Olympics

[Erni]

Instead of sports they are rehashing globular warmering. Time to change channels.

[KestrelBike]

This article said it best: http://www.pagunblog.com/2016/08/03/...shooting-snub/
[found it via thegunfeed.com. Am I allowed to just copy/paste the article? Mods, apologies if that's a no-no]

USA Shooting has been pitching the story of Kim Rhode to mainstream media because she’s broken some pretty unique Olympic records during her years of competing. She’s the only American to win individual medals in five straight Olympics – only American at all, not just the only American shooter. Her presence in Rio also makes her the only American Olympian to compete on 5 continents. Beyond American records, she is the only woman to win three Olympic golds in shooting.

In addition to holding records, she’s overcome challenges that many Olympians would find it hard to overcome – like having her specialized sport discontinued and being forced to take up a new one. Her prized equipment was stolen at one point. Yet she makes news for keeping such an upbeat attitude about her sport and life’s many challenges.
With these kinds of records, this news story from May highlighted that the US Olympic team members have never recognized Kim Rhode with the honor of carrying the American flag during opening or closing ceremonies.

Instead, news came today that US swimmer Michael Phelps will carry the flag. He was chosen because he has won multiple medals in various swimming sports that are largely just swimming different distances in the same discipline. Oh, and the other headlines he has generated for the US Olympic team include an underage DUI arrest to which he pled guilty and being photographed with drug paraphernalia. And then there’s the second DUI arrest since he apparently didn’t learn the first time. As this article notes, after every single medal-winning games Phelps has competed in, he follows up with headline-making illegal activities.
Sure, let’s choose that guy because he holds an Olympic record to represent the United States in the ceremonies.

That said, I’m going to try and watch the Olympic shooting events if I can figure out how to stream it. (I think the NBC sports channel on Roku may have all the sports airing if I have read things correctly.) It’s a fairly minor show of support, but our Olympic shooters could probably use a little more support.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Man some weird sports come out of the woodwork during the olympics.

[drew890]

USA won the first gold medal of this years olympics. Not that it will be reported nor celebrated; it was in 10m air rifle. Those dangerous guns are ruining lives again...

[wyome]

I want the HD video projection system they used in the opening ceremonies....

Oh yah...air rifle medal

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/olym...YLS?li=BBnb7Kz

[Gman]

USA won the first gold medal of this years olympics. Not that it will be reported nor celebrated; it was in 10m air rifle. Those dangerous guns are ruining lives again...

They actually had it on the MSN home page. Found it funny that they left "Shooter" out of the headline on the home page.
Teen shooter wins USA's first gold medal of Games

Enjoyed the Brazilians claiming to have the first manned flight during the opening ceremonies. The discussion of that tidbit was quite entertaining.
Brazil claims the first flight, Americans on Twitter disagree

Loved this comment;

Oh yes, the Brazilians are taking credit for the first flight. I love passive aggressive spectacle

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

USA won the first gold medal of this years olympics. Not that it will be reported nor celebrated; it was in 10m air rifle. Those dangerous guns are ruining lives again...

It was on TV, briefly. They showed the rifle, target graphic, and the podium.
I'm not into this much myself, but I'm on babysitting duty this am and watching the road race.

[Gman]

Screw the Olympics. IOC is worse than any big corporation or commie regime.

It's like the sports wing of the UN.

[HoneyBadger]

I stopped watching after the first 2 minutes of save the Earth, tree-hugging, global warming, politically correct bullshit.

[SamuraiCO]

Meh