Post: #76

Which sport has the atheles(males and females) with the best body type in the olympics? My opinion is that sprinters 100m/200m have the best proportions for both males and females.

Post: #77

Ha!

Post: #78

(08-06-2016 02:55 AM)dnx Wrote:  Which sport has the atheles(males and females) with the best body type in the olympics? My opinion is that sprinters 100m/200m have the best proportions for both males and females.

Rhytmic gymastics

oh wait, then general gymnastics if I have to include males.

Post: #79

I'm ready for the most overachieving nation in the recent olympic games to storm to victory in the men's road cycling and the freestyle swimming tonight. Might watch a bit of the boxing too.

Post: #80

Since this is the original RVF we need to post the hottest Rio Olympics HB 9s and 10s based upon faces, bodies and bangability. All opinions count men. Caveat; natural born females only as this is the tranny free zone.

Post: #81

(08-06-2016 03:47 AM)JohannesAusPrag Wrote:  

(08-06-2016 02:55 AM)dnx Wrote:  Which sport has the atheles(males and females) with the best body type in the olympics? My opinion is that sprinters 100m/200m have the best proportions for both males and females.

Rhytmic gymastics

oh wait, then general gymnastics if I have to include males.

Rhytmic gymnastics have no ass

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Post: #83

How does a nation get away with some environmental agenda when they cut down that rain forest of theirs which is essentially the lungs of the planet. Imbeciles.

Post: #84

(08-06-2016 06:46 AM)Foolsgo1d Wrote:  How does a nation get away with some environmental agenda when they cut down that rain forest of theirs which is essentially the lungs of the planet. Imbeciles.

It's all Trumps fault.

Post: #85

Melanie Adams

More solid girls:

http://9gag.com/gag/aVexwKO

Post: #86

Enough with the politics as its getting old.

Let's focus on the sports and the girls.

Some of the African countries had cute girls. Makes me want to plan a trip there even more.

Post: #87

19 year old American woman wins first gold medal of the Games in one of the air rifle events.

Liberals will now ramp up calls for gun control

Post: #88

Outside of air rifle no womens events being broadcast this AM. CRo beat USA mens water polo and mens bike race exciting bottles and chains flying on the cobbles now on climb ... running high tempo on hardest olympic road course in the world 132 clicks 85 miles to go... exiting coverage beautiful scenery... security must be tight with riders from around the globe... Italy going for the gold riding extreme.

Post: #89

(08-06-2016 08:02 AM)Mentavious Wrote:  Enough with the politics as its getting old.

Let's focus on the sports and the girls.

Some of the African countries had cute girls. Makes me want to plan a trip there even more.

What countries? trip to Ethiopia could be nice

Post: #90

(08-06-2016 04:18 AM)britchard Wrote:  Might watch a bit of the boxing too.

Rugby Sevens will be highly interesting. 9-10-11-12 Aug.

Post: #91

More Taiwanese animations pre-Olympic games.
(nothing political..but just humorous clips in itself):

Post: #92

How have we (GB) suddenly got really good medal chances at swimming? I'm sure even 4 years ago we only got 1 or 2 medals. Now apparently we have 4 really good chances at gold medals!

Post: #93

Yusra Mardini: Olympic Syrian refugee who swam for three hours in sea to push sinking boat carrying 20 to safety

Quote:Almost every athlete at the 2016 Olympic Games will have an interesting backstory, but Yusra Mardini's is more extraordinary than most.

Mardini is in Rio to represent a team of 10 refugee Olympic athletes.

While any other 18-year-old’s biggest achievements may be confined to the A-level results they leave school with, Mardini’s is almost incomprehensible.

She and her sister are responsible for helping to save the lives of 20 people, including their own, after jumping off their sinking dinghy into the Aegean Sea and pushing their boat to land.

Mardini, who now lives in Berlin, will compete in the women’s 100-metre butterfly and freestyle heats on Saturday and Wednesday. Her appearance is being touted as one of the most highly anticipated of the Games.

Syria

Mardini was a talented swimmer in war-torn Damascus and professionally backed by the Syrian Olympic Committee. As unrest in the besieged country escalated, she would often find herself training in pools where roofs had been blown open by bombings. “Sometimes we couldn’t train because of the war,” she said. “And sometimes you would be swimming in pools where the roofs were [blown open] in three or four places.”

Damascus became increasingly unstable and Mardini and her sister Sarah eventually left Syria, travelling through Lebanon and Turkey before trying to reach Greece.


Saving lives

Thirty minutes after setting off from Turkey, the motor on their boat, which was meant for six people but carrying 20, began to fail. Most of those on board it could not swim. With no other alternative, Mardini, Sarah and two strong swimmers jumped into the sea and swam for three hours in open water to stop their dinghy from capsizing, eventually reaching Lesbos.

“We were the only four who knew how to swim,” she said of the experience. “I had one hand with the rope attached to the boat as I moved my two legs and one arm. It was three and half hours in cold water. Your body is almost like … done. I don’t know if I can describe that.”

But while she now hates open water, the memory is not a nightmare for her. “I remember that without swimming I would never be alive maybe because of the story of this boat. It’s a positive memory for me."

After Lesbos, Mardini and Sarah travelled through Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary and Austria before arriving at their final destination: Germany.

Mardini is equally remarkable for her self-effacing attitude and resilience as she is for her life-saving act. “It's tough,” she has said. “It was really hard, for everyone, and I don't blame anyone if they cried. But sometimes you just have to move on.”


Starting again in Berlin

Mardini has now settled in Berlin, where she was put in touch with the Wasserfreunde Spandau 04 swimming club and taken on as a member. Quickly realising her potential, Coach Sven Spannekrebs began considering Mardini for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. But her road to the Games turned out to be a much quicker path.

Mardini trains for two to three hours every morning, attends school and then continues to train in the evening.

According to the Guardian, Syria has been monitoring her swimming career and asking for regular updates.

Tackling the dehumanisation of refugees

“I want everyone to think refugees are normal people who had their homelands and lost them not because they wanted to run away and be refugees, but because they have dreams in their lives and they had to go,” she said at a press conference announcing her place on the team.

“Everything is about trying to get a new and better life and by entering the stadium we are encouraging everyone to pursue their dreams.”

She also has hopes one day that peace could be brought to fruition in Syria and she could take her story home.

“Maybe I will build my life here in Germany, and when I am an old lady I will go back to Syria and teach people about my experience.”

Post: #94

Mens bicycle road race was adrenalin fueled when Italy's Nibali was flying down the last death defying downhill like a bat out of hell with its ass on fire and CRASHED taking out the guy behind him when Poland's Majka steered through the crash trash and led all the way down to the last 600 metres when Belgiums Greg Van Avermaet sprinted past him for a daring dramatic dash to the finish for the Gold. Belgium desperately needed some good news.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2016...oome-live/

Post: #95

I'm watching the men's archery. As a competitive shooter (guns, but still) it's right up my alley, but one of the things I really dislike about the olympics is how incredibly specialized the equipment is. The equipment is so far removed from its martial origins that I have never even been tempted to take up any of the olympic "fighting skill" type sports myself. It'd be a lot more interesting if they used rifles, bows, pistols, swords etc that would actually be useful in real life.

I doubt the gun sports will last another 20 years anyway though.

Post: #96

(08-06-2016 02:27 PM)britchard Wrote:  How have we (GB) suddenly got really good medal chances at swimming? I'm sure even 4 years ago we only got 1 or 2 medals. Now apparently we have 4 really good chances at gold medals!

We actually started building lots of Olympic swimming pools, gymnasiums and getting youngsters into the sport early so they took to water like fish.

The future looks good on many fronts due to the number of quality facilities being built or have been built in the last few years.

Post: #97

#7 from that 9gag is Hope Solo, she's a piece of shit.

If it was a guy that had this history, do you think he'd be at the olympics?

Quote:Arrest
On June 21, 2014, Solo was arrested and charged with two misdemeanor counts of assault in the fourth degree;[122][123] one against her half-sister and the other against her nephew.[124][125][126][127] She was booked under her married name of Hope Amelia Stevens.[1] After pleading not guilty, she was released the following day.[128] In August, her trial was scheduled for November 4, 2014, but this was later delayed until January 20, 2015.[129][130] On December 30, 2014, the judge ordered more depositions from the defendants and delayed a decision on whether charges against Solo would be dropped until January 6, 2015.[131]

Following her arrest, Solo sat out one game for the Reign[132] and the NWSL allowed her to continue playing soccer through the end of the 2014 season.[133] There was some debate in the media about whether this exemplified a double standard in professional American sports[134] after pro football players Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson were recently suspended by the National Football League after Rice was shown in a previously undisclosed video assaulting his wife in a hotel elevator[135] and Peterson was indicted by a grand jury on a felony charge of child abuse.[136][137][138][139][140] Senator Richard Blumenthal (D – Conn.) sent out a sternly worded letter to U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati admonishing the organization for allowing Solo to remain on the World Cup roster following her arrest and accused them of inadequately addressing the charges of domestic violence.[141]

On January 13, 2015, the judge dismissed the charges against Solo based on a lack of cooperation from both alleged victims. Solo claimed she was defending herself from an attack by her nephew, who is 6'9" tall.[142] However, prosecutors have filed an appeal with the Superior Court of Washington. Prosecutors were scheduled to file their argument by July 13, 2015, with the defense due to respond by August 10, 2015. Oral arguments were then scheduled for September 11, 2015.[143]

The charges were reinstated October 2015. On June 8, 2016, KING5 Seattle reported that the state appeals court denied a discretionary review to dismiss the reinstated domestic violence charges. Solo can appeal the ruling to the Washington state Supreme Court.[144]

Post: #98

(08-06-2016 02:54 PM)weambulance Wrote:  I'm watching the men's archery. As a competitive shooter (guns, but still) it's right up my alley, but one of the things I really dislike about the olympics is how incredibly specialized the equipment is. The equipment is so far removed from its martial origins that I have never even been tempted to take up any of the olympic "fighting skill" type sports myself. It'd be a lot more interesting if they used rifles, bows, pistols, swords etc that would actually be useful in real life.

I doubt the gun sports will last another 20 years anyway though.

Olympics founder Coubertin was a fan of horseback archery, where you have to ride through an obstacle course and hit targets in stride. He couldn't get it on though, unfortunately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mounted_archery

Post: #99

Mounted archery would be badass. Way better than the equestrian crap they have now. I was watching some kind of dressage event for a few minutes and I had no idea what was going on, just some dude on a horse walking it around. The only good thing about equestrian is the girls who do it usually have great asses and legs.

On other note, the uniforms so far suck. I can't tell who Team USA is most of the time, or half of the other countries' teams for that matter. Why is Australia wearing yellow and blue? Why is Fiji wearing white and black? The fuck?

Post: #100

(08-06-2016 02:54 PM)weambulance Wrote:  I'm watching the men's archery. As a competitive shooter (guns, but still) it's right up my alley, but one of the things I really dislike about the olympics is how incredibly specialized the equipment is. The equipment is so far removed from its martial origins that I have never even been tempted to take up any of the olympic "fighting skill" type sports myself. It'd be a lot more interesting if they used rifles, bows, pistols, swords etc that would actually be useful in real life.

I doubt the gun sports will last another 20 years anyway though.

I noticed that as well, but if you had more old school equipment it would be difficult to make the equipment similar, a wood bow would not be the same for each contestant.

Do you know why the Koreans are so good at arching? They're in a class of their own.