2016 Rio Olympics

[gumby]

By the way, the current list of men's swimming gold medals by country is:

US-134
Australia-33
Michael Phelps-21
Germany-18

Dude's a pretty good swimmer. Watch out, Australia.

Can't count relay gold. He teamed with another country.

[gumby]

So, are those two detained US swimmers completely fucked or what?

Story just went from silly to scary.

Turns out, they were the scary ones. Led by ... Swim Shady!

Try the veal!

[CalStateTempe]

Typically tool Americans traveling abroad.

[Longhorned]

This post registers a generic comment imparting nothing about USA v. Serbia in the basketball gold medal game.

[Chicat]

Russia's Head Of Wrestling Punched Female Wrestler In Face For Losing Bronze Medal Match

http://thebiglead.com/2016/08/19/russia ... dal-match/" target="_blank

Inna Trazhukova was defeated in the bronze medal match of the 63 kg freestyle wrestling competition at the 2016 Olympics by Poland’s Monika Michalik. The 25-year-old Russian claims that after her loss on Thursday, the head of her country’s wrestling program punched her in the face twice.

Mikhail Mamiashvili is a 52-year-old former Olympic gold medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling and is now the chairman of the Wrestling Federation of Russia. He does not deny punching Trazhukova and has actually blamed her for the action.

A Russian newspaper has an account of the incident and though a direct translation is difficult, this is the best we’ve found (we added an edit or two):

“He spoke roughly, rude and hit me twice in the face. All this happened in front of witnesses,” she said.

She said she planned to inform the prosecutor’s office about the incident and Russian Sports Minister, Vitaly Mutko.

“I’m not a slave because of a lost battle with me to do so I was humiliated in public. I want to stop it, so that later athletes do not suffer from it!” she said.

Again, it’s a rough translation but I’m pretty sure we all get the gist of what happened. It’s sickening and we hope that Russia does something about this.

[Merkin]

No more 2nd world countries:

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[Merkin]

Russian b-boy Bumblebee (left) defeated Japan's b-boy Shigekix

b-boy?

b-boy
The words 'Break Boy and Break Girl' originated from the Bronx of New York. In the early 70's Dj Kool Herc would play the 'breaks' of songs. Meaning, he would only play parts of the songs where it was beat only, no lyrics. This would excite the people to dance. So in turn girls and guys who danced to these 'breaks' were called 'Break Boy and Break Girl' or 'B-Boy; B-Girl' in short.
B-boying started with the James Brown's 1969 "Get on the Good Foot". When on stage James Brown would dance around with such energy and almost acrobatic moves, many people began mimicking his moves, so they called it the "Good Foot". The 'Good Foot' was mainly dancing around that involved drops or spins on the floor. Thus, the beginning evolution of breaking.
During the 1970's martial arts were also very popular, so B-Boys (for the most part) incorporated martial art stunts to 'wow' the crowds. And today b-boying has evolved into a highly demanding dance physically and mentally. With massive b-boy dance competitions being held around the world, such as BOTY (Battle of the Year) in Germany and the FreeStyle Sessions.

It is important to know that the term b-boy cannot be used for an emcee, DJ or rapper. Only breakers can be called b-boys.

Also b-boys do not like to be called "Break-dancers", as this was a term coined by the media in the 80's, and is not a 'true' hip-hop' phrase. Break-dancers are dancers who have no style and show their powermoves to get props from people who have no idea about breaking.

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[UAEebs86]

I feel shocked.

[Chicat]

My shock is that Chicago didn’t beat it.