Category: Competition
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Rio 2016: Kazakhstan’s Balandin wins 200m Breast gold
Dmitriy Balandin of Kazakhstan wins gold in the men’s 200m breaststroke final.
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Rio 2016: Denmark’s Blume wins gold in Women’s 50m Freestyle
Pernille Blume wins gold for Denmark in the women’s 50m freestyle final in Rio 2016.
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John Oliver tears down Ryan Lochte as no longer ‘America’s favorite idiot’
Perhaps the tragedy of Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte wasn’t that he lied; it was that America’s lovable doofus is no longer lovable. While John Oliver spent the majority of the Last Week Tonight episode tearing down charter schools, he was able to spare a moment for Lochte, suggesting that no one should be surprised at…
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Do Americans Still Care About the Olympics?
The Rio Games are over, and we have learned a lot. We’ve learned that being a horse is the best job at the Olympics, that a butt-baring Irish bureaucrat is the biggest jerk at the Olympics, and that removing your clothes and dumping them on the scorers’ table is no way to lodge a complaint…