I feel like the dynamic is not uncommon, but they’re married. To me that puts this in an entirely different light.

Heck yeah. So much so, that they’re only allowed to do it until the black marks on the floating lanes.

He entered thirteen hundredths of a second behind and handed off to the next leg a full second ahead. In a distance that is usually decided by those hundreths. The guys a swimming god.

“Caitlyn just wasn’t relatable,”

A staunchly Republican Transgender Olympic Athlete is not relateable?

I really enjoyed this Sarah, but can you rewrite the lede to save us all some time?

It's the oxtail

My Slavic alphabet is a tad rusty, but I believe in Russian you spell “diplomat” as K-G-B.

just like they say, the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a Russian diplomat trained in jiu jitsu

Katie Ledecky is better at swimming the 800-meter freestyle than any Olympian has ever been in any event. She is better at swimming the 800-meter freestyle than Usain Bolt is at running the 100. She is better at swimming the 800-meter freestyle than Michael Jordan was at basketball in 1992. Whoever gets silver and…

I’ve wondered the same thing. The news is talking about how athletes practically need to be wearing Outbreak suits if lest they even touch a drop, but people swim in this all day every day. What am I missing?

Look at the stars. See how they shine for you.

Even if he was an affirmative action admission all it would prove is that affirmative action kicks ass and is worth the investment, because we got Barack Freaking Obama out of it.

It continues to amuse/irritate me to no end that these people - white, conservative, religious - are the real face of welfare fraud. Not saying that other people don’t cheat the system but the FLDS have turned welfare fraud into an art form. Yet somehow when some people use the term ‘welfare queen’ you just know the…

Well, that's life as a Republican!

Those poor women and children, kept hungry, ignorant, socially isolated and pretty close to sexual chattel status.

dude also complained about getting a poor signal on his phone. and ya thought the female gymnasts were the only ones who dealt with uneven bars

From the NY Daily News

As you can see, they have stage 4 affluenza. Their chances of recovery are basically zero.

I really could have gone the rest of my life not knowing who this person was.