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

[MikelArteta]

I mean...its not sll over technically, There is the paralympics after the Olympics...

I feel kinda bad for the Paralympians tbh, its probably gonna be absolutely dead in all the arenas. Never gonna match the atmosphere they got in London

 

[MikelArteta]

nah this was a excellent olympics, Phelps, ledecky, Simone Manuel, Simone biles, us gymnastics. Brazil judo and pole vaukt winning gold, Brazil soccer winning gold. Usain bolt, Allyson felix, farah repeating. Mens basketball almost losing a few games, us boxing, world records being set in the 400m. Andre Degresse. The 100m hurdle women race, bolt v gatlin

I enjoyed every day, and sad it will be gone

These Olympics have been weak to me a few moments of history but blah overall, I have a feeling Tokyo is going to be epic and no empty arenas

 

[El Bombi]

Lochte still out here lying to our faces expecting us to believe him......This dude should be in jail in Brazil somewhere. Then maybe he would get the point.

At this point. Who still gives a fukk tho.

 

[DlAMONDZ]

From having a large portion of the world under their control, to celebrating coming in 2nd in the medal count


Great Britain fell the fukk off

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

breh the reg Olympic attendance was putrid

Para Olympics might just be family n coaches

Might not even be coaches there with the budget cuts

Rio Paralympics 2016: Games to go ahead with major budget cuts

The Paralympic Games will take place as planned next month, but face major budget cuts, the International Paralympic Committee has announced.

The cuts will be made to venues, the workforce and transport.

Delayed travel grants will now be paid to athletes, but 10 countries may struggle to get teams to Rio.

"Never before in the 56-year history of the Paralympic Games have we faced circumstances like this," said IPC president Sir Philip Craven.

With 19 days to the start of the Games, the IPC says Rio's organising committee has not raised enough money to fund the Paralympics.

This is due to Brazil's struggling economy and the fact that only 12% of available tickets have so far been sold for the Games, which start on 7 September.

It meant organisers were three weeks late in paying 8m euros (£7m) in travel grants to help athletes get to Rio.

But Rio's mayor Eduardo Paes has secured an additional £36m of funding and £24m in sponsorship from state-run companies after an injunction was lifted that had blocked further state aid for the Games.

 

[Chrishaune]

At this point. Who still gives a fukk tho.

Nobody, but we'll see this dude doing interviews and still making money the next few years like nothing happened. Had he been black though.....

 

[Roid Jones]

Y'all even seeing the closing ceremony yet

 

[MikelArteta]

wow only 12percent

Might not even be coaches there with the budget cuts

Rio Paralympics 2016: Games to go ahead with major budget cuts

 

[MikelArteta]

wow only 12percent

Might not even be coaches there with the budget cuts

Rio Paralympics 2016: Games to go ahead with major budget cuts

 

[MikelArteta]

Don't care to watch

Thankfully, college football, NFL, world cup of hockey, premiership gonna feed me the next month

Y'all even seeing the closing ceremony yet

 

[Wacky D]

It just hit me. I feel sad inside now that it's all over.

yea but I'm all olympic'ed out.

and I'm all sex'd out too. the Olympics be having me walking around with a pitched tent.

 

[ThaBronxBully]

I'm Watching For The Reflective Recaps

 

[Jaylen Tatum]

watching the closing ceremony on the nbc app. the france team wildin

 

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[Jaylen Tatum]