Thread: Rio Olympics 2016

How did they jag so many medals

'Mine's the red one': Team Great Britain's baggage collection fail

Britain's Olympic team have returned home from Rio de Janeiro with a record-breaking medal haul.
The British Airways' gold-painted airplane with "victoRIOus" on the side touched down in London's Heathrow Airport to much fanfare on Tuesday.

But there was an organisational fail of Olympic proportions in the baggage claim area.
While it's nice to have a team uniform, we're not sure that giving everyone the same bag is practical.
Luckily, Team GB were on a high from their 67-medal win and seen the funny side of it.




'Mine's the red one': Team Great Britain's baggage collection fail

I did laugh at that!

Just what you want after getting off a long flight pissed.

Looks like the BA crew were busy, but I bet they enjoyed that flight!

What went wrong for Australia at the Rio Olympics? | Stuff.co.nz

^ Everything.

https://www.rio2016.com/en/paralympics/sports

Brazilian prosecutors file charges against Pat Hickey following Rio arrest

• Nine others also charged in regards to case, including Ipswich Town owner


Pat Hickey, centre, arrives to give a statement at a police station in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday. Photograph: Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

Brazilian prosecutors have filed charges against a high-ranking Olympic official in connection to a ticket-touting case that unfolded during last month’s Olympic Games in Rio.

Marcos Kac, a state prosecutor, said on Tuesday that after reviewing the police investigation he had decided to charge the Olympic Council of Ireland’s president Pat Hickey and nine others with ticket touting, conspiracy and ambush marketing.

“We found enough evidence linking Hickey to this plot to sell tickets by a company that was not authorised,” he told The Associated Press. “These are tickets that were sold for up to $8,000.”


Earlier, Hickey arrived at police headquarters but declined to answer additional questions after he was summoned in the wake of new findings. The 71-year-old also made no comment upon leaving.

The OCI head was arrested on 17 August in his Rio hotel room. Hickey, also the head of Europe’s Olympic bodies, was jailed in a prison complex after a two-day stay in a local hospital to undergo tests because of his medical history.

He was set free last week when a judge ruled that he was not a risk to the public or the investigation. His passport was confiscated, and he must remain in Brazil until the case is concluded.

Police have said that Hickey plotted with businessmen to transfer tickets illegally from a sports company called Pro 10 to the hospitality provider THG Sports, which was a non-authorised vendor and allegedly sold them for very high fees.

The head of THG Sports, Kevin James Mallon, was arrested on 5 August as part of the case, but was also set free. He is facing the same charges as Hickey and must also remain in Brazil.

The eight other suspects are businessmen with Pro10 and THG Sports who are not in Brazil, including Marcus Evans, who owns THG Sports’ parent company, as well as the Championship club Ipswich Town.

Hickey has stepped aside “temporarily” as an IOC member and all his other Olympic positions.

The police investigator Aloysio Falcao wants to talk to the IOC president Thomas Bach about email exchanges between him and Hickey relating to Ireland’s ticket allocations but learned he cancelled his trip to Brazil for the Paralympic Games. The IOC said on Tuesday that Bach had to attend the official state mourning ceremony for Walter Scheel, the former West Germany president.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...games-rio-2016

https://au.sports.yahoo.com/video/wa...eremony/#page1

Click video good stunt.

The arrogance of this Geriatric fcuker.... strutting around feeling untouchable...hopefully, the Rio Police are not playing out a fiasco with no teeth...

Originally Posted by KEVIN2008

Nine others also charged in regards to case, including Ipswich Town owner

Say it isn't so...

Paralympian's time would have won gold at the Olympics

Abdellatif Baka won the 1500m - T12/13 gold medal at the Paralympics in Rio on Monday (AEST) in a time of 3 minutes 48.29 seconds
If that sounds quick, it’s because it is.
It is so fast in fact that had he run that time, in the exact same stadium just a fortnight before he would have beaten American Matthew Centrowitz for the Olympic gold medal.
Yes, Baka’s time at the Paralympics would have won him the gold medal at the Olympics.
Some people might assume with a time that fast that this class of 1500m final involved blades. But no, T12/13 is for visually impaired.
What is even more remarkable are that the top four finishers in the Paralympics 1500m final all bettered Centrowitz’s Olympic gold medal winning time.
Yes, Fouad Baka, the brother of the gold medallist, finished in 3 minutes and 49.59 seconds and he was fourth, but still faster than Centrowitz.
In front of him was bronze medalist Henry Kirwa of Kenya (3:49.59), silver medalist Tamiru Demisse of Ethiopia (3:48.59).
What a truly awesome and inspiring run from all four.