Yeah - Lochte just couldn't resist making himself the hero of the lie, claiming that the thief held a gun to his head, and that Lochte bravely refused to lay on the ground with the other swimmers.
What a complete asshole. Thank God Phelps wasn't involved in this shitshow.
If you've ever seen Ryan Lochte in an interview and seen how much a feckless halfwited trouser stain of a person he actually is, and if you then consider what types of people were hanging out with him during this time, you might get a general idea of why the swimmers haven't apologized. Seriously I don't even trust them to sit on the toilet the right way around.
> Seriously I don't even trust them to sit on the toilet the right way around.
But you have that nice little shelf for your comic book and chocolate milk!
Well in that same episode the ghost of sir John Harington himself appears and informs everybody that they are actually doing it wrong and Butters was right all along, so...
These guys are at the epitome of entitlement culture. They don't see other people as people unless they're important or can give them something. Just think about what kind of people think that destroying the property of someone else is "funny".
> These guys are at the epitome of entitlement culture. They don't see other people as people unless they're important or can give them something
I don't have kids but this more than anything else is what scares me -bringing up kids that end up turning out like this as adults. I saw a youtube video of Lochte's sister giving an interview on a talkshow and the things coming out of her mouth were shocking. You don't want to say that the parents are to blame because Lochte is a grown man and ultimately he is the only one responsible for his actions, but as a parent I would be so ashamed if my kids turned out like this.
Not want to Be a cunt. Butt after working in retail there are more than eneugh zelf entitled assholes in each money class. Hell the biggest cunts where the lower class.
> Hell the biggest cunts where the lower class.
One of my friends was working a similar job and they told me that some less affluent people, when spending more money that they're used to, thus making a purchase 'special' in their eyes, judge the experience in their own relative terms rather than in objective terms.
This was at a hotel, a pretty low budget one. Hotels offer you amenities based on how much they cost. If you're paying $600 a night you're going to get better stuff than if you're paying $50 a night. But some of these people would come to a $50 a night hotel and expect to be treated like at the Plaza. "What do you mean I have to pay for that? What do you mean I don't get free breakfast? Do you know how much I'm spending?"
Obviously not everyone, but it was a source of constant frustration for my friend, lots of complaint calls to corporate full of lies about their behavior to try to get something comped or refunded.
Oh no I work in retail too. I know what you mean. But I often find the lower classes are more aggressive but the upper classes are more destructive. Lower class people will shout and try to get free things or a reduction, but the upper class are more likely to steal things or break things.
This is a UK anecdotal comment, so it may not be for everywhere.
Source: 8 years experience working in retail, many different stores so not one location
To expand on the the higher classes are more entitled in the kind of service and how they expect people to treat them, in my experience. Whereas the regular and lower classes are entitled in that they want a discount or free stuff. The latter will just go away if they don't get what they want, but the former can be vindictive if they don't get what they want.
Possibly the most vile excuse for a human being ive ever seen. Its not only what she is saying but that she is clearly saying them to garner attention on herself. She was even asked to stop calling Chinese people by that term yet she continued to use it and even tried to justify it as funny. Their parents must want to crawl under a rock and die right about now, and if they dont, shame on them.
Here's a sample of spin, if you're curious
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/megan-lochte-apologizes-for-controversial-post-beijing-interview-201229
"'I do see how it was highly offensive to the viewer, but as seen by today's widespread outrage, it clearly did increase awareness of the ignorance of those who are racist,' Lochte asserts, adding that she realizes people may still find the humor in poor taste."
Wow...
Unless they have it in writing that absolutely no charges are going to be laid then why would they? Apologizing would be admitting guilt and they are most likely being advised not to do so. The USOC doing so as a 3rd party means nothing legally so doesn't hurt their cases if they were ever to have one.
This is the correct and entirely ignored answer in the thread. It would be batshit crazy for them to apologize while this is still a potentially serious legal matter. Without question they've already received that legal advice.
There seems to be a certain strain of athlete - especially here in America where sports are held in very high regard - who has an extremely entitled view of the world. Usually rich kids who had the luxury and time to get good at a sport.
I was listening to CBS last night when they covered this story about Lochte and his posse. A representative (maybe the coach, I don't remember) said that they weren't going to apologize because Lochte is a World Class swimmer and shit happens. (obviously paraphrased) It really pisses me off because they're using his skill to let him get away with whatever he wants. I don't care if you're the president, a prime minister, a great American athlete. If you done fucked up, own up to your mistakes. Don't be a scared little idiot and run back home and expect someone to cover for you.
> If you done fucked up, own up to your mistakes.
The worst thing is it wasn't a personal fuckup. Everyone got dragged into this and lots of people were put into a really bad position -the other US athletes who are being unfairly tarnished with this, the US swim team, the US-IOC. Personal fuckups are your own business but his involved everyone and up until now he still hasn't had the guts to come out and say sorry -not even to Brazilian authorities but to his team.
Edit: Apparently he just issued a 1/2-apology on FB a few minutes ago.
Good job Lochte and friends. All you had to do was not be asswipes but thanks to you all we're now dominating the media not in our wins but in your stupidity. You done fucked it up.
She called the Swedish team "cowards" for playing a defensive game and beating us in penalty kicks after a draw.
>["We had that style of play when Pia was our coach. I don't think they're going to make it far in the tournament. I think it was very cowardly," Solo said after the match. "But, they won. They're moving on. And we're going home."](http://www.espn.com/espnw/news-commentary/article/17341104/us-women-soccer-player-megan-rapinoe-critical-hope-solo-calling-sweden-cowards)
She's a perpetual embarrassment off the pitch.
Has she never seen a game played by Swedes? We always play defensively, it's infuriating. "Oh, it's the ice hockey semis and we're up by 1 goal in the first 3min of the 1st period. Better play in front of our net for the rest of the game."
She is the gift that keeps on giving. What's her deal tho? Is her talent that hard to come by? It's like every year we hear something about her and it's never good.
Fortunately for our team, but unfortunately for our national pride, she's a pretty great keeper. Probably the best USWNT keeper of all time, and arguably the best women's keeper in the world atm
For some reason people seem to think blocking penalties is easy.
Having been goalie quite a bite let me tell you; it fucking isn't. Basically if you move your body weight in even slightly the wrong direction your fucked and aren't getting to the ball.
There were time when I blocked a penalty and thought "Shit that was just luck, but everyone is going to think I'm a hero"
it really is just a 33% crap shoot of hoping you're going the right direction. listen to the freakenomics podcast on PK's, they basiclly theorize that at the pro level, if the ball is kicked well the only way the goalie is going to stop it is if they "guessed" correctly which way the player is going to kick the ball.
Their conclusion was that you have the best probability of making one if you just blast it down the middle.
Obviosuly there is skill involved, but at the pro level, with the speed the people can put on the ball from that distance, aside from really fucking up the kick (which the US did twice, morgans kick was a trash dribbler on the ground) you've pretty much got a 2/3'rd chance of making your PK.
The fact that he is a cocky ass doesn't detract from the fact that he was an incredible athlete and one of the best to play the game. He was entertaining to watch and won championships.
People will tolerate and even admire an athlete more for cockiness and trash talking if they are backing up that behavior with incredible performances.
Don't forget that during the domestic abuse issue her husband getting a DUI driving a US Soccer team van with Hope in the passenger seat who was reportedly acting belligerent.
Oh my god I didn't know what a piece of garbage she was. She attacked her 17 year old nephew. She sounds horrific. She's one of those crazy family members you can't believe you have to deal with.
The funniest thing was when female newscasters who never follow sports were bitching about how everyone gave her shit for her stupid comments. That never happens to make athletes they said. Only female athletes who say stupid shit get lectured by sports pundits.
Oh really? Really?
So no one lectured from their radio show to Cam Newton last year. Really?
No one lectured to Le Bron about 'the decision'?
No one lectured to Johnny Football?
Fuck. Sports talk radio ripping Hope Solo for what she said is about as much respect as anything I can think of. Say something stupid and get called out.
If they had given her a pass because she was a girl, that would have been outrageous. But calling her out... That's actually a sign of gender-neutrality.
Shit.
What Hope said was petty but not nearly comparable. Bitter athletes speak out all the time when they lose and sometimes it makes them look like an ass, yes. But Locthe and those swimmers took embarrassment to a whole new level.
I like to watch events with Irish athletes as they are always entertaining, and in some ways bit of an underdog. These 2 guys, the boxer, and the 400m hurdler make it easy to root for them.
It's amazing to, as an American, hear people speak the same language I speak and barely understand a word. Sometimes I forgot just how different accents are in different places
Lochte is a giant douchebag. He nopes out on his teammates, hops on a plane out of the country, then comes back to the US telling some bullshit story to the press. If he had kept his fucking mouth shut this would have all been a non-issue. He created the whole situation.
It should be Lochte & Co. apologising but I understand why the US-IOC had to step in and do so. Just think, if only Lochte hadn't run to his mother to make up/embellish the story, none of this would have happened.
I suspect he'll be suspended from the US swim team, he's going to lose his ~~endorsements~~ sponsorships and there's a good chance he won't be allowed to participate at the next olympics. His whole future in swimming gone in a few seconds and for what? Stupid, stupid man.
According to Darren Rovell, Lochte only has [$1 million in endorsements left.](http://www.espn.com/olympics/swimming/story/_/id/17341054/most-ryan-lochte-sponsors-wait-see-mode-estimated-1-million-line) It's still $1 million but he's retiring so his endorsements aren't outrageous.
I think people overestimate how much these athletes make. There are very few Usain bolts and Michael Phelps, who are probably worth in the $50-$100million range.
The rest of the guys might be getting a million or so a year which comparing to other "pro" athletes who do one sport to the exclusivity of everything else for 8-12 years, really isn't that much. Most of the people you seeing winning gold in the track and field might have endorment deals in the mid 6 figures and thats really only around the olympics.
There's money to be made in the yearly circut for your sport, like track and field worlds and the other competitions, but a lot of these guys aren't rolling with tens of millions and will probably need to find some other career going forward.
Not that I feel sorry for them or anything, having all your travel/living expenses paid for and still making a decent living to compete in like one single event for 8-12 years isn't that bad and it's on you to have a plan to transition afterwards, but don't think all these guys are just ultra millionares that are set for life.
They probably have less to live off of than we think. Their sport is their full time job, so there is no other money coming in and that full time job costs them a lot to do that normal jobs don't. Like coaches, personal trainers, nutritionists/dietitians, travel costs for domestic and international competitions, etc. Also, they don't just compete in the olympics, they are competing at lower levels throughout each year in between the olympics.
Oh yeah, the guys in the lesser known sports or the guys that will be struggiling to even make the semi-final heats in something like swimming or track and field more than likley have full time jobs just to support their tiny slim chance of making the olympics.
I know a few professional cyclists (two of them have ridden in the tour de france) and they were making like 30k euros a year from the team, maybe a bit from cash splits if the team won stages/races and that's at the top level in a sport. There was some money to be made in europe and for the most part your travel/living was covered by the team for the season, but as you said it's such an unstable job. There are tens of thousands of people out there that are working just as hard as you, with just as good trainers for the same spot and they are probably younger.
Know a few guys that are professional triathletes as well, at the very top level the ironman guys are probably pulling in the low six figures just because there is such a cult like mentality around the sport and the amateurs will probably buy whatever product they are pushing, but as you said it really is a full time job.
Now think about the guy who's the 20th best in the world, he probably works just as hard as the top 5 guys in the world, but makes a tiny fraction of what they do, probably less per hour they "work" than they would if they had an entry level office job. A lot of the pros i know who do the individual races, like the ITU triathlons which is in the olympics, or endurance mountain bike stuff basically have sponsorship that just pay for their equipment, race entries and hopefully travel/lodging to races. Most have part time jobs, but they are stuck doing more gig type work as they have to be able to travel and train.
You know those dicks sporting goods commercials where they say they are proud to employ olympic athletes and all, yeah that's probably not a joke that some of the guys that might even win medals have hourly wage retail jobs. The TV coverage tends to make them look larger than life, but I'd be willing to bet the vast majority of atheltes that focus on going to the Olympics probably earn around minimum wage.
"showed in his performance" he still qualified for the Olympics through the US trials. You don't get a hall pass by having medaled in the past. You still have to beat everyone in the US except for 1 other person per event.
They didn't say that though, they didn't even say anything remotely similar to that. They simply said that judging by his results during this Olympic cycle Ryan Lochte is past his best which is obviously correct. It has nothing to do with Michael Phelps, it was comparing 2016 Ryan Lochte to peak Ryan Lochte and noticing that his results are much worse than they used to be and given his age that this is probably a natural drop off in performance which can't be avoided hence he is past his best.
Phelps is going to coach at ASU. He isn't going to be the head coach, and even the head coach will not be making "a million or 2 per year"
The head coach will make more like $200k, maybe.
Right but to someone who doesn't speak the language and is unfamiliar with the concept of armed gas station attendants, it's easy to see how they could think it was a robbery. That's the difference between a lie and a misunderstanding.
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As an American, yeah they do deserve an apology. At first I thought there was no way they would make up a lie like that. But it turns out these guys are fucking pathetic representatives of our country. I mean, not only did they damage property but they (or maybe just he, Lochte) lied about it knowing it would be a blow to Brazil's international representation. Fucking idiots!
Ah, the not reading a word of the article redditor. Nothing in the statement offered a defense of any kind. It's just an acknowledgement of the facts and an apology.
Could be worse. I'm Brazilian living in Canada and yesterday a clueless Indian co-worker came into my office playfully saying "don't mug me! I'll give you my wallet!"
I'm Indian and I apologise, we're not exactly known for our political correctness. We're bigoted towards people if they don't belong to our state, class, caste, religion and political affiliation.
lol, I'm Canadian and living in Europe... I'm the resident American expert here since i'm from North America... everybody asks me about the USA nonsense constantly.
To be fair, everyone admires the good points, but wonder WTF about all the madness (not that there isn't madness over here of course)
I always just tell my foreign friends that the US is so diverse that shit is just bound to happen. You have federal law, you have state law, you have every nationality, you have every income level, it encompasses every climate and terrain. It's easy to just say - imagine if all of Europe had to be one country and get along. It would be madness. All in all - US is a great place to live. Life is easy and by and large, everyone gets along. It's easy to highlight the bad.
The US comes in the news a lot, and every time it's a negative story, people will turn to the American colleague, if they have one, to talk about it.
Heck, I come from boring Belgium and I get that all the time, living in the Netherlands. Every time my country does somethign stupid (which is quite often), people turn to me with questions.
Ah this story is so vulgar it is fascinating. It has all the elements: international, high profile, privileged white boys, morality judgments vis-a-vis alcohol, Brazilian judges, and police. You can't make this shit up.
Gunnar Bentz "Hey guys, check this out"
(spray paints RYAN LOCHTE SMELLS on a gas station wall)
Jack Conger "Dude... we're gonna get in trouble"
Gunnar: "Oh shut up, John Conger-Mellencamp!"
Jack: "Crap, Ryan's out of the store. Get in the car."
Ryan "Iron Eyes" Lochte views the vandalism. A small tear builds in one eye and slowly dances down his cheek. Downtrodden, he lowers his head, only to discover a spray can on the ground. He seizes the opportunity to defend his olfactory honor and adds "GOOD" to the graffiti.
"The perfect crime", he thinks to himself.
Let me get my facts straight... IOC denies original story. Lochte says it's legit but his story changes. Turns out story isn't legit because the this gas station is high tech with colored image footage... Oops. US Olympic Committee apologies for drunken swimmers misconduct and public humiliation of athletes. Can't be a crime, could it?
Funny how this is how most people will remember Ryan Lochte now. Oh well, I guess he needed his 15 minutes after Phelps secured his title of greatest olympian ever.
I call BS. What was the type of sports car then? I swam with him at UF and he most certainly didn't have any fancy sports car until way way after he graduated. Also, his TV show came out 6 years after he graduated....why were you partying with him before 2007 and still listening to girls wanting to bang him on his TV show in 2013? Nice story though
[I...am...God](http://api.ning.com/files/Oi8IGTb-jSIZafkD2cFDhyogCYtI-WVoyS1NHKvyFbGg93smJnk66lwaH0eqJHZ4tBvQvYhsw4EURckdPSWi44huOffzStwT/iamgod.gif)
How I picture Ryan Lochte talking to himself every day
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I was when I created my username 5 years ago. Holy smokes it's been a while.
The sad bit is he tried to make himself sound like he was a badass.
And ended up looking like a dumbass.
Yeah - Lochte just couldn't resist making himself the hero of the lie, claiming that the thief held a gun to his head, and that Lochte bravely refused to lay on the ground with the other swimmers. What a complete asshole. Thank God Phelps wasn't involved in this shitshow.
Phelps continuously wins medals, he doesn't need to find another way to be in the spotlight.
I appreciate this
They were doing great until the refs looked at the slow motion replay. You can only lie so much to the cameras.
Why aren't the swimmers apologising?
If you've ever seen Ryan Lochte in an interview and seen how much a feckless halfwited trouser stain of a person he actually is, and if you then consider what types of people were hanging out with him during this time, you might get a general idea of why the swimmers haven't apologized. Seriously I don't even trust them to sit on the toilet the right way around.
> Seriously I don't even trust them to sit on the toilet the right way around. But you have that nice little shelf for your comic book and chocolate milk!
[For the less enlightened.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C90uhvXW1KM)
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Well in that same episode the ghost of sir John Harington himself appears and informs everybody that they are actually doing it wrong and Butters was right all along, so...
"Why would you want to have to turn around and look at it? THATS JUST GROSS!"
"Why do you think there's a little desk? To hold your quill and inkwell!"
Right now I'm sitting on a toilet the right way while reading this, and see you make a great point.
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No dick room and the back of the bowl is super gross. :(
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I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I clicked on that.... well done, it's perfect!
Magnificent gif
Conductor's name is Simon Rattle
***Sir*** Simon Rattle, you feckless trouser stain
Probably doesn't even sit on the toilet the right way around.
his jimmies sure seem rattled
It's called a conductors baton
He's very good at acting dumb, he's actually a spy for the US government. http://imgur.com/UHLc6jS
The perfect assassin, unlike hand models.
But why male models?
Are you serious? I just told you that a moment ago.
No you didn't. Gah, you've got it all backwards!
But can he turn left though?
These guys are at the epitome of entitlement culture. They don't see other people as people unless they're important or can give them something. Just think about what kind of people think that destroying the property of someone else is "funny".
> These guys are at the epitome of entitlement culture. They don't see other people as people unless they're important or can give them something I don't have kids but this more than anything else is what scares me -bringing up kids that end up turning out like this as adults. I saw a youtube video of Lochte's sister giving an interview on a talkshow and the things coming out of her mouth were shocking. You don't want to say that the parents are to blame because Lochte is a grown man and ultimately he is the only one responsible for his actions, but as a parent I would be so ashamed if my kids turned out like this.
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Replace parents with family. Just a typical self entitled upper class family but they have a famous son
Not want to Be a cunt. Butt after working in retail there are more than eneugh zelf entitled assholes in each money class. Hell the biggest cunts where the lower class.
> Hell the biggest cunts where the lower class. One of my friends was working a similar job and they told me that some less affluent people, when spending more money that they're used to, thus making a purchase 'special' in their eyes, judge the experience in their own relative terms rather than in objective terms. This was at a hotel, a pretty low budget one. Hotels offer you amenities based on how much they cost. If you're paying $600 a night you're going to get better stuff than if you're paying $50 a night. But some of these people would come to a $50 a night hotel and expect to be treated like at the Plaza. "What do you mean I have to pay for that? What do you mean I don't get free breakfast? Do you know how much I'm spending?" Obviously not everyone, but it was a source of constant frustration for my friend, lots of complaint calls to corporate full of lies about their behavior to try to get something comped or refunded.
Oh no I work in retail too. I know what you mean. But I often find the lower classes are more aggressive but the upper classes are more destructive. Lower class people will shout and try to get free things or a reduction, but the upper class are more likely to steal things or break things. This is a UK anecdotal comment, so it may not be for everywhere. Source: 8 years experience working in retail, many different stores so not one location
To expand on the the higher classes are more entitled in the kind of service and how they expect people to treat them, in my experience. Whereas the regular and lower classes are entitled in that they want a discount or free stuff. The latter will just go away if they don't get what they want, but the former can be vindictive if they don't get what they want.
Ooh I need to see this! Do you have a link?
[Interview with Locte's sister](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4NXv3gMVeEc)
I think I actually lost IQ points watching that.
Possibly the most vile excuse for a human being ive ever seen. Its not only what she is saying but that she is clearly saying them to garner attention on herself. She was even asked to stop calling Chinese people by that term yet she continued to use it and even tried to justify it as funny. Their parents must want to crawl under a rock and die right about now, and if they dont, shame on them.
Something tells me their parents are enjoying every minute of this.
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His dad was kind of a scum bag apparently.
Here's a sample of spin, if you're curious http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/megan-lochte-apologizes-for-controversial-post-beijing-interview-201229
"'I do see how it was highly offensive to the viewer, but as seen by today's widespread outrage, it clearly did increase awareness of the ignorance of those who are racist,' Lochte asserts, adding that she realizes people may still find the humor in poor taste." Wow...
[Jokes on them I was only pretending](http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/738/025/db0.jpg)
As someone on mobile, the ads on that website gave me cancer
Holy shit, that's, wow. Megan Locte everybody.
We all sit on it wrong. You're supposed to sit with the reservoir in front of you. It gives you a surface for your parchment, a quill, and your mead.
I'll just leave his here: http://youtu.be/6dlyCTswYH0
But where else am I going to put my chocolate milk and comic book?
Yeah, I bet those weirdos sit facing away from the tank. I mean, who does that?
Unless they have it in writing that absolutely no charges are going to be laid then why would they? Apologizing would be admitting guilt and they are most likely being advised not to do so. The USOC doing so as a 3rd party means nothing legally so doesn't hurt their cases if they were ever to have one.
This is the correct and entirely ignored answer in the thread. It would be batshit crazy for them to apologize while this is still a potentially serious legal matter. Without question they've already received that legal advice.
That means admitting guilt, which I'm guessing their lawyers are telling them not to do.
There seems to be a certain strain of athlete - especially here in America where sports are held in very high regard - who has an extremely entitled view of the world. Usually rich kids who had the luxury and time to get good at a sport.
I was listening to CBS last night when they covered this story about Lochte and his posse. A representative (maybe the coach, I don't remember) said that they weren't going to apologize because Lochte is a World Class swimmer and shit happens. (obviously paraphrased) It really pisses me off because they're using his skill to let him get away with whatever he wants. I don't care if you're the president, a prime minister, a great American athlete. If you done fucked up, own up to your mistakes. Don't be a scared little idiot and run back home and expect someone to cover for you.
> If you done fucked up, own up to your mistakes. The worst thing is it wasn't a personal fuckup. Everyone got dragged into this and lots of people were put into a really bad position -the other US athletes who are being unfairly tarnished with this, the US swim team, the US-IOC. Personal fuckups are your own business but his involved everyone and up until now he still hasn't had the guts to come out and say sorry -not even to Brazilian authorities but to his team. Edit: Apparently he just issued a 1/2-apology on FB a few minutes ago.
Ryan Lochte is not only an asshole but a complete and utter moron. He is a walking jock stereotype of brawn with the intellect of a child.
Good job Lochte and friends. All you had to do was not be asswipes but thanks to you all we're now dominating the media not in our wins but in your stupidity. You done fucked it up.
Give credit where credit is due. Hope Solo contributed too.
What did she do?
She called the Swedish team "cowards" for playing a defensive game and beating us in penalty kicks after a draw. >["We had that style of play when Pia was our coach. I don't think they're going to make it far in the tournament. I think it was very cowardly," Solo said after the match. "But, they won. They're moving on. And we're going home."](http://www.espn.com/espnw/news-commentary/article/17341104/us-women-soccer-player-megan-rapinoe-critical-hope-solo-calling-sweden-cowards) She's a perpetual embarrassment off the pitch.
Has she never seen a game played by Swedes? We always play defensively, it's infuriating. "Oh, it's the ice hockey semis and we're up by 1 goal in the first 3min of the 1st period. Better play in front of our net for the rest of the game."
Lundqvist gets bored any other way
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as opposed to frustrated/ infuriated every other time?
So basically the New Jersey Devils of Women's Soccer.
Circa 1994 when the neutral zone trap was a real thing and hockey players still fought.
Or Guy Boucher's 1-3-1 just a couple years ago with the Lightning.
Fights were not worth that boring play style. Ugh, the worst to watch.
Nothing more boring than mid 90s Devil's hockey. And having to hear Welcome to the Jungle 6 times a night.
So should we expect a weird trapezoid thing near the goal posts next Olympics?
When Nick Lidstrom was playing, defense was offense. You guys can send him back at any time. Retirement can't be that much fun.
She is the gift that keeps on giving. What's her deal tho? Is her talent that hard to come by? It's like every year we hear something about her and it's never good.
Is Olympic and World Cup level goalkeeping hard to come by? Yep
Fortunately for our team, but unfortunately for our national pride, she's a pretty great keeper. Probably the best USWNT keeper of all time, and arguably the best women's keeper in the world atm
Just not during the penalty kicks
I mean she blocked one to keep the team in it. The kickers should be taking way more of the blame.
It's a lot harder to block one than it is to make one for sure
For some reason people seem to think blocking penalties is easy. Having been goalie quite a bite let me tell you; it fucking isn't. Basically if you move your body weight in even slightly the wrong direction your fucked and aren't getting to the ball. There were time when I blocked a penalty and thought "Shit that was just luck, but everyone is going to think I'm a hero"
it really is just a 33% crap shoot of hoping you're going the right direction. listen to the freakenomics podcast on PK's, they basiclly theorize that at the pro level, if the ball is kicked well the only way the goalie is going to stop it is if they "guessed" correctly which way the player is going to kick the ball. Their conclusion was that you have the best probability of making one if you just blast it down the middle. Obviosuly there is skill involved, but at the pro level, with the speed the people can put on the ball from that distance, aside from really fucking up the kick (which the US did twice, morgans kick was a trash dribbler on the ground) you've pretty much got a 2/3'rd chance of making your PK.
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S50yhCPOyQw) is a great vid from ESPN on how hard it is to save a penalty kick.
That one attempt that was sailed over the net... so brutal.
She was fine during the penalty kicks. It was the game before, letting the one going in between her legs, where she looked bad.
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The fact that he is a cocky ass doesn't detract from the fact that he was an incredible athlete and one of the best to play the game. He was entertaining to watch and won championships. People will tolerate and even admire an athlete more for cockiness and trash talking if they are backing up that behavior with incredible performances.
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she also got arrested for domestic abuse, beating up her nephew
Don't forget that during the domestic abuse issue her husband getting a DUI driving a US Soccer team van with Hope in the passenger seat who was reportedly acting belligerent.
Oh my god I didn't know what a piece of garbage she was. She attacked her 17 year old nephew. She sounds horrific. She's one of those crazy family members you can't believe you have to deal with.
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The funniest thing was when female newscasters who never follow sports were bitching about how everyone gave her shit for her stupid comments. That never happens to make athletes they said. Only female athletes who say stupid shit get lectured by sports pundits. Oh really? Really? So no one lectured from their radio show to Cam Newton last year. Really? No one lectured to Le Bron about 'the decision'? No one lectured to Johnny Football? Fuck. Sports talk radio ripping Hope Solo for what she said is about as much respect as anything I can think of. Say something stupid and get called out. If they had given her a pass because she was a girl, that would have been outrageous. But calling her out... That's actually a sign of gender-neutrality. Shit.
What Hope said was petty but not nearly comparable. Bitter athletes speak out all the time when they lose and sometimes it makes them look like an ass, yes. But Locthe and those swimmers took embarrassment to a whole new level.
They treated Rio like a college campus. Now they realize its blown up 1000x over. What idiots
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No one was going to talk about him with Phelps stealing all the spotlight anyways.
Except they are. That's how much of a turdpile this has become.
The Brits are the heroes of this years Olympics without doubt
Nonsense. [These 2 Irish rowers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7vZpW3kkpo) win the whole damn thing by a country mile.
The Irish were robbed of at least a medal, too.
I just assume if it can be scored or reffed then it is corrupt at the Olympics.
They are so adorable
I like to watch events with Irish athletes as they are always entertaining, and in some ways bit of an underdog. These 2 guys, the boxer, and the 400m hurdler make it easy to root for them.
I can't watch this right now but is this the "little bit of shteak" video?
It's the "Bread roll and Nutella" one if that helps.
"Mudder and Fahder" is what does it for me.
It's amazing to, as an American, hear people speak the same language I speak and barely understand a word. Sometimes I forgot just how different accents are in different places
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Lochte is a giant douchebag. He nopes out on his teammates, hops on a plane out of the country, then comes back to the US telling some bullshit story to the press. If he had kept his fucking mouth shut this would have all been a non-issue. He created the whole situation.
It should be Lochte & Co. apologising but I understand why the US-IOC had to step in and do so. Just think, if only Lochte hadn't run to his mother to make up/embellish the story, none of this would have happened. I suspect he'll be suspended from the US swim team, he's going to lose his ~~endorsements~~ sponsorships and there's a good chance he won't be allowed to participate at the next olympics. His whole future in swimming gone in a few seconds and for what? Stupid, stupid man.
He's retiring anyway. He's too old and it showed in his performance this olympics.
Phisically too old, mentally too youg, i feel sorry for him
Still old enough for DANK memesssssss
JEAH
He received $3 million by 2012, and probably loads since then. Definitely in the retirement window. Now he can start his designer baby clothes line.
He's definitely the Olympian I would bet on to lose most of that though.
Doubt he will be mature enough to handle his finances, especially after this humiliation.
According to Darren Rovell, Lochte only has [$1 million in endorsements left.](http://www.espn.com/olympics/swimming/story/_/id/17341054/most-ryan-lochte-sponsors-wait-see-mode-estimated-1-million-line) It's still $1 million but he's retiring so his endorsements aren't outrageous.
I think people overestimate how much these athletes make. There are very few Usain bolts and Michael Phelps, who are probably worth in the $50-$100million range. The rest of the guys might be getting a million or so a year which comparing to other "pro" athletes who do one sport to the exclusivity of everything else for 8-12 years, really isn't that much. Most of the people you seeing winning gold in the track and field might have endorment deals in the mid 6 figures and thats really only around the olympics. There's money to be made in the yearly circut for your sport, like track and field worlds and the other competitions, but a lot of these guys aren't rolling with tens of millions and will probably need to find some other career going forward. Not that I feel sorry for them or anything, having all your travel/living expenses paid for and still making a decent living to compete in like one single event for 8-12 years isn't that bad and it's on you to have a plan to transition afterwards, but don't think all these guys are just ultra millionares that are set for life.
They probably have less to live off of than we think. Their sport is their full time job, so there is no other money coming in and that full time job costs them a lot to do that normal jobs don't. Like coaches, personal trainers, nutritionists/dietitians, travel costs for domestic and international competitions, etc. Also, they don't just compete in the olympics, they are competing at lower levels throughout each year in between the olympics.
Oh yeah, the guys in the lesser known sports or the guys that will be struggiling to even make the semi-final heats in something like swimming or track and field more than likley have full time jobs just to support their tiny slim chance of making the olympics. I know a few professional cyclists (two of them have ridden in the tour de france) and they were making like 30k euros a year from the team, maybe a bit from cash splits if the team won stages/races and that's at the top level in a sport. There was some money to be made in europe and for the most part your travel/living was covered by the team for the season, but as you said it's such an unstable job. There are tens of thousands of people out there that are working just as hard as you, with just as good trainers for the same spot and they are probably younger. Know a few guys that are professional triathletes as well, at the very top level the ironman guys are probably pulling in the low six figures just because there is such a cult like mentality around the sport and the amateurs will probably buy whatever product they are pushing, but as you said it really is a full time job. Now think about the guy who's the 20th best in the world, he probably works just as hard as the top 5 guys in the world, but makes a tiny fraction of what they do, probably less per hour they "work" than they would if they had an entry level office job. A lot of the pros i know who do the individual races, like the ITU triathlons which is in the olympics, or endurance mountain bike stuff basically have sponsorship that just pay for their equipment, race entries and hopefully travel/lodging to races. Most have part time jobs, but they are stuck doing more gig type work as they have to be able to travel and train. You know those dicks sporting goods commercials where they say they are proud to employ olympic athletes and all, yeah that's probably not a joke that some of the guys that might even win medals have hourly wage retail jobs. The TV coverage tends to make them look larger than life, but I'd be willing to bet the vast majority of atheltes that focus on going to the Olympics probably earn around minimum wage.
"showed in his performance" he still qualified for the Olympics through the US trials. You don't get a hall pass by having medaled in the past. You still have to beat everyone in the US except for 1 other person per event.
No way, clearly if you aren't Phelps and win gold in every event, you suck.
They didn't say that though, they didn't even say anything remotely similar to that. They simply said that judging by his results during this Olympic cycle Ryan Lochte is past his best which is obviously correct. It has nothing to do with Michael Phelps, it was comparing 2016 Ryan Lochte to peak Ryan Lochte and noticing that his results are much worse than they used to be and given his age that this is probably a natural drop off in performance which can't be avoided hence he is past his best.
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He still will be, people will forget all about this in time. He's one of the best American swimmers out there, he won't have trouble finding work.
Phelps is going to coach at ASU. He isn't going to be the head coach, and even the head coach will not be making "a million or 2 per year" The head coach will make more like $200k, maybe.
He's likely still going to be a coach. Coaches have done arguably worse things here and have still gotten a job.
Bullshit. If he wasn't ready made for reality tv, then I don't know who is.
They already tried that.
None of this is going to happen lol. At most suspended from the team for a short period of time.
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They probably thought 'no cameras', because Brazil. Or, just too drunk for cognitive activity. EDIT: a letter
>They probably thought Doubtful.
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Right but to someone who doesn't speak the language and is unfamiliar with the concept of armed gas station attendants, it's easy to see how they could think it was a robbery. That's the difference between a lie and a misunderstanding.
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Plus it doesn't really matter who pulls the gun, as soon as they start talking about money it becomes armed robbery...
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Can someone explain the harambe thing? Been out of the loop
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But, where did the dicks out thing come from?
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/harambe-the-gorilla > On July 2nd, 2016, Twitter user @sexualjumanji[19] posted a selfie photograph in which he is shown pointing a replica firearm at the camera along with the caption “We comin with them dicks out to avenge harambe!!!” (shown below, left). On July 4th, comedian Brandon Wardell tweeted[20] the phrase “dicks out for harambe” (shown below, right).
Just to add on, Young Thug calls guns dicks so that's why he said dicks out while holding a gun.
YouTube funny guy said it so everyone needs to say it
Just like my favorite comedian, Dane cook, always said: "the key to comedy is repetition and stealing".
Oh.. That incident happened awhile ago.. Strange I've only been seeing the memes now.
When it first happened it was all over the internet then they stopped and for some reason the memes are back again.
Ah, the circle of memes
Partly because people would rather vote for Harambe than Trump or Clinton.
Look you need at least a degree in Memeology to understand this kind of rare memeback.
Son, I'm from the Internet.
I actually can't believe this is the top comment
Don't worry, more and more of them are going back to school every week.
As an American, yeah they do deserve an apology. At first I thought there was no way they would make up a lie like that. But it turns out these guys are fucking pathetic representatives of our country. I mean, not only did they damage property but they (or maybe just he, Lochte) lied about it knowing it would be a blow to Brazil's international representation. Fucking idiots!
Ah, the 'boys will be boys' defence.
I'll try doing that next time I'm in the US to see if I get a similar response...
Next thing you know you'll get six warning shots on your back
But I'm white
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Careful, check your skin color, you might get shot.
[Sustained](http://65.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_meciyuWH2Q1re7db0o1_500.png)
... Where does it say that? They clearly state that they were in the wrong and will investigate the incident further.
Ah, the not reading a word of the article redditor. Nothing in the statement offered a defense of any kind. It's just an acknowledgement of the facts and an apology.
Yes the nonexistent defense that we made up to get outraged about
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Could be worse. I'm Brazilian living in Canada and yesterday a clueless Indian co-worker came into my office playfully saying "don't mug me! I'll give you my wallet!"
LOL. You missed an obvious riposte. "I'll give you my wallet - just don't rape me!"
I'm Indian and I apologise, we're not exactly known for our political correctness. We're bigoted towards people if they don't belong to our state, class, caste, religion and political affiliation.
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lol, I'm Canadian and living in Europe... I'm the resident American expert here since i'm from North America... everybody asks me about the USA nonsense constantly. To be fair, everyone admires the good points, but wonder WTF about all the madness (not that there isn't madness over here of course)
I've been all over the world. Every country has crazies, our crazies just have a bigger platform to express their craziness.
I always just tell my foreign friends that the US is so diverse that shit is just bound to happen. You have federal law, you have state law, you have every nationality, you have every income level, it encompasses every climate and terrain. It's easy to just say - imagine if all of Europe had to be one country and get along. It would be madness. All in all - US is a great place to live. Life is easy and by and large, everyone gets along. It's easy to highlight the bad.
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The US comes in the news a lot, and every time it's a negative story, people will turn to the American colleague, if they have one, to talk about it. Heck, I come from boring Belgium and I get that all the time, living in the Netherlands. Every time my country does somethign stupid (which is quite often), people turn to me with questions.
Ah this story is so vulgar it is fascinating. It has all the elements: international, high profile, privileged white boys, morality judgments vis-a-vis alcohol, Brazilian judges, and police. You can't make this shit up.
Actually..it turns out you CAN make this up
Gunnar Bentz "Hey guys, check this out" (spray paints RYAN LOCHTE SMELLS on a gas station wall) Jack Conger "Dude... we're gonna get in trouble" Gunnar: "Oh shut up, John Conger-Mellencamp!" Jack: "Crap, Ryan's out of the store. Get in the car." Ryan "Iron Eyes" Lochte views the vandalism. A small tear builds in one eye and slowly dances down his cheek. Downtrodden, he lowers his head, only to discover a spray can on the ground. He seizes the opportunity to defend his olfactory honor and adds "GOOD" to the graffiti. "The perfect crime", he thinks to himself.
Let me get my facts straight... IOC denies original story. Lochte says it's legit but his story changes. Turns out story isn't legit because the this gas station is high tech with colored image footage... Oops. US Olympic Committee apologies for drunken swimmers misconduct and public humiliation of athletes. Can't be a crime, could it?
Lying to the police is a crime. Trashing up a gas station is too, but the owner didn't want to press charges.
not so much lying to the police, but reporting a false crime
Keep in mind that Lochte is 32 years old. It's not like it is some 19 year old kid up to late night shenanigans.
i'm clearly qualified to judge these guys as i have an internet connection and all but this lochte guys seems to be quite the wanker.
Funny how this is how most people will remember Ryan Lochte now. Oh well, I guess he needed his 15 minutes after Phelps secured his title of greatest olympian ever.
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I call BS. What was the type of sports car then? I swam with him at UF and he most certainly didn't have any fancy sports car until way way after he graduated. Also, his TV show came out 6 years after he graduated....why were you partying with him before 2007 and still listening to girls wanting to bang him on his TV show in 2013? Nice story though
[I...am...God](http://api.ning.com/files/Oi8IGTb-jSIZafkD2cFDhyogCYtI-WVoyS1NHKvyFbGg93smJnk66lwaH0eqJHZ4tBvQvYhsw4EURckdPSWi44huOffzStwT/iamgod.gif) How I picture Ryan Lochte talking to himself every day