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Anything with lots of Norwegians is alright by me. Stupid sexy Norwegians. The OWG are a different beast. I think you have a point that the new additions to the Winters have been more seamlessly integrated and fit the theme a lot more. LA is going to be a bloated mess because of all the new team sports they've added. And the political minefield disaster that the Haundenosanee are going to cause with lacrosse.

Unfortunately truth and good narrative are not always the same. Opponents of the Olympics and the media can take two things and conflate them. As was seen in Munich/Stockholm/Calgary/Rome/Oslo/Trondheim/Hamburg/etc etc etc. And opponents will always seize on needed infrastructure projects that are built/sped up because of a major event hosting and the cost of the overall Olympics. Look at Vancouver and the metro line and improvements for the Sea to Sky highway. Both much needed, but because they were part of and deadlined for the Olympics it became conflated. Completely ignoring that infrastructure does not go away after the Olympics.

The cost of both games are one of the major sticking points. Add in the white elephants and organization problems of Rio and the Brazilian economy (like the Greek) circling the drain since hosting has provided much ammunition for people to come out strongly against hosting. Tokyo's overspending and corruption have also caused a lot of problems.

I was in a bar in good ole 'Murica during that race. And I was very obviously a Canadian for the last 10 seconds or so of it.

Surprised there is no pictures of dad bod Croatian water polo guy.

I think the IOC made one of the most intelligent choices in giving both France and the USA games back to back. London, while a truly special Olympics, was preceded and followed by problematic Olympics. Paris is going to be followed by LA. If the Italians can pull off another Torino level Olympics for 2026 the narrative around the Games could change dramatically. I travelled during the second week of the Games so missed much but what I did see and the engagement as I sat at overpriced bars here and there was not something I would have seen previously. NBC's ratings are also significantly up from initial reports.

Idk, Australians can be pretty sexy.

LA's is going to be in the Rivers of America at Disneyland. That is clearly going to be the number 1 location all time cannot be beat.

A Canadian got a stray bronze today. That was nice. Medal came via Cirque de Soleil. Another miss from gracenotes today in women's boxing. Oh well.

It is your choice in Batman. Michael Keaton batman looks like he'd be a better time than Christian Bale batman. Huge Jackman before steroids looked better. Chris Hemsworth not playing Thor looks better. I don't want a guy that looks like he'll bore me with his protein regiment. I want a guy that will have fun, eat tacos have some beer. And no, he is fine the way he is.

It was true from Barcelona to Rio. I also think Germany suffers from team sport focus. Germany is top tier in almost every major team sport. That is a big athlete drain. Even one like ice hockey Germany has started to produce enough world class athletes to have a competitive team.

You use to be a lot more fun and informative about Canadian athletes and chances.

Well if I am going to get banned it might as well be for this. American Christianity is blasphemous. It is heresy. It lacks any basic understanding of the Bible nor the context in which the Bible was written. Irenaeus would be shocked and appalled by beliefs held by Christians in America. American Christians have corrupted the Bible, Jesus and the Church to justify and glorify their own sense of self-importance and superiority. To the point they gave the world Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses. Jesus was the Alpha and the Omega. The beginning and the end, emphasis on the end. No new revelation was to come after the word of Christ. Yet here comes the Americans and all their supposed "Great Awakenings' giving us prosperity gospels and televangelists. Yet Jesus said it would be easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. And don't get me started on how those 'beliefs' compelled you to elected the felonious serial philanderer and admitted sexual predator that is Donald J Trump. Who looks like he has another failed marriage on his hands. And y'all want to act scandalized by a fat lesbian white woman playing the role of a brown middle eastern Jew riffing on a painting that depicted a bunch of middle eastern Jews as a bunch of white dudes. Look at yourself.

Idk, I thought he looked good. Dad bods and all that. I am currently dating a guy with the build and stature of a gymnast. Sometimes I wish there was more of him to hold.

Crickets up in here. Canada at 2-2-2 so far. Based on the gracenotes predictions. Correct with Christa Deguchi and Summer McIntosh winning gold. Incorrect with Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard winning silver and Kyle Masse and women's 4x100m freestyle winning bronze. Missed the silvers for McIntosh and the women's rugby team and the bronze in fencing for Harvey and the boys in diving (woohoo go men winning medals for Canada)

No investment after riding the coattails and fumes of the GDR after reunification.

Anaheim is Disneyland Park. Magic Kingdom is used on as the name for only 1 park.

There is only one Magic Kingdom and it is in Florida. Disneyland Paris is its own weird thing. Plus I cannot wait to go there one day. And the Japanese versions.

Are we all hiding because of the national shame? Usually this thread is hopping. Two unfortunate miss-outs to doped up Chinese swimmers. But Eleanor Harvey winning Canada's first ever fencing medal. That was fun to watch.

Zidane is Algerian and not shy about that heritage. At least Guadalope is apart of France. Still. France's most notable current champions are on the winter side.

It is a bad look and you'd think the Dutch and FIVB would have been aware of this. People deserve second chances, but you have to earn it. And by all accounts he has never even acknowledged the damage he did. And also it not like this was 19 and 15. It was 12. Nasty.

Actually it has. Canada's legal name has always been just 'Canada'. Dominion was a conferred title from the British government. It stopped being used by Britain in the late 1940s. By the Canadian government in 1951 and the legal paperwork and legislation surrounding the Constitution Act 1982 and the Canada Act 1982 all use the sole legal name as 'Canada'. Chuck is in name only and we didn't actually follow any of the protocols or provisions that would normally be required. The governments just sidestepped all of that because of optics.

Celine was born in 1968. We stopped using Dominion in 1951.

Sunset is 9:37pm. We are there.

That was a Last Supper reference right? The made Jesus a fat white woman?