Agree with everything above. In general I think there are far too many 'judged' sports in the Olympics. I'm actually surprised Bodybuilding doesn't make the cut. Other than all the steroid stuff, it actually fits in very well with the Olympics.

How many people in the world actually participate on a regular basis in something like synchronized swimming?

I was high and eating in bed the other night, and I thought eating in bed without leaving crumbs should be in the Olympics.

like have people eat cookies and chips and toast in bed, then measure for crumbs after. i'd watch that

Now this is something I could relate to!


- George Costanza

kind of wild to win breaststroke + fly, plenty of free+fly swimmers, but the other 2 are specialists basically always, and so the schedule never has free/fly same day

Yes. A breastroke/Sth else combo feels like the biggest transition

There used to be quite a few Free/Fly combo specialists iirc. Michael Gross, Michael Klim. Michael Phelps obviously

Basically all the Michaels

Pathetic showing from America’s 3X3 teams. This process needs an overhaul. We can’t send the 1000th best American players to play in the Olympics

Wilfredo León ends the match against Brazil with two aces

This story currently blowing up on Twitter…

Male Boxer Khelif progresses after female opponent abandons fight

Combine this with Russian athletes being unfairly excluded from the Olympics (oh, and the drag queen last supper opening ceremony)

And you have a reason why to never watch these stupid ****ing games ever again.

Men have no place beating the **** out of women. Period.

joking?

so you support biological men beating the **** out of women??

oh the horrors

forgot to quote and snip the original post

ahh ok thought so

so yeah, you're a piece of **** if you support men beating women. period.

lol @ you

i'm commenting on your RUS athlete statement and your last supper statement

now be a man and quit watching the Olympics and never post itt again

put your money where your mouth is champ

to be clear, i think it's disgusting that this male is able to compete vs females. i wasn't even aware that this was going to happen. at any level of competitive physical sports, a person born male should never be able to compete vs females

secondly, regarding the majority of RUS athletes not being able to compete, for me that is a clear and obvious ruling. i would have also been fine, for example, w USA#1 athletes being barred for the 2004 Athens games (and subsequent summer and winter Olympics) for the bogus Iraq war and the subsequent slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis

anybody that wants to discuss my views can do so via DM. i won't be making anymore comments related to this post itt to keep it clear of non-sports related content

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edit: i'd also like to see sketchy catch a ban for calling me a p.o.s. twice in the past several mins

Moderator Note:

PolitAIDS ends here.

Publicly asking for a ban is not how we operate in SE.

Any further personal attacking however will result in some Calendar Time, some Calendar Time for Buddy (a temp-ban).

she is a woman *sigh*

it's illegal to be trans in algeria, where she's from. she's a woman

Steph Curry taking in the women's gymnastics all-around live

#yltsi

Isn't most of olympics political rooting(aids?)? Few know these sports or who they are, just their countries. The backstory **** NBC pushes trying to make it produced like a reality show bugs the **** out me.

Olympics has a history of being political

1980 USA boycott. 1984 soviet boycott.

1972 munich

etc

Biles doing Biles things

the best ever

yup and she passed the gender-test of the Olympic Commitee. Twitter is going on a bad crusade against her though, pretty ugly

On the other fun side of twitter, i'm here for all the memes on the turkish shooter bloke

Does someone know what happened to all the WR in swimming that were being shattered with the advanced swimming suit a few years ago?

Are they still the standard for today's WR's or did most of those times end up being beaten anyway?

The Chinese guy beating the 100M free WR by .4sec is mad

Don't worry, sketchy just request a perma in ATF. The real complaint for him should've been that Russia isn't competing under ROC Nation anymore.

Those swimsuits were banned in 2010, most WRs have been broken since with Phelps and a few others having still a few from 2008 and 2009. Not sure on the women's side but only a few WR before 2010.

someone on twitter pointed out that all these false trans rumors are putting the woman's life in danger. people get killed for being trans.

and also yes, the shooter memes are great! the Turkish guy and the Korean girl