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drat - had to take a break from Egypt to Korea
lol on the poptarts - I guess it was a cheap way to make the costumes, that's all I can think of.
Missed Poland, will try find a pic. With the countries going by Portuguese, I don't feel very alphabetical...
So moving to see the refugees - very glad they did that. I had a tear or two...
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Tonga's flag bearer Pita Nikolas Aufatofua - well-oiled, no?
32-year-old Taekwondo competitor who was the first Tongan athlete to qualify for the Rio Olympics this year.
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Starting this year in Rio de Janeiro, the Olympic Laurel award will be given at the Opening Ceremony of every Olympic Games to honour outstanding individuals in education, culture, development and peace through sport.
“With the Olympic Laurel we are reconnecting with the ideals and values of the Ancient Olympic Games,” said President Bach. “This is why we are so pleased to receive the stone for the award from Ancient Olympia. With its focus on human development through peace and sport, the Olympic Laurel award will connect the modern Games to the spirit of the Ancient Games and according to the vision of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder and renovator of the Modern Olympic Games.”
Inaugural winner of Olympic laurel
Kipchoge Keino, aka Hezekiah Kipchoge Keino or (thankfully in the interest of avoiding typos) just Kip, is a retired athlete who ran for the country of Kenya. Throughout his career, Kip earned almost a dozen medals, half of which were gold, for being an amazing middle to long distance runner.
After retiring from competition in 1973, Kip Keino opened a children’s home, which is today home to almost 100 Kenyan orphans. In 1999, he followed with the opening of the Kip Keino School, in an isolated region lacking schools, offering more than 300 children aged from 6 to 13 the chance to get an education. In 2002, he opened the Kip Keino High Performance Training Centre, welcoming the most promising athletes in Kenya. To this day, the Olympian continues his amazing work as a an IOC Member and Chairman of the Kenyan Olympic Committee (KOC).
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HERE COMES THE FLAME!
Tennis legend Gustavo Kuerten - affectionately known as 'Guga' in Brazil - enters the Maracana with the Olympic torch, before passing it to ex-basketball player Hortencia, who passes it on to former marathon runner Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima... WHO LIGHTS THE OLYMPIC CAULDRON!!!
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!
De Lima was the guy who was leading the 2004 Marathon when he was attacked by a spectator. It knocked him off his stride and he came third.
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The sun sculpture and the way it moves is absolutely wonderful.
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I'd have to say my favourite delegation was Cameroon, they looked fantastic
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Worst was the UK, they look like a bunch of bankers
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...and the fashion world is going nuts over Canada's "edgy streetwear" opening ceremony uniforms, but the athletes kinda looked like a bunch of bums to me. You know you're getting old when...
^ Agree about Cameroon, as well as some of the other ethnic clothes.
Way too many groups did the blazer thing, it just looks so plain unless they really jazz it up. I can't remember which one, but one country had big embroidery all down one side and it looked good.
thanks everyone for the pictures everyone I missed the opening cerimonies
I'm upset at the blatant mistreatment of the Israeli athletes so far
The entire Russian team has been banned from the paralympics
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As well one of the women Judoka was disqualified for a stupid reason and then barred from other events, which was a major overreaction to an accidental movement that was clearly not intentional.
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i thought it was a beautiful culdron.. different from the usual they took a risk but it looks stunning! i think it was one of the big highlights of the opening ceremonies
French gymnast snaps leg during vault
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— French gymnast Samir Ait Said will now be remembered alongside Joe Theismann and Kevin Ware.Ait Said’s left leg snapped on his vault landing, the sharp crack able to be heard throughout the arena. As he rolled over, clutching his leg just below the knee, his foot and the lower half of his shin dangled in the opposite direction of the rest of his leg.
The crowd gasped, and arena medical personnel immediately rushed to him.
Ait Said was on the ground for several minutes as medical personnel worked on him. The French gymnastics federation said later he's broken both his tibia and fibia, and medical personnel stabilized him before he was moved to prevent additional damage to his leg.
“We will do more exams to see if it is just the bone,” French team leader Corrine Moustard-Callon said.
The crowd applauded when Ait Said was finally loaded onto a stretcher, and he put a hand up in acknowledgment as he was taken out of the arena. He was taken to a local hospital and the federation said he would have surgery soon.
“It was very difficult, very emotional,” French teammate Cyril Tommasone said. “It’s very hard for the French and for him. Very difficult.”
Dutch cyclist injured during road race
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A Dutch cyclist, Annemiek van Vleuten, crashed spectacularly near the end of the women’s road race at the Olympics on Sunday, suffering a concussion and fracturing her spine.
Van Vleuten was leading the race by 40 seconds about 12 miles from the finish and was heading downhill when she failed to negotiate a turn, hit the curb and tumbled over her handlebars, landing on her head.
The Dutch team said that Van Vleuten had suffered a heavy concussion. She was in stable condition in the intensive care unit of a Rio de Janeiro hospital. “Annemiek went through a total CT scan and is stable now,” said the team’s chief medical officer, Cees Rein van den Hoogenband. “No internal bleedings or damage. She will stay in intensive care for the next 24 hours. She is fully conscious and her reactions are adequate. She also suffers from three minor fractures in her lumbar spine.”
The descent to the Copacabana was considered tricky and treacherous by commentators. Several men c
DH wanted to watch the beach volleyball so I happily obliged :angel:
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He's now sleeping on the couch.
^ They need their shirts off and should be wearing Speedos or less - like the girls in the skimpy butt-showing outfits.
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bronze in the women’s 4×100 metre freestyle relay
Penny Oleksiak has her second medal of the Rio Olympics after taking silver in the women’s 100-metre butterfly.
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So they don't get flowers? I couldn't find any info on that little thing winners are holding, symbol of Rio.
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Why are so many Olympians covered in large red circles?
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A number of Olympians - including the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, Michael Phelps - have been photographed with large red circles on their skin.
What are they, and why is everyone suddenly going dotty over them?
The mark of an Olympic athlete, at least at Rio 2016, seems to be a scattering of perfectly round bruises. Swimmers and gymnasts, particularly from Team USA, are among those seen sporting the mysterious dots.
No, not paintballing misadventures or love bites - they are the result of a practice known as "cupping"; an ancient therapy where heated cups are placed on the skin.
So how is 'cupping' done?
The technique, which is a form of acupuncture, is done by lighting flammable liquid in a glass cup.
Once the flame goes out, the drop in temperature creates suction which sticks the cups to the body.
The suction pulls the skin away from the body and promotes blood flow - and leaves those red spots, which typically last for three or four days.
Why are some Olympians using it?
Athletes say they are using it to ease aches and pains, and to help with recovery from the physical toil of constant training and competing.
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Stop attributing the success of women Olympians to men
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It’s 2016 and apparently this still needs to be said: When women Olympians win medals, they deserve the credit. The Rio Olympic Games began on Friday night, and in the subsequent 48 hours, people (specifically certain members of the media) couldn’t resist attributing the successes of female athletes to their husbands and/or male coaches, and their ability to emulate men writ large.
When three-time Olympian trapshooter Corey Cogdell won her second bronze medal, the Chicago Tribune couldn’t even be bothered to use her name, instead focusing on the fact that she’s married to Chicago Bears lineman Mitch Unrein:
When Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu won a gold medal and broke the world record in the 400-meter individual medley, NBC panned over to her husband/coach in the stands and called him “the man responsible.”
And when American swimmer Katie Ledecky crushed HER OWN world record in the 400-meter freestyle, beating out her closest competitor by almost 5 seconds, NBC’s commentator had to clarify that no, she does not “swim like a man.”
“She swims like Katie Ledecky for crying out loud,” Rowdy Gaines emphatically said after the 19-year-old swimmer finished her record-breaking race.
Because athletics and physical prowess in general have historically been coded male, women athletes are often spoken about as anomalies ― if they are spoken about at all. (After all, the Olympics is one of the few times women athletes actually get significant media attention.)
To frame women Olympians’ skills and achievements in relation to men is a way of making those achievements more socially acceptable. Their physical achievements push the boundaries of what we are comfortable seeing women’s bodies do. To watch a female Olympian compete is to see the unbelievable power a woman’s body can possess. They are smashing and vaulting and propelling and flying and shooting. So we give credit to the men in their lives and respective sports.
Gymnastics prodigy Simone Biles becomes “the Kobe Bryant of gymnastics,” Katie Ledecky must be manly, and Katinka Hosszu’s husband is the real reason she is smashing records.
It is heartening to see women at the Olympics getting airtime, and being celebrated for their seemingly superhuman abilities. But let’s allow those achievements to be their own. When these women win medals and break records, they are the ones who deserve the credit.
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Darth, I hadn't realized sportscasters were doing that with the women and their mates - that's just icky.
My husband had cupping done on his back last year, by his niece who is a Dr. of TCM. The skin on his back was not a pretty sight when he came home. It didn't do anything for him, but I understand it does help some people.
Canada wins bronze in women's rugby 7s
Team wins historic 1st medal
The Canadian women's rugby sevens team beat Great Britain 33-10 to win the bronze medal on Monday at the Rio Olympics.
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