Shambolic start to Rio Games amid queues, security scares

[Gerald]

The Rio Olympic Games got off to a shambolic and nervous start on Saturday, with organizers apologizing to angry fans kept waiting hours at security checkpoints to enter venues while, outside, shootings and bomb scares kept visitors on edge.

Athletes competed in front of empty stands early on the first day of full competition as spectators complained of missing their events while queueing for security clearance.

The morning after a dazzling opening ceremony, organizers admitted to dropping the ball, with only a few hundred spectators making their way into venues such as the gymnastics arena and the beach volleyball on iconic Copacabana beach.

Outside, lines stretched for several blocks as fans stood in full sun and security staff struggled. Organizers blamed a lack of coordination between security personnel, including the police, Games staff and private security firms.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-rio-idUSKCN10H0QI

It will be interesting to follow how this will work out in a variety of perspectives.:yep:

Note: Sat Aug 6, 2016 4:43pm EDT

[Jimbuna]

Try to expand.

[Gerald]

Try to expand.First and foremost, the security.And in various places in the country at large, at least where the games take place,I think of security, communications, infrastructure, health care who have a probable peak these days, and how the police are supposed to act in relation to the large population in the slums, where there already has resulted robbery assault by television crews and ordinary people who are there to see the games.

[Feuer Frei!]

The financial markets in Brazil don't care one bit.
Doing very well.

Investors and Olympic games don't care about each other.

As for the Games, ask disgruntled local Police ("Welcome to Hell" signage posted at Rio's airport to welcome visitors, by them, no less), Chinese basketball team dodging a gang shootout after arrival....the list goes on.

Oh how could i forget, a torchbearer showing his dislike for his government by....dropping his pants. in the middle of an official ceremony.

[Jimbuna]

The financial markets in Brazil don't care one bit.
Doing very well.

Investors and Olympic games don't care about each other.

As for the Games, ask disgruntled local Police ("Welcome to Hell" signage posted at Rio's airport to welcome visitors, by them, no less), Chinese basketball team dodging a gang shootout after arrival....the list goes on.

Oh how could i forget, a torchbearer showing his dislike for his government by....dropping his pants. in the middle of an official ceremony.

Probably similar to the awarding of the 2018 World Cup to Russia but I doubt any public outrage will be tolerated or allowed.

[STEED]

I do know one thing the BBC got slammed for their bias boring commentary on the opening event.

[Skybird]

My left tired eye opened a tiny little bit to notice the start of the games. The start of the games was indicated by a news I picked up: that the Brazilian government had ordered all doping tests on Brazilian athletes to be suspended since I think four weeks before the opening ceremony.

And immediately my eye lid fell down, and shut again.

[Jimbuna]

My left tired eye opened a tiny little bit to notice the start of the games. The start of the games was indicated by a news I picked up: that the Brazilian government had ordered all doping tests on Brazilian athletes to be suspended since I think four weeks before the opening ceremony.

And immediately my eye lid fell down, and shut again.

Fell pretty much the same here but I will watch any events/finals the UK has a chance to win a medal in :yep:

[Wolferz]

MEH!:-?

[Gerald]

Update,
http://live.reuters.com/Event/Rio_Olympics_2016

[mapuc]

I know there is lots of dirty things in Brazil not only in the politics and among other authorities-thinking on bribery

I'm watching as much as I can, ´cause its the Olympic and that's something special.

A few days ago I meet a turist from somewhere in Denmark. He told me his friend or was it a relative, who lived in Brazil according to this person, the people in Brazil are the most humble people he had met.

He told me about how the life in these poor "ghettoes" goes and how they had some "un-written" laws that almost everyone followed.

One of them was a person should never commit robbery against a poor
If he does he is hated and are haunted out of the area-if they find him.

I myself think it's time the IOC turn 180 degrees around and instead of countries apply for holdning a Olympic Games ,the IOC could take 10 candidates which complies with some strict rules.

When these 10 candidates who have been under supervision throughout a while, the IOC can pick 3 out of these 10 and send them a message if they would be interested in the host of the xxx Olympic games etc

Markus

[Platapus]

It might turn out to be a Catch 22

Any country that can run a proper Olympics is probably too smart to hold one. :D

[Jimbuna]

It might turn out to be a Catch 22

Any country that can run a proper Olympics is probably too smart to hold one. :D

True that :)

[mapuc]

It might turn out to be a Catch 22

Any country that can run a proper Olympics is probably too smart to hold one. :D

Today we have organisation that keeps an eye on every country in the world when it comes to human right stuff, bribery a.s.o a.s.o

My idea is IOC use these organisation to get a rightful picture of a coming candidate

In the end the IOC pick three candidate which can deny or say yes to hold the xxx Olympic games.
After each of these countries have said yes or no to this offer, the IOC makes the final decision and decide which of these 3 candidates should have the xxx Olympic games

I even have an idea of some kind of a money foundation which could give economical help to a country/town who have been chosen by the IOC.
A foundation each member of IOC pays to.

Markus

[Gerald]

Update,
http://www.bbc.com/sport/live/olympics/36772162

[Gerald]

Here Jim,http://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/36685698

[Gerald]

I do a Vendor here,http://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/rio-2016/medals/countries

:arrgh!:

[Gerald]

Update,
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2016/aug/08/rio-olympics-2016-day-three-adam-peaty-gold-michael-phelps-tom-daley-live

[Gerald]

Update,
http://www.reuters.com/subjects/rio-2016

[Gerald]

Update,
http://www.bbc.com/sport/live/olympics/36772166

[Tango589]

I prefer to watch the Paralympics any day. Anyone can be good at games with a fully working body, but to do the same with previously important body parts missing is far more impressive. The Channel 4 Superhumans advert blew my mind:https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&persist_app=1&v=IocLkk3aYlk

[Gerald]

What kind of link was that,broken...:hmmm:

[Tango589]

Works for me...:hmmm: However, look on YouTube for Paralympics superhuman 2016 and enjoy.

[Gerald]

I do,thanks!

[Jimbuna]

I prefer to watch the Paralympics any day. Anyone can be good at games with a fully working body, but to do the same with previously important body parts missing is far more impressive. The Channel 4 Superhumans advert blew my mind:https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&persist_app=1&v=IocLkk3aYlk

Aye, probably the best advert I've seen in a good while :sunny:

[Gerald]

Update,
http://www.reuters.com/subjects/rio-2016

[Gerald]

Update,
http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/rio-olympics-day?articleId=USRTSMBK0

[mapuc]

In the short notice news today on Olympic Games in Rio

I heard that a person from Tunisia and some other Muslim country refused to meet their opponent

Reason ? Their opponent came from Israel.

It made me sad when I heard that-It's sport not political or religious.

Markus

[Platapus]

In the short notice news today on Olympic Games in Rio

I heard that a person from Tunisia and some other Muslim country refused to meet their opponent

Reason ? Their opponent came from Israel.

It made me sad when I heard that-It's sport not political or religious.

Markus

That sounds like an interesting story, got a link to share?

[mapuc]

That sounds like an interesting story, got a link to share?

The first story seems to be a ongoing story-Made a search-Tunisian Olympic competitor refuse to meat Israel, and found it was a Tennis player made a new search and found that a Tunisian Tennis player named Jaziri had refused to meat a player from Israel, and that was back in 2013 the next story about the same person was about 3 hours old.

I know what I heard and read- Tunisian player refuse to meet a player from Israel.

Maybe a journalist have read it and thought that's interesting and posted it further. Not checking if the story is true or old.



The next story. is about a Saudi Arabian. This story seems reel have only found one notice about it.


http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/saudi-olympic-fighter-refuses-to-compete-against-israeli/article/2598872

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Any refusal should bring with it automatic consideration of disqualification.

[Platapus]

If these stories are true, I think it is grounds for immediate dismissal from the competition. If not already a rule, it should be a rule that if you agree to participate in the Olympics that you agree to participate against all other competitors in the same event.

No one is forcing anyone to be a participant in the Olympics.

What a stupid reason not to compete.

If a country wants to boycott the entire Olympics go for it. Childish nations have held boycotts before. But either you boycott the entire Olympics or a specific Olympic event or you play by the rules.

[mapuc]

Watching the Rugby 7 final

Oh man Great Britain is down by 29 point against Fiji

Markus

[mapuc]

If these stories are true, I think it is grounds for immediate dismissal from the competition. If not already a rule, it should be a rule that if you agree to participate in the Olympics that you agree to participate against all other competitors in the same event.

No one is forcing anyone to be a participant in the Olympics.

What a stupid reason not to compete.

If a country wants to boycott the entire Olympics go for it. Childish nations have held boycotts before. But either you boycott the entire Olympics or a specific Olympic event or you play by the rules.

The first story-the one about the Tunisian Tennis player-is NOT true the story goes back to 2013 and was in a Davis Cup match

The second seems legit though, could only find one link at google dated back to this Sunday(7 Aug)

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Watching the Rugby 7 final

Oh man Great Britain is down by 29 point against Fiji

Markus

Quite embarrassing really but GB were never expected to get as far as the final so, winning a silver medal is probably a bonus.

[Jimbuna]

One of the best stories to come out of these Olympics thus far :sunny:

Golden couple Laura Trott and Jason Kenny - who will marry in September - won historic cycling golds as Britain made Rio 2016 their most successful overseas Olympics with 50 medals.

Trott became Britain's most successful female Olympian with her fourth gold, in the omnium.

Kenny equalled Sir Chris Hoy's record of six GB golds by winning the keirin.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37102147

Another achievement being the fact that every member of the GB cycling team have won at least one medal :yeah:

[Jimbuna]

With five days to go, Rio 2016 is already Team GB’s most successful ever Games on foreign soil, beating the previous best of 48 in Beijing.

London 2012’s modern-day record of 65 medals is now firmly in Team GB’s sights.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2016/08/16/team-gb-look-for-medals-in-swimming-and-sailing---rio-olympics-2/

http://i.imgur.com/VdQhiOc.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/rio-2016/medals/countries/united-states#united-states

[Moonlight]

German and Aussie riders question the British cycling performances
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/cycling/team-gb-olympic-cycling-coach-8645005

[Jimbuna]

Sour grapes I would have thought. I wonder if the same questions are being asked of the rowers who consistently triumph over most.

[Gerald]

Update,day 12
http://www.reuters.com/subjects/rio-2016

[Jimbuna]

Ha! Spot the mistake (not unusual) from the link above when compared with the second picture below from the BBC website :nope:

http://i.imgur.com/za8RpRU.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/P1frmrW.jpg

[mapuc]

You may add 1 Gold and 1 Silver to what GB have won

Saw this happening some minutes ago in mens triathlon.

Markus

[Oberon]

Two US swimmers win silver in 'Smashing petrol station door' event:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-37115778

[Gerald]

@Jim Honestly I did not know which link was the sincerest link with vital and accurate information.:doh:

[Jimbuna]

@Jim Honestly I did not know which link was the sincerest link with vital and accurate information.:doh:

I'm not referring to you but more at the source as I suspect there is an element of resentment in some quarters at how well Team GB are performing (recent German and Australian comments are a good example).

[Jimbuna]

You may add 1 Gold and 1 Silver to what GB have won

Saw this happening some minutes ago in mens triathlon.

Markus

Yep, it just keeps getting better and better and with a few more yet to come in my estimation.

http://i.imgur.com/tuman5D.jpg

Two US swimmers win silver in 'Smashing petrol station door' event:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-37115778

I've no idea what they were thinking they could get away with :o

A real shame but no serious damage done and reparations have been made so bring them home (some already are) and try to move on.

[Gerald]

Having a gold medal placed around their neck while their national anthem is played is what we are told every athlete at the Olympic Games aspires to.
But with countries racing to be first in the medal table, some nations have decided that winning for winning's sake may just not be enough to induce athletes to give their all.
Some are offering cash bonuses to medal winners while others are offering incentives ranging from apartments to cars.
But who is getting how much varies wildly with Singapore promising a whopping $745,264 for a gold medal while Nigerian gold medallists will only get $2,000.


[Singapore: $745,264 one-off payment
Moldova: $132,000 one-off payment
Romania: $79,000 + monthly income for life
Malaysia: Cash bonus + $1,200 monthly payment for life
France: $55,000 one-off payment
Indonesia: $18,000-a-year "retirement plan"
Nigeria: $2,000 one-off payment



http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-37129276

Money, and Sports wanders slowly through the city. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0kcet4aPpQ:lurk:



Note: 8-19-16

[mapuc]

Count Denmark into this group

A Gold medal will give a bonus of 100.000 Danish Kroner(appr. 15200 $)

A Silver medal will give a bonus of 70.000 Danish Kroner(appr. 10600 $)
and
A Bronze medal will give a bonus of 50000 Danish Kroner(appr. 7600 $)

Wonder if Sweden has done the same- promised bonus the those who win a medal

Markus

[Gerald]

Actually, I think they get a certain amount, I heard it before, but doubtful that is,hundred thousand SWE crowns 100.000 (DKK which is 78 970):hmm2:

[mapuc]

Actually, I think they get a certain amount, I heard it before, but doubtful that is,hundred thousand SWE crowns 100.000 (DKK which is 78 970):hmm2:

No money bonus but

http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/os2016/article23290282.ab

It's a Swedish article.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Team GB are looking stronger by the day and are only four medals away from their highest ever total :sunny:

http://i.imgur.com/qFB2kl1.jpg

[Gerald]

Russian swimmer Yuliya Efimova tells BBC Sport being at the Rio Olympics was "awful" and "a war".

The 24-year-old won two silver medals in Rio but was booed by spectators and criticised by her rivals after she was allowed to compete, having initially been banned by the International Olympic Committee because of two failed drug tests.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/37146308

If you are or have been subject to possession of drugs or doping, maybe you see this with different eyes.

[Gerald]

NEW YORK (AP) — American swimmer Ryan Lochte said he over-exaggerated what happened at a Rio de Janeiro gas station and acknowledged it was his "immature behavior" that got him and three teammates into a mess that consumed the final days of the Olympics.
Lochte, in a portion of an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer that aired Saturday , continued backtracking from a story that he initially described as an armed robbery. Police have said the swimmers vandalized a bathroom after a night of partying and armed guards confronted them and asked them to pay for the damage.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Ryan-Lochte-says-immature-behavior-got-him-into-9175347.php

This event will have consequences for those involved, it is quite clear while the OS goes into the final day.



Note:Updated 3:44 am, Sunday, August 21, 2016

[STEED]

http://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/37146308

If you are or have been subject to possession of drugs or doping, maybe you see this with different eyes.

Don't worry in four years time the dope olympics will get the go ahead.

[Gerald]

Don't worry in four years time the dope olympics will get the go ahead. Very likely.

[Jimbuna]

Mo Farah successfully defended his Olympic 5,000m title in Rio as Great Britain won 66 medals to surpass their medal haul from London 2012.

Farah's victory added to his gold in the 10,000m as he repeated the distance double he won four years ago.

His medal was GB's 65th before bronze for the women in the 4x400m relay took Britain past the haul from London.

Wins for Nicola Adams and Liam Heath helped take GB's gold tally to 27 as they won six medals in all on Saturday.

Adams successfully defended her flyweight boxing title, while Heath won the kayak single 200m sprint on the penultimate day in Rio.

Farah, 33, is now the world's most successful distance runner in terms of major medals, with nine Olympic and world titles.

The final medal total will be at least 67, with boxer Joe Joyce guaranteed a gold or silver in Sunday's super-heavyweight final.

http://i.imgur.com/xupuyK7.jpg

[mapuc]

Don't worry in four years time the dope olympics will get the go ahead.

Throughout the day I have been thinking

Why not having two types of Olympics

1. Amateur Olympics-in this the Participants undergoes extreme doping control up to 6 month before the start of this Olympics NO professional allowed in this

2. Professional Olympics here it's free to use dope/drugs-The participant can drug them self to death if they so choice.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Rio Olympics 2016: Team GB beat China to finish second in medal table

Great Britain have finished second in the medal table at the Rio Olympics - above China for the first time.

China are one of the Games' dominant nations, winning more than 200 gold medals since returning in 1984.

Not bad for a tiny island :smug:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37085511

[Platapus]

Rio Olympics 2016: Team GB beat China to finish second in medal table



Not bad for a tiny island :smug:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37085511

If you keep up the good work, we might consider you for our 51st state. :D

[Skybird]

2. Professional Olympics here it's free to use dope/drugs-The participant can drug them self to death if they so choice.



"Bayerlympics" a German blogger called it. :D

---

Its remarkable how many atheletes called Rio the worst Olypmic games there have ever been. Transportation, hygienics, appartments, organisation - everything gets plenty and plenty fo Flak. Speaker of the German team, said she feels sorry for everybody for whom particpiation this time will have been the only appearance at Oylmpics in their career. Some said they would rather stay home then doing something like this again. Wowh. It really must have been bad then if you hear that from athletes.

And then the audience. The few occasions I zapped into it, the audience applauded like crazy when a Brazilian guy or girl was performing, which is like it is on many times in sports: audience supports home team, its okay - , but when somebody else in direct competition to Brazil stood up for his run, he was mercilessly boooed out and yelled down. That is unfair, shows a remakablew, obviously nation-wide lack of sportsmanship and fairplay, and is an additional offense to the Olympic spirit, additionally to the many the IOC and dopers have already signed in to.

Was not a fan of these games form start on, and am even much less now at the end.

Lets get done with this last day of closing it down, and forget about it. :down:

[Von Due]

Throughout the day I have been thinking

Why not having two types of Olympics

1. Amateur Olympics-in this the Participants undergoes extreme doping control up to 6 month before the start of this Olympics NO professional allowed in this

2. Professional Olympics here it's free to use dope/drugs-The participant can drug them self to death if they so choice.

Markus

I have been advocating this for years now. I have no interest in organised sports anymore because of all the cheating, corruption, blackmailing etc etc in just about every sport there is. I have to admit though that anyone fit enough to dope him/herself to the level of road race cyclists is worthy of a medal. That takes years of dedication and training just to survive.

[Oberon]

There's also a third category which is coming soon, the enhanced Olympics, or Augmented Olympics if people prefer the Deus Ex approach.
Due to take place in October this year, should be interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybathlon

[Von Due]

There's also a third category which is coming soon, the enhanced Olympics, or Augmented Olympics if people prefer the Deus Ex approach.
Due to take place in October this year, should be interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybathlon

That will be the backstory for the next Terminator movie

[Gerald]

The Rio Olympics ended with a spectacular carnival-inspired closing ceremony, and the official handover to 2020 hosts Tokyo.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/37150572

In Tokyo,they got improve the doping security so states can be winner,without some mess.:shucks:




Note: 8-22-2016

[Jimbuna]

Poor closing ceremony IMHO but didn't this small island do well :sunny:

[Gerald]

^Yes,UK they did a great performance.:up: