2016 Rio Summer Olympics

Team Canada is a win away from Rio. It sounds like Melvin had a good game.
 
US women's gymnastics team just announced

Simone Biles
Aly Raisman
Gabby Douglas
Laurie Hernandez
Madison Kocian

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Didn't watch tonight, but didn't Gabby get a little break to make it? I was flipping thru and she didn't look to happy.
 
No way Gabby deserved that spot.

She'll probably only do bars. I'm not a fan of a "selection committee" picking the team, but they stayed pretty true to the scores given the limits on total athletes (5) and athletes per event (3).

Vault - Biles (1), Raisman (3), Hernandez (4)
Bars - Kocian (1), Douglas (3), Biles (4)
Beam - Hernandez (1), Raisman (3), Biles (4)
Floor - Biles (1), Raisman (2), Hernandez (3)

Alternates:
Skinner (#2 vault), Locklear (#2 bars), Smith (#2 beam)
 
Didn't watch tonight, but didn't Gabby get a little break to make it? I was flipping thru and she didn't look to happy.


She fell of the beam both nights of trials but is going because the US coaches feel she helps us on uneven bars. IMO Ashton Lochlear deserved a starting spot (not as a injury alternate).
 
The Brazil Ministry of Justice terminated the contracted of the security firm hired for the Rio games. The firm Artel was supposed to hire 3,400 security personnel. They admitted hiring only 500.
Rio Olympics security firm fired, maligned police force takes over

The real sport is trying to make it back alive to your home country.

Is there a gold medal for contracting the least number of diseases?

I'd say now that Brazilian police are in charge of security, diseases are the least of things to worry about in terms of making back alive to your home country.
 
My cousin just landed in rio the other day, she said the poverty from the airport to the olympic village was shocking and very depressing.
 
Track swimming gymnastics and basketball are the only interesting things at the Olympics
 
Going to be in Brazil for work and debating on whether to go. They also have soccer in Sao Paulo which could be a good alternate.

Side note- anyone know where in Des Moines they sell Olympic gear? Scheels had a little selection but no smalls.
 
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