What a ripoff.

[Diabolical]

I'd match 'em stroke for stroke.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

We were discussing the fact that China and the USA are neck and neck for grabbing up medals, and way ahead of every other country.
But considering that 1 out of every 3 people in the world is Chinese, they've got a tremendously large talent pool to cull medalists from. The US is doing the same amount of medaling with 1/10th the assets.
So, fuck you China. We're more efficient, bitches.
And then we got to wondering why India doesn't have any medals? Between them and China that's like 90% of the world population or something.

[anarky]

I root for the US and all, but, realistically, we're one of the few countries (if not the only one) that gets corporate sponsors for our athletes to do nothing but train for four years.

[Negative Boy]

I root for the US and all, but, realistically, we're one of the few countries (if not the only one) that gets corporate sponsors for our athletes to do nothing but train for four years.

Unlike the Chinese, whose athletes get no help from anybody. Especially their commie government stooges. And probably that child molesting bitch, Oprah. She totally roots against the USA. Bitch.

[Newsbot]

LONDON – Chinese diver Wu Minxia's celebrations at winning a third Olympic gold medal were cut short after her family revealed the details of a devastating secret they had kept for several years.

Wu's parents decided to withhold news of both the death of her grandparents and of her mother's long battle with breast cancer until after she won the 3-meter springboard in London so as to not interfere with her diving career.
"It was essential to tell this white lie," said her father Wu Yuming.

The story of Wu's family secret has generated huge discussion in China, where the pursuit of success has been chased by the government-backed sports national sports program with unshakeable zeal over the past two decades.
Now there seems to be a backlash against the win-at-all-costs mentality after the revelations about Wu followed fierce criticism from a national newspaper when a 17-year-old weightlifter failed to medal.

In China, athletes are often taken away from their families at a young age and placed in specialist training schools where they practice for hours every day. Wu began training daily at a diving camp at the age of 6. By the time she was 16, she had left home to be installed in a government aquatic sports institute.

She has become one of her sport's all-time greats, but her father says the success has come at a high price to her personal life.
"We accepted a long time ago that she doesn't belong entirely to us," Wu Yuming told the Shanghai Morning Post. "I don't even dare to think about things like enjoying family happiness."

Wu's mother defended the decision to keep her situation private and admitted she only broached the subject of her breast cancer at this point because she is now in remission. Both of Wu's grandparents died more than a year ago, but the diver knew nothing of their passing until this week.

The Chinese government's attitude towards the performances of its athletes is now coming under greater scrutiny than ever before. Messages of congratulations from the government to athletes through the state news agency have been sent only to gold medalists, not those winning silver or bronze.

"It is too narrow to look at the Olympics purely through the prism of medals," said an editorial in the China Business News publication. "It is also about sweat, tears, hardships … peace, freedom, and justice."

However, while China continues to dominate the medal table it is unlikely there will be any significant shift in a system that is regarded with pride within Chinese political circles.

[Negative Boy]

That article makes no mention of China's policy of taking Olympic athletes who have outlived their usefulness out back and shooting them. There's only so much rice to go around after all. Mitt Romney is totally awesome for wanting to start a war with those little asshole. And we'll totally win. We got the gold medals in shooting!!

[RoIIo Tomassi]

Watching the Track&Field stuff on TV.
I just noticed, how strange is it that they're still using big 8x11 sheets of paper and giant ass safety pins on the sprinters? It's 2012 for petes sake. You think technology would've contributed something a little more compact and ergonomic. I mean, the paper their numbers are on are bigger than the little sports bra and undie outfits the runners wear nowadays. I would find a paper edge scraping my bare skin annoying if I was hurtling down the track at 35 mph.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

I think this is a fantastic commercial. And bonus points for having Bane narrate it.

[Tom Foolery]

They should make jousting an Olympic event.

If they can have those stuffy boring ass Equestrian events, jumping over fences and shit, they can certainly have two guys armored up and charging each other with pointed sticks. That would rock balls.

Who do we call to make that happen? That French dude?