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Reports claim Olympic kayaker capsized after hitting underwater sofa
MSN Larry Brown Sports ^ | August 6, 2016

Posted on 08/06/2016 2:22:29 PM PDT by SMGFan

We may already have our strangest and most amusing story to come out of the Rio Olympic games.

Paul Kelso, a journalist for Sky Sports in the UK, reported on Friday that an Olympic kayaker had capsized after hitting a submerged couch.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 2016olympics; couch; kayak; luxuryseating; oops; rioolympics; sofa; thirdworldolympics; underwaterfurniture
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To: SMGFan

Good lord, these games are becoming a farce and a laughing stock for everyone involved—from the athletes, to NBC, to Rio, to Brazil, what a joke. Glad I have not (indeed cannot) watched a second of these games. Life goes on.....


21 posted on 08/06/2016 2:40:47 PM PDT by Fungi (Make America America again.)
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To: SaveFerris

you’d think they could at least get the furniture out of the race course.... But no, they’re probably running around saying “not my job”


22 posted on 08/06/2016 2:40:54 PM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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To: tenthirteen

You brought back memories with that ‘Castro Convertible” comment. Here’s their commercial jingle I used to hear back in the 60’s on the radio in NY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNq0Umgvkas&list=PLAAfuspN2mPIx-Zh-s6Ugq2z1wrYNryNy


23 posted on 08/06/2016 2:40:59 PM PDT by tflabo (truth or tyrrany)
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To: Fungi

But of course, if you criticize the Games, you’re a racist.


24 posted on 08/06/2016 2:41:22 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SMGFan

Just an example of what happens when a third-world nation on the brink of financial collapse is awarded such a high-profile event. All it does is hasten the downward spiral of the nation in question. Even an all-expense paid trip could not have persuaded me to sojurn to that cesspool of a country.


25 posted on 08/06/2016 2:44:40 PM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5, 2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: LibertarianLiz
"Was no one checking on progress on the venues; or the cleaning up of venues, before the games began?"

My understanding is that Olympic officials made numerous visits to Rio to check on the progress and cleanliness of high end escorts ... er ... I mean ... venues.

26 posted on 08/06/2016 2:44:49 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: VanDeKoik
They would have had better luck moving it to Compton at this rate.

I've been to Compton. Compton is spotless compared to Rio.

The Olympic committee are a bunch of dumbshitz.

27 posted on 08/06/2016 2:45:17 PM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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To: dfwgator

It doesn’t matter of they treat their country like an open cesspool, their opening extravaganza showed that Brazil is worried about global warming, so all is forgiven.


28 posted on 08/06/2016 2:45:27 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: tflabo

Now that brought back memories, not that particular commercial but the style and radio.


29 posted on 08/06/2016 2:46:30 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: SMGFan

The is sofa king nasty


30 posted on 08/06/2016 2:47:37 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: easternsky

Yeh, right? — Its been decades since I heard that commercial jingle. its quite a catchy lil tune too.


31 posted on 08/06/2016 2:49:02 PM PDT by tflabo (truth or tyrrany)
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To: wille777
Your punnery is so divan, dahling.

Leni

32 posted on 08/06/2016 2:49:03 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Trump, White House.....Hillary, Jail House.....Bernie, Nut House.....Obama, Outhouse !)
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To: SMGFan

Was he carrying a plant with him like some kinda cultist tool?


33 posted on 08/06/2016 2:49:08 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: LibertarianLiz

Well, at least the Games aren’t being played in Chicago!


34 posted on 08/06/2016 2:49:27 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: VanDeKoik

could have gone to Chicago.
Chicago’s bid for 2016 Olympics leaves pricey legacy 7 years later

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-olympics-chicago-2016-met-20160715-story.html


35 posted on 08/06/2016 2:50:00 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @SarahMGellar -- Yes, she supports HRC :()
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To: dp0622
In most, if not all, sports the answer to your question is no. Think baseball: the ball you hit into fair territory strikes a beer bottle thrown by a fan, costing you a base and your team a run.

You argue "obstruction."
The ump shrugs his shoulders, and says "the obstruction was in the field of play."

36 posted on 08/06/2016 2:50:27 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Bullish

I can’t imagine the health concerns of their restaurants near this stuff.

Don’t want to imagine it.


37 posted on 08/06/2016 2:50:34 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: MUDDOG
And if it was in Havana, it’d be a ‘57 Chevy.

No, that still be on the road. In Havana it would the DDR Tribant.

38 posted on 08/06/2016 2:51:53 PM PDT by AU72
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To: SaveFerris

I’ll bet even the nicer hotels there have bed bugs and cockroaches too.

I’m very serious


39 posted on 08/06/2016 2:54:01 PM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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To: wille777
Butt the water is "green"...

Yuck....

40 posted on 08/06/2016 2:57:58 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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