Everything Olympics

[Puppilull]

That's great, Tim! Guess 'we' got two golds each?

[Timothy M.]

That's great, Tim! Guess 'we' got two golds each?

 

Yep and six Silver each, but we have more Bronzes than you.

[Former Member]

Team LGBT is up to 23 24* Medals!

 

Congratulations to our largest and most successful contingent yet!

 

*For some reason, Outsports doesn't list Melissa Tancredi as an Out member of the Canadian Women's Football team.

Edited August 22, 2016 by Former Member

[Former Member]

Team LGBT's Gold Medal Award winners:

• Nicola Adams, GB, 51kg Women's Boxing
• Kate & Helen Richardson-Walsh and Susannah Townsend, GB, Women's Field Hockey
• Rafaela Silva, BR, 57kg Women's Judo
• Seimone Augustus, Elena Delle Donne, Brittney Griner, and Angel McCoughtry, US, Women's Basketball
• Caster Semenya, ZA, 800m Track & Field

Team LGBT's Silver Medal Award winners:

• Lisa Dahlqvist, Nilla Fisher, Hedvig Lindahl, and Carolina Seger, SE, Women's Football/Soccer
• Carlien Dirkse van den Heuvel and Maartje Paumen, NL, Women's Field Hockey
• Sunette Viljoen, ZA, Women's Javelin
• Rachele Bruni, IT, 10km Women's Swimming
• Carl Hester and Spencer Wilton, GB, Team Dressage

Team LGBT's Bronze Medal Award winners:

• Stephanie Labbé, Melissa Tancredi* and Marie-Eve Nault, CA, Women's Football/Soccer
• Tom Daley, GB, Men's Synchronized 10m Platform Diving
• Jen Kish, CA, Women's Rugby 7

 

Counting the medals the same way they do to rank National Olympic Committees, Team LGBT won 5 Gold Medals, 5 Silver Medals, and 3 Bronze Medals for a total of 13 Medals. This would place Team LGBT at #17, between Jamaica (6/3/2) and Croatia (5/3/2). This put us ahead of New Zealand (4/9/5), Canada (4/3/15), Denmark (2/6/7), Sweden 2/6/3), among many others (ranked by Gold, then Silver, and finally Bronze).

 

21 Medals were won by women, and 3 Medals were won by men. Maybe Team LGBT's 'National' Anthem should be Girl's Just Wanna Have Fun!

 

*For some reason, Outsports doesn't list Melissa Tancredi as an Out member of the Canadian Women's Football team.

Edited August 22, 2016 by Former Member

[Former Member]

Very amusing Closing Ceremony!

 

I'm shocked that the extremely tight-laced Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to participate in the way that he did! Very few US politicians at the Federal or State level would be likely to emulate his role (as Nintendo's Mario)!

 

Only Japan would include cartoon and anime characters in a presentation like that…

[Former Member]

I created a poster to put up at the place where I get my therapy which features the names of all 56 LGBT Olympians and pictures of the Medal winners. I'd upload it to GA, but it probably violates the rules by being too political or something…

[Reader1810]

They didn't get a gold, silver or bronze but they won a medal that's only been awarded 17 times...not bad, if you ask me.

 

Rare Pierre de Coubertin medal awarded

[Former Member]

Their story will be shown as Olympic spirit exemplified.

 

 

I think NBC would have shown them even if neither one of them were from the US. Maybe even if they hadn't been speaking English.

[Graeme]

I thought we should continue this thread for the upcoming paralympics.

 

From Baghdad to Rio for the boy born without arms or legs

[Former Member]

I don't think my usual source, The Advocate, will devote much time to the Paralympics…

[Former Member]

I have seen a few stories on the news about disabled military vets who have overcome their injuries to go to Rio. There was also a story about an autistic young man who has been able to channel his focus on running…

[TetRefine]

I watched hardly any of the Olympics (can't stand single-person sports), but I did watch some of the mens gymnastics. If I were to create my ultimate teenage fantasy, it would be this guy.

 

Brazilian Arthur Mariano.