seize the remote and flip it to the O's/Sox game during the commercial breaks. Man, the Zach Britton has some nasty stuff.

[hutch]

Hipsters are down on the olympics this year..


this is pretty crazy:

https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/761937723208982528

[Space Freely]

Virginia Thrasher. Best name ever.

[hutch]

The swimmers look amazing...

[hutch]

Huge win for Del Potro over Djokovic!!!!!!

[walk,on,by]

are the Olympics exciting and much watch tv, this year?  I can't, tell.  I thought everything about this Olympics was going to explode in a shit filled bay of zika violence. 

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

The women's rugby was OK but for me the summer Olympics really don't start until we get some team handball and badminton, the world's fastest racquet-based sport.

[walk,on,by]

your inputs, are fascinating.

[hutch]

I can't get into the women's gymnastics because they are all so tiny..they stunt their growth.. any sport that stunts your growth.. man.. thats tough

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

I can't get into the women's gymnastics because they are all so tiny..they stunt their growth..

Women's gymnastics has given us both Shawn "It makes my Taco Pop" Johnson and Makayla "Stinkface" Maroney. It is beyond reproach.

[hutch]

never the sharpest tool in the shed..


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/swimmer-ryan-lochte-passport-seized-8650224

[Relaxer]

Wait, so are they saying the dramatic hold-up was a hoax/lie? Now THAT would be interesting.

[hutch]

Wait, so are they saying the dramatic hold-up was a hoax/lie? Now THAT would be interesting.

yes pretty much... at the very least he said they took his wallet at gunpoint but closed circuit camera footage of him returning to Olympic Village shows he had wallet and watch....

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

Wait, so are they saying the dramatic hold-up was a hoax/lie? Now THAT would be interesting.

yes pretty much... at the very least he said they took his wallet at gunpoint but closed circuit camera footage of him returning to Olympic Village shows he had wallet and watch....

To be fair, many wealthy people carry multiple wallets to facilitate all their money and who in their right mind doesn't keep a spare watch in their breast pocket for sartorial emergencies?