Olympics

[KestrelBike]

http://www.breitbart.com/california/...a-gun-control/
Kim Rhode comes out swinging again, speaking about the bullshit CA laws that were just passed.

[rfizzle]

First gold of the games go to USA in 10m Air Rifle, plus her name is Virginia Thrasher.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/06/sp...inia-thrasher/

[Gman]

Stray bullet finds its way into Rio media tent at equestrian center

Things continue to go exceptionally well at Rio, if you disregard the stray bullets making their way into media tents.

For reasons that remain unclear, a bullet landed in the media tent near the equestrian center in Rio on Saturday. No one was injured, but it still provided for a rather unsettling visual.

[wctriumph]

I was late to work the other morning because I watched 19 year old Virginia Thrasher smoke the Chinese in the 10 meter air rifle event. She was amazing and what a great win it was.

USA USA USA USA USA!!!

[BladesNBarrels]

Screw the Olympics. IOC is worse than any big corporation or commie regime. Been messed up since the start. In 1936 and they "removed" Jews from the German games because they didn't want to upset Hitler! They make billions, give the athletes dick, and ruin the host city. The Olympics also legitimizes bad governments- Putin, China, Brazil, etc. Seen enough McDonalds and VISA ads in my life. Better things to do than watch the idiot box.

Well, Dick Lamm must have agreed with your opinion.......
"In 1972, as a member of the Colorado General Assembly, Lamm led the movement against Denver's hosting of the 1976 Winter Olympics. Denver had already been awarded the games, but the movement succeeded in cutting off public funding for the games, forcing the city to cancel its hosting. Innsbruck, Austria replaced Denver as the host. Lamm's successful effort made him known statewide"

I had already found a place for a hot dog stand on I-70 for the fans heading to the ski events to make my first million $
That sure did not work out

[hobowh]

I avoid the olymics like the plague. If I wanted to watch professional athletes pretending to be armatures I would watch the NFL

[Jer]

I avoid the olymics like the plague. If I wanted to watch professional athletes pretending to be armatures I would watch the NFL

How do NFL players pretend to be amateurs?

[KestrelBike]

cocks. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...m-usa-shooters

When Team USA’s Kim Rhode won a bronze medal in skeet shooting Friday, she claimed a piece of Olympic history: the 37-year-old Californian became the first woman to take the podium in six straight Olympics.
Landing a big-name sponsor might be the bigger feat. In the year leading up to Rio 2016, Rhode’s agent Patrick Quinn pitched her to around 20 companies that back the Olympics. None were convinced.
“The big mystery is how someone like Kim isn’t part of the Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, and the Olympics sponsor push,’’ Quinn said by phone from Chicago.“It would be nice to have an Olympic sponsor recognize the magnitude of her accomplishment.’’

Coca-Cola Co. didn’t respond to a request for comment, and Procter & Gamble Co.’s spokesperson Damon Jones said in an e-mail the company receives hundreds of sponsorship requests so it must be selective. Rhode and other shooters on Team USA think the reason they’re passed over is obvious. The rise in gun violence and mass shootings in the US have attached a stigma to shooting as a sport, they say. So while companies like Winchester, Beretta and Otis Technology support Rhode, she doesn’t have a single sponsor from outside the firearm industry.
The same is true for USA Shooting, even though the sport has since 2000 been the fifth-highest medal producer for the US team at Summer Olympics. The very first gold medal for any sport awarded in Rio went to 19-year-old Ginny Thrasher, competing in her Olympics debut.
Politics may only tell part of the story. American television audiences don’t tend to watch
shooting – or, for that matter, a number of other sports. “The biggest challenge is limited exposure,” said Peter Carlisle, head of the Olympic Sports and Action division at Octagon Worldwide. “If the sport itself doesn’t provide a consistent platform for the athletes to become recognizable and maintain relevance, there’s limited value to a sponsor.”
What’s more, noted Scott Becher, the executive vice president of sports and entertainment at Zimmerman Advertising, a lot of Americans own firearms, so the potential affinity exists.

A Costly Sport

The difference for shooters is the cost of training. Competition-level firearms price between $8,000-20,000. Between ammunition, clay pigeons and range fees, a day of training can run as high as $450. “It really adds up,’’ said Vincent Hancock, one of Rhode’s teammates. “I’ve only found two sports that are more expensive -- anything to do with a horse, and car racing.’’
The US Olympic Committee helps foot the bill. Because of shooting’s high potential to medal, USA Shooting received $2.5 million in 2015, third-most among summer sports behind swimming and track and field. Still, the ammunition provided by the federation doesn’t always cover athlete’s needs. The day before departing for Rio, for example, Rhode shot 450 targets, she said.
Similar Challenges

As for Hancock, on Saturday he will attempt to win a gold medal in his third consecutive Olympics for skeet shooting. Even as one of the sport’s favorites, Hancock still struggles to prevail upon potential backers who aren’t tied in some way to the firearm industry.
“A lot of times they say, well, we really like you, you’re great and your credentials speak for themselves, but we’re not sure how we can really fit you in,’’ Hancock said. “It seems like they want to, but don’t want to get caught up in the media backlash that may arise if something were to come about with, say, one of the shootings.’’
Shooters in other countries have faced similar challenges. Even in Italy, where the national shooting federation claims about 500,000 members – its U.S. counterpart has about 5,250 – the team struggled to transcend sponsors’ fears about firearms.
“You talk about rifles and pistols and people are afraid, especially in Europe with the recent terrorism,’’ said Luciano Rossi, an Italian senator who is also president of the country’s shooting federation, and also vice-president of the international shooting federation. “We must offer a new image of our sport. If the spectators know our sport, they understand and love us, and if they love us, the sponsors come.’’

[hurley842002]

How do NFL players pretend to be amateurs?

I'm still waiting for the answer to this question..

[BushMasterBoy]

My favorite sport is the Brazilian wax.