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[Starver]

It's just to make the pool patriotic, see. /sarcasm[/quote]They're blue-green-gold-and-bits-of-white algae...

[martinuzz]

Yuri van Gelder, a dutch athlete has been forced on a plane and sent back to the Netherlands by the dutch olympic team leader and the international turning federation.
Because he went out of the olympic village and drank alcohol with his Brazilian girlfriend.

Olympic athlete rules do not forbid alcohol consumption.

Van Gelder is now suing the NOC*NSF, and the international turning federation, in a speed justice procedure, to force them to take him back and allow him to compete coming monday. Turning federation has already replied that it is impossible to take him back, because he has already been replaced by another athlete.

EDIT: the speed hearing and court ruling will be held on friday.
van Gelder and his lawyer are not pleased, they had hoped to be in court today already, since if van Gelder wins and is allowed to participate, he has to be back in Rio and fit to go on monday.

But because the lawyer of NOC*NSF is away on holiday, the court has granted postponement till friday (tomorrow).

That's crazy. Why would the NOC*NSF's lawyer go on holiday during his client's most important time of the year? And no replacement lawyer? That's just silly. Even my own lawyer is replaced whenever she is away for holidays or called in sick.

EDIT2: for those wondering what the NOC*NSF is:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOC*NSF

[Starver]

After some fruitless Googling and then some fruitful read-the-Nederlands-version-of-Wikipedia, I can help those that are just as confused as I was that "Turning" seems to relate to (artistic) Gymnastics as a whole. A nice term, and I "Turnen (ringen)" definitely has something poetic about it... 

[martinuzz]

hmm apparently an asterisk messes up a hyperlink. Putting it in code tag didn't help. So you'll have to copy paste it to find the right wiki page.

Turning is indeed a comprehensive name just like gymnastics, including multiple disciplines. Ringen =  rings (gymnastics).

[Starver]

EDIT2: for those wondering what the NOC*NSF is:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOC*NSF

I'm surprised that isn't percent-encoded for safety, on Wiki. It seems (most?) browsers allow it, and Wiki page doesn't convert it¹ but the forum wildcard-matching for URI validation probably doesn't allow it/explicitly disallows it, and I'd have thought they'd have played safe at Wiki.  (And I'm sure the A* wiki page was originally percented, but right now it seems happy not to be, so...)


Token-on-topic, sort of, I also quite liked the word "Toestelturnen"...


¹ Unlike https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%3F&redirect=no or https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%26&redirect=no

[martinuzz]

It's a funny word, 'turnen'. It's borrowed from english. Because in the basis, gymnastics is all about turning your body around it's axel using various contraptions and defined arenas.

Note that 'turn' is not a dutch word at all ('draaien' would be the dutch word). The sport's name is a dutchification of turning. the verb infinitivus ending '-ing' in dutch is '-en'.

EDIT: OUCH! guy breaks his arm bad while lifting 195kg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA-vCAd-3mY

[martinuzz]

Joelia Stepanova, the Russian athlete whistleblower that uncovered Russia's tampering with doping tests, had to flee from protective custody in the US.
She has been staying at a secret location in the US ever since she blew the whistle, fearing for her life.

But now her secret adress has been stolen by hackers who broke into the WADA (World Anti Doping Agency) computer, and managed to steal info on her whereabouts.

This could happen because despite being in protective custody, miss Stepanova is required to let the WADA know where she is at all times so she can be tested for doping.

Her whereabouts now are unknown. She has fled from the compromised protective custody.

I wonder what else the hackers did to the WADA computers. Maybe tomorrow we hear that doping has been found in the blood of all Olympian athletes lol.

[Strife26]

I hope that she finds some competent protection and makes it through everything alright.

[smjjames]

Can't they use a trusted source (like say, the US government) to do the anti-doping tests and then relay to the WADA? Of course though, it seems rather hypocritical to want to test the whistleblower of the whole doping scandal for doping.

[martinuzz]

To be fair, said whistleblower has been found positive for doping before. Therefore, despite being the whistleblower, she wasn't allowed to participate in the Olympics. She still has to be available for doping testing at all times though, just like every professional athlete, since the Olympics aren't the only sports competition in the world.

And why would the US government be a trustworthy party to do doping tests? If anything, the Russia scandal has shown that it's not unthinkable that governments and secret services try to meddle with them to further their national interests. US could theoretically do that too.

[smjjames]

To be fair, said whistleblower has been found positive for doping before. Therefore, despite being the whistleblower, she wasn't allowed to participate in the Olympics. She still has to be available for doping testing at all times though, just like every professional athlete, since the Olympics aren't the only sports competition in the world.

And why would the US government be a trustworthy party to do doping tests? If anything, the Russia scandal has shown that it's not unthinkable that governments and secret services try to meddle with them to further their national interests. US could theoretically do that too.

I was giving a random US example, and good point on her testing positive for doping before.

[Strife26]

   https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/08/14/sport/us-swimmers-ryan-lochte-robbed-rio-olympics/index.html 

Four US swimmers robbed at gunpoint by group with a police badge.


I ain't saying that this would've been a good idea, but it might not have been unreasonable.

[martinuzz]

It's possible that they weren't even fake police. Just real police pissed at not getting paid.
If in the US a police officer tells you to get out of your car, it's a good idea to comply.
In Rio however, best thing you can do is make sure you drive a heavy vehicle and run over the 'police' pedal to the metal and don't stop racing until you reach your country's embassy.

[TempAcc]

Please come to br.

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[martinuzz]

Camera guy was lucky he didn't drop with his head to the metal railing that made him go down.
He will be even luckier if he still has a job tomorrow.