2016 Olympics thread

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Tribune News Wire




RIO DE JANEIRO – Katie Ledecky destroyed her own world record in the 800-meter freestyle event Friday, earning her a fourth gold medal at this year’s Summer Olympics in Rio.

She’s now the first female swimmer to sweep the 200, 400 and 800 since Debbie Meyer did it in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico.

Katie Ledecky​ is just racing against time in the 800m freestyle.

More swimming: https://t.co/oDAbZW0FKC https://t.co/JiDCun1uI4

— NBC Sports (@NBCSports) August 13, 2016

She posted a time of 8:04:79, which left her a leisurely 12 seconds to wait at the edge of the pool for the next competitor to arrive, silver medalist Jazz Carlin from Great Britain. In third place was Boglarka Kapas, of Hungary.

Ledecky won by such an incredible margin that the images posted on Twitter seemed unreal:

Katie Ledecky, pictured with the 7 next best swimmers in the world. pic.twitter.com/3C08xu9DL7

— Rodger Sherman (@rodger_sherman) August 13, 2016

Look how insane this picture is #classbyherself pic.twitter.com/7sEB66Mn6k

— Michele Steele (@ESPNMichele) August 13, 2016

This is just halfway through the race pic.twitter.com/G0Abn6Jf2d

— Christine Brennan (@cbrennansports) August 13, 2016

katie ledecky is ridiculous pic.twitter.com/p5LuhAWKtr

— nick pants (@nick_pants) August 13, 2016

Great photo by @nytimes with the Ledecky story. Looks like she's going the wrong way. Nope just that far ahead. https://t.co/IEetogR61R

— Russell Blair (@RussellBlairCT) August 13, 2016

I missed Katie Ledecky's race. Is this real? This looks photoshopped. pic.twitter.com/ZfBk5wHvDJ

— Joel (@NobodyEpic) August 13, 2016

[DemonGeminiX]

The only reason Canada's not medaling more is because there's no ice or snow in the events. There's like only 2 days of summer in the entire country.

[Godfather]

These Irish goofs

[Goofy]

[Goofy]

Wiggins

[DemonGeminiX]

Michael Phelps has won more gold medals than anyone ever in recorded history. That includes Greek antiquity. That is insane.

[DemonGeminiX]

I don't care if she's a doper or Russian, Darya Klishina's freakin' hot.

[DemonGeminiX]

Bolt... insane.

[RBP]

I don't care if she's a doper or Russian, Darya Klishina's freakin' hot.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Watched some Olympics last night for the first time...NBC's coverage sucks ass. NBC obviously stands for Nothing But Commercials.

[Pony]

Watched some Olympics last night for the first time...NBC's coverage sucks ass. NBC obviously stands for Nothing But Commercials.

Yes, it's absolutely horrible.

[Muddy]

We have been streaming every single bit of it across Chromecast and the NBC sports app.. Very light in the commercials..

[PorkChopSandwiches]

You're light in the loafers

[DemonGeminiX]

So basically you're streaming it through wifi into your TV.

I watched yesterday's Greco-roman wrestling tournament (2 weight classes) entirely online through nbc.com. I didn't see any commercials but I do have adblockers on my browsers.

[DemonGeminiX]

I streamed the track and field and watched it on tv at the same time and I will tell you this: the online streaming has about a minute of delay, but they are showing a lot more. In between the track races, online would show the triple jump event, but tv would just skip over that and play commercials.