2016 Rio Olympics & Medal Count Thread

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It was a conspiracy

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It was a conspiracy

Lol:rofl:

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Marathon Silver Medalist Feyisa Lilesa Says "Maybe They Will Kill Me" If He Returns To Ethiopia After Olympic Protest

"As he crossed the finish line to win the silver medal in the Olympic marathon, Feyisa Lilesa crossed his forearms above his head in an “X,” a gesture of protest that resonated back home in Ethiopia. Lilesa said it was a risk. “If I go back to Ethiopia maybe they will kill me,” he said after the race.

The situation in Ethiopia is likely not familiar to much of the rest of the world—at least, it wasn’t until Lilesa called attention to it on the biggest sporting stage of all. Ethiopia’s political stability and economic growth have obscured—or maybe exacerbated—some old ethnic faultlines. Protesters of the Oromo ethnic group, to which Lilesa belongs and is the country’s largest, claim that the halls of power are dominated by the much smaller Tigrayan ethnic group, which, they say, gives its kinsmen preferential treatment.

Growing protests by the Oromo have been met by violent government crackdowns—a June report from Human Rights Watch said that 400 people had been killed, thousands injured, and tens of thousands arrested since November 2015. Since the crackdowns started, Oromos have been using the “X” gesture as a symbol and a form of silent protest.

The Ethiopian government is killing my people, so I stand with all protests anywhere, as Oromo is my tribe, Lilesa said. My relatives are in prison, and if they talk about democratic rights they are killed.”

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Did Facetube Ruin The Olympics?

http://gizmodo.com/the-olympics-not-...ics-1785575021

Back in June, NBCUniversial CEO Steve Burke described the worst case scenario for the Olympic games:

We wake up someday and the ratings are down 20 percent. If that happens, my prediction would be that millennials had been in a Facebook bubble or a Snapchat bubble and the Olympics have come, and they didn’t know it.

Welp. Looks like that nightmare turned into a reality. Probably too concerned with Snapchatting their privates, catching their reflections in dark screens and mirrors, or tweeting “daddy” at Bernie Sanders, it seems that the millennials forgot to tune into the Olympics games this year. The prime-time viewership in the very important 18-to-49-year-old demographic was down 25 percent from the London games four years ago, according to a Bloomberg article titled “NBC’s $12 Billion Olympic Bet Stumbles, Thanks to Millennials”.

Even though television viewership was down 17 percent total, users streaming the events through the NBC Sports App and NBCOlympics.com increased by 24 percent from the London games. Nevertheless, the Olympic viewership was lower than 2012. The smaller audience made it so NBC “had to give buyers free commercial time to make good on guarantees that a certain number of viewers would switch on television sets,” which is presumably why Bloomberg writer Gerry Smith blamed the millennials for this Olympic-sized fail. NBC promised advertisers an audience of 21 million households and only 18.2 million ended up tuning in. The damn millennials are ruining everything, an old might surmise from these numbers. But no! Because Smith reports, this year’s Olympics are expected to draw in bigger earnings for NBC than the 2012 games.

It’s unsurprising that the 2016 Olympics don’t have the same prime-time ratings as the London games. Television-watching culture has changed drastically in the past four years. We’re still in the golden age of television; we just watch it differently than we used to. How many people under the age of 30 do you know who pay for cable? (I literally know one person.)

Really, it’s NBC’s job to adapt its programming to fit the current zeitgeist. It’s futile to blame “millennials” for lower ratings because it’s futile to a blame a whole generation of people for any singular thing, or hold them accountable in any sort of meaningful way. Millennials don’t need to get down with the Olympics; instead, the Olympics should pander to us millennials.

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Did Facetube Ruin The Olympics?

Back in June, NBCUniversial CEO Steve Burke described the worst case scenario for the Olympic games:

We wake up someday and the ratings are down 20 percent. If that happens, my prediction would be that millennials had been in a Facebook bubble or a Snapchat bubble and the Olympics have come, and they didn’t know it.

Welp. Looks like that nightmare turned into a reality. Probably too concerned with Snapchatting their privates, catching their reflections in dark screens and mirrors, or tweeting “daddy” at Bernie Sanders, it seems that the millennials forgot to tune into the Olympics games this year. The prime-time viewership in the very important 18-to-49-year-old demographic was down 25 percent from the London games four years ago, according to a Bloomberg article titled “NBC’s $12 Billion Olympic Bet Stumbles, Thanks to Millennials”.

Even though television viewership was down 17 percent total, users streaming the events through the NBC Sports App and NBCOlympics.com increased by 24 percent from the London games. Nevertheless, the Olympic viewership was lower than 2012. The smaller audience made it so NBC “had to give buyers free commercial time to make good on guarantees that a certain number of viewers would switch on television sets,” which is presumably why Bloomberg writer Gerry Smith blamed the millennials for this Olympic-sized fail. NBC promised advertisers an audience of 21 million households and only 18.2 million ended up tuning in. The damn millennials are ruining everything, an old might surmise from these numbers. But no! Because Smith reports, this year’s Olympics are expected to draw in bigger earnings for NBC than the 2012 games.

It’s unsurprising that the 2016 Olympics don’t have the same prime-time ratings as the London games. Television-watching culture has changed drastically in the past four years. We’re still in the golden age of television; we just watch it differently than we used to. How many people under the age of 30 do you know who pay for cable? (I literally know one person.)

Really, it’s NBC’s job to adapt its programming to fit the current zeitgeist. It’s futile to blame “millennials” for lower ratings because it’s futile to a blame a whole generation of people for any singular thing, or hold them accountable in any sort of meaningful way. Millennials don’t need to get down with the Olympics; instead, the Olympics should pander to us millennials.

Meanwhile Mr.I was watching the Olympics from 4 years ago.. :rofl::rofl: