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[–] 25 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Finally some sports I want to watch

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    They know all the crocs will be dead from climate change by then.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    2032 Brisbane Games

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Fuck yeah! They finally found a way to make the Olympics interesting!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    I suspect that we will see many olympic and world records being broken at these events, and that those new records will never again be broken.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    doping? nah, motivation!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I swear I played this at the arcade back in the day

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    (starting gun) Crocdiles : dinner time

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    No worries, they're going to sell them to Israel...

    And I'm going straight to hell for this one 😌

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    That makes it more exciting.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    You have saltwater rivers there in Australia?

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    [–] 54 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    More motivation to row and you people are complaining?

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  • [–] 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Ehm, Olympic and Paralympic rowing… is the plan that the race will start as Olympic and finish as Paralympic?
    (Sorry)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Your hilarious comment caused me to almost splurt my morning coffee. Thanks for the laugh. Moreover, the carnivorous fish species with razor-sharp teeth whose name is in your alias makes your point even more appropriate. LOL

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Not just crocs, fucking Australian salt water crocs.

    This might be worth watching.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    The comedy of this story aside, as a resident of inner-city Brisbane, I am so dreading the fucking Olympics coming here. They haven't even started building the stadium at Victoria Park yet, never mind the fact that it's a stupid site for it in the first place.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    I'm so, so glad my home town of Hamburg, Germany, rejected the idea of applying for the Olympic circus in a public vote.

    Don't need the billionaires shit show to clog up and uglify my city. We already achieve that by ourselves.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Well at least the rowing won't be anywhere near you.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Given the choice, none of the events would be anywhere near me, but my commute takes me along the Inner City Bypass, which is directly under where they're allegedly going to build the Victoria Park stadium. Ugh, roadworks. I'll be taking my bike along the riverside bike paths instead, if my aging body can still handle it by then.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    It's really stupid that the Olympics don't just rotate between the cities that have held them before. The Olympics were in Sydney in 2000, a lot of the infrastructure to support it should be still there, so just do it there again.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Or just hold them in Athens where it originated, or better yet, abolish them altogether.

    From The Doubter's Companion: The Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense:

    OLYMPIC IDEAL The Greek games began in 776 BC as a competition among amateur athletes from the different city - states. The purpose was to bring the citizens of the rival cities together in an apolitical gathering, which would reduce squabbling and develop a larger sense of community.
    The rising merchant class in those cities subsequently inverted their purpose by introducing the idea of city rivalry into the games. The city - states then began subsidizing their athletes indirectly and often invisibly. The amateur athletes were soon living a parody of amateurism. They had careers and future income riding on the competition. Winners became heroes, that is to say political heroes. They were fed at the cost of the state for the rest of their lives.
    Subtle corruption gradually turned into rank dishonesty. Athletes were eventually bribed to lose. In AD 394 the games were abolished because they had become a parody of the amateur idea, a focus of corruption and a source of political rivalry.
    The Olympic Games were re - established in 1896 as a competition among amateur athletes. One of the purposes was to bring citizens of rival countries together in an apolitical gathering. What the Greeks managed to do in 1,170 years, we have done in less than 100.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    You guys laugh, but this is the safest river in all of Australia.

    The runners up had piranhas, crocodile dundee and irukandji jellyfish.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Ok but Crocodile Dundee was a person.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Well someone's gotta feed them..

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  • Just row around them, sounds like a skill issue /j

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    it's not doping if natural adrenaline

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    That's sure to cause a....row! ^I'll see myself out^

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    A river that is home to about 500 saltwater crocodiles has been given the OK to host Olympic and Paralympic rowing and canoeing events at the 2032 Brisbane Games.

    Oh well that's OK then. If they're saltwater crocodiles, there shouldn't be any swans in the water.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Damn. They'll do ANYTHING during sweeps week!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

    Fucking bullshit,

    There's no crocs in Brisbane.

    Come do it in the Sputh Alligator or the Adelaide River that will get everyone rowing hard

    Edit: Upon reading the article it's Rockhampton so it's plausible.

    The bigger issue appears to be the distance from Brisbane city itself.

    Still crocs down there are so rare you're more likely to be done in by a shark.

    Let's have articles saying world surfing championship to be hosted in shark infested ocean

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    There are no crocodiles in that Brisbane river? Then I wonder why the article stated there are 500 crocodiles living in that Brisbane river?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I'd sign up for life insurance if I were them

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    How often do rowing teams actually end up in the water? It's pretty rare, I think.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Are they doing the triathlon there too?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Nothing can go wrong with this plan!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    i guess they're hoping the climate shifts enough to get these guys to move into a city housing block?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    🎶 Row faster, boooooy🎶

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    They are just hoping for new world records. Imagine how motivating it would be if you had to escape a crocodile...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, whoa, I think my dinghy hanging out.

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    [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    does that count as doping?

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