I'm looking forward to the volleyball, table tennis, and Freddi Fish 2 events!... What?... Did they switch out for Putt-Putt 3 this year?

I heard that Michael Phelps is favored to win gold in this!

Wait, the opening ceremony was today?
Guess I missed it. Where can I watch it?

r/apocalympics2016.

The only coverage I'll need for this literal crapshoot.

It's all good as they quarantined me with the Volley girls and I say stuff the Olympics as this is much better:)

I hope I'll find some good streaming websites as the schedule here is during the working hours.

I'm definitely going to watch the opening ceremony today (on a rewind, because it was during the night around here) :)

Well, it was a feeling, We could call it low-tech, retro-style.
And now I can add it had the most peculiar, unusual, unique (beautiful?) cauldron ever.

OP updated with medal events' schedule.

Great thing about Rio is that it's all a time schedule I can work with. :P No setting my alarm for midnight to see an event.

I'm watching the rowing competitions at the moment. With all the waves and the heavy wind it looks like a completely new kind of sport to me. Sometimes it's even underwater rowing.

Other Events:

- Dangerous diseases
- Corrupt police officers
- Thieves
- Unwashed poor people
- Terrible sanitation and sewerage

The Olympics should never be allowed out of First World countries.

Correct me of I'm wrong, but when the Olympics were in Sidney they had to take special precautions to keep sharks from eating the athletes.

I just watched little snippets here and there so I just didn't know where you were coming from.

I hear the Olympic pyre and the sculpture was moved from the stadium to downtown after the ceremony, and it's going to be kept there for the next few weeks. I think it's cool, that way more people get to see it.

A few games ago they had that problem, forget where, and the host city got a lot of shit for it. "Technically" you are supposed to be able to see the flame from every venue. Now obviously in today's world this is impossible because these venues are spread out of hundreds of miles, but in this particular case, you couldn't even see the flame from just outside the stadium. :P I would imagine the folks in Rio made note of this and it seems like they did a good job here.

So far so good. We've just started, but Brazil gets an A+ from me to this point.