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Rio 2016 Olympics Megathread

  • 02-08-2016 09:45PM
    #1
    El Chapo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭


    Kicks off on Friday with the opening ceremony. Boxer, Paddy Barnes will carry the Irish flag.

    London 2012 was our most successful Olympics with 6 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze). Can we improve?

    Again, we'll probably be looking to our boxers for most of our medals. Paddy Barnes, Michael Conlon and Katie Taylor will be there or thereabouts, although Katie did have a few hiccups trying to qualify.

    It's a pretty poor track team this year with the exception of Thomas Barr and Ciara Mageen. Both are fine runners but it's hard to see them getting a medal.

    We also have a men's hockey team, two badmintoners, a few horsey people, a woman sailor person, swimmers and of course the golfers.

    Tune into RTÉ for Jerry Kiernan if nothing else, he's very entertaining and hugely knowledgeable.

    C'mon Ireland!
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  • #2
    JeffKenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,802 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    El Chapo wrote: »

    London 2012 was our most successful Olympics with 6 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze). Can we improve?



    C'mon Ireland!
    I would have thought Atlanta was our most sucessful Olympics?


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Can't be arsed watching the Olympic opening ceremony on Friday.
    If I wanted to watch 700 people walking around in tracksuits, I'd go and spend the day in Ballymun.


  • #4
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    JeffKenna wrote: »
    I would have thought Atlanta was our most sucessful Olympics?

    Thread is going there already :pac::pac:


  • #5
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Best of luck to them, I hope they do themselves proud.

    Fcuk golf though.

    Spoon pong has more merit being there than golf.


  • #6
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    I am just going to presume most are doping, and whomever comes in 6th or 7th will be the eventual gold medalist in a few years time.


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  • #7
    failinis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭failinis


    I see the swimmers are getting ready


  • #8
    Marje
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 862 ✭✭✭Marje


    Would like to watch the opening ceremony for a while, wouldn't mind seeing the flame lit but don't fancy sitting up till 4am. It starts 23:30 on RTE2 and 23:40 on BBC1


  • #9
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Looking forward to this and best of luck to everyone representing Ireland! :)


  • #10
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Why wait until Friday? You go first.

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  • #11
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Opening ceremony on around midnight! Feck that! Dont care if it does feature samba clad Brazilan girls,


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  • #12
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    A load of eejits running around the place and jumping over things.


  • #13
    Smondie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Smondie


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    Opening ceremony on around midnight! Feck that! Dont care if it does feature samba clad Brazilan girls,
    The model is going to het mugged as part of the cermony! Can't remember her name but at least they're showing all sides of the country.


  • #14
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Smondie wrote: »
    The model is going to het mugged as part of the cermony! Can't remember her name but at least they're showing all sides of the country.

    Gisele is the model.


  • #15
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,027 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    Olympic football tournament starts Wednesday with 6 games in the Womens tournament (Mens on Thursday), if anyone can't wait for Saturdays official sports start.
    Not sure of TV coverage.


  • #16
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Competition to see who has the best dealer.


  • #17
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Competition to see who has the best dealer.

    I hear quite a few Russian doctors are now available for some handy freelance work.


  • #18
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    From the RTE commentators Absolut Vodka deliver me.


  • #19
    patmac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,590 ✭✭✭patmac


    Must be one of the least anticipated games in a long while, used to love the Olympics but the Russian scandal and the way the suits dealt with it has taken a fair chunk of the gloss of it.
    Throw in the golfers and the corrupt Brazillian government and it hard to get enthusiastic about it.
    Will Probably get into it after a while, feel sorry for all the hard working clean athlete.


  • #20
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    patmac wrote: »
    Must be one of the least anticipated games in a long while, used to love the Olympics but the Russian scandal and the way the suits dealt with it has taken a fair chunk of the gloss of it.
    Throw in the golfers and the corrupt Brazillian government and it hard to get enthusiastic about it.
    Will Probably get into it after a while, feel sorry for all the hard working clean athlete.

    Whats "clean"? None are just on water.

    London 2012 swept us all up with hysteria, I'm so non plussed about this.


  • #21
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    patmac wrote: »
    Must be one of the least anticipated games in a long while, used to love the Olympics but the Russian scandal and the way the suits dealt with it has taken a fair chunk of the gloss of it.
    Throw in the golfers and the corrupt Brazillian government and it hard to get enthusiastic about it.
    Will Probably get into it after a while, feel sorry for all the hard working clean athlete.

    Agree. Although for me the gloss came off many years ago. But this Olympics does seem to be taking the absolute proverbial.


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  • #22
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Will Bolt be able to pull off the double again?

    100m and 200m.


  • #23
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Will Bolt be able to pull off the double again?

    100m and 200m.

    I reckon so.

    The Olympic village apparently is in bits, and the main slip the sailing boats launch off collapsed today lol


  • #24
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,278 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    A load of eejits running around the place and jumping over things.

    Ah, come on! They're only horses.


  • #25
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Will anyone be cheering the first all refugee Olympic team .

    Wont be tuning in to watch after the whole failed dealing with the State sponsored doing issues
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  • #26
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    And athletes from other nations who escape bans on "appeals"

    Appeal missing the first test, after she missed the third...

    And so many asthmatics..


  • #27
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,278 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    mansize wrote: »
    And athletes from other nations who escape bans on "appeals"

    Appeal missing the first test, after she missed the third...

    First missed test was the testers' fault. And she passed a test the following day.


  • #28
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    First missed test was the testers' fault. And she passed a test the following day.

    She didn't appeal the miss until she missed two more.. Strange that.


  • #29
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    First missed test was the testers' fault. And she passed a test the following day.

    I a point of law... Her phone was on silent, family issues... It's like those lawyers you can get for drink driving convictions- wasn't in Irish - struck out!


  • #30
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    First missed test was the testers' fault. And she passed a test the following day.

    24 hours counts for a lot in Drug testing


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  • #31
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,247 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Had almost forgotten there was an olympics until we seen the olympic village looking like downtown Aleppo.

    London was pretty good, but could not give a f*ck about it this time.
    And the first week is always a killer.

    Endless swimming and hyper-medal inflation.
    F*ck Michael Phelps and his 16 gold medals for doing the one thing over & over again with minor technical differences.


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