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Russia sent 436 athletes to the last Summer Olympics in 2012. As of today, only 271 Russian athletes had been approved to compete in Rio. Russia will now have a smaller delegation of athletes than 11 other countries, which will be a big game-changing factor.
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This is what i love about the Olympics, the wide range of sports, that you would never ordinarily watch, but you become totally engrossed in every four years. Bring on the sports!!
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I agree. A lot of these sports i would probably never watch when outside of the Olympics. But hell yeah, i'm going to watch some canoeing while drinking a pint !
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I hope i can´t hear any trumpets when the games open tonight And i hope i don´t see burning flames when i lay in my bed tonight... But i think we will see nice Olympic games in Rio this summer and hi hope without doping scandals.
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I will try to watch every sport where Serbia play,especially basketball,water polo and novak djokovic in tennis !hope that they will bring few medals home and to show how can they beat anybody!
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I watched yesterday football matches at the Olympics in Rio , good game showed almost all only Brazil I was disappointed , Neymar has played well , had a fantastic shot, others were very bad and what to say to Fiji received 8 goals and it could have been much more
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well football @olymypics is a joke, so what i have left is to watch some basketball... a few non competitive games including us of a vs remaining of the world who think they know how to play this game.. a few 40+ points wins and another set of gold medals collected... how thrilling...
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I love the Olympic Games. However I will not be watching the football, tennis, or golf. These are sports where the Olympics are NOT the pinnacle. The rest of the sports are amazing in such an event truely creating the best in the world. I will be making sure to watch all water events incl rowing, canoeing, triathlon and also the gymnastics and athletics as they are pure Olympic sports
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Posted by blesoldier: I am looking forward to the swimming events at this year's games. I hope Michael Phelps wins the men's butterfly and breaks the world record again.
Welcome to the forum blesoldier. The wonders of the only pics where you can support excellence in sport and not necessarily your country!
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Posted by bowie1984:
Posted by blesoldier: I am looking forward to the swimming events at this year's games. I hope Michael Phelps wins the men's butterfly and breaks the world record again.
Isn't he had a truckload of gold already? Why not rooting for somebody from the UK instead? Adam Peaty not good enough for you?
Bowie...... Enjoy the games and stay open minded for sport.
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Posted by Robbo1990: I love the Olympic Games. However I will not be watching the football, tennis, or golf. These are sports where the Olympics are NOT the pinnacle. The rest of the sports are amazing in such an event truely creating the best in the world. I will be making sure to watch all water events incl rowing, canoeing, triathlon and also the gymnastics and athletics as they are pure Olympic sports
Footy, golf and tennis shouldn't be in the olympics....... Unless it's made up of people who don't or have never played in the professional game or in a major.
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Posted by BRM_Henrik: I agree. A lot of these sports i would probably never watch when outside of the Olympics. But hell yeah, i'm going to watch some canoeing while drinking a pint !
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today for me big suprise was draw in water polo between serbia and hungary 13:13!we are first favourites and ofcourse I expected win,even on other side is hungary!hungary had lead by 4 goals,so this result is good at end!
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is a very surprising result , I know that the Serbian water polo favorites for the gold medal , but at the beginning of the tournament they will surely get their game in the coming matches, will surely make it to the finals
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heard today from radio that half of worlds population watched the opening ceremony of olympic games... whooping news... i never imagined that half or more of worlds population actually have a way to get to a tv... especially for such an important even like the opening ceremony of olympic games... spectacular...
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If that is true i belong to the half that didnt watch it Just saw a few minutes of it from internet videos. To be honest i got really bored with it. At the end is the same things over and over again, with some variations. Better watch a movie than this
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oh boy oh boy what excitement awaits us all @the olympic games in rio... single sculls rowing, double sculls rowing, lightweight four rowing, modern pentathlon, epee/foil/sabre individual and team fencing, and don't forget canoeing and judo... oh and there's weightlifting too... such a trilling array of events...
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I am loving all the Olympic sports so far. I was watching the fencing for hours yesterday and, even though i didnt have a clue what was going on, i was loving every minute of it. I also enjoyed the Archery competitions as well
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Aged 13 years, Nepal's Gaurika Singh is the youngest of the more than 10,000 athletes at Rio 2016. Yesterday, she came 32rd out of 34 competitors trying to qualify for the 100-meter backstroke. The result was not exactly what she had hoped it would be, but she has had an invaluable experience of elite competitions. Wishing her every success in all of her future endeavors.
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for serbia this olympic didnt start good and after last night and djokovic lost who know what will happen till end of games!cant believe how good del potro played,like he didnt have pause for few years!his was great and can describe how sad I am beacuse of nole!
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This time of year, it is difficult watching tv Lots more things to do that are far more interesting. Some say to watch to support the athletes. Like if we dont watch them over the tv they wont be able to win
And i hope i don´t see burning flames when i lay in my bed tonight... But i think we will see nice Olympic games in Rio this summer and hi hope without doping scandals.
!hope that they will bring few medals home and to show how can they beat anybody!
