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    The 2016 Rio Olympic Games - anyone excited?




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    Yes!

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    Yes!

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    no

    other than tradition sports like swimming, track and field the rest garbage

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    I like the female swimming and diving. Not sure why I'm drawn to those....

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    Could be a terrorist attack

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    I hope not but big events always dangerous i wouldnt go

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    Quote Originally Posted by VeggieDog View Post
    I like the female swimming and diving. Not sure why I'm drawn to those....
    The big shoulders obv..

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    Great video.

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    Land of the free

    NBC to delay showing Olympics opening ceremony in US to 'edit' content

    <time class="date date_article-header">Published time: 13 Jul, 2016 11:06</time>

    © AFP


    NBC has come under fire after confirming the opening ceremony for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics won't be shown live in the United States.
    Rio de Janeiro's time zone is just one hour ahead of the East Coast of the United States, but the network has said it will delay screening by an hour so it can give "context" to the show.
    The ceremony will be televised and streamed online on a delayed basis starting at 8pm Eastern, while broadcasts in other regions will have staggered start times.
    NBC hasn't aired a summer games opening ceremony live since Atlanta 1996 and fans have been quick to voice their displeasure at the decision.
    NBC Olympics Executive Producer Jim Bell, who made the official decision to not broadcast the event live, defended the move.
    "First of all, it's not a sports competition, it's a ceremony that requires deep levels of understanding all the various camera angles and meanings for the host country, and our commentary laid over it," said Bell.
    "So our announcers, when the Parade of Nations comes in, are talking about the athletes. Plus, again, we talked about prime time being important. It is still when most people can watch.

    NBC Sports executive producer Jim Bell. © Reuters
    "I can't speak for anybody here, but I think that for most people, it's fair to say that after 8 o'clock is a time when most people can watch TV. Six, seven are okay, but still a little bit on the early side.





    "I don't think any decisions come without risk of heat. Inevitably, there are going to be people who are going to want something, and people who are going to want something else.
    "You have to make decisions that you think are best for your audience, and for the advertisers, and for your business. This one was not difficult."
    NBC were heavily criticized for their coverage of opening ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Olympics after editing an anti-discrimination statement from International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.
    The network altered Bach's speech to remove several paragraphs that commended Russia for hosting the Olympics, as well as promoting a message of fair play and harmony.
    Bach emphasized the possibility of competitors “living together under one roof in harmony, with tolerance and without any form of discrimination for whatever reason,” but this was not broadcast and fans were not pleased.
    NBC also edited the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony to remove an emotional tribute to the 52 victims of the July 7, 2005, terrorist attacks in London.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VeggieDog View Post
    I like the female swimming and diving. Not sure why I'm drawn to those....
    THey are real Olympic sports

    not golf, nba hoops, tennis

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    good thing dustin johnson withdrew he might now have ever made it back to the states

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    Quote Originally Posted by CWD View Post
    good thing dustin johnson withdrew he might now have ever made it back to the states
    Prolly get lost in Columbia, before he ever made it to Brazil...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Russian Rocket View Post
    Land of the free

    NBC to delay showing Olympics opening ceremony in US to 'edit' content



    © AFP


    NBC has come under fire after confirming the opening ceremony for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics won't be shown live in the United States.
    Rio de Janeiro's time zone is just one hour ahead of the East Coast of the United States, but the network has said it will delay screening by an hour so it can give "context" to the show.
    The ceremony will be televised and streamed online on a delayed basis starting at 8pm Eastern, while broadcasts in other regions will have staggered start times.
    NBC hasn't aired a summer games opening ceremony live since Atlanta 1996 and fans have been quick to voice their displeasure at the decision.
    NBC Olympics Executive Producer Jim Bell, who made the official decision to not broadcast the event live, defended the move.
    "First of all, it's not a sports competition, it's a ceremony that requires deep levels of understanding all the various camera angles and meanings for the host country, and our commentary laid over it," said Bell.
    "So our announcers, when the Parade of Nations comes in, are talking about the athletes. Plus, again, we talked about prime time being important. It is still when most people can watch.

    NBC Sports executive producer Jim Bell. © Reuters
    "I can't speak for anybody here, but I think that for most people, it's fair to say that after 8 o'clock is a time when most people can watch TV. Six, seven are okay, but still a little bit on the early side.





    "I don't think any decisions come without risk of heat. Inevitably, there are going to be people who are going to want something, and people who are going to want something else.
    "You have to make decisions that you think are best for your audience, and for the advertisers, and for your business. This one was not difficult."
    NBC were heavily criticized for their coverage of opening ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Olympics after editing an anti-discrimination statement from International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.
    The network altered Bach's speech to remove several paragraphs that commended Russia for hosting the Olympics, as well as promoting a message of fair play and harmony.
    Bach emphasized the possibility of competitors “living together under one roof in harmony, with tolerance and without any form of discrimination for whatever reason,” but this was not broadcast and fans were not pleased.
    NBC also edited the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony to remove an emotional tribute to the 52 victims of the July 7, 2005, terrorist attacks in London.
    Im sure you know why this is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jtoler View Post
    Im sure you know why this is.
    Well of course we know why that is but can you explain why for the few that may not?

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    Track and field, Basketball, swimming, cycling, and Rowing, (Rowing because thats the sport New Zealand
    has most chances of winning medals in)

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackHIPPY View Post
    Well of course we know why that is but can you explain why for the few that may not?
    Mostly for the reasons they stated, editing. I do expect some shenanigans in Rio this summer. Theyve been after BRICS for awhile now and what better way than Rio, Zika was expected, it was expected knowing the patent owner. The way they did Dilma was expected also. Ill make sure Ill be watching a live feed of a Brazil owned news channel and good Brazil news sites while its going on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gopolks View Post
    Track and field, Basketball, swimming, cycling, and Rowing, (Rowing because thats the sport New Zealand
    has most chances of winning medals in)
    Go the Kiwis

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    The Olympics are a great watch every 4 years, however tedious events may become as
    one day melts into the next. Happy to have "Movie Box" access to world television outlets
    so watching the opening ceremony live will be no problem.

    The inherent politicizing of the olympics can be a concern as various nations and athletes
    try to gain an "edge" thru various nefarious means.

    I preferred the "amateur status" for particpants prior to the door opening for pro atletetes
    to participate in the Games. We could do without the "Dream Teams" in various sports.

    That being said...Let The Games Begin.

    .



    Bob Greene
    ...For all the cheers, roars and ovations in all the Olympic stadiums and arenas over all the years, perhaps the most significant Olympic sound heard in the last quarter-century was a yawn.

    Because a yawn, symbolically, was how the public greeted what might have been the most controversial change in rules that the International Olympic Committee ever instituted.
    The one firm rule that always governed the Olympic Games was that amateur athletes were permitted to compete. Professional athletes were not.

    That's what made the Olympics the Olympics.
    Until it didn't.
    And the fans, far from protesting in outrage at the change, didn't care. In fact, they seemed to like it a lot.
    In the Olympic eras before television, athletes who accepted money for their performances might as well have been lepers, in the eyes of the IOC. If it was discovered that you got paid for playing, or that you accepted commercial endorsements, you were shunned, banished, cast to the cold winds.

    In the most famous example of the inflexibility of the Olympic organizers, Jim Thorpe, perhaps America's finest athlete of all time, had his gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon in the 1912 Olympics stripped, and his achievements nullified, because he had once accepted small amounts of money for playing semi-pro baseball during his college summers. It broke his heart. The medals were reinstated in 1983 -- 30 years after his death, 30 years after the moment could have given him any comfort.

    It may be hard for young viewers of this summer's London Olympics to imagine, but all the sponsorships, advertisements and marketing hoopla that are a standard part of big-dollar contemporary Olympic Games were thought to be an insult to the Olympic spirit not so long ago. The Olympics were supposed to be about love of sport, not love of money.
    Then came TV.
    The president of the IOC during the years of television's phenomenal growth was an American, Avery Brundage, and the guiding principle of his reign (1952-1972) was what was called the "amateur code." He was unbendable on the subject. In a 1955 speech, Brundage said:
    "We can only rely on the support of those who believe in the principles of fair play and sportsmanship embodied in the amateur code in our efforts to prevent the Games from being used by individuals, organizations or nations for ulterior motives."
    Meaning: to make money.
    But once Brundage was gone, the floodgates opened. The IOC, after his regime, realized that commercial interests could turn the Olympics into a bottomless goldmine. And to bring in viewers, it was determined that an effective lure would be the presence of the greatest and most famous athletes in the world. Many of whom are professionals.
    "The pros are there for a reason," the esteemed sports journalist Ron Rapoport, who has covered six Olympics, told me the other night. "People will tune in to watch athletes they know. The pro athletes are pre-sold to the public, which means increased viewership."
    What made it an easy sell was the suspicion that athletes from certain Eastern Bloc nations were de facto professionals anyway: They were supported full-time by their governments to train and compete. So, by the end of the 1980s, the move toward professionalization of the Olympics had gained full steam.
    Which seemed to be just fine with the fans. If the best athletes were paid for their skills, or for granting endorsements, why not? The concept of "selling out" -- once such a pejorative -- had become almost meaningless. Making a lot of money for being good at a sport was a badge of honor.
    When the Dream Team of National Basketball Association players from the United States went to the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, the transformation was complete. If you spent any time around the members of the Dream Team in the months leading up to the Olympics, you couldn't help noticing that they were not exactly a bundle of nerves. They were going to win, and they knew it -- Michael Jordan spent much of his time in Barcelona either playing in all-night card games or getting in 36 holes of golf a day. The Olympics were a very successful business trip for U.S. basketball interests; the real dream was the one realized by David Stern, the NBA commissioner. The 1992 Olympics were the best global marketing tool the NBA ever had.
    If you spent any time around the members of the Dream Team in the months leading up to the Olympics, you couldn't help noticing that they were not exactly a bundle of nerves.
    Bob Greene




    (Many people point to the fact that the Dream Team won their games by an average of almost 44 points as the most remarkable statistic of those Olympics. I've always thought that there was an even more extraordinary one: The Dream Team was so good that its head coach, Chuck Daly, did not call a single timeout during the entire Olympic tournament.)
    Of course the problem with the Dream Team, and its successors representing the United States in Olympic basketball, is that they are automatic overdogs. The world outside the United States would love to see them lose -- it's "Break up the Yankees," on a planetary scale. The amateur U.S. ice hockey team at Lake Placid in the 1980 Winter Olympics -- the "Do you believe in miracles?" team -- was cherished because they won when they were said to have no chance. No Olympic team of U.S. basketball pros will ever know that feeling; the "Do you believe in miracles?" emotion will be reserved for teams who are trying to knock them off.
    The size and scope and riches of the 21st century Olympics are a far cry from how the games began, and there's no going back. Few people seem to want to. The spectacle is hypnotic.
    There would be a sure-fire way to restore what was seen as the purity, and the love of competition for competition's sake, of the early Olympics -- a way to drive the marketers and merchandisers and global sponsors away so that the Games would simply be games again. All the IOC would have to do is add a short sentence to the Olympic Charter:
    "The Olympic Games shall not be televised."
    That would do it.

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    you cannot have Olympic sports that athletes compete on a weekly basis vs each other for the last 100 years like golf, hoops, tennis, soccer

    It is so silly

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    The open ceremony was splendid, do not you agree?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    no

    other than tradition sports like swimming, track and field the rest garbage
    I am also watching for only Swimming, Track and Field.

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    Watching women breaststroke right now. Russian girl fast as heck. They let he swim despite pending drug violation allegations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jtoler View Post
    Mostly for the reasons they stated, editing. I do expect some shenanigans in Rio this summer. Theyve been after BRICS for awhile now and what better way than Rio, Zika was expected, it was expected knowing the patent owner. The way they did Dilma was expected also. Ill make sure Ill be watching a live feed of a Brazil owned news channel and good Brazil news sites while its going on.
    Please keep us posted.

    I already feel safer knowing you are keeping a close eye on things and watching all the live feeds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by frostno98 View Post
    Watching women breaststroke right now. Russian girl fast as heck. They let he swim despite pending drug violation allegations.
    Hey dumbfukk please keep us posted about her pending drug violations allegations, that were cleared last week.

    Thanks in advance chump!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Russian Rocket View Post
    Hey dumbfukk please keep us posted about her pending drug violations allegations, that were cleared last week.

    Thanks in advance chump!
    Russians are always known for cheating, no surprise here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by frostno98 View Post
    Russians are always known for cheating, no surprise here.
    Ok...so you've admitted that you're clueless- that's a good start.
    Now dumbfukk when you get a chance, do all Russians a favor and go say Hi to Lance from us!

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    Haven't watched any of it yet.

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    the highlights on sportscenter seem to be all I need to see so far

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