Rio Olympics

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(07-10-2016 10:46 PM)Above the Title Wrote:  LOl yes, duh, the three highest. Who would count their lowest score?

There are instances in sports were a high score is thrown out, I think usually as a tie-breaker.

[Above the Title]

Scoring rules:

Team Prelims
5 athletes per team
4 perform on each event
3 highest scores count
Top 24 AA and top 8 on each event qualify to the finals, limited 2 per country, using these rounds of scores

Team Finals
5 athletes per team
3 perform on each event
3 scores count

AA and Event Finals
All scores start fresh (no carry over)

Inquiries
A coach can only protest the difficulty score of a routine, not the execution score

Tiebreak
In the event of tiebreak for a medal placement:

The gymnasts drop their lowest score of the 4 events. Whichever has the highest total for 3 events is the winner. In the event they are still tied, add together just the Execution scores of all 4 events and the highest is the winner. In they event they are STILL tied, add together the Difficulty scores. If they are still tied, they share the medal. (I hate this rule.)

[Above the Title]

As I said.

[Above the Title]

STATS (cuz God forbid NBC give any instead of watching Dougie chalk up and drink water):

Gabby is the first female Olympic AA champion to come back to the Olympics since NADIA in 1980
Gabby/Aly are the first female American gymnasts to come back to the Games since 2000, when Marta took over (also the year Laurie Hernandez was born!)
One more gold puts Gabby and/or Aly at most Olympic golds all time for an American...but Simone should top that on her own as well
America's first World AA champ Kim Zmeskal trains her first Olympic alternate (Ragan Smith)

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"There is only one reason the IOC doesn’t do the prudent reasonable thing and postpone or move the Rio Games: money. The right thing is to get a grip on Zika, finish venues properly without being fleeced at the mercy of contractors and launch an environmental cleanup. But too much cash and loss of face is at stake for sponsors and organizers. So they will double down on a risky bet and let it ride."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/ol...story.html

[Above the Title]

Zika is so so overblown. It's WINTER in Brazil right now and the threat of the disease is with pregnant women or women who will become pregnant within three months of contracting the disease. None of the athletes are pregnant right now. As long as they wait awhile to try to get pregnant once they get back to their home countries, it's fine. Honestly, IMO, they are using fear fear fear fearmongering media to avoid talking about the ACTUAL anti-humanitarian effects of any nation hosting the Olympics. The IOC desperately wants to give every country a chance and South America has never hosted before, which is why Rio so easily got the bid. But Brazil is basically a third world country. For hosting the Games, it's a losing economic prospect for nearly every country in the world. Everybody goes in optimistic thinking the tourism will stimulate their economy and it does the opposite. Building the venues - which sit there vacant and don't get repurposed after - costs too much. People's homes are mowed down to make room for the giant arenas. Migrant workers are hired to do all the labor at minimal cost instead of stimulating the actual workforce of the country. The athletes leave after three weeks and the people who actually live there are stuck with the decade or longer economic downturn caused by throwing all the money into hosting. Not to mention the constant questions about allowing countries with dictatorships to compete - even though it's not the athletes' faults. And the doping. And the bribery. To me, the "threat" of a Zika is a distraction from all this.

All that said...opening ceremonies tonight! Did we decide on a posting strategy? When do we label spoiler and when do we not label spoiler? Rio is an hour ahead of US EST but the primetime televised coverage doesn't start until 8pm EST.

And are we keeping Olympic discussion all in here or branching out into the individual sports thread (tennis and gymnastics)?

[NUguy514]

I think we can probably keep the discussion in this thread, right?

That was an incredible opening ceremony. I loved everything about it; I'd say it's the best one I can remember. That Olympic cauldron is...everything. Oh, and that Tongan flag bearer?

[Sanny]

Those hot US and Croatian water polo players don't look like they are swimming in dirty water.

Seriously though, the opening ceremony always looks like an amazing party. The flag bearer for (I want to say) Kiribati looked like he was having the time of his life.

[pvdk]

Kiribati may not really exist by the next Olympics. They've bought land in Fiji as a country, to move to because it's going under water.

First Opening Ceremony since 1992 I've not watched and have had no interest in.

[Dr.ciski77]

Tongaaaaaahhhhhhh