Road to Rio

[Lods]

Not long to go....
Bit of bad news.
Sally Pearson has torn a hamstring and won't be competing.

[Mav]

Get Danksy on to that right now and she'll be right.

[crashlander]

Not the sort of news we want to hear, but just because we don't want to hear it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

I am finding it very difficult to get motivated for these Olympics, something that is not normally the case. The Road to this Olympic Games is paved with Zika Virus (frightening enough at the best of times), Monumental Corruption (the government of Brazil is lucky to have survived), Drug Cheating (the whole Russian Athletics team, for example, is banned for drug use. Others should be!), Crime (it is just luck that athletes haven't been killed yet), Pollution (some of the Games' venues are unclean by any standards, and not just the water areas), incomplete venues (a perennial: Sydney and London have been the only ones really ready for decades) and real lack of interest (the Brazilian population haven't shown the interest and the rest of the world is afraid of the crime or the Zika virus).
It is just not what it could have been.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Only really interested in the basketball and it appears the USA star players cant be be bothered playing...Curry and Lebron are already withdrawals...I guess it might even up the comp but I was looking forward to seeing the best players from every country go around...

[cookie2]

Not the sort of news we want to hear, but just because we don't want to hear it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

I am finding it very difficult to get motivated for these Olympics, something that is not normally the case. The Road to this Olympic Games is paved with Zika Virus (frightening enough at the best of times), Monumental Corruption (the government of Brazil is lucky to have survived), Drug Cheating (the whole Russian Athletics team, for example, is banned for drug use. Others should be!), Crime (it is just luck that athletes haven't been killed yet), Pollution (some of the Games' venues are unclean by any standards, and not just the water areas), incomplete venues (a perennial: Sydney and London have been the only ones really ready for decades) and real lack of interest (the Brazilian population haven't shown the interest and the rest of the world is afraid of the crime or the Zika virus).
It is just not what it could have been.

Agree with you Crash. The Olympics is a snorefest for me nowadays - I have absolutely no interest at all. Used to be an avid follower of it. In fact footy is just about it for me as far as sport goes now.

[crashlander]

It is a pity it has gone downhill, but things are just not the same any more. Maybe that is a weakness in me?

[Lods]

Hope I'm wrong but I have a feeling this event could end up a bit of a shambles

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/olympics/rio...qhwr2.html

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2016/08/05...es-village

http://wwos.nine.com.au/2016/08/05/06/40...soupy-pool

[Bear]

Not content with shooting up their athletes, the russians are turning their attention to the locals!

[sandsmere]

I agree with you Lods.
I reckon the main stories about these games will not be about what happens in the sports arenas.

[dodge]

Don't know if the Olympics are what they were.  Every sport has its world championships every year or two and if you are interested in that sport you can follow the best nearly all year round.  They also put in ridiculous sports such as golf and tennis.  At least with soccer it is U23 with the exception of a couple of players...

Then having the prospect of many athletes having to give their medals back due to cheating adds a high level of cynicism for a lot of sports.

I don't think that I'll be losing sleep over the Olympics.