HE SCORES! THAT SHOT CAREENED OF AN OPPOSING STICK AND THE ACES LEAD IT 1-0!!!!

I was actually pleasantly surprised last night by the men’s all around broadcast, in that:

Everything I know about Armenia, I learned from my freshman year college roommate and his friends. I assume Karapetyan’s body broke down after going more than five minutes without a cigarette.

Ooh, good job interview question! “One objective for me in my new position will be boning. What percentage of your workforce is down to bone?” Eh, maybe I should just put it on my resume.

Actually, that’s classical dressage. You don’t see a group event in the Olympics because it would be shockingly expensive, and the best riders don’t want to ditch individual glory for a team event. But these moves happen at the Spanish Riding School in Austria, and all across Spain and Latin America. So, kind of in…

the pentathlon is modeled after the skills a 19th-century cavalry soldier would need behind enemy lines.

I am not a fan of the sparkle explosion going on in gymnastics, but I’m so happy to see a good patriotic leo on the ladies after a few Olympic cycles of solid colors. Nothing will ever beat the 1996 leos for me, though. Those were perfection.

It was the Baltimore O, but from his friends who made the trip from the states. Pretty cool.

I don’t think that would be sports nationalism, so much as “I have a rival and I want to crush him directly”, a.k.a. ‘being competitive’

Very well written article. I can’t say I’m impressed by Saudi Arabia’s attempts to use Attar and other American trained women as covers for their lack of substantive change. The hypocrisy is pretty strong here, especially considering the scrub job they did and that Pepperdine is an explicitly evangelical Christian…

Muslim here. To clarify - in Islam, the hijab or niqab aren’t required - it’s only required for women (and men) to dress conservatively. The varying types of dress are contingent upon individual choice and culture.

The old Baltimore “O!” Probably one of the other swimmers from NBAC

Do we not like him? I like him.

He doesn’t owe us shit, and maybe, just maybe, he’s not trying to be the most popular person in the world.

Reflecting on the fact I used to swim in the same meets as Phelps and now here I am eating my Quizno’s.

Yeah. It’s one thing to argue that wearing the hijab is a choice that should be respected, and another to simultaneously hold the view that women should not come into physical contact with men even to shake hands while also believing that women need a male chaperone to go out in the world. I don’t see any way to…

Get that Wade Davis BS out of here. If a cultural treats women like lesser beings that cultural needs to fucking die out.

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Zachary D. Manprin: Cardinal Fan or Schiano Man?