Your Rio 2016 Summer Olympics anticipation thread!

hope solo is going to murder someone when she gets back stateside

what is she even salty about?

I assume she thinks Sweden played too defensively.

Getting more than six of their twenty seven shots on target might have helped the U.S. though.

yeah they had their chances

Lol at solo. Our opponents didn' t play in a manner that allowed us to win. Wah. It's giving me flashbacks to LFC vs Chelsea 2013-14.

i love all the volleyballs but the hugging/high-fiving after every single point is just too much

GREAT men's cycling final right now.

Goddamn, credit to the UK for that one and the world record too!

Australians really pulled a great ride out of the bag there, great battle

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpsFrpPWAAAGtsd.jpg

siiiick

And the bronze to Denmark!

Yeah those Chinese helmets are excellent, the men have them too but with a different face

hope solo is so lame

Katinka Hosszu might become the second ever female to win 4 golds in individual events in swimming, going for 200m backstroke.

Didn't happen.

so close

DiRado was amazing there. And then Schooling for the gold and a three way tie for silver! Hey, crazy way for Phelps to bow out.

Glad he didn't win. He's the most garlanded Olympian simply because there are far too many swimming events.

He is also the greatest swimmer of all time.

there is that

I agree but there's still too much of it.

Phelps is really just the female Ledecky imo

Christ, Ledecky was indescribable there. I mean when the camera had to PULL BACK to show everyone else.

xpost the male Ledecky* haha my bad

If you don't know the words then don't mouth them.

i'd like to report that a lot of v attractive men & women are competing in olympic track events

*end report*

oh, just track?

I will second VG

track is mostly what i watched this arvo, track is what i am reporting

also i love women's shotput

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CptBJngWYAAv3LT.mp4

http://imgur.com/a/3qMu7

picture I took while watching

http://imgur.com/a/3qMu7

Holy shit, Anthony Ervin! What a fucking sequel to have!

also i love women's shotput

me too and I hope you didn't miss the women's hammer right before, possibly the best screams of the whole games

ervin race was so great.

from wikipedia: He is currently in first place in the 50m in the 2016 Olympics, although there are still several meters to go in the race.

Just caught Michelle Carter winning there. Damn right.

i want to watch val adams in the shotput but it's not being shown here.

i am subject to network whims, so only getting shotput etc in fragments

i never know which 7 channel i should be watching at any given time but i haven't seen it on any so far.

otm. tv situation is annoying af, just trying to surf the mediocre waves as they come which means watching events 5 hrs after every already talked about them

i seem to keep getting after the event interviews with athletes or boring beach volleyball, though to be fair the swimming coverage has been good.

Well I'll tell ya, it may have just been a quarterfinal, but the Brazil/Australia women's football match just now, goddamn THAT was a crazy tense down-to-the-wire ending, extra time, penalties, sudden death. Astounding one-hand save by Barbara at the death, the fans going absolutely apeshit. Glad I was watching; after the US fuckup, I'm all in for Brazil to own it the rest of the way.

TOTES barbara was amazing there. def relieved to see marta's shot getting blocked was not their untimely demise.

Glad he didn't win. He's the most garlanded Olympian simply because there are far too many swimming events.
--Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_)

Uh and because he's the greatest swimmer ever.

finally watched ledecky's swim, that was some joyous human endurance

sports that i can't seem to get jazzed about
-beach volleyball
-handball
-fencing
-archery

Man they really shoulda shown more shotput that looked like a great final

skeet shooting aimed towards a highway made me wonder