Yannakis 344 Posted August 3, 2016 #541 Share Posted August 3, 2016 (edited) Welcome to olympic athletes from around the world on the facade of the hotel Copacabana Palace. Edited August 3, 2016 by Janakis Felipe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxim Fastovsky 124 Posted August 3, 2016 #542 Share Posted August 3, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, LDOG said: The most recognizable are Bolt, Nadal, Djokovic, Neymar and Phelps. And that's it. Murray is famous, but I don't think he's particularly liked outside of UK. Gymnastics isn't popular at all outside of your country and Russia/East Europe, so I don't think many people would tell Biles apart. EDIT. Serena Williams is very popular too. You can tell biles apart! she's only 4'8"! Edited August 3, 2016 by Maxim Fastovsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangeman 1,323 Posted August 3, 2016 #543 Share Posted August 3, 2016 48 minutes ago, Janakis said: Welcome to olympic athletes from around the world on the facade of the hotel Copacabana Palace. I was in Rio last year and stood (and swam) right in this spot. It's a spectacular building from the outside, I wish I would have gone in and had a look. I'm sure Copacabana is bouncing right now! Yannakis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griff88 1,735 Posted August 3, 2016 #544 Share Posted August 3, 2016 5 hours ago, De_Gambassi said: There is a large part of the world that doesn't give a f. about basketball. None of these guys are more well_known outside of the US than Bolt, Phelps or Djokovic. Even worse in Indonesia, most of them only know the top 10-15 badminton players and the European football stars. Phelps and Bolt gained popularity here during Beijing 2008, but no one really cares about London 2012 except badminton and weightlifting (and football maybe :P)... And also not until London 2012 Paralympics and Sochi 2014 most of people here know that Paralympics and Olympic Winter Games do exist. As a big fan of the Olympics, I feel I am living in the wrong place because the ratings are low thus making it hard to watch the Olympics... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suneet 16 Posted August 3, 2016 #545 Share Posted August 3, 2016 25 minutes ago, Griff88 said: Even worse in Indonesia, most of them only know the top 10-15 badminton players and the European football stars. Phelps and Bolt gained popularity here during Beijing 2008, but no one really cares about London 2012 except badminton and weightlifting (and football maybe :P)... And also not until London 2012 Paralympics and Sochi 2014 most of people here know that Paralympics and Olympic Winter Games do exist. As a big fan of the Olympics, I feel I am living in the wrong place because the ratings are low thus making it hard to watch the Olympics... Similar is the case in India. Cricket overshadows almost all other sports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxim Fastovsky 124 Posted August 3, 2016 #546 Share Posted August 3, 2016 13 minutes ago, Suneet said: Similar is the case in India. Cricket overshadows almost all other sports. USA is not much better, even though we have so many good athletes, swimmers, gymnasts. On a regular basis outside of the 3 months before the olympics all people care about most is football, basketball, baseball. (Granted i'm a huge Football fan, but don't really care about the rest). NBC are great because they stream everything, but the TV Coverage is horrible plus their playback rules are really really annoying!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griff88 1,735 Posted August 3, 2016 #547 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Some more updates.. >> Building 18 + IOC + Refugee Team >> Building 15 >> Building 28 >>Building 17 >> Building 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianlu33 3,572 Posted August 3, 2016 #548 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Only 10 hours to the unofficial start Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolby 712 Posted August 3, 2016 #549 Share Posted August 3, 2016 One small problem I am facing with the website is it shows schedule only in Rio time. There is option to change it to local time but it does not work. It is working fine in the app but not on web. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted August 3, 2016 #550 Share Posted August 3, 2016 9 hours ago, Agger said: This happened during the welcoming of the Swedish team (no big deal but slightly embarrasing) This is hilarious. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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