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Brazil Are Ready To Regain Some Of Their Soccer Dignity In Gold Medal Game
Maybe you, like me, put on Brazil’s first two Olympic soccer matches in the background, halfway monitoring the excitement in the announcers’ voices so as to switch browser windows in time to see one of the presumed dozen or so goals this super-talented team would put past their group stage opponents...
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![Report: Ryan Lochte And His Rowdy Swimming Pals Defiantly Peed All Over The Gas Station [UPDATES]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/mfgk984bo68xj9qxw79j.jpg)
Report: Ryan Lochte And His Rowdy Swimming Pals Defiantly Peed All Over The Gas Station [UPDATES]
American swimmers Ryan Lochte, Gunnar Bentz, James Feigen, and Jack Conger peed on the Barra da Tijuca gas station in defiance after being told to use the bathroom, according to the gas station owner who spoke with O Globo....
![U.S. Women's Relay Team Drops Baton, Lodges Appeal [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/ktuyni01ckrfektgewk2.jpg)
U.S. Women's Relay Team Drops Baton, Lodges Appeal [Update]
Shit went down in a preliminary women’s 4x100 relay race today. The American team, which came into these Olympics as one of the favorites to take gold in the event, crashed out when Allyson Felix failed to hand the baton to English Gardner....
Report: American Swimmers Broke Down Gas Station Door, Fought With Security On Night Of Alleged Robbery
The Ryan Lochte robbery scandal has officially reached the Someone Is Bullshitting Phase, in which new alleged details that suggest Lochte’s story about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio may be totally bunk. ABC News brings us the latest development, reporting that Lochte and the other swimmers who we...
Ryan Lochte's Story Has Changed
Two American swimmers were pulled off an airplane, their passports confiscated, and were held by Rio de Janeiro police for four hours, as everyone tries to get to the bottom of what in the hell is going on, and what happened early Sunday morning when four swimmers claimed they were robbed at gunpoin...
Report: British Olympian Robbed At Gunpoint In Rio
According to a report from The Guardian, a member of Britain’s Olympic team was robbed at gunpoint early Tuesday morning. The report doesn’t have many details from the incident, such as who it was or where the robbery took place, just that it happened while the victim was “enjoying a night on the to...
Did A Current In The Rio Swimming Pool Give Some Swimmers An Unfair Advantage?
Swimming, like most racing sports, is relatively simple. Competitors swim back and forth across a pool, for a set distance, using a set stroke. There are more technical skills needed to succeed in the pool than on the track, but hydrodynamic butterfly entry techniques aside, it’s a straightforward s...
![Brazilian Authorities Pull Two US Swimmers Off Flight Out Of Rio [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/dfoih3qhvmiijhuvy6ze.jpg)
Brazilian Authorities Pull Two US Swimmers Off Flight Out Of Rio [Update]
This whole story about US swimmers Ryan Lochte, Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger, and Jimmy Feigen maybe or maybe not getting robbed at gunpoint by men who were maybe posing as Brazilian police officers is fishy and riddled with inconsistencies. Brazilian police cast doubt on Lochte’s story, and earlier to...
Usain Bolt's Still Having Fun Outsprinting Everyone
Usain Bolt, last seen showing the 100 meter dash field a clean pair of heels, is even faster across 200 meters. For the spectator, this mostly means that he has more time to show out. ...
Cool New Gymnastics Move: Using Your Teammate As A Jump Rope
The gymnastics medals at the Rio Olympics are all spoken for. The last event final was yesterday, but athletes took to the floor for the gala today, in which Olympic gymnasts strip, dance, and generally do cool gymnastics moves for the crowd to laugh at. The best one was this human jumprope. ...
Japanese Pole Vaulter Denies That His Dick And Balls Got Him Disqualified
Brazilian Thiago Da Silva left the pole vault finals with a gold medal and an Olympic record. Japanese pole vaulter Hiroki Ogita left with a 21st-place finish and a dick foible seen ‘round the world....
Is Steeplechase Dangerous? Ask This Dude's Face.
If you visited our site in the last hour, you’ve probably spent some time thinking about which Olympic event would be the least likely to kill you. “Steeplechase!” one of you probably said to yourself. “Steeplechase seems pretty chill. I bet I could participate in that and escape with my life.”...
Which Olympic Sport Would Be Most Likely To Literally Kill You?
I’m watching water polo right now, and it was maybe 20 minutes into the match, as the players yet again swam from one end of the pool to another on a change of possession, that I realized I would just give up then and there. I’m a fine enough swimmer, but it’s exhausting just to toss around a frisbe...
The Debate About Caster Semenya Isn't About Fairness
What is it, exactly, that makes me a woman? Is it my breasts? If so, is it because they are a certain size? Is it that I have a womb? Does it matter that I have no idea if my womb works because I’ve never tried to get pregnant? Is it my two X chromosomes or my level of testosterone? I have no idea t...
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Olympic Boxing Judges Sent Home Amid Allegations Of Match Fixing
This has not been a good Olympics for AIBA, international boxing’s governing body. Multiple fights have been judged suspiciously, and there is a prevailing sentiment that not everything is on the up and up. Now, AIBA is sending home a number of Olympic judges and referees, apparently hoping to quell...
This Ryan Lochte Story Just Got Much Weirder
The already-confusing story about the alleged robbery of four U.S. Olympic swimmers has gotten stranger, and bigger, with a Brazilian judge ordering two of them, including Ryan Lochte, to surrender their passports and to not leave the country. One problem: Lochte’s already back home....
Top European Olympic Official Arrested In Ticket-Scalping Sting
Pat Hickey, the head of the European Olympic Committees and a member of the Irish Olympic Committee, was arrested in Rio last night for his alleged involvement in a ticket-scalping scheme. The arrest was first reported by Brazilian newspaper Estadao. ...
Rio Police Are Casting Doubt On Ryan Lochte's Story Of Being Robbed
Ryan Lochte said that early Sunday morning, he and three teammates were pulled over in a taxi and robbed by gunmen posing as police. The breaking of that news was messy, with the first word coming from Lochte’s mother and then the IOC initially denying it, before the USOC put out a statement and Loc...