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>He said that around 6 a.m. Sunday, Lochte, along with Conger, Bentz and Jimmy Feigen, stopped at a gas station in Barra da Tijuca, a suburb of Rio where many Olympic venues are located. One of the swimmers tried to open the door of an outside bathroom. It was locked.

>A few of the swimmers then pushed on the door and broke it. A security guard appeared and confronted them, the official said. The guard was armed with a pistol, the official said, but he never took it out or pointed it at the swimmers.

>According to the official, the gas station manager then arrived. Using a customer to translate, the manager asked the swimmers to pay for the broken door. After a discussion, they paid him an unknown amount of money and left.

Source: ESPN

• Install Hola extension for your browser http://hola.org/
• Turn on the hola Extension in your browser
• Click the Hola icon
• Click settings
• At the top you will see a text box that says 'Enter site to unblock'
• Copy and paste 'http://olympics.cbc.ca/online-listing/index.html' into there, press Enter
• The next page will show you 'How to access olympics.cbc.ca from any country'
• Select the go button next to Canada VPN
• On the next page, select 'Access olympics.cbc.ca GO'
• Enjoy!

She is the only female gymnast in the world to have won consecutive gold medals in the AA for a quad. 2013 - 2016. She is also the second female gymnast in the world to win a Olympic gold AA medal right after the worlds AA gold medal. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Edit: Also Nadia said this herself about Simone:

OlympicTalk: What do you think of Simone Biles?

Comaneci: I think she’s the best tumbler and [performing] more difficult gymnastics than we’ve seen. With how much ease she does the vault and the floor, and the difficulty she does there, it’s almost equal with what the guys are doing right now.

And she also said this: Simone Biles is going to be everywhere this summer. She's such a talent, and an amazing athlete -- she can do things even some of the men can't do, and she makes it all look so easy...

Sources: http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2015/04/22/nadia-comaneci-gymnastics-olympics-simone-biles-larisa-iordache-romania/?utm_network=twitter&utm_post=3609859&utm_source=TW%20%40NBCOlympics&utm_tags=srm%5Bolympics%2Carticle%5D

http://www.espn.com/espnw/voices/article/15680916/nadia-comaneci-think-winning-olympics-such-big-deal

IOC’s official Olympic Channel on YouTube will broadcast the Games live in 64 territories in Asia and Africa that lack official broadcast partners

Without being there, you can't really know. But there's a lot of stories about it...

http://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/2012/story/_/id/8133052/athletes-spill-details-dirty-secrets-olympic-village-espn-magazine

http://time.com/7554/a-brief-history-of-sex-at-the-olympics/

Zoomed out - http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzAyLzE4LzBkL0ZlYjE4T2x5bXBpLjc4YmIxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTg1MHg1OTA-CmUJanBn/df8f76ed/903/Feb-18-Olympic-Recap-15.jpg

from IMAGE: DMITRY LOVETSKY/ASSOCIATED PRESS http://mashable.com/2014/02/18/top-moments-olympics-day-eleven/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link

They're mushroom bulbs.

If you buy 100k of them you can get them for $0.10 each, and if you go with the 60 watt they cost about half that.

I've downloaded it from the NOS site tried to upload it on Youtube but it was blocked instantly. Any idea where I could upload it instead?

EDIT: Here it is: http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=igm45w&s=6

> if i understand correctly, so much of this stuff happened at the ranch.

The facility was leased by USAGym though, for the purpose of holding national team training camps and whatnot there. All the staff working with the gymnasts, including Nassar, were hired by USAGym.

> "We do not believe there is any corroborative evidence with regard to Martha or Bela Karolyi that they did anything wrong," [Walker County Assistant District Attorney] Stroud said. > >She noted that Nassar worked for USAG, which leased the ranch from the Karolyis. The continuing investigation focuses on USA Gymnastics, the prosecutors said.

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It's a regional block. I'm currently watching CBC right now and I'm in Virginia, USA. I have Mozilla Firefox with the SetupVPN add-on and have it set to a Canadian IP. You do NOT need to subscribe to an IP blocker like TunnelBear. I really love the CBC broadcast. The commentary is excellent because they focus on almost all of the sports, not just the ones that feature their canadian athletes (like NBC does).

I wish your comment could be higher up on this page. I completely agree with everything you've said. I don't think there's any conspiracy to rob Korea of medals, I agree with the final judo ruling and that Sun Yang swam best. It's just incredibly unlucky that Korea's always involved in these. The thing we Koreans are mad about is that these things will keep happening until the Olympics is held responsible instead of shrugging everything off as a controversy, comes down from its high horse, and brings in either technology or better officials. NBC doubted the false start the moment it was called because they were watching and they saw that the last second of fencing was just not going down, saying "is the clock even being started?" The fencing officials shouldn't be heard saying, "It's not our problem," over and over like in "The Ruling" video found here. Unanimous judo rulings shouldn't have to be overturned after it is declared, why can't the international judo organization be watching with the referees and deliberate BEFORE ruling if they have the power to overturn it just like that? Soccer also really needs video replays too so that if a referee didn't see something, he can watch it rather than throwing out cards first. There shouldn't have to be the stress involved with the appeals process on any athlete with the technology we have today. The importance of the Olympics demands it. I hope at least Korea can understand this during Winter Olympics 2018 and make a change. Preferably sooner though.

> After all, Sun Tzu taught a more sophisticated approach to combat in "The Art of War," imploring a big-picture savvy that put a premium on positioning and strategy and an unflinching attachment to remembering the desired end result.

There's actually a really neat Chinese parable (historical event?) that demonstrates this.

A foreign warlord challenged a young emperor to a bet. Each side would send out 3 fighters, and whoever won 2 out of 3 fights would win the bet.

The young emperor was worried because reports said that each of the warlord's fighters were really good.

So one of the emperor's advisors suggested a plan:

Have their worst warrior fight the warlord's best, the idea being they would lose, but that would use up the best fighter's spot.

Then, have their best warrior fight the warlord's second best and their second best fight the warlord's worst.

So by sacrificing one match, they won the other two and the warlord left the young emperor's lands.

Allow me to clarify (partially by summarizing Dr. Matthew Taylor's article.)

1) I've seen no data supporting a relationship between body stature and/or limb length (e.g., height) and MHC isoform (i.e., "twitch muscles"). But world-class sprinters do possess disproportunately high fast-twitch fiber content in their leg muscles, allowing them to move their legs with increased speed (for a given weight).

2) The biomechanical disadvantage of being tall usually originates from concominat increases in the weight and length of the lower limbs (making them more resistant to changes in movement).

3) Increased leg length allows for greater stride length, but usually sacrifices stride frequency due to the increased moment of the weight at the end of the leg (e.g., shank/foot).

4) Bolt's fast muscles and long legs combine with his skinny shanks and short torso (relative to his body) so that he can achieve a fabulous balance between stride frequency and stride length.

People get fast 'cuz they runs alot. Bolt is a phenom 'cuz he runs a lot and is shaped weird.

I wish this dude had the gusto to run the 400 m. It would be ridiculous.

EDIT: numbering.

Here's an interview with members that won one of the latest big e-sport tournament They aren't huge buffs, but aren't obese.

The Olympics aren't a contest of health and physical shape She's 47 and 93 kg for 1.68m. And has more Olympic medal than you.

Hi Reddit,

Can someone please clear this up for me? I really don't understand the issue. I think Shin A Lam did the right thing in standing up for what she believed in, but when I saw the video, it really did seem like it was under 1 second. The clock was missing sig figs, so it wasn't possible to tell whether it started or not, but I'm sure they are more sophisticated than having a 15 year old kid push start the timer. I mean, come on, do you really believe that? You can watch the video here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ktlincoln/an-olympic-fencer-refuses-to-leave-the-floor-after

if you go to www.cubetimer.com, start the timer at the first beep, and end the timer at the second beep, it is CLEARLY less than a second. i hear a lot of people arguing that it's impossible to make 3 attempts in less than a second -- this is not an intelligent argument because time is not dependent on attacks! why does everyone think south korea got ripped off? it looks like the right call.

help me understand.

She sounds pretty angry, I hope she doesn't take it out on her family.

Here's some official rule literature for you:

>After the score has been posted, a coach may inquire about the Difficulty Score, first verbally and then in writing. An inquiry may be resolved by using video review. The initial inquiry must be made prior to the completion of the next gymnast's routine. The written inquiry must be submitted before the end of the rotation, and the Superior Jury reviews the inquiry. A fee is assessed for filing an inquiry; it is returned if the inquiry is upheld.

In Australia, the Channel 7+ app is a free sign up and lets you choose any sport to watch live. Currently has 10 channels of different live events. Also with replays and mini-match style highlights of most events. Highly recommended. cough Mullvad cough

> BBC iPlayer is supposed to support 4K HDR but I'm unable to maintain a connection fast enough while using ExpressVPN a via the UK.

On selected Smart TV's only. Also the BBC cancelled Olympics 4K plans anyway due to the high cost of getting the feed back to Europe with most of the events being overnight so not worth it.

Any Australians here?
For the first time ever, the Olympics is being streamed in 4K HDR and some events in 8K thru the NHK network in Japan.
In Australia Channel 7 owns the exclusive broadcast rights and are showing it thought the OTA channel or via their app, both of which max out at 1080p
Being the information age I figured I can just piggy back off another countries stream but this is proving to be more difficult than anticipated.
BBC iPlayer is supposed to support 4K HDR but I'm unable to maintain a connection fast enough while using ExpressVPN a via the UK.
I'm not really able to sign up for any of the US networks and I have tried signing up for the Fubo free trial but it requires that I enable location services on which then causes the app to no longer work.

Has anyone been able to figure out a way I might be able to piggyback off another countries stream? or are there any mirror sites that support 4k? I have a fibre connection to my house, so speed shouldn't be a problem. Even just the opening ceremony in 4k would be nice to see

I just did the research and signed up for Private Internet Access. They seem to be the best deal and come highly recommended from a couple tech websites. Streaming CBC broadcast and it's working fine so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIIqpVSg7e8

Those are the overtime matches. (the pauses are part of the video)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ktlincoln/an-olympic-fencer-refuses-to-leave-the-floor-after

Other video.

Yep, there's a mathematical model that predicted 2008's medal count to 95% accuracy. My prediction is based on their prediction for 2012. Here's a short NPR story on it.

TunnelBear. Very easy (Chrome extension or desktop app), mobile app support, 1.5 GB trial, positive marks if you know how to read the table on 's comparison chart + recommends by others.

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I haven't been able to get ExpatShield or Tunlr to work for replay streams but TunnelBear has been working great for me so far. I ended up subscribing for a month to get unlimited bandwidth, but it's only $5 which for me is more than reasonable for 3 weeks worth of unlimited Olympics.

Only if you live in certain countries in Africa and Asia. If you live in the US for example, it will direct you to the NBC site since they are licensed to show the Olympics in the US.

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If you read the article linked from there, they're talking about YouTube/Google providing the back-end, while the actual streaming will still occur on NBC's site.

I think so ye, basically both of the two boxers that don't make it to the gold match will have a guaranteed bronze but they'll still fight for a kind the true bronze if that makes sense...here's a link to a wiki answer that might help explain it better...

I suggest secret option C: Take your iphone with you and get a British sim (or is it micro sim?) card. Sim cards are given out for free or you can buy them for £1. Much cheaper than paying inflated international fees. Downside is you'll have a different number so you'll have to let people know to call you on that number.

It would have to be unlocked first. I don't know how it works in the US but British networks will unlock phones once your contract has expired or you can do it yourself, take a look here. It also needs to be compatible with the 900mhz/1800mhz frequencies, I imagine they will but you'd have to check.

You could also buy an unlocked or pay as you go phone here and simply sell it on ebay once you're done. An easier way would be to find a branch of CEX who'll buy your phone buy pay you way less than it's worth.

Actually you could buy an unlocked compatible phone in the US and sell it on your return. You'd probably have to buy a charger in London depending on how the phone charges.

I've never used an iPhone but I don't see why you'd have any particular problem with an android phone, I imagine google maps is the same on both or similar enough

Sorry there's no easy answer, but at least it's possible. It's just going to cost you time or energy

I found this site, looks quite helpful

Hope to see her at the 2016 Games! She and the rest of the team did fantastic this year and I'm sure inspired many teenaged boys (myself included) to become Olympians! Oh, and girls too!

I'll just leave this BuzzFeed appreciation post of Maroney here.

I'm glad she apologized and explained herself. I didn't think she needed to apologize, but there are plenty of outlets that were creating false narratives. To wit:

"McKayla Maroney Falls, Lets Out Her Inner "Mean Girl"

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/mckayla-maroney-fell-won-silver-let-out-her-inne

SecurityKISS is just fine. I'm about to win an argument with myself. Awesome.

I just paid 3.99 euro for 30GB the next 30 days. Could've done 2.99 for 20GB. Watching beach volleyball like a boss right now.

Thanks weaver.

Michael Johnson, the athlete profiled in the article, ran the 400m, which has staggered starts. This page says that 400m starting lines are staggered by 6.28m. With a 1.27m width of each lane, you get a distance of 6.4m distance between each racer. I don't know where the starting gun stands nor how the curvature of the track affects distance, but the distance between lane 1 and lane 9 could be up to 51.2m. This would result in a difference of 149ms, which is definitely a sizable gap.

Even in the 100 (without staggered starts), there's a time gap of 30ms, the same gap separating both the first and second, and second and third racers in the women's 100m race today.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/robbery There you go buddy, now you know what a robbery is.

Containing 4 drunk athletic criminals alone without using a gun, good luck with that. Good job shifting the blame on the guy doing his job instead of your shitty athletes breaking stuff, trying to flee the scene and filing a false police report. You are full of shit.

I'm American! Just using a VPN (NordVPN) to get access to the CBC livestreams and replays on their website. I can't recommend them enough - they have everything for free and they usually use the OBS commentary for their events, which is always great.

NBC can be...exhausting, so it's a nice alternative.

Quite different from the mascots for the 2019 Rugby World Cup also in Japan, but still pretty cool.

Video on this page has slow motion. Try it again. She's leaning forward, yes, but she comes to a complete stop before moving again.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/us-gymnast-mckayla-maroney-landed-the-vault-of-her

Nope, there are quite a few countries offering money for winning medals.

Italy is top offering $182,400 for a gold, followed by Russia, France, China, Japan, US, Canada and Germany. Great Britain athletes get nothing.

are you sure it’s definitely not on bbc iplayer? i remember watching sailing, if you go to this link you should find every olympic event i think, and it splits it up by day i think too - and i’m pretty sure it’s free

Then iPlayer is the only free place (assuming you have a TV licence) https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00cmh07

You may need to look up when the event was and find the coverage from the appropriate time and day.

They showed 40 minutes of the speed climbing on the Red Button earlier. Skip through to 3 hour mark on this link and you'll see it:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000ylyh/olympics-day-11-red-button-08001200

Some of the bouldering was being shown on BBC1 earlier (just highlights, I think) but I'm not sure where that is on iPlayer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09pykm7/olympics-tokyo-trending-day-2?seriesId=b00cmh07-11-day-3

IPlayer has kept up all the live broadcasts without spoilers for the first 2 days, I'm just going to be keeping that page open and come tomorrow morning you should be able to skip ahead to the relevant stuff on Day 3.

Look at this monstrosity : http://descrier.co.uk/uk/2012/08/london-2012-medals-vs-funding-how-teamgb-invested-in-success/attachment/uksport-funding-individual-sport-breakdown/ Good luck finding an individual sport, and what does the bar signify ?

And here I was convinced by ESPN that losers go home empty handed.

http://www.espn.com/olympics/trackandfield/story/_/id/17326808/olympics-rio-2016-10500-athletes-win-medal-rio-meet-runner-alexi-pappas

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/16425548/michael-phelps-prepares-life-2016-rio-olympics

Good read. Phelps had some real struggles after Beijing to the point where his long time coach vowed never to coach him again following the 2012 Olympics. He struggled with substance abuse and depression and accredits the therapy and rehab as being a major part of his turnaround for this Olympics.

If he had sought the help he got back in 2009 I think he could have repeated his 8 gold medals in 2010.

Bro u have nooo idea if I made the olympics in table tennis, best believe i'd be gettin play!

There was a good feature in Wired recently about how athletes are aiming to shave off thousandths of a second to improve, which sort of suggests that we're near a peak. link

Part of me, though, loves that short from the Animatrix where a sprinter forces himself to set a new world record which smashes the previous best, and in doing so self-awakens from the Matrix because of his exertion. It's a great story and piece of visual art.

This video has been making the rounds in the sailing community for a week now. Theres serious drama about it because the IOC had it removed from vimeo, prompting this response:

http://audioboo.fm/boos/912374-the-ioc

Also, just for the record, the person who made it has very much a clue what's going on. It was a joke.

This picture came from the book "Their Day In The Sun: Women Of The 1932 Olympics". It tells the story of the women in both the track and field and swimming and diving teams in that Olympics. It can be bought at https://www.amazon.com/Their-Day-Sun-Olympics-Samuel/dp/0295975547.

I know this is the complaints thread, but instead of another complaint about NBC, I've been having a great experience with CBC!

Chromecast with Google TV + Private Internet Access app + TvBro browser app. Works fantastic!

A couple routes:

1. VPN. Find a service (I have been using NordVPN, but I hear good things about ExpressVPN and others). Bounce your internet connection to Canada or England and enjoy the BBC or CBC or both. The downside is that it's a little more complicated, not a simple app, and this sort of thing has been going on for years, and I have to wonder each time if the BBC and CBC just don't care or if they are getting hip to it and might block it or made it more difficult.
2. Find a family member that has cable or another subscription (like Hulu or Youtube or Sling) and log in to the NBC Olympics web feed with those credentials. My mother has Hulu and that's how I watched the T&F trials. There were feeds all through the day, some with commentary, some just straight video.
3. Assuming you don't have a cable subscription (if you do, #1 still is useful, #2 you don't have to worry about), then suck it up and get a Youtube TV or similar month subscription. Not cheap, and younger me wouldn't have done it, but it's cheaper than a traditional cable subscriptoin, and this is the route I will probably go now. I can afford it and I can use it on my phone easily, so I can watch things on multiples screens at work and at home (I watch a lot of stuff during the olympics, and now with surfing, skating and climbing, I'll be watching even more). But I was a broke ass back in 2008, 2012 and even in 2016 (life isn't always kind), so the above ideas--VPN and borrowing credentials from someone who doesn't need the service--are super useful.

Good luck! Use allllll the free trials that you can!

So it sounds like it was less the IOC that came after him, and more that he was completely thrown under the bus by his coaches and the school, and became the scapegoat for the incident, even though they were the ones that pushed him to compete in semi-pro and in the Olympics as well. Basically they urged him to represent the US, which he did so successfully and with integrity, and then they stabbed him in the back and robbed him of his reputation and demanded the medals were stripped. Can obviously only speculate on the bigotry part but ya, unlikely they would do that to a Caucasian.

>“Someone had to take the fall for the humiliating scandal that tainted the American glory in Stockholm,” wrote Thorpe biographer Kate Buford, “and it was not going to be the coach, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, its superintendent, the AAU or the AOC.” Warner and AAU secretary James Sullivan rushed to pin responsibility solely on Thorpe.
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>Warner presented Sullivan with a confession letter signed by Thorpe. James Ring Adams... noted that a Carlisle friend of Thorpe’s later told a congressional investigator the letter had been drafted by Warner and Carlisle’s superintendent, Friedman.
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>He was not given a chance to defend himself. Sullivan demanded Thorpe’s Olympic disqualification; Warner seized his medals and trophies and shipped them to Stockholm.

Kiwi here, Everyone is ditching sky and the FTA coverage here is bad too. I would never recommend something like Unlocator to let you watch the bbc coverage or cbc or a country that cares about winter sports.

Anyone know where I'll be able to find a livestream of the women's Beach volleybal match between the US and Brasil?

I'm not in the US & tried the CBC link but they seem to know I'm using Zenmate (a chrome extension VPN - tried it on many other websites and they all seem to work, except for CBC).

Get ExpressVPN for $100 and stream CBC coverage or Olympic coverage from anywhere in the world outside the U.S.. It's a 30 day money back period. Just cancel when the games are over and get your money back if you don't want to keep the service.

Anyone know where I'll be able to find a livestream of the women's Beach volleybal match between the US and Brasil?

I'm not in the US & tried the CBC link but they seem to know I'm using Zenmate (a chrome extension VPN - tried it on many other websites and they all seem to work, except for CBC).

If NBC had an option to pay for a subscription, I'd be on it in a heartbeat.

That said, I've tried many solutions to try and stream the games. BBC doesn't look like it has replays, it's only live.

CBC has a lot of vids, but you have to use a VPN. Hola doesn't work, I tried it. I even paid for TunnelBear (as mentioned in the Business Insider article) and it sucks balls. It won't even stream at 150kbps and it lags like hell.

Anyone know a good Canadian VPN with good throughput?

I am so close to getting this working. My only problem is my "pattern" to tell FoxyProxy which URLs to access through the proxy.

I have it set to

"**"

and that lets me access the site and view the schedule. (Can't do that without a proxy.) But I still can't see the video.

If I set FoxyProxy to access all URLs through the proxy, it works like a charm. But I'd rather not route all of my Internet traffic through the UK for the next two weeks. :/

tl;dr What's the URL pattern to put into FoxyProxy??

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.hola if you're using android. Install the app, grant it permissions, then in the app it will list all your apps, select the Chrome app and then it will say "access from" and change that to Canada. Then hit "open" the just go to cbc.ca/Olympics whenever you're done just change it back to USA.

I feel like "a body of water" == "a piece of flat land", and an olympic sized pool == a regulation, lined soccer field with properly sized nets. You can learn to swim anywhere (and most swimmers don't grow up or always train in swimming in olympic sized pools, which is more than double the length of a regulation high school/college pool, although they do have blocks and walls), just like you can learn soccer anywhere. And open water swimming is an olympic event, as long as you can find some way to mark the distance.

Semi-related: here's a book about some rando kids who learned to swim in a ditch, and ended up at the olympics. Full disclosure, I only read the back and the first chapter, and I wasn't drawn into the book, so I don't really know how their story shakes out.

Current qualifying games being played (10:15 UTC):

1. Italy vs. Kazakhstan

2. Poland vs. Denmark

3. Japan vs. Austria

Link to iOS App Store Olympic Channel app

Link to Android Play Store Olympic Channel app