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Summer Olympics

Paulie Walnuts said:
A vikings coach was caught scalping Super Bowl tickets, not sure if he got fired or not.
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He did. As did several NCAA assistant coaches caught scalping Final Four tix in the past several years.

As for who buys them ... think about it. This is a high ranking IOC official. His comps aren't exactly in the nosebleeds. We're talking sidelines, center of the arena and luxury box seats here. According to reports they were sold to package travel retailers who cater to high end clientele ... including at least one official re-seller. Which matters not at all since IOC committee members are prohibited from selling their comps regardless to whom. They can give them away, which is what they are officially encouraged to do.
 
Update ... my Olympics is over. Started watching Stranger Things on Netflix and there's another Premier League weekend coming up.
 
jeffbear said:
Update ... my Olympics is over. Started watching Stranger Things on Netflix and there's another Premier League weekend coming up.
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Best part of track for me is about now. Gutting out the end of the decathlon (would like more live); and the 800 and 1500. The 800 especially is just comparable to a thoroughbred race. About the same duration, similar opportunities for disaster in a tight pack, and just long enough for someone to show a mighty kick coming off the final turn. Only difference is there's no opportunity for a Bo Rail, which would be even better.
 
And the relays are just plain exciting to watch. You never know what might happen.
 
Well ... done and dusted.

And thanks to Ryan Lochte nobody's going to really remember any American athlete who performed poorly.
 
JFG said:
Right on par with those hockey jerks at the Nagano games.
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Which at this point is the only thing anyone other than fans of figure skating even remember about those Games ... probably. OK, it's all I remember.
 
Lochte didn't cover himself in glory over this whole thing, but the Rio police haven't exactly been completely forthcoming either. An article in yesterday's USA Today supports the swimmer's claim that the bathroom wasn't vandalized. An eyewitness who helped translate the exchange between the security guards and the swimmers confirms that they flashed badges, pointed guns and demanded money, but that it was understood that the money was payment for the sign that Lochte tore off the wall. A Brazilian judge says that police may have been hasty in determining that the guards didn't commit a crime and a lawyer said she doesn't think what Lochte and Feigen said to the police constitute filing a false police report under Brazilian law.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...yan-lochte-rio-olympics-authorities/89082232/
 
Oh ... don't let the fact that the official media coming out of Rio are a bunch of spineless worms lead anyone to believe that that depressing wreck of a city is actually some sort of misunderstood wonderland. Cops, bus drivers, social workers ... all have one thing in common. None of them have been paid since the city declared a full blown financial crisis about a month ahead of the Games. If anybody thinks there weren't shennanigans going on just because Lochte is a toolbag, they're just wrong.
 
Mark Bisson from AroundTheRings.com tweeted earlier that the IOC President won't attend any of the Paralympics "due to long standing engagements".

I swear, they make FIFA look legit.
 
andyt said:
Mark Bisson from AroundTheRings.com tweeted earlier that the IOC President won't attend any of the Paralympics "due to long standing engagements".

I swear, they make FIFA look legit.
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No. They make FIFA look like the understudy to the master ... which in many ways, they are.
 
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