That sounds awful, what country?
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2016 Summer Olympics |OT| August 5th - August 21st
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ATOMICJORGE
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Just like in Mexico sadly
Damn that sucks, that's stupid since you aren't going to have anyone win golds if you can't send them over
Diprosalic
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if Hingis/Timea win gold we're up to 4th place on Gold per capita.
USA in 24th place, suck it 'murica.
USA in 24th place, suck it 'murica.
SilentRacoon
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The sad thing is, Mexico is even worse because there is actual funding for it, there is just a long line of corruption before it actually gets put into growing a proper sporting infrastructure that supports all the talent the country has to offer.
DoubleTake
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Its so pathetic to see every time they zoom out the cameras
The quarters for the women's soccer Brazil match is packed on the other hand.
Sod Olympic rules, let's have the Tokyo mascots *actually* being Mario & Sonic.
The tickets are expensive for most locals, so they'd gravitate towards sports they're most excited about first and make the most of their money. Also, it's rather late in Rio and they have to work. It's disappointing, but I can understand it.
Edit- Women's 100m camera really likes Lgalova-Collio :3
this has been like the whole olympics though.
The_Inquisitor
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Holy shit. I had no idea she was Ryan Manuel's sister.. I watched him at my alma matter SMU!
This one? It's not available in Brazil, unfortunately.
I've been using the local SportTV Rio 2016 app and it's pretty great, but yeah, it requires a cable TV account.
Hasphat'sAnts
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Pernille Blume's Instagram is 🔥🔥
DudeWithNoName
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LyleLanley
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cmon, our men's team is already the world's joke. edit - Volley girls just dispatched Korea, sorry Kpop GAF.
Great 3rd set. Very close.
edit - Volley girls just dispatched Korea, sorry Kpop GAF.
Not surprising considering the extreme fear mongering created by western media before the event.
It's not swimming, gymnastics or track.
Tallshortman
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But it is track and field.
One of the 'lesser' events.
Ether_Snake
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Oh man that USA Volleyball player got back.
yep
-international media did everything in their power to scare people away from Rio.
-tickets are too expensive for most of the locals, who will favor their favorite sports to begin with (like Mobius 1 mentioned above).
-part of the country is against or doesn't give a shit about the event for multiple reasons.
Looking at the medal table after the first week, Mexico, Austria, Finland and India, among many others, are still not on the board.
Austria actually hasn't won a summer olympic medal since 2008. I wonder why it doesn't do as well as the other rich european countries with a similar population.
I'm also always surprised at how poorly India does at the Olympics. It's obviously a poor country, but with its gigantic population, there must be a middle and upper class in the hundreds of millions. They also have the facilities from the Commonwealth games.
Austria actually hasn't won a summer olympic medal since 2008. I wonder why it doesn't do as well as the other rich european countries with a similar population.
I'm also always surprised at how poorly India does at the Olympics. It's obviously a poor country, but with its gigantic population, there must be a middle and upper class in the hundreds of millions. They also have the facilities from the Commonwealth games.
When they include cricket maybe they will care.
You and me both.
I'm tired of it as well, it constantly reminds me that it's not football season yet
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