

There's always drama at the Olympics, but usually it's during the events. The biggest news coming out of this year's Games is happening after the athletes involved have already finished competing. American swimmers Ryan Lochte, Gunnar Bentz, James Feigen, and Jack Conger are finding themselves in hot water after lying about getting robbed in Rio. #LochteGate has it all: mystery, international intrigue, hunks, and pee. Lots of pee.
Ok so here's how it all started: On Sunday, four U.S. Olympic swimmers, Ryan Lochte, Jimmy Feigen, Jack Conger, and Gunnar Bentz, said they were pulled from a taxi in Rio and robbed at gunpoint by men pretending to be Brazilian police. Lochte told Billy Bush one of the robbers held a loaded gun right to his head and demanded money. He wouldn't lie to Billy Bush, right? Right?
Yep, that son of a "B" lied to sweet trusting little Billy Bush. On August 18, ABC broke the news that Lochte's whole dramatic tale was made up. He and his buddies were actually drunk, destroying property, and fighting with security at a gas station. Now this starts getting good.
#BREAKING Brazil sources: #RyanLochte + 3 swimmers fabricated robbery story. Video shows swimmer "fighting" w/security at gas station @GMA
— Matt Gutman (@mattgutmanABC) August 18, 2016
According to the owner of the Barra da Tijuca gas station, Lochte, Bentz, Feigen, and Conger took a sweet whiz all over his station's walls. Besides destroying property, he said the group of rowdy swimmers were asked to use the bathroom at the gas station, but instead drained their main veins on the wall. "We even have images of one of the athlete's butts, as he is pulling up his pants," the owner said. I'd like to check out that video out a few hundred times, for detective work, but it hasn't been released yet. The only CCTV video that has been released so far is by ABC News, and it definitely shows the swimmers at the gas station.
Two swimmers were removed from their flight home after doubts emerged over reports that they were robbed at gunpoint https://t.co/0hmWlk6btL
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 18, 2016
Lochte made it back to the US on Wednesday, but pals Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were pulled off of their flight from Rio de Janeiro and had their passports seized, officially turning this shit-storm into a diplomatic matter. The US committee told CNN that Brazilian authorities had removed the swimmers from the plane Wednesday night for questioning about the so-called "robbery."
Not surprisingly, the Pee-Boyz got themselves some legal council. Jeff Ostrow, an attorney for Lochte, made a statement saying the four swimmers' accounts "are 95 percent consistent." United States Olympic Committee spokesman Patrick Sandusky said Lochte and his teammates "are cooperating with authorities and in the process of scheduling a time and place to provide further statements to the Brazilian authorities."
"All are represented by counsel and being appropriately supported by the USOC and the U.S. Consulate in Rio," he added.
On August 16, Omaha police responded to a call about an accidental overdose, which ended up being a 53-year-old man who ate four pot brownies (thinking they were normal brownies) that his adult children had left in his car after borrowing it. Now dad was high as a kite and super pissed at the family cat.
Paramedics arrived to find the man medically fine (vital signs all normal and good), but a little off, behavior-wise: he was crawling on the ground, occasionally cursing, and calling the kitty a "bitch." Who knows, maybe it was a bitch. There's no denying some cats are.
The guy told EMTs that he felt like "he's trippin'" (probably because he pretty much was), but didn't want to be taken to the hospital, so they just put him to bed. End of story (unless the cat seeks REVENGE). The moral here is don't leave your pot brownies unattended, maybe don't eat four brownies at once no matter what kind they might be, and BE NICE TO YOUR CAT, because you never know.
Cassie Hurley always wanted to get pregnant. After two years of trying unsuccessfully, a doctor told her in 2010 that her weight (at that time, 324 pounds) could be the problem. Hurley had struggled with her weight for most of her life, and medical issues like an underactive thyroid gland and polycystic ovary syndrome weren't making weight loss any easier. But after hearing the doctor's advice, Hurley was determined to shed the pounds.
A photo posted by Cass Hurley (@losing_it_loving_it) on
Hurley told the Daily Mail, "I have always wanted to be a mum for as long as I can remember. I really wanted to have babies." So she joined a gym, saw a dietician, and hired a personal trainer to help her reach her goal. She cut foods high in sugar ("any words ending in 'OSE'") from her diet, and started exercising five times a week.
A photo posted by Cass Hurley (@losing_it_loving_it) on
After a year, she'd lost 68 pounds. After a lot of contemplation, she decided to have gastric sleeve surgery to lose more weight. She explained:
I was doing so well, but I wanted the weight to come off to have children. By 2011 our dream was still there. We did not want it to slip away. All I could think about was "this is going to help me have my kids. This is going to bring me so much closer to my dream."
She lost another 75 pounds thanks to the surgery (not immediately, duh), and a year and half later, Hurley learned she was pregnant. Just four months after the birth of her first child, she was pregnant with her second. She maintained the weight loss, motivating herself by maintaining an Instagram account called @losing_it_loving_it where she happily shows off the results of her hard work and dedication. Go Cassie!
Poor Adele! The singer caught a bad cold this week, which she pronounces "code" because she's just that adorably British (and probably has a very stuffy nose). Adele was so sick, she had to cancel her gig in Phoenix, Arizona Wednesday night. Not wanting to disappoint her fans, she posted this thoughtful apology video from her sick bed.
— Adele (@Adele) August 17, 2016
"I can't do my show tonight, my second show here," says a very red-nosed Adele. "I'm really, really sorry. My cold has gotten the better of me, and as you can hear, even if I did the show it wouldn't be very good."
Then she continues: "I'm really, really, really sorry to let anyone down."
Now that is an apology! She wraps up the video by promising to come back, and tweeted today that the gig has been rescheduled for November. This all proves that British people have impeccable manners, and also sound even more British when they're sick.
Here's something nice that the internet did! Strangers online came through for Cami, a little girl with autism who needed a replica of her favorite shirt. Cami is fixated on her pink flower shirt. She loves it so much that she wore it out, so her mom enlisted the help of the internet to find another one.
On August 7, Deborah Grimshaw Skouson took to Facebook to see if anyone had an extra of that particular shirt—in any size—to add to her daughter's collection.
"She got her first one in kindergarten five years ago, and we have found four more since then, mostly on eBay. Her current one is almost unwearable, and eBay has gone dry,” Skouson wrote. "This is where you come in. We need another ‘pink flower shirt.’"
Okay friends and family, I need your help! As most of you know, my daughter Cami has autism. For the past 4-5 years, she...
Posted by Deborah Grimshaw Skouson on Sunday, August 7, 2016
The post has since gone viral. Over 4,000 people have shared it, and within a week, Cami received 78 (78!!!) replacement shirts. People have been putting in a lot of effort to help the family.
Fox 2 reported that a few friendly people even went so far as to contact Target (where the shirt was first purchased) on behalf of the family.
“Cami adores this shirt, and it brings her a lot of comfort and security, which is sometimes hard for her to come by in her chaotic little world,” her mom shared.
“I am so grateful for the kindness that my daughter has been shown,” she said. “People are inherently good and kind, and I’m glad I’ve been able to be a recipient of that kindness.”
Social media went berserk today when news broke that Ryan Lochte and three of his American teammates (Gunnar Bentz, James Feigen, and Jack Conger ) were allegedly lying when they said they were robbed at gunpoint. (Apparently they were actually busy peeing all over a gas station on the night of their supposed "robbery"). And so, #LochteGate was born and subsequently took over the Twitter-sphere. Here are 15 of the funniest #LochteGate tweets.
The way I see it, if the swimmers lie to us on land, how do we really know what's happening underwater? #LochteGate #turninyourtrunks
— Dave Hill (@mrdavehill) August 18, 2016
Ryan and his PR team trying to clean up this mess. #lochtegate pic.twitter.com/Tn7eqWKKJW
— Ashley Wood (@awood511) August 18, 2016
Kind of hope officials say "omg let us fly you to an exclusive party!" and when he gets there, are like "lol nah this is court" #LochteGate
— mah ree nah (@marinarachael) August 18, 2016
Disappointed we chose #LochteGate instead of #LochMess. We had a chance to do something really great there, & we blew it.
— K.Dot (@kjbas) August 18, 2016
Ryan, if found to be lying about being robbed, may be "LOCHTED" UP!! 😂😳 #LochteGate #LochteRobbery pic.twitter.com/qfG4q1czpQ
— Cindy Ludwig Gatlin (@blesstgirl) August 18, 2016
BREAKING NEWS: Swimmer Jimmy Feigen reportedly attempting to escape Brazil authorities by swimming back to U.S. #Lochtegate
— Daniel Kochanowicz (@Blueskyfox) August 18, 2016
The sad part is that Michael Phelps would have trashed that gas station bathroom twice as fast. #LochteGate
— Matt Nedostup (@nedostup) August 18, 2016
Ryan Lochte just won a Brown Medal.
— Paula Pell (@perlapell) August 18, 2016
Only 2% of women make false accusations but 100% of Ryan Lochtes do
— Orli Matlow (@HireMeImFunny) August 18, 2016
Biggest lesson we've learned from #LochteGate - never lie to your mom.
— Melanie Bromley (@melaniebromley) August 18, 2016
when you leave the dog park don't forget to #LochteGate
— Bez (@Bez) August 18, 2016
#LochteGate goes mainstream pic.twitter.com/o5hrR6uqUc
— nascarcasm (@nascarcasm) August 18, 2016
Synchronized swimmers would keep their story straight.
— Steve Rushin (@SteveRushin) August 18, 2016
"This is where the alleged urination actually happened." - CNN quote that just actually happened. #LochteGate
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) August 18, 2016
When you find out the IOC called a 32-year-old "a kid." #LochteGate pic.twitter.com/L0DzAIWWkM
— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) August 18, 2016
Sock salesman Rob Kardashian spent "like $13,000" on food delivery orders to satisfy his fiancée Blac Chyna's apparently insatiable pregnancy cravings, he said on a Facebook Live Q&A to promote the couple's new E! reality show Rob & Chyna. Her biggest cravings are Philly cheesesteaks and Chinese food from P.F. Chang's, so Blac Chyna's baby officially has the same taste in food as my dad.
Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna Q&ARob Kardashian and Blac Chyna are here now answering your questions! #RobAndChyna
Posted by Keeping Up With The Kardashians on E! on Wednesday, August 17, 2016
The pair also revealed that they first met at Kendall Jenner's 16th birthday party at Six Flags. "We actually met at Kendall's Sweet 16," Chyna said. "The weirdest thing looking back at it we were winning prizes together and sitting on the ride close to each other. It was weird. It's funny like…"
"Everything just comes full circle," Rob said, finishing her sentence. "Gotta love Six Flags!"
These people are made for each other!
A mom used an elaborate metaphor involving toothpaste to try to teach her daughter to be kind. Amy Beth Gardner's daughter is about to enter middle school, a time when many children become seduced by the evil pleasure of gossip. To keep her on the right path, Gardner taught her daughter a lesson with a tube of toothpaste, and posted about it on Facebook. Now, that post is going viral, with over 600,000 shares.
My daughter starts middle school tomorrow. We've decorated her locker, bought new uniforms, even surprised her with a...
Posted by Amy Beth Gardner on Sunday, August 14, 2016
It reads:
My daughter starts middle school tomorrow. We've decorated her locker, bought new uniforms, even surprised her with a new backpack. But tonight just before bed, we did another pre-middle school task that is far more important than the others. I gave her a tube of toothpaste and asked her to squirt it out onto a plate. When she finished, I calmly asked her to put all the toothpaste back in the tube. She began exclaiming things like "But I can't!" and "It won't be like it was before!" I quietly waited for her to finish and then said the following:
"You will remember this plate of toothpaste for the rest of your life. Your words have the power of life or death. As you go into middle school, you are about to see just how much weight your words carry. You are going to have the opportunity to use your words to hurt, demean, slander and wound others. You are also going to have the opportunity to use your words to heal, encourage, inspire and love others. You will occasionally make the wrong choice; I can think of three times this week I have used my own words carelessly and caused harm. Just like this toothpaste, once the words leave your mouth, you can't take them back. Use your words carefully, Breonna. When others are misusing their words, guard your words. Make the choice every morning that life-giving words will come out of your mouth. Decide tonight that you are going to be a life-giver in middle school. Be known for your gentleness and compassion. Use your life to give life to a world that so desperately needs it. You will never, ever regret choosing kindness."
This is cute and all in a Midwestern Pinterest mom way, but it kind of reminds me of when teen church groups make everyone spit in a cup and then ask if someone wants to drink it as a metaphor for how gross having sex with more than one person is.
Today, the anarchist art collective INDECLINE put naked, testicle-free statues of presidential candidate Donald J. Trump in public spaces around New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Seattle. The fun part about the project, titled "The Emperor Has No Balls," was that the artist portrayed Trump with a really tiny ding-dong, a hypothesis which has been speculated by both me and Sen. Marco Rubio.
There is a naked Trump statue in Union Square right now. pic.twitter.com/26bYxY4AwF
— New York City Patch (@NYC_Patch) August 18, 2016
The New York statue, placed in the East Village's Union Square, was up for two hours before being painstakingly removed by the city's Parks Department—the statue had been glued in place.
Two men from City Parks Department just whisked naked Donald away in a truck. pic.twitter.com/rB5FxsN9hI
— New York City Patch (@NYC_Patch) August 18, 2016
But after the statue was removed, the Parks Department still got in one last dig in at Trump with this subtle press release, presented here in its entirety:
Re: the naked Trump statue — that statement from the NYC Parks Department is indeed real pic.twitter.com/IttBvtXXGy
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) August 18, 2016
De Blasio's New York!
What can I say about Cher that hasn't already been said? She's an icon, a diva, a Grammy winner, an Oscar winner, an Emmy winner, and a damn snappy dresser. She's been famous for 50 years now and has never once shied away from Cher-ing her opinion. (HA HA) Cher's the definition of not giving AF. Her hilarious outspoken anti-Trump Twitter feed has been pretty much the only good thing to come out of this election cycle.
Hi
— Cher (@cher) May 23, 2016
FYI....🔧=TOOL
— Cher (@cher) July 31, 2016
I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
— Cher (@cher) July 29, 2016
COMPLETELY WITH HER 4EVER✨💖✨
SHE IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE ‼️
Going out 2give my support To" HILL".BEEN WITH HER 4 LONG TIME...SEE HOW YOUNG WE LOOK😂
— Cher (@cher) August 2, 2016
2👯IN PROVINCETOWN 21st AUG pic.twitter.com/3IGWjY4VCc
IM WITH HER✨💖✨ pic.twitter.com/z9ygU55hMi
— Cher (@cher) July 28, 2016
DONT GIVE A🤐WORD,WHAT ANY1 THINKS...I WILL SUPPORT
— Cher (@cher) August 18, 2016
HILL,2THE END‼️SHES SMART,STRONG,HARD WORKER,
TRUST HER TEMPERAMENT& TRUST HER W/CODES 🇺🇸
Know When I Check In &There’s Gazillion Twts,IVE PISSED OFF SOMEBODY😂It’s Not My Job2 Please every1….Well….MY ACTUAL JOB IS BEING AN ICON😂😝😭
— Cher (@cher) June 3, 2016
Many ppl say Donald🚽Trump
— Cher (@cher) August 10, 2016
Wears UMPA LUMPA Depends,&
Fills his"YUGE"Bellybutton With
CHEAP Cavier...IM NOT SAYING IT,But Some Ppl Say That😉
NOT SAFE 2 GIVE 🚽,AN UNSTABLE,PETULANT,VINDICTIVE,LOOSE CANON INTEL. pic.twitter.com/K8PEZNLuB2
— Cher (@cher) July 29, 2016
"Mr🚽Trumps"Horrendous Grimace Reminds Me of Another Evil Villain,who Needed to be institutionalized😂 pic.twitter.com/Xc6aJR4Ekf
— Cher (@cher) August 2, 2016
FROM THE🚽TRUMP COMETH
— Cher (@cher) June 12, 2016
& 2THE🚽HE WILL RETURN‼️
💰DOESNT BUY DECENCY,
MORAL COMPASS,OR COMPASSION‼️KNOW HES RACIST,BUT HE ALSO INCOMPETENT‼️
TIRED OF SAYING🚽IS LYING, SOCIOPATHIC,MALIGNANT
— Cher (@cher) August 12, 2016
NARCISSIST‼️4GET PRES,I WANT HIS FAT ASS OUT OF MY
MY🇺🇸COUNTRY‼️I NOW HATE HIM,I HATE NOBODY
🚽IS SUCH A FKNG RACIST🔧CANT STAND IT‼️IF HE CARES SO MUCH ABOUT 🇺🇸'NS,WHY DOESNT HE MAKE"1"FKNG PRODUCT HERE,IN🇺🇸⁉️
— Cher (@cher) July 31, 2016
STUPID,LYING CON MAN🔧
What Part Of
— Cher (@cher) July 19, 2016
“🚽TRUMP”…Don’t They Get😂 pic.twitter.com/ZbF0uGqAKe
How many X’s Is This
— Cher (@cher) July 22, 2016
fkng IDIOT Going 2Call Me CHERILYN⁉️If Classless🚽even“Stepped”in2 W.H, We’d have 2Fumigate it😝 pic.twitter.com/Ye7TAJUVrn
Must go sing....LATER💫
— Cher (@cher) August 8, 2016
Jon Stewart appeared on the The Nightly Show on Thursday night, trading his farmer gear for a shirt and tie, to deliver a touching eulogy for Larry Wilmore's final show. It was a moving, sad goodbye, but not without jokes, with Stewart saying, "Your last show? Oh my God! What did you do, piss off Peter Thiel?"
Many forget that before The Daily Show, Jon Stewart had a canceled show on MTV called The Jon Stewart Show, and comforted Wilmore with the very words that David Letterman famously said to comfort him: “Do not confuse cancelation with failure.”
“What you, my friend, were tasked to do, you have done and done beautifully,” Stewart said, highlighting for people how much the show will be missed. “You gave voice to underserved voices in the media arena and you did it—it was a show that was raw and poignant and funny and smart and all those things.”
And in one last callback, Wilmore and J. Stew shared a surprisingly moving N-word fake-out like Wilmore's (in)famous performance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Stewart wasn't the only late night host offering Wilmore support. Basically every show (except the Jimmys and Seth Meyers) sent over pastries and booze to help ease the pain of cancelation.
Thanks for the cases of wine Jo Miller, @iamsambee and everyone at Full Frontal. We love you too!
A photo posted by Larry Wilmore (@ldub61) on
Thanks @stepenathome and @colbertlateshow for all the tiny bottles of booze!
A photo posted by Larry Wilmore (@ldub61) on
Thanks for the pastries @thedailyshow but did you not get the memo about booze!
A photo posted by Larry Wilmore (@ldub61) on
Now that's how you do it! Thanks for the cases of bubbly @IamJohnOliver and @lastweektonight
A photo posted by Larry Wilmore (@ldub61) on
Goodnightly, Nightly Show. You will be missed.
Usain Bolt won the 200 meter finals to complete his second "sprint double," but just missed breaking his own record. US women took gold and bronze in the 400 meter hurdles. And US swimmers admitted they made up a tale of being robbed to cover up a gas station altercation! It's all here, in the 24 funniest reactions to Day 13 of the Olympics:
Congratulations to Usain Bolt on winning the 200m in 19.78 secs, which is also the same length of time it takes me to get up from a beanbag.
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) August 19, 2016
Usain won the 200 and his mom was in the stands looking at him like he didn't take the chicken out the freezer.
— Alesia (@aaaisela) August 19, 2016
Either Usain Bolt always knows when the camera is on him or he is a monster like me and just assumes it always is
— Shalyah Evans (@ShalyahEvans) August 19, 2016
If I had to run against Usain Bolt I'd try reasoning with him first
— Bobby Big Wheel (@BobbyBigWheel) August 19, 2016
Usain Bolt wins the #200m Olympic #Gold medal! Congrats the fastest man alive!https://t.co/sa89vrSVw8 pic.twitter.com/LuY2PIRQWL
— 9GAG (@9GAG) August 19, 2016
Usain is the fastest man alive and his mother still wasnt satisfied. Typical Jamaican mom
— _ (@tarikkoon) August 19, 2016
Usain Bolt be like pic.twitter.com/vQ6ijCA4sF
— FootBasket.com (@FootBasket) August 19, 2016
Usain Bolt the reason I don't look at Jamaican food as unhealthy. It really might be the best fuel for your body.
— Charlamagne Tha God (@cthagod) August 19, 2016
USAIN BOLT JUST MELTED THE TRACK IN 19.79 SECONDS pic.twitter.com/RXLjyTIT7c
— SB Nation GIF (@SBNationGIF) August 19, 2016
solid plan by usain bolt's opponents to slow him down by over-encumbering him with gold medals
— Colley (@JamColley) August 19, 2016
When you drink Red Bull instead of Coffee in the morning. #Bolt pic.twitter.com/61BYuVMKF2
— Rohit Sharma (@imRo45_) August 19, 2016
Only athlete to sprint faster than Usain Bolt over 200m this year was Ryan Lochte trying to board his plane before the Rio cops stopped him
— tom jamieson (@jamiesont) August 19, 2016
Dalilah Muhammad just won the 400m hurdles. QUEENS IS IN THE BUILDING! pic.twitter.com/fe6taO0cjP
— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) August 19, 2016
The Olympics is like the best pizza ever made & NBC is the waiter who won't let you eat it until he tells you the entire history of tomatoes
— Lucas Neff (@RealLucasNeff) August 19, 2016
New Olympic rule: anyone can wear a flag as a cape no matter how badly they did.
— Dave Shumka (@daveshumka) August 19, 2016
The Olympic swimmers' misconduct will go down in history as "the dumbest crime of the century."
— Shari VanderWerf (@shariv67) August 18, 2016
Been saying this for years but it especially rings true today: "Never give drunk olympic swimmers a gift card to a gas station in Rio"
— (((Jason Narducy))) (@SplitSingleband) August 18, 2016
bets part of lochte rio lie? during the fake robbery, he says the other swimmers got down on the ground but HE said no way. not getting down
— curtis james gwinn (@curtisgwinn) August 18, 2016
The "three other swimmers" should be pretty happy they are just mentioned as the Three Other Swimmers. #LochteGate
— Lindsey Benoit (@Lindzben14) August 19, 2016
ryan lochte: yea lying is messed up. some would say it's even *removes his mask revealing it's been jared leto this whole time* twisted >:)
— EJ Gomez (@EJGomez) August 19, 2016
lochte realizing there are "laws" in Brazil pic.twitter.com/1s10vI37il
— madeleine (@adeleinem_) August 19, 2016
So let me get this straight - you go to Rio to compete in the Olympics, but you have to fabricate a story to make the trip seem interesting?
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) August 18, 2016
Pretty sure Bolt just won some races in the 2020 Olympics.
— Ol' QWERTY Bastard (@TheDiLLon1) August 19, 2016
SPORTS FACT: The Olympics takes place every four years because it lasts four years.
— )))WAG((( (@dwaghalter) August 19, 2016
The Olympics look tough as hell. Superbly fit and dedicated human beings pushing their bodies to extremes that most of us can't even begin to fathom. Sometimes, though, things don't go as planned, reminding us of the vulnerability of human bodies. Because holy shit, some of these are brutal.
In a cycling road race in Rio, the Dutch cyclist skid on a patch of wet road and flipped over her bicycle's handlebars, ending up in intensive care with a concussion and three cracks in her spine. But she's okay now, home in the Netherlands, and already back on her bike.
In 2008 in Beijing, the Hungarian weightlifter dislocated his elbow while attempting to "snatch" 148 kg, leading to questionable headlines such as this:
At the 2016 games, Armenian weightlifter Andranik Karapetyan's elbow suffered the same fate.
In the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, the British sprinter tore his hamstring midrace.
His dad joined him on the track and helped him finish the race and together they won the gold medal for making the audience cry.
Don't feel too bad though—Redmond went on to become a motivational speaker, because that's the kind of thing determined people are good at.
During the 1988 Summer games in Seoul, the American diver smacked his head on the springboard while doing a reverse 3½ somersault in the tuck position (the most difficult platform dive) a.k.a. the "Dive of Death." Soviet diver Sergei Chalibashvili died trying to pull off that same dive in the 1983 World University Games, while Louganis was next in line. Louganis was luckier—he got out of the pool and asked the doctor to give him some temporary stitches so he could finish his dives. He told the press, "When I hit the board, it shook my confidence," but he managed to work through the fear and ended up winning the gold.
On the landing of her first vault in the 1996 games in Atlanta, the American gymnast tore two ligaments in her left ankle. In a 1997 interview with Sports Illustrated, Shrug recalls the sound of the landing: "There was such momentum. The bone was shoved forward and then back in place."
The American team needed the points to beat the Russians, so the coaches asked Strug to do her second vault despite the injury. Strug landed the second one perfectly, but upon landing heard her ankle snap again: "It felt like a bomb went off." The U.S. won the gold and her coach carried her to the podium to accept her medal. Hoorays all around.
In 2016 a jaguar brought to an Olympic torch ceremony in Manaus was shot dead after it escaped its handlers and approached a soldier, even though it was tranquilized and also was there as a guest. What kind of bullshit hospitality is that?
7. These doves
Another brilliant idea involving animals was the 1988 Seoul Olympics Official Roasting of the Peace Doves. Great job, guys.
Also during the qualifying rounds at the 2016 games, French gymnast Samir Ait broke his leg in a loud and grotesque way. Sadly, that's not really one you can just attempt to walk off.
Blogger and mother of four Constance Hall struck a chord with thousands Tuesday after writing up a quick anecdote recognizing the awful truth about how strangers view parents: a mom could always be doing better, while a dad is a hero just for showing up.
I had breakfast with a friend and of course Snow shat. I went to the bathroom and there was no change table. No...
Posted by Constance Hall on Monday, August 15, 2016
Constance writes that she tried to change her daughter's diaper discreetly in the park when a random woman came over and gave her the judgies.
"I saw you changing your daughters nappy, could you please use the change table next time"
I said "there wasn't one"
She said "there is, it's in the disabled toilet and that's around the other corner"
I said "cool, she's probably not due for another shit for about 6 hours but I will act accordingly."
I felt like a loser. The world went on.
What's that lady's problem? Surely if the dogs and birds can poop on the grass, a mom can change a diaper.
Then, only a week later, her husband pulled the same stunt in the same park, and lo and behold, he became a national hero and the poster boy for good parenting.
A group of women walked passed, one said.. "Aww good dad!!! That's what we like to see, get in there"
Bill felt like a legend. The world went on.
Why was Hall made to feel like a loser and her husband a legend? Hall writes,
I am used to being scrutinised for jobs that my husband is praised for.
I am used to picking the kids up from school to judgmental looks about being late, while Bill is used to a red fucking carpet and a 12 piece band praising him for his heroic appearance at school pick up.That's the way we as a society are, we place so much pressure on women to be perfect and selfless while putting low parenting expectations on men.
I am not saying quit the praise. I love seeing Bill get praised for the things he does for our kids.
He is a good dad, why not celebrate him.
But let's praise each other too, let's see a women talking on the phone while pushing her pram and think 'wow, she chose not to stay at home bidding on eBay smashing straight vodka. She chose to come to the park and be a magnificent mum'
And Hall isn't the only one who is "used to it." Her post has received over 73k likes and been shared over 5k times since posting it Tuesday, along with receiving thousands of comments of support.
It's a great reminder. Next time we see a mom struggling with her kids, try not to judge, and instead look at her with the awe and admiration you'd give a dad. And if you can't do that, how about just stay at home and chug some vodka?