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TheCountofMonteCristo said:
True. Gatlin though should get same treatment as Russian athletes.
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It's a travesty that he wasn't banned for life. It'll be fun watching Bolt destroy him again.

TheCountofMonteCristo said:
Btw did you hear only women have medals for Canada?
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Honestly, I know people keep harping on the lack of men's events medals, but I don't think we've lost any in events that Canada was supposed to medal. Maybe the men's fours in rowing, but a lot of people harped on Rowing Canada for their decision to split up the eights crew, so I don't know if that was an expected medal either.

Some people also had expectations that Antoine Valois-Fortier might repeat as a medalist in men's judo, but that sport is notoriously fickle, so I don't think we should be disappointed with his performance either.

But all of Barber, Warner, Drouin, De Grasse, de Jonge, and the men's 4x100m relay team are the best or amongst the best in the world in their respective events. Canada should get some men's medals out of that group.

Oldershaw might be good enough to repeat another canoeing medal as well, although he is far from a sure thing.
 
I know if only men had medals, no one would be mentioning it.

Some on twitter were offended when Scott Oake asked Thiesen-Eaton if her husband assisted her technically after day one.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
I know if only men had medals, no one would be mentioning it.

Some on twitter were offended when Scott Oake asked Thiesen-Eaton if her husband assisted her technically after day one.
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That's looking to be outraged for no defensible reason. Ashton Eaton is considered the best decathlete in the world for a reason. He's not supposed to offer his wife assistance in the women's equivalent of the event?
 
JaysCyYoung said:
That's looking to be outraged for no defensible reason. Ashton Eaton is considered the best decathlete in the world for a reason. He's not supposed to offer his wife assistance in the women's equivalent of the event?
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That is why this site is my safe place, that kind of outrage is not to be found here.
 
That's because, generally-speaking, most of the time on this site you can't use your "feelings" as a justification for viewing the world a certain way. It's probably the aspect I hate most about my generation.
 
They asked Chaim Schalk (Canada men's beach volleyball) the same thing the other day - "Does your wife give you advice?" or whatever, since she's also a volleyball player. Shocking lack of outrage then.
 
Virtue signalling at its finest (worst). I got into a stupid argument on social media the yesterday over Adam Van Koeverden calling television analyst Adam Meek's comments about Genie Bouchard's off-court activities sexist.

Of course, no one said anything when former women's tennis greats like Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova said the exact same thing about her lack of focus.
 
Great Britain's Max Whitlock takes home the gold medal with a virtuoso performance for the men's gymnastics floor exercise with the two hometown Brazilians getting silver and bronze, much to the delight of the crowd.
 
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