Here you go. From the Atlantic…
It’s a ritual that pops up every Olympic Games, winners on the podium taking a little bite out of their newly-won medals. While the idea of biting metals to test for purity is an old concept, these poses are purely celebratory—with winners often urged to take a bite by photographers. Below, a collection of some of this year’s Olympic athletes in Rio making their medals appear simply delicious.
Around about this time tomorrow it’s going to be difficult to think I don’t live on an island of superheros - fingers crossed for a total of 20 Golds within the next 24 hours or so …
Team GB is absolutely the most perfectly prepared team I’ve seen in 50 years of watching sport.
I saw that an Egyptian judo competitor has been sent home and severely reprimanded both by the IOC and Egypt’s own committee. He lost a bout to an Israeli athlete and refused the traditional hand shake afterwards.
No great loss, he just showed the entire world he’s a jerk.
This is why that 10,000 hour stuff is bullshit. Yes, the best athletes in any sport have trained hard for many years, but it probably took them less than six months of training to be better than 99% of people could ever get, no matter how long they practiced.
Gatlin booed again in the stadium.
God knows what it’ll be like when the Russians are allowed back.
Anyone else hoping to see Germany vs. Brazil in both the men’s and women’s soccer knockout stages, akin to the 2014 World Cup?
As long as it’s the bronze medal game on the women’s side, I’d be for it. 
Why do female boxers have to wear headgear but the men don’t?
The AIBA think that current science in the men’s game supports that not wearing headgear is safer, so they’ve reverted back to the pre-1984 position. Here’s an article about it Why Olympic Boxers Aren’t Wearing Headgear Anymore | WIRED
But it doesn’t explain why women still wear it.
I think Bob Costas gets a bonus everytime he mentions that the Beach Volleyball tournament is held at Copacabana Beach.
Nobody has enough data to determine one way or another, I guess.
Thing is, Almaz Ayana broke - smashed, really - the world record … only second time she’s run this distance. She’s previously been a 5,000 meter runner. She completed the second 5,000 meters of the race 10 seconds faster than the world record for that distance.
And aside from her, seven other runners set national records in that race, and eighteen set personal bests. Before this race, there had only been five women to finish this distance in under 30 minutes. Four did it in this race alone.
Last night, the 400 meter record was shattered by a South African runner. But the race featured the first time three men had run it under 44 seconds.
I’d say either this is a crazy fast track, or … sump’n wonky’s goin’ on.
I’m very surprised Shaunae Miller got away with diving and sliding across the finish line. I didn’t think that was legal in track races? It’s track not baseball. They aren’t sliding into homeplate
I guess it is legal since they didn’t disqualify her. But I typically don’t see runners doing this kind of stunt.
It certainly sets a terrible precedent. I hope this doesn’t become the normal way races end. That’s one ugly ass way to end a track race.
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/88815374/?client=ms-android-motorola
You typically don’t see it because it typically doesn’t work. But it’s perfectly legal.
And yet you were apparently incorrect about the legality. You’re right: it is track and not baseball. And guess what the rules of track say?
Good job!
It doesn’t set a precedent at all. In fact, a Brazilian sprinter dived across the finish line just a couple of days ago in the 110m hurdle heats, and an American sprinter earned a bronze medal by diving in the 2008 Olympics. The only rule that matters here is the one that determines finishing order based on when the runner’s torso crosses the finish line. Diving can work, but you have to time your dive perfectly otherwise it can actually slow you down and work against you.
But i’m sure the IAAF will be happy to have your input on the matter.
As a casual fan it doesn’t seem unreasonable to expect runners to actually run across the finish line. Running very fast is sort of the point of the sport.
If they want them sliding like baseball players then so be it. I could care less. I only watch track and field during the Olympics.
The fact is, sliding isn’t faster unless to you have to stop at a specific point. She is likely to have actually cost herself some time, ironically.
I still think adding pit bulls would dramatically shorten the runners time. 
Give the runners a 30 second head start. They’d all break the current worlds record. LOL
Maybe soil their running shorts too.
Joking. Joking, just Joking
Depends.
First, she didn’t slide, she dived over the line.
Also, if you dive, it is sometimes possible to put a last burst of effort into the push-off for the dive, giving you a small advantage. The problem is that as soon as you leave the ground, you lose speed, so you have to do it very close to the line. I suspect it might work better for something like track and field, where your goal is to cross a plane at any height, than it does for something like baseball, where you have to actually come into contact with an object (a base) that is located at ground level.
I’ve watched the finish of the 400m a bunch of times, and i still can’t really work out whether diving helped Miller or not. I suspect she might just have won with a regular standing lunge. It’s worth noting, too, that Miller said that her dive was not a conscious or intentional decision, but rather a sort of desperate response to the end of a difficult and high-pressure race.