Running Olympics Thread

[DanOregon]

Good news - Skateboarding is now an Olympic Sport.
Bad News -

Skateboarder suspended six months for smoking weed

 

[TigerVols]

Shouldn't this be the Rolling Olympics Thread?

 

[micropolitan guy]

Thirty years too late for Michael J. Fox. He would have been a rock-solid pick for Team Canada.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Good news - Skateboarding is now an Olympic Sport.
Bad News -

Skateboarder suspended six months for smoking weed

They really expect to find enough skateboarders who don't smoke dope to fill an Olympic roster? Good luck with that.

 

[maumann]

Shouldn't this be the Rolling Olympics Thread?

This one is still rising as it leaves the park. Nicely played.

 

[Pilot]

Thirty years too late for Michael J. Fox. He would have been a rock-solid pick for Team Canada.

Yeah just so long as he doesn’t try to ride over the water.

 

[Batman]

They really expect to find enough skateboarders who don't smoke dope to fill an Olympic roster? Good luck with that.

If they can have a snowboarding competition every four years, they can do this.

 

[John B. Foster]

Vonn retiring.

 

[Della9250]

 

[TrooperBari]

The athletes' board pushed for harsher penalties than WADA did -- haven't seen that before. Wonder if the ROC will produce any new evidence for the inevitable CAS appeal or keep running with claims the whistleblower's evidence was falsified.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Is just banning the Russian accoutrements really a punishment? Ban the actual athletes.

 

[BTExpress]

Guilty athletes are banned.

Don't know why you'd want innocent ones banned. Well, I do know, but . . .

Party like it's 1984!

And banning that beautiful anthem is a punishment to the world.

 

[Pilot]

You ban athletes when the problem starts at the bottom. This problem starts at the top, an aggressive state-sanctioned effort to cheat. Banning the whole country is the right thing to do, even if it ****s over a few people trying to do it the right way. The anger should be with their government, not the decision makers on this.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Guilty athletes are banned.

Don't know why you'd want innocent ones banned. Well, I do know, but . . .

Party like it's 1984!

And banning that beautiful anthem is a punishment to the world.

I want all the Russians banned due to systemic cheating by their Olympic Committee.

 

[Starman]

Don't worry, Fat**** will be on the tweet machine soon threatening to forbid the US from going if the brutal cruel unfair treatment of sweet Russia continues.

 

[TigerVols]

Don't worry, Fat**** will be on the tweet machine soon threatening to forbid the US from going if the brutal cruel unfair treatment of sweet Russia continues.

You know what? He really truly will any minute now.

 

[Starman]

Well, that's not exactly a tough call.

 

[Della9250]

 

[ringer]

Don't sweat the weed.
11 yr old skateboarder due to compete for Great Britain in Tokyo broke her head on the vert ramp. Vert isn't the Olympic event, but still. Expect some gnar.

11-Year-Old Skateboarding Star Sky Brown Hospitalized After Failed Ramp Trick

 

[da man]

I want all the Russians banned due to systemic cheating by their Olympic Committee.

If you banned every country whose Olympic Committee was cheating, there would be no one left.