2016 Summer Olympics

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...is table tennis an actual Olympic sport? I have no idea what goes on during the Summer Olympics. People here only seem to talk about the Winter ones because those are the sports we're good at haha.
It is. Caught a bit of it today.
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Watching dressage right now .... I do wish they would time this event for much nearer bedtime though as it's a bit yawn inducing really (yes I do know it is a very skilled piece of horsemanship).



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Glad Serena is out. It is just so dull seeing her win everything. Hopefully Konta or Kvitova win. Nadal or Murray for the men.
Monica Puig is in the final! I hope she wins, she'll be her country's first female medallist, and if she wins, their first ever gold medallist.



Monica Puig is in the final! I hope she wins, she'll be her country's first female medallist, and if she wins, their first ever gold medallist.
I'm really not familiar with Puig, i agree though it is a great story i'm rooting for her too now. Also Murray . Should get us at least a Bronze.

Have you watched much of the Tennis? I've yet to watch anything from the men and have only caught a few womens matches.



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Puig hates Bouchard, that's all you need to know

And no, not really. I watched Murray today, he almost gave me heart failure pulling through the final set in a tiebreak



I can see why Brazilians liked their opening ceremony, I liked it's vibe. it was very personal to the country's culture and history which possibly a lot of the world didn't 'get' , but that was the same with the British one. If you're not British you can know the importance of the NHS and the industrial revolution and Shakespeare etc but you can't feel it as a culture like we can, so therefore I equate that to what the Brazilians felt about the Brazilian opening.
I guess but one difference is that British culture is popular all over the rest of the world, most people have consumed a lot of narrative based on Shakespeare, far fewer people consumed narrative based on Machado de Assis. So uniquely British stuff tends to be more accessible than an exotic third world country culture like Brazil's.



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GB tearing **** up all over the place.
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Mongolian wrestling coaches strip to protest controversial bronze-medal match defeat



RIO DE JANEIRO — The crowd inside Carioca Arena 2 chanted, “Mon-go-lia!” as two wrestling coaches refused to the leave the mat, one shirtless and one stripped to his underwear.

Early Sunday afternoon, one of the most bizarre and controversial episodes in amateur wrestling memory unfolded at the end of a 65-kilogram bronze-medal match. It began with a shady call that further raised questions about fairness in Olympic wrestling officiating. It ended with Forca Nacional officials escorting two shirtless Mongolian coaches from mat following a spontaneous strip show.

At the end of the bronze-medal match between Mongolian Mandakhnaran Ganzorig and Uzbekistan’s Ikhtiyor Navruzov, Ganzorig appeared to have won, 7-6. He hugged his coaches and celebrated for about 10 seconds. Suddenly, apparently because Ganzorig had been docked a point for fleeing in the waning seconds, another point appeared on the board for Navruzov. In wrestling, the competitor who scores the final point of a tie match is the winner, so in a flash, Ganzorig went from victory to defeat.

Ganzorig fell to the mat and rolled inconsolably. Navruzov leaped into his coaches arms, and the coach body slammed him in celebration.



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