ugh, and here go the open water swimmers, but they are in the “safer” “less polluted” water, whatever that means. And good news… the jellyfish are manageable. (insert sarcasm here)
They also just said the dock is no longer in place. Doesn’t sound safe to me.
As far as the Ryan Lochte incident… he may have created the gun on the forehead part due to his not listening to the robbers instructions:
"They pulled out their guns, they told the other swimmers to get down on the ground – they got down on the ground. I refused, I was like we didn’t do anything wrong, so – I’m not getting down on the ground.
"And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, ‘Get down,’ and I put my hands up, I was like ‘whatever.’
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/14/sport/us-swimmers-ryan-lochte-robbed-rio-olympics/
Really? You could have been shot because you did nothing wrong? Wow. Something I always tell the kids when going out late at night- don’t be a hero. If someone demands your wallet and money- give it to them. It can be replaced- you can’t. Guess Ryan’s mom never told him that? sheesh. 
@ChuckleDoodle - because they presented themselves as police, with a badge. He wondered why police were ordering him to the ground when he had just been minding his own business riding in a cab. Frankly, I have the same kind of maybe prickly personality so may have initially done the same thing. It wasn’t until they pointed the gun at him that he realized it was a robbery and they were not real cops.
You guys have to check out the latest Usain Bolt memes! I am ROFL! Not sure I can link any of these… Just google! There are plenty. 
My favorite ones are him running with Scooby Doo and “Just Usain Bolt… Out for a morning jog.”
I am in stitches. 
One of my favorite athletes is Fu Yuanhui from China. 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fu-yuanhui-candid-period-comment-is-wonderfully-relatable_us_57b205f5e4b071840412397b?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fu-yuanhui-olympics_us_57aa0ecae4b0ba7ed23da025
Ohio’s Clayton Murphy! Bronze Medal 800 meters.
That women’s 400 - a dive at the end is fair game?! Sure looked like Felix’s FEET landed across the line first.
They are saying it’s the first torso over the line. You’re running with your feet - shouldn’t that be what counts?!
I think the rule is the chest has to cross, the dive worked.
I think I’ll do that at my next road race! Lolo Jones says a dive can help but if you dive too early it costs you a step and hurts.
Has always been torso. Runners know that. Have never seen a dive like that for a win. Bet we see more of that from here on out. Like to see it analyzed on ESPN’s Sports Science segment.
Have you seen this before? It just seems like a cheap shot to me. I wasn’t invested in anyone in particular for the race - just happened to turn to the station when the race was starting so watched it - just rubs me the wrong way!!
Those are the rules. Some times it works. Some times it doesn’t. In the 72 Olympics, the Soviet Arzhanov did a dive similar to that but lost to Dave Wottle who was running “faster” than the “dive”. In retrospect I think it would only work if you could see the front runner was tieing up.
I think it is all about strategy like in swimming - some make a short stroke at the finish and some glide into the wall. Sometimes, gliders are faster.
The 2 certainties in life: death & taxes
I would expect that cash payments for winning medals would be taxable. But its more interesting to me that the value of the metals in the medals is also taxable income. US citizens are taxed on worldwide income.
One of the few countries that does this with ex-pats and the reason that so many have renounced their U.S. citizenship.
Dives at the finish line are perfectly legal but difficult to do. Often they are mistimed and the diver loses. And this is the second time in recent weeks that Felix has lost a close contest on a dive. At the US Olympic trials in July Felix lost out on the third and last spot on the team for the 200m to a diving Jenna Prandini. The dive earned Prandini the spot by 0.01 seconds. See pic:
And in all the decades I’ve been watching track the rule has always been torso across the finish line, not head or arms or legs. And since breasts are considered to be part of the torso you occasionally see very close women’s races, where the athletes are all leaning for the tape, basically being decided by who had bigger boobs. Kinda give a whole new meaning to the notion of being nipped at the wire.