What If They Awarded Olympic Medals for Finishing in Last?
Instead of gold, silver and bronze, The Wall Street Journal awarded lead, tin and zinc medals to the Olympians who clunked home in last place
http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-if-they-awarded-olympic-medals-for-finishing-in-last-1471817168
Lol, Team USA also made the “top” 5 countries of this list
In the end, Stanford had the most medals of any US college this time, with 27. USC and Cal tied for second with 21 each.
But this fact is amazing… even if the U.S.A. did not exist as a country, the Pac-12 alone could have won the medal count. I.E. - the Pac-12 had more overall medals than any country other than the U.S.A.
Truly exceptional!
And the sponsors separating from Lochte begins…
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/08/22/490936035/speedo-cancels-its-sponsorship-deal-with-ryan-lochte?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160822
“Beijing again? Really? Does it even snow there?”
What does this mean? The winter Olympics are not in Beijing, but in Korea.
2022 Winter Olympics are in Beijing. I assume that is what the poster was referring to.
Yes I was. It’s very sad. Sochi wasn’t very snowy and now someone here says the Korean winter olympics will be all artificial snow.
The IOC should have picked Almaty for the 2022 winter games… Maybe the IOC is not fond of the real snow and sub-freezing temperatures?
Some would have argued the pro basketball team shouldn’t have taken up the invitation…especially those from the school of thought that the Olympics should be a competition between amateur athletes. This likely rankled some pre-
80’s US athletes in many other sports who were forced by that old rule to give up competing in the Olympics once they went pro.
However, the ship has sailed long before the 1980’s considering other countries, notoriously those in the Combloc states effectively used “pro” athletes who dedicated their entire time towards training and practicing their sport rather than the original idea of the amateur having a day job and training on his/her off-time for the Olympics.
It’s also a bit hypocritical considering how much money the IOC gets from running these games, the infamous corruption uncovered at the top levels of the IOC…including the last few years, the large salaries paid to the top officials and favored staff to run or sometimes just to attend the games, getting into the act of cashing in on increasing commercialization of the Olympics ranging from ads to initiating a 24/7 “Olympic channel”, etc.
What is poor Ryan Lochte going to do for a living? Seriously, he had swimming and his looks. I hope his mother made him invest most of the endorsement money that he has already earned.
If there is a dialogue to be had with our teens/young adults (other than to never lie to your mother!), it’s on the dangers of doing stupid things while drunk. In my area, over the last year there have been two young men - one in his teens and one on his 21st birthday, one African American, one Caucasian, each shot and killed by cops while engaging in vandalism while incredibly drunk or high. Neither had priors, likely neither would have received jail time for the vandalism, but each guy was so out of control due to intoxication that the cops said they felt threatened and now those young men are dead. Ryan is lucky to be safe and sound in the US.
But Ryan Lochte isn’t in his teens or early 20s. He’s 32 years old and should’ve learned the dangers of doing stupid things while drunk a long time ago. I can’t help but wonder how many other times his boorish behavior has been excused/covered up so that he’s never learned that lesson.
As an elite swimmer for so long, this was hardly his first time in a foreign country where he didn’t speak the language. That, and too much alcohol, are not valid excuses for what happened.
LeBron James is 31 years old. Can you imagine if he’d done what Lochte did and tried to use the ‘young and stupid’ defense?
“A Brazilian judge says police might have been hasty in determining the security guards, by how they dealt with the swimmers, did not commit a robbery.”
I happened to catch Carmelo Anthony’s interview after the US team win yesterday. He was really getting choked up about this being his last Olympics, playing for the US and getting to be team captain for his third gold medal. He alluded to challenges and work to still do in America, but that he was glad he got to represent the US on the biggest stage there is for his game. I thought that was a great moment.
Overall, Brazil did great. As always, some kinks in the system, but a wonderful couple of weeks. Highlights to me were, of course, the US Gymnastics women, Phelps, Simone Manuel and other swimmers, Neymar winning gold for Brazil, and the little moments of joy on winners in less visible sports - a woman cyclist, the shooter who won the first US gold, the fencers.
Here’s a hilarious review by John Oliver on Ryan Lochte’s adventures. There’s a bit of NSFW language but he definitely nails it. I never realized how truly stupid the guy was until I saw these clips.
https://youtu.be/VU3zuK7Zmrk
Maybe he can be on a season of Dancing With the Stars or some other B list reality shows?
Do they still make No Excuse Jeans?
@WWWard According to the Pac-12’s own accounting, it would have finished 5th in the medal count if it were nation, not 2nd. Still an amazing performance.
http://pac-12.com/article/2016/08/21/2016-olympics-pac-12-rio-olympics-quick-facts
Obviously Lochte and the other swimmers behaved badly, but if Mama Lochte had not sounded off to the NBC reporter, would anyone have known about it? The lesson here for our kids is about responsible behavior and consequences to our actions. But the lesson for the parents is not to make our kids’ business public. Here, on Facebook, or with the national press.
Amen, Sister!
But presumably with few exceptions here, our kids are not public figures. Not true with Lockte.
And maybe Ryan shouldn’t have lied to his mama. 