The 2016 Summer Olympics - Rio

[NorCalVol67]

So, Ryan Lochte was lying?

Surely not, but this is odd.

http://m.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/The-Latest-Speedy-Rio-showdown-ahead-in-women-s-9147275.php

 

[95 Vol Alum]

Now 1 swimmer is missing after not showing for his flight after checking in online.

 

[golfballs]

Well Lochte is an idiot. So I wouldn't put it past him. But still. This is crazy

 

[golfballs]

Now 1 swimmer is missing after not showing for his flight after checking in online.

Manhunt.

I bet he swam up the Amazon to escape

 

[NorCalVol67]

Well Lochte is an idiot. So I wouldn't put it past him. But still. This is crazy

Hair dye seeped into his brain?

 

[golfballs]

Hair dye seeped into his brain?

Unfortunately I don't think he can use that as an excuse

 

[CagleMtnVol]

Well at least the women are doing something for the US in track.

Sweeping the Women's 100 m hurdles and going Gold/Silver in the Women's long jump!

 

[vols-1]

They will have to change their story now if they want to leave the country.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Watching Walsh-Jennings and Ross play last night and tonight was pretty fun. Both matches were emotional roller coasters. Congrats to them for medaling

 

[jvol1]

They will have to change their story now if they want to leave the country.

Seems like shenanigans by the police to me, too.

 

[jvol1]

Impressive sprint double for Elaine Thompson of Jamaica, gold in the 100 and 200.

 

[vols-1]

Now a British Olympic team member in Rio has been held up at gunpoint.

 

[Vol_til_I_die]

Now a British Olympic team member in Rio has been held up at gunpoint.

Came here to post that, too. It's well documented that RIO isn't the safest of places so maybe there is some truth somewhere within what Lochte told.

Report: British athlete robbed at gunpoint in Rio

 

[Rishvol]

That's how you win gold right there. First female American wrestler to win gold.

 

[VolinMC]

I am so glad the US are winning the most medals but I have noticed something. Nobody has gotten a participation trophy! The PC people will go crazy!

 

[BowlBrother85]

I am so glad the US are winning the most medals but I have noticed something. Nobody has gotten a participation trophy! The PC people will go crazy!

Participation medals and pins have been given at each Olympiad since 1904. They are common on E-Bay.

 

[VolinMC]

Participation medals and pins have been given at each Olympiad since 1904. They are common on E-Bay.

Thanks for the info. I was just joking posting that but did not actually know there were pins and medals given to everyone there. Never too old to learn something new.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

This US/Italy men's volleyball match is insane.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

USA loses to Italy. Crap, they had them on the ropes.

 

[95 Vol Alum]

Brazil hopes to feed off famed Maracanã in soccer semifinal | NBC Olympics

Setting up for Brazil v Germany in the final, a rematch of the World Cup semifinal. Wouldn't want to be Germany if that happens. Those ugly, nazi-esque kits and 7-1 whipping likely haven't been forgotten.

Oh Canada! (women's)

 

[95 Vol Alum]

Nice race by the US women in the relay!

 

[Rishvol]

I like the usain bolt will be the greatest Olympic participant in track and field ever with 9 gold medals!!!! Oh and 2 other people have done it before but that doesn't matter.

 

[armchair]

Justin Gatlin made two utterly stupid mistakes at the Olympics--one for sure in his 200 meter semifinal heat and other, seemingly, in tonight's 4X100 relay. I respect the guy, even with his doping suspension, but c'mon. In the 200 semifinal, he had his heat won rather easily but slowed up at the finish, as sprinters often do to conserve energy for the final--but he miscalculated and two runners passed him at the wire. He finished third in what was a slow heat and did not make the final! What the hell was he thinking?

He said afterward that his ankle was bothering him--but his ankle was well enough to run in the 4X100 tonight, where he seems to have made another mistake that cost him and his teammates the bronze medal. He was positioned in the wrong spot while waiting to get the baton and run the second leg of the race, and ended up getting it too early and the Americans were disqualified. Oh, my: not the way you want to end your Olympic career, I'm afraid. One of the other U.S. runners on the relay team, Tyson Gay, was in his third Olympics and thought he won his first Olympic medal--but owing to Gatlin's error, he lost it.

 

[n_huffhines]

That sucks

 

[gule]

throwing the first stone is fun, eh?