Your people must be ecstatic about Simone Biles.

Or, I dunno. Is aliens people?

“Everyone at that level is talented”
Of course, but the very best are more talented than the others. That is the biggest difference. Work ethic is out, because athletes have to worry about overtraining. There is an upper limit to the amount of effort you can put into being the very best while having it be remotely…

No they are not. The sooner this take dies, the better.

Being an asshole has absolutely fuck-all to do with hand-eye coordination, VO2 Max, being tall, or whatever skill you *actually* need to play a sport well. I can’t possibly imagine a scenario in which being an asshole makes you ride a bike faster.

There were around 9.5 runs per game during the steroid era. There are 8.5 runs per game today. Become a Rockies fan. Problem solved.

It is entirely possible and probable that the best cyclists did not dope, and that a bunch of mediocre cyclists ended up winning races because doping is just a game breaking advantage in a sport that is almost purely endurance.

You also have to consider that Lance's team had such a sophisticated doping regime, that…

I’ve had it with these fucking spoilers.

The Tokyo Olympics don't start for another 4 years, and I already know who wins the women's 400 and 800 free.

CBC has more than two employess, so, no.

THEN WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING ON A SWIMMING BLOG smfh

I think the constant assuming the worst of everybody is getting pathetic.

Does the world really get just how good Simone Biles is? She’s the prohibitive favorite in her four individual events, and if she wins, it's be the greatest Olympics by a female gymnast, ever. She is bordering on a Ledecky-level chokehold on the sport.

They *could* step on a tough QF matchup.

Canada missing the hockey podium is not all that strange. They ran into the best goalie of all time while he was in alien-mode, then lost another game against a very good Finland team. These were relatively small upsets.

Team USA missing the *basketball* podium would be a quantum leap in terms of WTF, although they…

The Olympics are one of the biggest sports mediapaloozas on the entire planet. Which means, it’s going to include a whole lot of people coming up with a whole lot of comments on a very public forum.

Of course you’re going to find borderline or overtly sexist comments five or twenty times over the course of the games,…

A hockey podium consisting of Hasek-Russia-Finland is nothing particularly out of the ordinary.

Team USA staying off of the podium altogether would be maybe a 1% shot.

These announcers are the literal worst. These athletes have been training their whole lives for this opportunity.




They don't need to be told that they have to try.

They have been completely dominant in Sevens up until about 2 years ago, when they were finally overtaken by Fiji. Even then, they’ve been #3 in the Sevens World Series. It is utterly bonkers to see this team get popped by Japan (which is what ultimately resulted in them getting popped in the QF to begin with.

Olympic archers can't melt steel beams. I applaud your correct take.

Literally, water itself is a legal, performance enhancing substance.

Yeah sorry, that would be an odd and dumb strategy.

I'm pretty sure the point of this list is Michael Phelps, not USA and USSR dominance.