My reaction exactly.

Yes, but what happened last year when the Mets (with the pitching) played the Cubs (with the bats) in the NLCS? The Mets swept.

Good pitching is far more valuable in the post-season than good hitting. But a team needs to get to the post-season first. The Mets don’t have enough hitting this year to even do that.

There was no “spectre of disaster.”

There was the potential for mosquitoes causing future birth defects, for water causing diarrhea or worse for some swimmers/boaters, and for people being randomly held-up at gunpoint on the streets.

No one was watching the Olympics for those. But the pre-Olympics paranoia surrounded…

It’s wayyyy too easy to just blame NBC’s coverage (which was indeed imperfect) for the lower ratings.

How about also blaming the overblown pre-Olympics fear-mongering media coverage of Rio’s allegedly deadly water, deadly mosquitoes, and deadly gun-carrying thieves? Nah, that didn’t hurt the ratings and interest in…

You have no idea how that interview was produced. The reporter was provided info about the DQ — as well as the video — from the production crew. Don’t blame the reporter for being giving the wrong clip of the race. If you think it was a hack job, blame whomever put the erroneous clip together. Even then, it’s an…

He didn’t get penalized for celebrating. You (and the others who starred you) need to learn the rules of wrestling before leaving your hot takes here.

You’re off-base. At the time of the interview, the runner had been officially DQ’d. That is a fact and the reporter informed the runner.

Then they both watched the tape together to try to figure out what the hell had happened on the track — with the most obviously possibility being that the runner had been DQ’d…

I’m tired of this false narrative. The sideline reporter did nothing wrong.

Those who are criticizing this interview are conveniently forgetting that just about every American athlete (and some non-Americans, too) who medals in a major track event in these Olympics gets interviewed by NBC’s sideline reporter, shortly…

Nothing odd at all. Did you forget that just about every athlete who medals in a big track event in these Olympics gets interviewed by NBC’s sideline reporter? And that just happens to coincide with the time when DQ’s are revealed. No scoops. No poor journalism. Just logistics.

Billy Bush didn’t give Lochte a real pass. Bush said that Lochte was too dumb to have made up such story! That’s not a “pass” — that’s an insult!

It’s not a scoop. It’s reporting the facts at the time. And if you’re DQ’d, it’s your fault. Don’t blame the messenger.

What’s your gripe? Did you expect the guy from NBC to hide the fact (at the time) that the runner had been DQ’d and instead blow smoke up the runner’s ass and congratulate him on a silver medal?

Actually, he is stepping out at in the curve. It’s subtle, but it’s still the curve. The camera angle and camera ditance compress the curve and make it look straight at the point he is at.

That said, it seems like such a tiny misstep that I can’t see any advantage that he got there.

What a bullshit take. Lochte is getting KILLED by just about everyone except that one IOC douche. Can’t believe you got ungreyed for that shit take.

Hey, I almost majored in math in college — and I still didn’t realize the math here until I experienced it on the water!

Let me guess. The fourth is already on a flight home.

Not embarrassing at all!

I only discovered the counter-intuitive nature of these scenarios when I started kayaking on the same river, doing the same loop. Whenever the current and/or wind was up, my times were slower — even though I was doing the same upstream/downstream loop. It realize that my assumption that it was…

(I’m assuming you meant that the current was 1 mph, not 1 km/h...)

If the course is one mile downstream and one mile upstream, then we get this.:

Downstream at 6 mph takes 10 minutes.
Upstream at 4 mph takes 15 minutes.
Total time: 25 minutes.

If there is no current, the swimmer (at 5 mph constantly) will take 12 minutes…

Surely. Here is the example I posted above, when provided a realistic example: a 0.1m/sec current with swimmers who can swim 2 m/sec — over just 100m, which is two legnths of the pool.

Great point. BTW, even if the current was less than that, the effect multiplies for each race that is longer than 100m.