The Official 2016 Olympics thread: Medals Are For the Elite but Zika is For Everybody

[Egomaniacal1]

This brazil vs Cacnada volleyball is lit and entertaining

Dudes tagging each other with spikes to the head and chest and shyt

 

[the artist known az]

Before I think

 

[Arris]

this brazil canada game is tense

 

[JarrodG]

I remember when I first saw Shawn Johnson do gymnastics...God I thirst so hard for her.

 

[jackswstd]

I don't know why people are saying Laurie looks weird, she's a beautiful girl and those eyes are something else.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I think they was playing Imma boss too

I swore they were too

 

[CBSkyline]

This light skin chick on team USA head and chin look like one of them cartoon crescent moons from the side

 

[Malta]

These little girls are incredible athletes.

 

[El Bombi]

So, is Gabby Douglas already status?

 

[Jesus]

Why the fukk isn't Gabby the gymnastics captain?

 

[tru_m.a.c]

What the hell is that on Phelps?

Looked like scars from surgery but I don't know if he's ever had surgery or injuries

It's from this pseudoscience massage therapy called "Cupping"

Cupping is a prescientific, premodern medical practice based in the philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that involves sticking cups on a patient’s skin under suction n order to make them better. Basically, cupping involves heating the air inside of a cup and placing the inverted cup on some part of the body. Thanks to the wonders of physics, as the air in the cup cools, it contracts and produces a vacuum, which produces suction. (Physics geeks, I know that’s a highly simplified explanation. Just go with it.) As is the case with acupuncture, in TCM it is believed that disease is due to blockages or incorrect flow of qi, which is the TCM equivalent of the “vital force” or “life energy.” Acupuncture posits that by sticking needles into specific points in “meridians” through which qi flows the flow of qi can be unblocked. Cupping is much like acupuncture in that it, too, claims that it unblocks and realigns qi, thereby restoring health.

What’s the harm? Cupping edition

 

[the artist known az]

I don't know why people are saying Laurie looks weird, she's a beautiful girl and those eyes are something else.

It's the mouth chin area

 

[The War Report]

These little girls are incredible athletes.

These chicks were born in the year 2000.

 

[315]

Gymnast chicks be having those tailback necks

 

[King Jove]

That's my black excellence bedwench gawdess