Post: #26

(08-05-2016 02:04 PM)Latinopan Wrote:  

(08-05-2016 01:34 AM)The Beast1 Wrote:  Honestly i'm just sick of the olympics. I don't care to watch a bunch of genetic freaks i've never heard of play in a stadium that was paid by all sorts of corrupt individuals to build.

Fuck the olmypics. Greece should be the perpetual home of the games. It's their tradition.

I am on the same boat, I am not into watching other people play and have fun at a level that I will never have.

It sounds like you're going to enjoy watching the paralympics.

Post: #27

Just caught a Nike commercial talking about a Transgender Male (Born Female) who is a Duathlete. Like A Triathlete, minus the swimming. So he competes in the Duathlon. Triathlon

http://www.sportingnews.com/other-sports...7qh4js52zp

Additionally, I find it funny that "dualthlete" doesn't pass spellcheck but "triathlete" does. I've honestly never heard of the Duathlon. Wonder why they didn't just call it the Betathlon.

Post: #28

(08-09-2016 12:18 AM)911 Wrote:  

(08-05-2016 02:04 PM)Latinopan Wrote:  

(08-05-2016 01:34 AM)The Beast1 Wrote:  Honestly i'm just sick of the olympics. I don't care to watch a bunch of genetic freaks i've never heard of play in a stadium that was paid by all sorts of corrupt individuals to build.

Fuck the olmypics. Greece should be the perpetual home of the games. It's their tradition.

I am on the same boat, I am not into watching other people play and have fun at a level that I will never have.

It sounds like you're going to enjoy watching the paralympics.

Egad, you need to watch this video :





They've been spamming the shit out of this here in the UK.

Post: #29

In Australia its been 100% adoring press coverage of the womens magnificent achievements.

Its amazing to see how much the media has drifted to JJW land in four years even

Post: #30

If I'd know that was what it's like to be handicapped, I would have cut off a limb years ago. With such a prestigious institution as the Special Olympics, you know you can trust them to promote a realistic image of what I can look forward too!

Post: #31

Doesn't seem like the media is exaggerating:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-ri...il-n630396

U.S. Swimmer Ryan Lochte Robbed at Gunpoint in Brazil

Quote:.S. Olympic swimmers Ryan Lochte, Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and Jimmy Feigen were robbed at gunpoint while in Rio de Janeiro overnight Saturday, NBC News has confirmed.

Following conflicting reports — including the IOC denying any incident took place — Lochte himself confirmed with TODAY's Billy Bush that he and the other swimmers were robbed at gunpoint.

"We got pulled over, in the taxi, and these guys came out with a badge, a police badge, no lights, no nothing just a police badge and they pulled us over," Lochte said. "They pulled out their guns, they told the other swimmers to get down on the ground — they got down on the ground. I refused, I was like we didn't do anything wrong, so — I'm not getting down on the ground.

"And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, "Get down," and I put my hands up, I was like 'whatever.' He took our money, he took my wallet — he left my cell phone, he left my credentials."

Post: #32

(08-05-2016 01:34 AM)The Beast1 Wrote:  Honestly i'm just sick of the olympics. I don't care to watch a bunch of genetic freaks i've never heard of play in a stadium that was paid by all sorts of corrupt individuals to build.

Fuck the olmypics. Greece should be the perpetual home of the games. It's their tradition.

This sentence I put on block further solidifies the notion how the English have a monopoly on European culture and still act like they do. Seriously, English breakfast tea in an Irish pub? Any Italian word that ends in the Italian suffix ~ati, automatically a "conspiracy cabal"!!!? No wonder a growing number of Italians have since started calling the English the Assetati, in what they perceive as cultural butchering at the hands of the English.

Back on topic, I notice on the American side of things, there's excessive hype FOR American female athletes. Pretty ironic how Americans are still averse of the Spice Girls since the 1990s, and yet, they're the biggest practitioners of "GRRL POWER".

Post: #33

(08-14-2016 06:25 PM)Samseau Wrote:  Doesn't seem like the media is exaggerating:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-ri...il-n630396

Well, I never actually said they were lying. Brazil clearly has a problem with violence and robbery, as do pretty much every other country in Latin America.

The point is that the media is breaking narrative.

Does the Western media accurately report Muslim crime? Does it accurately report black crime? Does it accurately report illegal immigrant crime? Does it accurately report rape statistics, as it applies to white men? Does it accurately report police on black crime?

Hopefully you see where I'm going here.

Not only does the media not report those things accurately, it shouts down anyone who tries to as a racist, Islamaphobe, bigot, or rape apologist.

Hell, you can guarantee that the story you posted would have never been reported on if it'd been a Muslim robbing someone in Europe.

Yet for some reason they really, really want everyone to know what a dangerous, dirty, and otherwise terrible, no good place Brazil is.

Post: #34

The Visa commercials celebrating Refugee Swimmers pulling their refugee boats to safety was too much for me to stomach

http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-b...act-172836

Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini's journey to Rio began in the treacherous waters of the Mediterranean Sea as she escaped the harrowing violence of the Syrian war. In 2015, she helped swim her boat to safety, pulling 17 fellow refugees behind her.

Visa's new ad, "The Swim," by BBDO in New York, highlights Mardini's journey from Syria to Berlin, where she currently trains and celebrates her courage and perseverance, then and now.

Mardini is one of the 10 athletes on the team of refugee Olympians from Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan who will march in tonight's opening ceremonies together and compete under the Olympic flag. Visa is sponsoring each member of the refugee Olympic team as part of the 60 athletes it's supporting from the Olympic and Paralympic teams.

Refugee Swimmers from Syria are on the "Olympic Team".... is this real life?




And they had similar commercials for every divisive minority they could think of Muslim-Mericans, Illegal Immigrant Americans, handicapped americans, everyone except, you know, the normal American athletes

Post: #35

(08-08-2016 08:11 PM)BortimusPrime Wrote:  I saw one hell of a race baiting ad on youtube over the olympics. Was some montage of a carmenjello athlete pole vaulting while his white mother narrates about how hard it was for him growing up in rural Oregon where jeering packs of racists would chase them in pickup trucks. (Sort of like the bullies chasing Forrest Gump home from school every day because he was differently-abled)

Then I got to thinking, olympic athletes are like 20 years old, right? So these jeering packs of racists were chasing him around in 2005? I guess now every year prior to the current year is retroactively imagined to have been like 1850 for black people or something.

I'm genuinely impressed by this comment. If more black guys would get it, we could start moving toward black familiar health that resembled pre-1960s status and cultural moratorium for workable societies.

Post: #36

Ugh, fat acceptance hamstering ALERT!

http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/l...story.html

Quote:The strongest woman in America holds a plastic fork against her forehead.

She wrinkles her brow and the fork folds into a crease. She smiles and holds out her hands — ta-da! — as the fork remains literally stuck inside her head.

“I have a huge forehead wrinkle,” says Sarah Robles with a laugh. “This is real life.”

The strongest woman in America loves her forehead. She loves the female weightlifter tattoo on her right biceps. She loves that she can lift major appliances while wearing a fancy black striped headband, flowery kneepads and shiny earrings.

She’s 5 feet 10, 315 pounds, and she loves every inch of herself. She loves the independence that comes from her size, and the power that comes from strength, which earned her an Olympic bronze medal earlier this week in the super-heavyweight division. It was America’s first weightlifting medal of any sort in 16 years.

“I didn’t have to conform my body or my ideals or my looks to get where I am,” she says. “I have a bronze medal and I was able to be myself, embrace my body, do the things I’m naturally fitted to do to help make my dreams come true.”

She hopes little girls everywhere are listening. She hopes all those Olympic fans who love the tiny gymnasts and sleek swimmers are watching. She hopes potential sponsors who are interested only in athletes of a certain body type understand.

“To challenge ‘normal’ ideals is an important thing,” she says. “It’s cool to be me. I’m big and strong and putting it all for good use.”

After being dominated by conventional stars the first week, the U.S Olympic efforts the last few days have wonderfully included two large women who throw, lift and teach.

On Friday, Michelle Carter became the first American woman to win a gold medal in the shot put. She is far more than an athlete; she is a beacon for women of all shapes, a 5-foot-9, 256-pound makeup artist known as the Shot Diva who runs a sports confidence camp for young female throwers.

“I just encourage young girls to be true to themselves,” Carter said after the victory. “I’m in a sport that people don’t look at us like women. They don’t look at us being girly or feminine. But I’ve been girly all my life. I couldn’t separate the two between the sport and being a woman.”

On Sunday, with a roar and a fist pump, Robles won a bronze by lifting 277.8 pounds in the snatch and 352.7 pounds in the clean and jerk. In other words, she picked up a roll-top desk and a three-seated couch.

“I feel awesome!” she says in a Monday afternoon interview on a picnic table outside the media center. “I feel like I can flip a car over! I feel like I can run through a house!”

American shot putter Michelle Carter celebrates after winning the gold medal Friday.

It is that sense of empowerment that has enriched these two marvelous athletic performances. Carter, who has posed for ESPN’s Body Issue, regularly counsels questioning young women on the coolness of muscles. Robles responds to notes from girls who are being bullied for their size.

“These Olympians are using the podium to promote a positive message,” says Abigail Saguy, professor of sociology at UCLA and author of the book “What’s Wrong With Fat?” “They are making an important point that health comes at all sizes, and we should be embracing diversity of body sizes rather than assume there’s one good body type.”

Robles, 28, has epitomized that point from the moment she engaged in her last fight. It was in elementary school in her hometown of Desert Hot Springs. A girl called her ’fat and hit her in the face. She knew she had to figure out a way to fight back, and ultimately she did that by loving herself and embracing her now historic strengths.

“I got bullied as a kid, and one of my motivations is to not let anyone else feel the way I felt about me,” she says. “No one should have to hate themselves, doubt their abilities, change what they like or who they are. If I can be another voice of reason and kindness to help silence everyone else who says something negative about you, that’s a good thing.”

Not that Robles’ voice has always been easy to find. A year after finishing seventh in the London Olympics, she was given a two-year suspension after testing positive for a hormonal precursor supplement. She said she was taking the drug to treat polycystic ovary syndrome, but her protest was denied and her career fell apart.

She was thrown out of her gym, lost her training partners, and wound up driving around Phoenix with her barbell in the back of her car, enlisting in free one-week tryout periods at various health clubs. She was on food stamps and living on friends’ couches and figuring she would never see another Olympics.

“I was kind of shunned,” she says. “I had to learn the hard way. It was a difficult ride.”

She eventually moved to Houston to train in the garage of nationally renowned coach Tim Swords where she regained her strength, passed every drug test, and now openly explains her suspension as a lesson learned.

“I made a decision to try to tend to my health issues. I had legitimate reasons. I still should have done things different but I didn’t,” she says. “I’ve since served my time, I passed my tests, I’ve done everything I need to do to redeem myself and to move on.”

After her Sunday redemption, she showed up for her Monday interview with her bronze medal in her pocket, where she put it almost immediately after the podium ceremony, even initially hiding it during the post-event news conference. She doesn’t wear medals, ever, because she doesn’t want to cast a shadow on any losing competitors who worked just as hard.

“I don’t know whether that sounds bad or dumb,” says the strongest woman in America.

On the contrary, like the things Sarah Robles and Michelle Carter represent, it just sounds strong.

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Blocks are hamsterisms I caught on for everybody's convenience.

Post: #37

I've also looked on in puzzlement at the break in the narrative in the Brazilian Olympics coverage. Enigma is certainly on to something.

Also, I note that the male athletes look masculine, whereas the female athletes appear to take on perverse inhuman proportions. They are disturbing to watch.

The whole premise of women's sports escapes me. It's like watching the special Olympics, it's cute, but who cares?

Post: #38

Maybe we're just watching a freak-show this entire time, an entertainment diversion of a travelling circus show.

Needless displays of athletic achievement that most do not care about (nor does any of the outcomes change our lives in any way), only when it's on once every four years?

The olympics, like how a lot of sports go, are just disguised boredom-killers used for the purpose of selling you something else.

Post: #39

Quote:The whole purpose of women's sports escapes me. It's like watching the special Olympics, it's cute, but who cares?

There really is no reason to have separate men's and women's categories for a lot of these events, where there is no danger of competitors colliding, other than the fact that hardly any women would medal...

Post: #40

US athlete who was robbed on gunpoint accused of false reports after Brazil police find no report of a robbery that matches his description:

https://www.conservativeoutfitters.com/b...ut-robbery

I sure wonder what's the reality there...

Post: #41

(08-17-2016 10:47 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  US athlete who was robbed on gunpoint accused of false reports after Brazil police find no report of a robbery that matches his description: