Olympics Thread
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<p>On the bright side, the 7s team has been seriously bad in their first game at tournaments before and gone on to win. Can seem to take a while for the wheels to start turning.</p>
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<p>Geezus</p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Rio Olympics 2016: 'He pees purple' - attacks on Chinese swimmer step up </span></span></strong></p>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">MICHAEL CHAMMAS </span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Last updated 06:23, August 10 2016</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">French swimmer Camille Lacourt has taken a swipe at controversial Chinese swimmer Sun Yang, saying Sun's urine was purple.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The swimming world has erupted after Australian Mack Horton called Sun a drug cheat on the opening day of the Rio Olympics, with the veteran French backstroker expressing his dismay over FINA's decision to allow him to compete.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lacourt, who finished fifth in the 100 m backstroke final not long after Sun claimed gold in the 200m freestyle, likened the sport to athletics with a belief there are a number of athletes in each race who are taking performance enhancing drugs.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Sun Yang, he pisses purple," Lacourt told French radio station RMCsport.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"When I see the 200m podium I want to be sick. I prefer to remember the crowd that cheered when we went out. I am very sad when I see my sport getting like this. I have the impression I am looking at athletics, with two or three doped in each final.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"I hope that [swimming's world governing body] FINA is going to react and stop this massacre, because it is getting sad."</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sun, who served a three-month ban for doping after testing positive to trimetazidine back in 2014, has felt the brunt of criticism after Horton's choice words at the start of the games.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The atmosphere was inflamed further when, after reeling in South Africa's Chad le Clos to win Olympic gold on Monday night, Sun embraced FINA executive director Cornel Marculescu. Sun said Marculescu was like a "grandfather" to him.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">After the race, Sun was asked about his friendship with Marculescu, the FINA boss, and replied that he had been a figure of support since the controversy in Rio erupted.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Marcu is a very good friend of [the] Chinese swim team and he actually watched me like a grandfather. So I was very happy to see him see me win the gold. I hope this friendship will last."</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">- Sydney Morning Herald </span></span></div>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="JAF" data-cid="604456" data-time="1470763387"><p>What is worse ... Boks losing to Japan at RWC or All Black 7s losing to Japan in Olympics? Ask big mouth Bones.</p></blockquote>
Haaaaa. And instantly I feel better, such sweet tears. Lions did well eh? Hey guess what...South Africa lost to Japan over 80 odd mins at the world cup. Hilarious. -
It's probably about time Rattue writes how it's time for tiejtjens to go. <br><br>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Donsteppa" data-cid="604477" data-time="1470770881"><p>The Olympic diving pool has now turned green...</p></blockquote>
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<p>Titch is a world legend with an unmatched pedigree in coaching...but maybe, just maybe, it might be time for new blood.</p>
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<p>I think this is a money thing.</p>
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<p>Once sports hit the olympics, the coffers open for administrators. Literally tens of millions of dollars. The Aussie 7s womens team lived at the Aussie Institute of Sport for the past 18 months practicing together. Guess what that does for your game. The Mens is showing what happens when people take the sport seriously - the comps get split wide open, and big spending teams dominate.</p>
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For me I would be 100 times more disappointed if Murray and Bond didn't win Gold, than if the Sevens didn't win.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Titch is a world legend with an unmatched pedigree in coaching...but maybe, just maybe, it might be time for new blood.</p>
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<p>The stubbornness around not selecting guys like Barrett and Smith who wanted to player Super Rugby was the clincher for me. We should have made it to the semis without dropping a set if we had focused on getting the best result at Rio rather than whatever Titch decided on this year.</p>
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<p>Hansen has never seemed terribly cheery about the 7s set up when asked about it over the past year - I suspect if we bow out on the pool stage there will be a lot of stuff leaking out about how this campaign was lock - seems like plenty going on behind the scenes and not a lot of it positive.</p> -
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<p>I think this is a money thing.</p>
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<p>Once sports hit the olympics, the coffers open for administrators. Literally tens of millions of dollars. The Aussie 7s womens team lived at the Aussie Institute of Sport for the past 18 months practicing together. Guess what that does for your game. The Mens is showing what happens when people take the sport seriously - the comps get split wide open, and <strong>big spending teams dominate</strong>.</p>
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<p>If we are serious, we need to spend more and support more. </p>
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Haaaaa. And instantly I feel better, such sweet tears. Lions did well eh? Hey guess what...South Africa lost to Japan over 80 odd mins at the world cup. Hilarious.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Kenya paying $8 to beat the NZ 7s, $1.85 for 15.5pt start.</p>
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<p>NZ 14-5 Kenya</p>
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Is Fiji a big spending team?</p></blockquote>
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No, but 7s is much more a focus than 15s there.<br><br>
Once players turned down 7s,I knew we were in trouble.
