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[ed boy]

Wow, 104 medals total? That's a lot of medals!

Still doesn't beat our 1908 haul.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Wow, 104 medals total? That's a lot of medals!

Still doesn't beat our 1908 haul.

Won't be long now until we can melt them all down and make a statue.

[Digital Hellhound]

Man, that was great. But then again, I'm a sucker for huge spectacles like this. Shame my recording cut off just at the Rio preview part. I had to watch the rest in terribad quality online.

[RedKing]

My bad...Baba O'Riley, not My Generation. Which was actually sung by Roger Daltrey, not Townshend. Man, that is what happens when I post on 2hrs sleep.

[Urist_McDrowner]

Wow, 104 medals total? That's a lot of medals!

Still doesn't beat our 1908 haul.

1908 was a joke Olympics with a giant home field advantage and all British judges, and if you add up USA's medals since then, we still wallop you guys.

[RedKing]

We're starting to skirt Thou Shalt Not #1. Let's Shalt Not, shalt we?

[Digital Hellhound]

Anyway, a Belorussian gold medalist got busted for doping. I'm afraid I don't have a link to an English article, but look around.

[palsch]

I'm just assuming everyone from now on has tracked down and seen what they wanted. If not, assume spoilers from here on out.

My bad...Baba O'Riley, not My Generation. Which was actually sung by Roger Daltrey, not Townshend. Man, that is what happens when I post on 2hrs sleep.

The full playlist of Who songs, taken from here;

Kaiser Chiefs – Pinball Wizard
The Who – Baba O’Riley / See Me, Feel Me / Listening to You / My Generation

There is apparently a full spotify playlist of all the songs.

I thought some of the song selection was a bit naff. Anne Lennox played Little Bird? Really? That woman can dominate a stadium with one song easily, but not that one song. And who let George try a new single? He could have gotten away with it, but it completely killed the mood after Freedom. Bowie had clips of loads of great tracks played which then decayed into Fashion. Muse always had to play their official song - which is a shame given some of their older stuff actually fits the Olympics better than the track they wrote for it - but they really should have kept Matt out to sing for Queen. The man is a far better fit for Freddie than Jessie J and they could have done more than just We Will Rock You with him on vocals.

I enjoyed Wish You Were Here and the whole section from Russell Brand through Taio Cruz worked, even if it's less my style. The Who were great, but easily the highlight was ELO into Eric Idle.

Those who didn't watch past the end on BBC might have missed one extra track. Emeli Sande covering Imagine. Complete with a bonus montage. Maybe a little Brit heavy in places, but given those were the stories that most people watching knew best it made it a pretty effective tearjerker. Gemma Gibbons saying I love you to her deceased mom after winning silver, immediately followed by Victoria Pendleton holding hands with her biggest rival who had just beaten her in her last ever race... And that's just two of the clips.


EDIT: Fixed massive brain fart.

[ed boy]

followed by Becky Adlington holding hands with her biggest rival who had just beaten her in her last ever race...

That was Victoria Pendleton.

[Guardian G.I.]

Anyway, a Belorussian gold medalist got busted for doping. I'm afraid I don't have a link to an English article, but look around.

This entire story reminds me of the incident when another Belarusian athlete (I don't remember his name) was banned from competing at London 2012 by IOC because they found out that a sample dating back to 2004 (with a nearly expired storage time!) was showing traces of doping.
I can detect traces of bias in this decision. There are advertising contracts to be fulfilled, after all.

[Urist_McDrowner]

Anyway, a Belorussian gold medalist got busted for doping. I'm afraid I don't have a link to an English article, but look around.

This entire story reminds me of the incident when another Belarusian athlete (I don't remember his name) was banned from competing at London 2012 by IOC because they found out that a sample dating back to 2004 (with a nearly expired storage time!) was showing traces of doping.
I can detect traces of bias in this decision. There are advertising contracts to be fulfilled, after all.

Belarus is actually good at stuff and people may miss them. If it was for ad purposes, they'd be better off picking on someone like Fiji or Tuvalu

[sluissa]

I'm not sure if it belongs here, but I'm curious about the doping thing... I hear of athletes spending time in high altitude chambers all the time... and from what I understand it's just a natural way to force your body to produce more blood cells... what, really, is the difference between that and doping?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Doping gives you enough extra blood that you can die. As far as I know high altitude chambers do not have that level of effect and can fall under the idea of training, while doping is more of an instant circumvention of your blood limit that has a chance of killing you.

[Leafsnail]

And atheletes don't want to have to take a very high risk of killing themselves in order to remain competitive.

[sluissa]

From what I understand though, the high altitude thing isn't exactly safe either. You're still making your blood thicker with more cells, thick blood + over exertion can lead to all sorts of bad things.