2016 Rio Olympics: Official Day 6 Live Discussion Thread

Standings after the high jump in the decathlon most notably Taiwo has overtaken Mayer for third with his huge 2.19, but we still have 6 events.

Pos Bib Athlete Points

1 3065 Ashton Eaton USA 3616

2 2210 Damian Warner CAN 3548

3 3099 Jeremy Taiwo USA 3547

4 2429 Kevin Mayer FRA 3539

5 2505 Kai Kazmirek GER 3529

6 2004 Larbi Bourrada ALG 3468

7 3106 Zach Ziemek USA 3448

8 2538 Kurt Felix GRN 3435

9 3028 Oleksiy Kasyanov UKR 3427

10 2097 Thomas van der Plaetsen BEL 3393

11 2300 Adam Sebastian Helcelet CZE 3381

12 2135 Luiz Alberto de Araújo BRA 3379

13 2936 Mihail Dudaš SRB 3364

14 2036 Cedric Dubler AUS 3319

15 2541 Lindon Victor GRN 3301

16 2781 Pieter Braun NED 3281

17 2488 Arthur Abele GER 3274

18 2289 Leonel Suárez CUB 3274

19 2272 Yordani García CUB 3254

20 2412 Bastien Auzeil FRA 3253

21 2370 Pau Tonnesen ESP 3206

22 2856 Pawel Wiesiolek POL 3190

23 2057 Dominik Distelberger AUT 3187

24 2308 Jirí Sýkora CZE 3121

25 2662 Keisuke Ushiro JPN 3091

26 2385 Karl Robert Saluri EST 3042

27 2651 Akihiko Nakamura JPN 3034

28 2386 Maicel Uibo EST 2597

3109 Leonid Andreev UZB DNF

2895 Willem Coertzen RSA DNF

2495 Rico Freimuth GER DNF

2788 Eelco Sintnicolaas NED DNF

Was watching stream.nbcolympics.com coverage last week on an Xfinity, then missed a few days and am now watching the same stream, on a different machine in a different town, on my friend's Xfinity account.

Am now getting commercials for the first time. Is this something new in the past couple of days or part of non-Hotspot service? Prett annoying.

Thanks!

just the facts jack wrote:

speaking of hair... wrote:

Tweet from Emma Coburn:

https://twitter.com/emmajcoburn/status/765864950036389888

Confirmed via Mr. Jager tweet that that hair tie now has a bronze AND silver medal to its credit-

Evan Jager Verified account

‏@EvanJager

@emmajcoburn I'm not gonna lie. I used that hair tie for the race today. I needed some of that good juju! 😉 I owe it all to you 😝😝

Please! Its not a hair tie, its a scrunchie.

Jonny Halakhic wrote:

Was watching stream.nbcolympics.com coverage last week on an Xfinity, then missed a few days and am now watching the same stream, on a different machine in a different town, on my friend's Xfinity account.

Am now getting commercials for the first time. Is this something new in the past couple of days or part of non-Hotspot service? Prett annoying.

Thanks!

You might have ad block on chrome installed, while your friend does not

Anybody using the NBC stream right now not having the commentary coming through? Nice to hear for the field events.

Five Americans in the women's hurdle finals. Pretty much guarantees an American sweep. Perhaps we should have a separate women's hurdles race for the Americans and then another for the rest of the world.

stream wrote:

Anybody using the NBC stream right now not having the commentary coming through? Nice to hear for the field events.

Yes, it pretty great. Just the crowd noise and stadium announcer... and the sound of hurdles crashing everywhere.

There are some sexy Long Jumpers tonight!!

Go Darya!

Russia, Estonia, Germany, Australian long jumpers are smoking hot!

Parade of jumping babes. wrote:

Russia, Estonia, Germany, Australian long jumpers are smoking hot!

They poop like the rest of us.

vivalarepublica wrote:

Five Americans in the women's hurdle finals. Pretty much guarantees an American sweep. Perhaps we should have a separate women's hurdles race for the Americans and then another for the rest of the world.

Oh I thought there was a 3 athlete limit per country

Everything about Brittany Reese screams TRANNY.

There is no way Darya poops

Realee wrote:

vivalarepublica wrote:

Five Americans in the women's hurdle finals. Pretty much guarantees an American sweep. Perhaps we should have a separate women's hurdles race for the Americans and then another for the rest of the world.

Oh I thought there was a 3 athlete limit per country

The Ofili sisters (Tiffany and Cindy) grew up in Michigan, but their mother is British, so they compete for Great Britain.

.. and Tiffany Porter is married to an American... so she could become an American citizen if she wanted to.

Darya poops cotton candy.

Someone needs to check Reese for a penis.

dig in wrote:

Darya poops cotton candy.

Is that a side effect of her Russian doping regime?

Weed wrote:

.. and Tiffany Porter is married to an American... so she could become an American citizen if she wanted to.

She does hold American citizenship, as she was born in the USA. She also holds British citizenship, thanks to her mother. I think.

Fyi, I've just picked all this up reading U of Michigan athletics website and Wikipedia.