2016 Olympics

[Seshmeister]

Starts next week.

[Seshmeister]

[http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ioc-to-provide-42-condoms-per-athlete-at-2016-rio-de-janeiro-olympics-151309429.html

Ooof...

IOC to provide 42 condoms per athlete at 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics

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Bedrooms in the Olympic Village aren’t outfitted with televisions, so how will athletes pass the time?

Meanwhile, the International Olympic Committee is providing 42 condoms per athlete at the 2016 Rio Olympics, according to some simple division by CNN. A record 450,000 contraceptives — triple the highest previous total — will be available in the village that will house 11,000 athletes next week.

The Summer Olympics run from Aug. 5-21. We’ll let you do the rest of the math in that equation.

Granted, there are 6,000 coaches staying in the athletes village, too — not to mention security personnel, volunteers and media members may also be among those with access to the prophylactics — but the song remains the same: There’s another Olympic-worthy activity going on in Rio de Janeiro. (And let me be the first to concede media will not be using the lion’s share of these condoms.)

“Part of the reason” for the increase, per the Associated Press, “was because 100,000 female condoms will be available for the first time, along with 350,000 condoms for men. About 175,000 packets of lubricant are also being supplied.” Get your performance-enhancing substance jokes in now, people.

Seriously, though, the 450,000 condoms should at least quiet concerns about the sexual transmission of the Zika virus to and among athletes. Coupled with a recent study by the Yale School of Public Health describing the threat of Zika in Brazil as “negligible,” this must be welcome news for athletes.

The previous record for condoms in the athletes village was 150,000 at the 2012 London Olympics, according to important research done by Slate. The Olympic condom count was first reported in 1988, when 8,500 were provided in Seoul. That number rose to 100,000 for Salt Lake City in 2002, after Sydney organizers in 2000 had to bring in an extra 20,000 after their initial order of 70,000 ran out.

AP sports writer Stephen Wade has also been chronicling how the Olympic Village has transformed into a condom nation, capturing photos of vending machines that read, “Celebrate with a condom!”


The “low-budget” village’s 3,604 apartments are furnished with little else beyond disposable wardrobes, according to CNN’s conversation with RGS Events CEO Paul Ramler, whose Australian company has supplied furniture for the games since the 2000 Sydney Olympics. But the 31 17-story towers do feature 18,500 beds — or one for every 24 condoms, according to a little thing called math.

“I guess they’re going stick those in the bedside tables,” Ramler told CNN.

So, if Olympians can get past that “strong smell of gas in some apartments,” let the games begin.

[High Life Man]

What's the over/under on massive chaos/death happening?

[FORD]

What's the over/under on massive chaos/death happening?

You mean from a "terrrorist" attack, from Zika mosquitos, or from the shitty (literally) water?

[vandeleur]

All these athletes having sex is it to early for a "little head " joke :D

[twonabomber]

I think it's going to be a mess, but NBC won't be showing anything controversial or critical of the IOC.

[Seshmeister]

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[Nickdfresh]

LOL Will anyone be watching the sewer yachting race?

[FORD]

Just turned on the women's bicycling race for a while. Saw one Hell of a wipeout. They aren't saying what the racer's condition is, but it looked bad to me.

It had just started raining, so that probably had something to do with the road conditions - flying downhiill at 50MPH or so on a vehicle not made for that sort of speed.

Upside is that it left the American girl with a decent lead.

[FORD]

....until she completely blew it in the last kilometer, and ended up in 4th :(

[twonabomber]

Watched some of the women's beach volleyball last night.

In between matches they ran a clip of Tom Brokaw in the Amazon. Brokaw looks like George Burns.

[vandeleur]

Yeah she was in gold position ... Looked pretty messy

[Seshmeister]

Watched some of the women's beach volleyball last night.


You dirty old man! :)

[Seshmeister]

Busy weekend so all I've managed was the opening ceremony so far.

Thought it was shit compared to London, nice enough flame thing I guess.

[twonabomber]

You dirty old man! :)

I kept my pants on. :D

[twonabomber]

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[Seshmeister]

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[twonabomber]

More beach volleyball. Walsh-Jennings and Ross are 2-0.

[BITEYOASS]

All I've watched is cycling, and to see if the Brazilian will fuck up big time like they did in the World Cup and the Copa America. Track & Field and wrestling will be next, along with some obscure shit like the Modern Pentathlon. I don't have the urge to crank up some Christopher Cross on the stereo, so watching Sailing is out of the question.

[Seshmeister]

Britain has this way of funding elite sport where different events get paid based on how many medals they win which means we do well at all the sitting down sports like cycling, rowing, show jumping and sailing where there are lots of medals to win.

This means we end up winning all the upper class sports - it's all very stereotypical. :)

[Seshmeister]

For anyone confused by all the olympic symbols...

http://i.imgur.com/oT65VkE.gif

[vandeleur]

The gymnastics was pretty good .... My usual idea of parallel bars is the fat ox and the rockckiffe :)

[katina]

I watched the Argentina-GB Rugby7 fantastic and dramatic match, Bibby´s try was superb.

[Seshmeister]

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[Nickdfresh]

The U.S. just has owned swimming, interestingly a lot of commentators thought they were more or less going to fail at these Olympics...

[FORD]

The US v China womens basketball game was mildly amusing. Final score....

USA - 105 :usfl:
China - 62 :cato2:

[FORD]

Why is NBC wasting airtime on this golf shit? Don't they have a channel for that? Something like... oh I don't know... the "NBC GOLF Channel???"

Guess they're saving anything remotely interesting for the "prime time" block tonight. Sometimes I really fucking miss CBC. Their Olympics coverage was so much better..... :(

[So this is love]

Tonight is the night.:bolt:

[cadaverdog]

For anyone confused by all the olympic symbols...

http://i.imgur.com/oT65VkE.gif
Yay! my ass. Sieg Heil is more like it. Or Heil Trump. Whatever floats your boat.

[FORD]

Shouldn't you be bailing water out of your trailer? Or making sure ELVIS didn't drown in his redneck houseboat? :(

http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_10/1452501/160310-severe-weather-jpo-503a_709e2e3069ecfb2f834681d9361b2ebc.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg

[cadaverdog]

The water didn't get that high around here. I don't know what part of Louisiana Elvis is from. Never asked him. I disliked him as much or more than anybody else here.

[twonabomber]

Elvis logged in the other day.

[vandeleur]

Elvis logged in the other day.

Posh cave if it has da internet

[vandeleur]

The water didn't get that high around here. I don't know what part of Louisiana Elvis is from. Never asked him. I disliked him as much or more than anybody else here.

I think I'm the end more people were worried about him than disliked him. He had lost the plot posting any old crazy shite.....

[MmeForget]

Why is NBC wasting airtime on this golf shit? Don't they have a channel for that? Something like... oh I don't know... the "NBC GOLF Channel???"

Guess they're saving anything remotely interesting for the "prime time" block tonight. Sometimes I really fucking miss CBC. Their Olympics coverage was so much better..... :(
Why don't you get it anymore?

[FORD]

Why don't you get it anymore?

No cable tv. Actually no TV at all, except for what streams online. I've been playing around with the VPN that's built into the new Opera Browser, and it has a Canada setting, so maybe I can find some live streams.

[FORD]

The water didn't get that high around here. I don't know what part of Louisiana Elvis is from. Never asked him. I disliked him as much or more than anybody else here.

If I remember correctly, ELVIS was way down in the delta, southeast of New Orleans. That's why I started the redneck houseboat joke in the first place.....

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[Seshmeister]

The gymnastics was pretty good .... My usual idea of parallel bars is the fat ox and the rockckiffe :)


:D

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[cadaverdog]

I think I'm the end more people were worried about him than disliked him. He had lost the plot posting any old crazy shite.....
Even though I'm on the fence regarding religion Elvis representing Christians and Christianity here really pissed me off. Then again a lot of people who represent Christianity pissed me off.

[vandeleur]

:D

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There is no way a Geordie gentleman would think Britney Spears has cracking tits ...... It's a mackem lie

[vandeleur]

Geordie man coming home late from the pub
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[Jesus Christ]

Even though I'm on the fence regarding religion Elvis representing Christians and Christianity here really pissed me off. Then again a lot of people who represent Christianity pissed me off.

Most of them piss Me off too, and I'm Christ! :jesuslol:

[vandeleur]

We have a emoji jesuslol ...... That's a fucking ace band name :jesuslol:

[FORD]

The water didn't get that high around here.

So no dead folks coming up for a swim in your neighborhood?

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[Seshmeister]

Hearing lots of criticism of NBC...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2016/08/10/nbc-criticised-for-worst-ever-olympic-coverage-in-america/

[twonabomber]

I would have watched more basketball but I didn't bother to see what other NBC channel it was on. Got to see half of the gold medal game at work and that was the most I watched.