The Olympics

Yeah, the problem is that the events are during work hours and the Brazilians are all at work.

Okay, I cracked myself up with that one.

 

The plot thickens.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/18/sport/us-swimmers-olympics-robbery-questions/

Lochte GTFO!

 

Two minutes is considered endurance?

 

You ever swam all out for 2 minutes? One of the hardest workouts out there

 

Depends on the event. For many on here, 2 minutes would require two times...

 

And half an hour between "workouts"

 

Yea, a couple times. That 25 seconds I posted was my time when I swam a 50 free race with a lousy turn for fun while in college, I was a springboard diver but would swim the warmup with the swim team. I was third in that race, first at the turn, and it wasn't that fast compared to the real fast guys. Started swimming to get back into shape last year as my knees don't like running, heading out to swim for an hour or so in a few minutes, I'll probably cover about 3000 meters in that hour but I won't be swimming all out for all of it, just the 10-100's on 2:30, it is actually 122m for four lengths as the pool is 100 feet long.

 

The IM is considerably harder than just a standard 200m swim. Try it some time if you know all 4 strokes. So if that is still too short make it a 400 IM. That would put it about on par with the longest run of 1500m in the Decathlon now. Probably considerably harder actually.

 

yup...

see you in two years to the next impeding olympic media clusterfuck....

 

Something about that chick reminds me of Peter Boyle as the monster in Young Frankenstein...

 

The biggest disaster is spending all this money hosting the Olympics next door to terrible poverty and crime.
The money could have been better spent.

 

Nah.

Closer to this:



And besides...do you really wanna see her schwanzstucker?

 

You ever been there? That's how it has been for damn near forever. Walk out of your hotel and go left and you're on Rodeo drive. Go right and you're in a favela that you might not leave alive.

The rich are very rich, there is a small middle class that was growing and then there's the poor which does not translate to anything you see in the US. Being well off there is having an apartment, a big tv and a fiat or vw.

 

It's not my fault you two aren't confident in your masculinity.

 

My masculinity favors femininity.

You can be all Fleetwood Mac and go your own way. I won't judge.

Ok, yes I will.

 

Says the guy with a secret REO Speedwagon collection.

 

It's Air Supply, you ninny!

 

I would argue that the real measure of success is how packed the venues are for the less popular sports. When everything else is sold out and people still want to see something and show up for water polo and shit.

That said, there were way too many open seats in track and field on average for even that to be called a great turnout, I think.