QuietContrarian
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Iceland is good too. Very popular game there.
Thats true, they silver medalled in 2008.
Both the Danish and German coach this year are Icelandic
Iceland is good too. Very popular game there.
I can't be the only one that cries their eyes during every closing ceremony? I hope not....
big fat baby tears here. every time.
I would slot Rio right below Sydney as a solid mid-tier Olympics since I began following them closely. Loosely ranked I would put them:
Barcelona 1992
London 2012
Beijing 2008
Sydney 2000
Rio 2016
Athens 2004
Atlanta 1996
I can't be the only one that cries their eyes during every closing ceremony? I hope not....
Barcelona for nostalgic reasons is my #1 aswell.
I have Atlanta up there aswell, also because of few gold medal games in Badminton and Handball that were epic.
Did not care for Beijing or London.
Sydney is my #3 and Athens was imo meh...
The games in 1996 hosted by Coca-Cola (or technically Atlanta) were the example of corporate sponsorship gone too far, IMO. That combined with the loss of the USSR as a competitor made it seem like too much of an American event instead of an international event.
I would slot Rio right below Sydney as a solid mid-tier Olympics since I began following them closely. Loosely ranked I would put them:
Barcelona 1992
London 2012
Beijing 2008
Sydney 2000
Rio 2016
Athens 2004
Atlanta 1996
Impossible for me to rank any of the Olympics. They are all memorable in different ways to me, similar to the different incarnations of The Doctor.
Does anyone else think that the Paralympic events should be included in the regular Olympics?
Yes, you would have to extend the games by a week, but who cares? The World Cup goes on for a month and would still be longer than an Olympic/Paralympic merger.
^We're just lucky Dan v Dave was a spectacular failure for 1992.
Oddly enough for me, ATL is like a blur. I really only remember it for Izzy, questions over terrorism, Ali lighting the flame, gymnastics, and the bombing. Think Gloria Estefan had an Olympic song too.
No one cares anymore
You are right, seems like very few people care to reveal the truth, and more are caught up in whatever narrative they want to use about these swimmers, who FWIW also did things wrong, like the Rio police did.
From the beginning, I could tell that the story put out there by the Rio police seemed incorrect.
Now, there seems to be evidence that at least part of it is incorrect.
I was right. The story isn't as simple as it was made out to be. Some people were so naive to believe a ridiculously one-sided story. I wasn't.
Congrats?