Olympics Thread
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<p>Justin Marshall is going as an expert commentator and will be explaining the intricate rules of diverse supports such as fencing, gymnastics and Greco-Roman Wrestling.</p>
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<p>"I CAN'T AGREE WITH THAT NISBO - THERE WAS NO DOWNWARD PRESSURE".</p>
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<p>that's a worry considering he doesn't even know the rules (laws for the pedantic) of the sport he played.</p>
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<p>I may have started the Justin's Olympic trip rumour. :)</p> -
<p>Do Fairfax and NZME pay Sky anything to broadcast video snippets of sport on their websites? If not, they don't have any moral high ground, especially as all their videos have fuckin' ads embedded in them.</p>
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<p>Coverage of the Olympics is generally much better in NZ than in other countries. I watched very little of the 2000 Sydney Olympics on NBC as they were only interested in showing events featuring US athletes. Even then it wasn't always live.</p> -
<p>Wasn't that the case for the last commonwealth games? they made a big push at the end to get things sorted... in any case the athletes are going to be too busy humping to worry about flushing toilets and running water. Sheesh!</p>
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<p>rubbers have to go somewhere bro</p>
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<p>This Olympics is probably going to be the worst ever. </p>
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<p>I read a story in the paper today with a couple of the Aussie sailors. They have been out practicing on teh course, and while the sewerage has been cleaned up, they reckon they have to stop their boat a couple of times a session to clean the rubbish off their foils. And they are constantly at risk of hitting something big enough to hole them. </p>
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<p><strong>Rio was an appalling choice</strong>. </p>
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<p>They spent too much money in "gifts" and didn't leave enough to actually build the necessary infrastructure. The IOC should have moved it last year when it became apparent that things were not going well</p> -
<p>The IOC do not give a fuck once the thing has been paid for. It's not like a shitty 2016 olympics will diminish the bribes for the 2028 voting. </p>
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<p>NZ Olympian robbed by guys in police uniforms. This is going to go so well. </p>
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<p>article just says police, not people pretending to be police....</p>
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<p>his tweet about it <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href=''>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/82437854/kiwi-sportsman-jason-lee-kidnapped-in-brazil'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/82437854/kiwi-sportsman-jason-lee-kidnapped-in-brazil</a></p>
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<p class=""><span>HENRY COOKE</span></p>
<p class=""><span>Last updated 11:08, July 25 2016</span></p>
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<p>Jason Lee is a national Jiu-Jitsu champion.</p>
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<p>A Kiwi sportsman was forced into a car by armed police and made to withdraw the equivalent of NZ$850 in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil over the weekend, just 13 days before the Olympics are set to start in the city.</p>
<p>The police, who warned him not to report the incident and made efforts to avoid being seen, detained Jason Lee after pulling him off a highway into the city on Sunday (NZ time).</p>
<p>After forcing him to drive the wrong way down the highway, they transferred him into an unmarked car, then took him to several ATMs to withdraw the money.</p>
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<p>Kiwi Jason Lee: "I don't think I've ever felt like I could possibly die."</p>
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<p>They claimed that Lee was not legally allowed to drive in Brazil without his passport. Lee later found out this was not the case.</p>
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<p>Lee, a 27-year-old jiu-jitsu national champion from Wellington, is not part of the Olympic delegation (Jiu-Jitsu is not an Olympic sport.)</p>
<p>He has lived in Rio for about a year with his partner Laura McQuillan, a journalist who works for <em>Stuff.</em></p>
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<p>This was the worst of several bad Brazilian experiences, Lee said.</p>
<p>He was more scared for his life than he had ever been.</p>
<p>"I don't think I've ever felt like I could possibly die," Lee said.</p>
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<p>The experience began with what appeared to be a routine police stop.</p>
<p>Lee was pulled over by two police on motorbikes, each armed with a pistol.</p>
<p>The Police said they were carrying out a routine search for drugs and weapons.</p>
<p>"First he asked me stretch my arms, then patted me down. He grabbed my genital area, which was quite a surprise."</p>
<p>"At this point it still looked reasonably professional."</p>
<p>After a full search of his car and person, one of officers took his license and the registration of his rented car away to his bike for a few minutes.</p>
<p>When he returned he was brandishing a large book, and told Lee he was breaking the law.</p>
<p>"He says 'you can't drive in Brazil as a foreigner without a passport,' which I now know isn't the case at all. The rental car company hadn't mentioned that to me."</p>
<p>"He starts opening the book, showing me all these passages in Portuguese, which I can sort of read like every third word.</p>
<p>The police demanded that Lee either paid them 2000 Brazilian Reais (NZ$850) or they would arrest him and take him to the federal police. </p>
<p>Lee didn't have that much cash, so the police told him to follow them to an ATM.</p>
<p>But instead they forced him to drive down the wrong lane of a highway, pulling off beside a concrete police bunker underneath an overpass.</p>
<p>"These guys have pulled me over, they have weapons. I'm not in any position to negotiate," Lee said.</p>
<p>At this point he feared for his life.</p>
<p>At the bunker, Lee was forced to swap into an unmarked private car belonging to one of the officers.</p>
<p>When he asked why he couldn't drive his own car to the ATM, they explain that his car doesn't have tinted windows, but they are in full uniform and don't want to be seen.</p>
<p>"At this point I acknowledged to myself that I've completely backed myself into a corner."</p>
<p>Lee had been sending voice messages to his partner on WhatsApp, and dropped a GPS pin at the location of the bunker.</p>
<p>"Once I realised it was corrupt stuff that made me hesitant to go towards my phone - they knew what they were doing was wrong."</p>
<p>One of the officers and Lee drove to a nearby group of shops where he withdrew the money from several ATMs. The officer stayed in the car to avoid the security cameras, Lee said.</p>
<p>The pair returned to the bunker, Lee handed over the money, and was finally released.</p>
<p>One of the officers warned Lee against reporting the incident. </p>
<p>"He said 'you can't say anything to anyone about this, not a word.'"</p>
<p>Lee worried that drugs may have been planted in his car.</p>
<p>He immediately returned it and took an Uber home, before reporting the incident to the Tourist Police that night.</p>
<p>"I was umming and ahhing about whether I should even make a complaint. One of the guys I was reporting it to said 'we understand you are hesitant, because we are the Police, and that branch of the Police is so scary even we are afraid of them'."</p>
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<p>Reminds me of another story - on my OE.</p>
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<p>I somehow ended up going out drinking in Corfu with a bunch of loud yanks and a very pleasant and quietly spoken Brazilian guy named Fernando.</p>
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<p>The yanks and I had all been travelling (not together) from West to East - but Fernando was going in the opposite direction. We'd not long come from Rome and he was headed there.</p>
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<p>One guy was wanking on about the cardboard waving gypsy pickpocket kids in Rome and how he'd almost been robbed by them.</p>
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<p>Fernando drew me aside, "Chris B., I am very concerned, I don't understand this story of the children with cardboard".</p>
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<p>"It's no big deal, Fernando", I reassured him, and explained how they clumsily wave cardboard around your pockets and try to distract you, while another one goes for your wallet.</p>
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<p>"Ahh, I'm very relieved", he said. "I think this will not be a problem for me. In my city, Sao Paulo, they come to you in the street with a gun and say give me all your money".</p>
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<p>so that story of the Military Police in Brazil is ongoing...apparently the MP turned up on his doorstep today to 'discuss' his statement to the Civil Police, but the doorman at his building had warned him they were on their way up and he locked the door and didn't let them in, called the NZ Embassy and the Civil Police who turned up.</p>
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<p>Great time for some of the corrupt Brazilian authorities to surface.</p>
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<p>so that story of the Military Police in Brazil is ongoing...apparently the MP turned up on his doorstep today to 'discuss' his statement to the Civil Police, but the doorman at his building had warned him they were on their way up and he locked the door and didn't let them in, called the NZ Embassy and the Civil Police who turned up.</p>
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<p>Great time for some of the corrupt Brazilian authorities to surface.</p>
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<p>Pretty fucked up story!</p>
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Poor old David Nyika missed out, surprisingly and controversially, in qualifying. But would he have ever had a chance?<br><br>
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/01/rio-2016-olympics-boxing-corruption-allegations'>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/01/rio-2016-olympics-boxing-corruption-allegations</a> -
<p>2 dudes on bikes car-jacked people in a tunnel, Aussies had laptops nicked from village...I expect this happens most days, but cos the Olympics are in town, it is worldwide news!</p>
