MrSeabass: Gosling: And the IOC member handing out the weightlifting medals is from.... North Korea. He will be handing gold to a North Korean.

That image is going to be all over North Korean television tonight.

Yep, all three screens, and if you're lucky, one of them will be in color!

Are we making fun of NBC again? Let me know so I can join in.

AJatHP: Can someone please hand the Japanese Men's Gymnastics Team a trimmer for their armpits?

I had the same thought

Tigger: It also should make you think just how different Eton College is from the rest of the UK.

Oh I'm well aware of that.

After two rotations in the men's all-around final, Leyva is 19th in a field of 24. Orozco? Dead farking last.

NBC's gonna have a hard time spinning that one.

theurge14: Are we making fun of NBC again? Let me know so I can join in.

No, we're making fun of Best Korea. Which is kind of like making fun of NBC, but Best Korea isn't as condescending towards their TV viewing audience.

AUAIOMRN
If your tournament format makes it beneficial to lose matches, then the problem is with the format.

Don't hate the playa! Hate the game!

No, really, that's what one player said in response to the disqualifications.

"Don't hate the player, hate the game," Jan Jorgensen of Denmark after losing his match in the men's singles today. "It's the fault of the BWF, it's the setup."

Gosling: After two rotations in the men's all-around final, Leyva is 19th in a field of 24. Orozco? Dead farking last.

NBC's gonna have a hard time spinning that one.

They'll improve some assuming they don't fark up the vault, but they'll still be way out of the medals.

MrSeabass: Yep, all three screens, and if you're lucky, one of them will be in color!

Actually, North Korea has only two TV channels. Instead of a dial or something, there's a switch: flick the switch one way and you get Channel 1, flick it the other way and you get Channel 2.

CBC just won the rights to broadcast the Sochi and Rio Games.

WhyteRaven74: theurge14: Are we making fun of NBC again? Let me know so I can join in.

No, we're making fun of Best Korea. Which is kind of like making fun of NBC, but Best Korea isn't as condescending towards their TV viewing audience.

I wonder if I can get a VPN link and stream Best Korea TV to avoid NBC.

12349876: They'll improve some assuming they don't fark up the vault, but they'll still be way out of the medals.

It's going to be one of those cases where the final display shows first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and then the Americans just get tacked on at the bottom showing whatever dismal Lovecraftian place they wound up in.

theurge14: I wonder if I can get a VPN link and stream Best Korea TV to avoid NBC.

*snort* now there's an idea. I remember watching Kim Jong Il's funeral procession and finding it just otherworldly.

Gosling: It's going to be one of those cases where the final display shows first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and then the Americans just get tacked on at the bottom showing whatever dismal Lovecraftian place they wound up in.

I wonder if they'll mention China doesn't even have someone in this. They did have one, and only one, gymnast qualify, but he isn't there.

fruitloop: Can they preview track and field?

That'll be tomorrow.

carnifex2005: CBC just won the rights to broadcast the Sochi and Rio Games.


Wow! Where did THAT money come from? One would think that now that Bell and Rogers are in bed together, there wouldn't be any way for CBC to compete.

/CTV's done a good job so far, but competition should keep everyone fresh.
//Rio games are gonna make BANK for networks, given the timezone.

WhyteRaven74: Gosling: It's going to be one of those cases where the final display shows first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and then the Americans just get tacked on at the bottom showing whatever dismal Lovecraftian place they wound up in.

I wonder if they'll mention China doesn't even have someone in this. They did have one, and only one, gymnast qualify, but he isn't there.

Wonder where he could be...



Found him!

Tigger: Eton College rowing facility

Well, for rowing, they need a wide, flat, straight, calm, quiet piece of river to row on, and I'm not seeing that anywhere near London. So using Eton makes sense.

Gosling: NBC's gonna have a hard time spinning that one.

Or they'll just not show it.

theurge14: i.imgur.com

Supplies!

Gymnastics is some bullshiat. Clearly not actually possible. It's all done with wires and magnets.

Loomy: //Rio games are gonna make BANK for networks, given the timezone.

I wonder how Rio is going to try to spin itself as an awesome city and avoid the whole pesky issue of the tens of thousands living in abject poverty in the favellas and how they're treated by those not living there. It's going to take some spin that would impress the Chinese.

fruitloop: Get Seacrest on it.

Actually I was hoping the fine people of London would decide to use the Tower of London as intended and put Seacrest in it.

WhyteRaven74: I wonder how Rio is going to try to spin itself as an awesome city and avoid the whole pesky issue of the tens of thousands living in abject poverty in the favellas and how they're treated by those not living there. It's going to take some spin that would impress the Chinese.

Practice. They held the Pan-American Games not long ago, there was a global-warming convention they just hosted, there's the small matter of the World Cup they'll be hosting in the runup.

Gosling: there's the small matter of the World Cup they'll be hosting in the runup.

yeah that'll be interesting.

WhyteRaven74: [www.modculture.co.uk image 300x400]

Cycling god or lost Oasis member?

Or an Elvis after a particularly good Kareoke performance

Burchill: static.guim.co.uk

ha nice!

Loomy: carnifex2005: CBC just won the rights to broadcast the Sochi and Rio Games.


Wow! Where did THAT money come from? One would think that now that Bell and Rogers are in bed together, there wouldn't be any way for CBC to compete.

/CTV's done a good job so far, but competition should keep everyone fresh.
//Rio games are gonna make BANK for networks, given the timezone.

I'm suspecting this is a sign that CBC knows it will not be bidding for Saturday night / Stanley Cup hockey for the next contract. That's a shame.

"Michael Phelps has aims on finally making history--"

No. Bad NBC. You sleep on the lawn tonight for even CONSIDERING beginning a sentence like that after last night.

Uh oh. Fencing semifinal with a South Korean involved. We had the one protest for over an hour, we had the other in half a street fight with an Egyptian guy, what the hell's gonna happen now?

Gosling: "Michael Phelps has aims on finally making history--"

What...but...what?

Can someone give me the coles notes on the badminton "scandal"?

4NSpy: Can someone give me the coles notes on the badminton "scandal"?

Pairs played badly to lose. Wanted to lose so that they avoided tougher/compatriot matches in the knockout stages.

bdub77: Siamese Bream: Gosling: NBC's gonna have a hard time spinning that one.

Or they'll just not show it.

They'll show it and complain about it.

The Pommel Horse always seems to be the bane of US gymnastics. I didnt watch but it sounded like he didnt fall off, was wobbly, but still was judged VERY low. Oh well I guess you gotta be perfect.

In 2008 when they medaled they had a gymnast (Artemev) who competed in the team competition on the pommel horse, and only on the pommel horse. His sole purpose in the team event was to make sure the US had at least one score on the horse that wasn't abysmal. It worked. Artemev scored the 3rd best in the whole competition while the other two US gymnasts got a 13.750 and 12.775. The US was still last on the pommel horse, but with a high enough score that the edged out the Germans.

This year the Brits also got their bronze thanks to a pommel specialist (Louis Smith in his only routine of the night scored half a point above the second highest score of anyone else in the event -- the Brits took bronze by less than 0.2).

midpoint: 4NSpy: Can someone give me the coles notes on the badminton "scandal"?

Pairs played badly to lose. Wanted to lose so that they avoided tougher/compatriot matches in the knockout stages.

Okay that's not as bad as some people are making it seem.

4NSpy: midpoint: 4NSpy: Can someone give me the coles notes on the badminton "scandal"?

Pairs played badly to lose. Wanted to lose so that they avoided tougher/compatriot matches in the knockout stages.

Okay that's not as bad as some people are making it seem.

Wait until you see the video.

4NSpy: Can someone give me the coles notes on the badminton "scandal"?

The format of the competition was group stage, then knockouts. After a surprise loss, the top pair in the world was 2nd in group D, and would have been in the same half of the knockout bracket as the 1st place team in group A. So both of the top teams in group A tried to lose their match and finish in 2nd to avoid this.

Either the gymnastics feed keeps freezing or these gymnasts are holding in more insane poses than I ever imagined.