So who is following the Olympics this year? Personally I don't know on which over-the-air TV channel the competitions are available yet so I'll need to check that out, since I neither have cable nor satellite. I'm quite interested in soccer and the running competitions, though.
My concern, though, is will the Zika virus spread over the world once Olympics are over or will they manage to keep it out of reach from athletes and spectators? And I hope no athlete gets sick from the polluted/contaminated water because apparently it's really bad. It would suck if athletes had to forfeit as a direct result of pollution-related diseases.
In Canada, Radio-Canada is over the air, the opening ceremonies are beginning right now.
Nice to see RC is still airing the olympics. I know they did it in the past, but nowadays everything is paid it seems so I thought they stopped. Anyway that opening ceremony is cool :D
EDIT: It's probably airing on Radio-Canada radio station too, because they're describing everything in details.
Who thought it was a good idea to let Brazil run the games. That was the worst idea of the decade.
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on August 05, 2016, 11:05:52 PM
Nice to see RC is still airing the olympics. I know they did it in the past, but nowadays everything is paid it seems so I thought they stopped. Anyway that opening ceremony is cool :D
EDIT: It's probably airing on Radio-Canada radio station too, because they're describing everything in details.
The Canadian Olympic Committee is non-profit here, Radio-Canada is state-funded, and the Olympics is a rather big thing, so no problem about that. It's always traditionally been on Radio-Canada and I don't think there's anything who could stop them.
Quote from: Cumred_Snektron on August 05, 2016, 11:41:58 PM
Who thought it was a good idea to let Brazil run the games. That was the worst idea of the decade.
Eh, that's better than nothing. The problem is, the locations are decided 7 years in advance and most of the towns who enter think they'll improve significantly in 7 years if they get the Olympics. Of course, big cities like Paris and London are a sure bet, but I do think the CIO will want to help cities less developed to develop just with the Olympics effect. Some of the towns who hosted the Olympics grew significantly before hosting it.
One of my Dad's friends is the China Women's Soccer team's captain, I think. That's the only thing I know about the olympics besides that it's in Brazil and it's the first olympic games to take place in South America
Yep. Countries to watch are, as usual, USA, China and Russia, but I do hope Canada get more than 1 gold medal. 18 medals total wasn't that bad in 2012, but only one gold... Hope they do better.
Anyway, the opening ceremonies were pretty nice, a bit of the environmental side, guess they wanted to pass a message, especially with the Amazonian deforestation.
Hopefully canada will be able to do well in women's soccer..
Quote from: Cumred_Snektron on August 05, 2016, 11:41:58 PM
Who thought it was a good idea to let Brazil run the games. That was the worst idea of the decade.
IIRC they were considering pulling out of Brazil due to construction delays and safety issues, but it seems like they went with Brazil anyway. But yeah, the issue IMHO is that the olympic cities are decided too early in advance. Anything can happen within 7 years, such as an economic collapse. Plus they are too expensive, especially with security, and stadiums that risk becoming white elephants once the olympics are done.
Also bribery is a serious problem.
They got a lot of problems with doping testing, hope they figured it out in time. They banned quite a lot of Russians and other people and they would still be there if it wasn't for some guy at the CIO finding out there was some bribery and other weird stuff with that.
And yeah, kinda weird the women are that good at soccer and the men aren't. Why can't we watch them at some sort of Women's World Cup or something? Canada would definitely own that thing. Oh well, go Canada!
(also we need olympic walruses)
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lol juju there was a womens world cup a few yaers ago. :P
Quote from: Juju on August 06, 2016, 06:28:57 AM
They got a lot of problems with doping testing, hope they figured it out in time. They banned quite a lot of Russians and other people and they would still be there if it wasn't for some guy at the CIO finding out there was some bribery and other weird stuff with that.
And yeah, kinda weird the women are that good at soccer and the men aren't. Why can't we watch them at some sort of Women's World Cup or something? Canada would definitely own that thing. Oh well, go Canada!
(also we need olympic walruses)
Well IIRC at first they wanted to ban Russia from the Olympics completely, but finally changed their mind. I'M sure many athletes from other countries will try to cheat too, though, since there are bad apples everywhere. Also there was a Women Soccer World Cup in Canada last year IIRC, right? There were even games at the Olympic Stadium.
Something I wonder, though: If Russia would have been banned completely from the Olympics for being involved in steroid scandals, would there have been chances that they retaliate by sending army troops to attack the most influential countries that voted for the ban? I know it would be a risky move from their part, but I am wondering, since they seem quick on the trigger sometimes...
Turns out it's a Canadian lawyer who found out the whole doping thing was sponsored by the Russian state itself, who in turn alerted the IOC and IPC (the paralympics IOC). The IOC decided to delegate the banning rights to the different sport federations, which explains why only half of the athletes were banned. Two Russian athletes weren't concerned that much by the whole deal, though, and were authorized to participate as independents. The IPC, unlike the IOC, decided to outright ban Russia as a whole.
Anyway, the job were mostly done by international organizations which do not represent a country in particular, and, as a country member of said organizations, you don't want to c with them. Neither with Canada.
http://olympics.cbc.ca/swimming/event/women-100m-backstroke/phase=sww041100/index.html?v=20160809023202
Look at the time between the 2nd and the 5th... insane.
Don't you mean the 1st and 2nd positions? Because there is a 30 seconds+ difference there O.O
EDIT: Nevermind that's 0.30 seconds lol, but still, very far ahead compared to others.
Well, I mean, 3 of the women arrived within one hundredth of a second and two of them shared the bronze medal. And the 5th arrived 0.04s later.
So canadas in the top ten medal standings, and hopefully rising!
Yeah, the games just began, anything can happen. Canada isn't as good at summer games as it is at winter games, but it still does have a competitively good team in most sports. The bronze medal in rugby is quite of a surprise, though, but again, that's a new sport as of this year.
So far our medal counts is increasing steadily. We rarely have gold medals during the SUmmer games but hopefully we have some this year.
Well I'm glad Canada now has some gold medals (not a lot but still good to see). We got obliterated at women basketball, though >.<
2 gold, 2 silver, 6 bronze so far, all women, not bad.
Also this triple tie o.o http://olympics.cbc.ca/swimming/event/men-100m-butterfly/index.html
Hopefully we can reach 20 medals. Also I wouldn't go to Rio because there is so much crime apparently. To think in Canada some people can leave their doors unlocked for the day and not run into any troubles. I don't take any chances so I lock mine but I never heard anyone mess with my door so...
Darn, Andre De Grasse arrived 2nd behind Usain Bolt at the 200m! O.O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzIGiTvJvJM
Also Canadian record?
He also arrived 3rd at the 100m. Guess he'll win us some good gold and records after Bolt retires. His peak, when he could do a sub-9.6 is well behind him, and de Grasse is still young, it's his first games iirc, so I bet he can easily tackle the records of Canadian legends such as Bruny Surin and Donovan Bailey set 20 years ago. Then 20 years later, get a job at CBC. Anyway, now he did well at Rio, pretty sure he'll do even better at Tokyo.
At least we got more medals than the last 20 years and tied our current count with Atlanta 1996. Far lower than USA, for example, but not bad for Canada considering we're a Winter country. Not only that but according to Wikipedia, the only time Canada won more than 22 medals at the Summer Olympics was in Los Angeles in 1984 with 44 medals.
We're a rather small country compared to USA and China, but we have a pretty good sports program and we're still able to send a big delegation comparable to some of the bigger countries. Not bad for a 35 million inhabitants country.
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on August 24, 2016, 07:00:32 AM
the only time Canada won more than 22 medals at the Summer Olympics was in Los Angeles in 1984 with 44 medals.
That was the boycott of the Eastern Bloc, without the Communists to compete, guess Canada had a better chance. Same for the previous games in Moscow, Soviet Russia and East Germany got most of the medals because most of the other countries (including Canada) weren't there, or if they were, they competed under the Olympic Flag.
Anyway, yeah, it's true Canada is better at Winter Games, there's far less events there but we win more medals. We totally owned at Vancouver 2010 :P
Well, when you host the games (I lost), you want yourcountry to make a good showing, so they increase budget for athletes and training facilities.
Of course, although Canada was the only host country who never got any gold medals at their own games. Guess we made it up in Vancouver with the most gold ever won in one edition of the Winter Games.
Yeah true. I also remember we got none in 2008 or so >.<
Anyway now I hope zika virus won't spread worldwide. >.<
In case you speak French, I totally laughed when I saw this:
(WARNING: NSFW) http://www.journaldemourreal.com/il-lui-pousse-un-2e-penis-apres-son-plongeon-dans-le-bassin-olympique/
This is a satire news and this article was in reference to the green water in the Rio 2016 pools. XD
okeyyy testing my french skills... <_<
the water for the olympic games was green (nice) and they say an australian diver-guy suddenly grew a second penis....
and it also says that it's the same radioactive water that already mutated these stupid teenage mutant ninja turtles...?
I'm amazed by how much I understand thinking about how few french words I know xD
*imagining writing my name TWICE in the snow simultanously* O.O
Lol your name is only 2 characters long :P
Quote from: p2 on September 13, 2016, 10:28:47 AM
okeyyy testing my french skills... <_<
the water for the olympic games was green (nice) and they say an australian diver-guy suddenly grew a second penis....
and it also says that it's the same radioactive water that already mutated these stupid teenage mutant ninja turtles...?
I'm amazed by how much I understand thinking about how few french words I know xD
*imagining writing my name TWICE in the snow simultanously* O.O
I'm amazed as well.
about how much you as a franco-canadian guy understood or about how much I understood? ;D
Oh, how you understood, of course. Not me, I understood everything as I speak franco-canadian fluently, which is the exact language this article was written in.
^^
franco-canadians and french and franco-suiss guys don't speak the exact same language? O.o
If you don't mind, I split the French differences discussion to a new topic at https://codewalr.us/index.php?topic=1593.0 so we can stick to the original topic post here. :P