So much for harassment by embarrassed Rio authorities!
What an embarrassment for the U.S. swim team. And for someone to suggest that we give these ‘kids’ a break is ridiculous. Instead, they should be offering apologies all around to the Rio authorities.
Given that when 12 year olds travel to compete in sporting events, they are instructed to be good representatives of their team/school, there is no excuse. It is unfortunate that this taints USA swimming. I am guessing there will be consequences, though not sure it will be a lifetime ban. I can’t believe any company will want Lochte’s endorsement. A sad ending to an outstanding swim career. Lochte was never the sharpest tool in the shed.
Now he is definitely the dullest.
Only 32 year olds who are entitled and privileged can be referred to as “kids” so as to get a pass or a simply slap on the wrist. I have read of other incidents where 16 and 17 years olds are called adults.
I said on page 18 that I thought Ryan Lochte was dumber than a bag of bricks. Thanks Ryan for proving my point.
Changing the sport, gold medal for a great young man in shot put!
Go Longhorns!
I’m tearing up.
A mark of a true champion: “I wanted to run faster” after winning a gold medal.
" Ryan Lochte is the dumbest bell that ever rang. The 32-year-old swimmer is so landlocked in juvenility that he pulled an all-nighter with guys young enough to call him uncle. His story to NBC’s Billy “what-are-you-wearing” Bush had the quality of a kid exaggerating the size of a fish, and notice how he was the hero of every detail. That was always the most dubious, implausible part."
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I am in awe of the decatheletes! To be proficient in 10 events is so difficult and Ashton Eaton excelled in nearly every event.
I watched several of the events of the decathlon on my iPad. NBC had the same political ad before every pole vault attempt. Fifty plus repetitions of the same ad is annoying more than effective.
Sure hope Ryan Lochte’s Mom reams him out because his lie to Mom mushroomed into a mess for everyone.
Lol, coralbrook! I sure hope, too! I can imagine how that lie unfolded…
-“Ugh, mommmm… I need some money.”
-“Something happened?”
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Today’s lesson for CC parents and kids - don’t lie to your mom. She will create an international incident and harm diplomatic relations.
Of course he deserves the $25k per gokd medal. He earned it.
What’s REALLY going to sting is losing all the sponsorship deals…
He forfeited the $25k away in my opinion. He’s probably cost the USOC at least that much with his behavior.
Come to think of it, Lochte would be perfect for Las Vegas commercials:
“What goes on in Vegas stays in Vegas…”
This Lochte incidence reminds me of the behaviour of the US ice hockey player or players that trashed the hotel room after being beaten by the Czech republic and Dominic Hasek some years back.
I am waiting for the badminton match between Lee Chong Wei and Lin Dan. Will be curious what the viewing audience will be like around the globe. I am sure China, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, among others, will be glued to the match.
Glade to see India will be playing for a gold against a woman from Spain. Good for the sport. I am always a bit shock to see how poorly India performs in the Olympics.
The Chinese continues to collapse. They were all out in women’s single, double, and mixed double with only a bronze for their effort. If Malaysia is ever going to beat them, this is the year.
Hard to believe it was only 4 years ago that China swept all the gold …
Has anyone noticed the GE jet engine commercials running during the Olympics? I can’t figure out what they’re trying to sell. My best guess is that they’re either recruitment or rebranding spots because they show a woman working on a jet engine talking to a visiting family, but I don’t really know.
Their last one was odd too. Something about a young guy who excitedly told his family he was going to be working at GE like his grandfather did (except doing technological things, I think) and they bought him a hammer. It seems like rebranding, but I think they risk offending people if the public interprets them as being at the expense of the others in the spots (the ignorant family with the hammer, the visiting family with the inquisitive son). What am I missing?
@austinmshauri, One word: Recruitment. They are probably doing it so that software engineers and other ‘techy’ folk think about GE. The old mainline Fortune 50 and Fortune 100 companies are competing against the go-go-Silcon valley for these positions. It started almost a decade ago when I worked in an old mainline Fortune 50 company headquartered in the midwest…hard as heck to recruit…and it has really never stopped and if anything it has gotten more competitive now that the economy has picked up. So it is a branding campaign but I’d bet money the driving business strategy is recruitment.