She was World Champion back in ‘09 and heavily favored (at least to medal) in ‘12, but completely fluffed it.

I swam for 20 years and never saw this anywhere. I’m sure it happens, but it’s really not common.

This sounds may sound like hyperbole but USC and cheating are synonymous. From upper leadership to students it's a culture formed and fostered. Unable to compete? Find a way. This happens to be that way.

She had never before won an Olympic medal. Now, at the Olympics where the anti-doping lab was suspended last month, she breaks through and destroys a world record.

Where there’s smoke...

This was my thought as I was watching it last night. To my knowledge, no one gets THAT much better — to a point of total dominance — that quickly without some doping shenanigans of some kind.

In my experience (I was a successful, albeit regionally, record-holding swimmer), a two second drop in any event less than or equal to 400 meters or more is truly remarkable. Especially at that level where the entire planet (of swimmers) has tried to beat the existing record. It stands to reason that longer distances…

Has anyone ever known a Shane that <i>wasn’t</i> an asshole?

Agreed. “Lifting weights more” doesn’t lead to smashing a world record like you’re from East Germany.

Does any athlete in this day and age really get that much faster without doping?

If it was indeed “almost identical,” your reaction sure seems a touch hypersensitive.

Totally agree. When I put in the 50 or so pokemon I DON’T have into pokevision, I would sometimes see 1-2 of them in my city (Cleveland). Sometimes none. Now, with no way to track them, there’s essentially no way to “catch them all” without spending my whole life playing this game and getting absurdly lucky. No…

We live in western NJ, where our population density is under 180 per square mile. We drove an hour+ into NYC yesterday so our boys could chase Electrobuzzes around Central Park in the pouring rain. I have no idea how anybody in VERY rural areas has anything more than a Ratata/Pidgey/Weedle army.

Except that the in-game tracker was NOT cheating and was a big and important part of the game. With that disabled, you need SOMETHING to track nearby Pokémon.

I live in a rural area. Finding any Pokémon to begin with is a chore.

So no in-game tracking OR tracking websites. What the flying fuck?

I am so sad I know so many Drumpf supporters. Because my esteem for each of them is forever and irrevocably diminished, family includes.

The right-wing ragegasm for Hilary is something I never really understood. They were rabid from the very start and it’s just gotten more unhinged since. And even 25yrs ago it was ludicrous.

That’s been my experience as well, though I’m happy to report that only one person I know well, a neighbor, has admitted to supporting Donny. And my neighbor is an egomaniacal, untrustworthy, dishonest piece of philandering shit.

I spoke to two pro trump people this week and both are completely motivated by a hatred of hillary that borders on the pathological. When asked why they hate her the reply is that she is a liar. But they seem unconcerned that trump lies. It’s a very interesting bit of cognitive dissonance

This boulder of shit is incapable of honesty. And as disturbing as that may be, the fact that there are millions walking among us who believe him to be a capable choice for President is fucking frightening.