ROFL - Olympic Spoiler updated with tweet from Sha'Carri Richardson

[malaise]

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Get di broom fi di clean sweep! Jamaica takes the 100M one, two and three while the US banned their weed smoker.


Adding this tweet

Sha’Carri Richardson
@itskerrii
·
41m
Congratulations to the ladies of Jamaica for the clean sweep. Powerful, strong black women dominating the sport. ✨

Link to tweet

[spanone]

1. Congrats to all.....there's some strange irony

[malaise]

2. I think that's the first female clean sweep ever

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Truly amazing

That's not right - should have checked rather than listened to the clown on local TV.

[FalloutShelter]

3. The law of unintended consequences at work. YAY!

Congrats Jamaica!

[ok_cpu]

10. It was incredible

Thompson-Herah even let off the gas a little at the end and still set a new Olympic record.

[Celerity]

34. Jamaica also swept the women's 100 metres medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

[malaise]

36. Yep that's why I corrected it

although it was a 1-2-2 as second was a dead heat. I repeated the clown on local TV and then checked it cause I thought something was wrong

[Celerity]

37. those Florence Griffith Joyner world records from 1988 should have an asterisk

I think she was dirty. Her increases in performance were never seen before, and they happened so late in her career.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Griffith_Joyner#Allegations_of_performance-enhancing_drug_use

Before the 1988 track and field season, her best time in the 100-meter sprint was 10.96 seconds (set in 1987). In 1988, she improved that by 0.47 seconds.

Her best before 1988 at 200-meters was 21.96 seconds (also set in 1987). In 1988, she improved that by 0.62 seconds to 21.34 seconds, another time that has not been approached.

After the 1988 Olympics Griffith-Joyner retired from competitive track and field, just before the introduction of mandatory random drug testing in 1989.

[malaise]

38. The 1988 Olympics were a blur to us in JA

as we were hit by Hurricane Gilbert on September 12

[JT45242]

4. Not the USOC

The international doping committee has marijuana on the banned list.
It is supposed to help with pain and recovery, which is why the NFLPA wants it off their banned list.

Like it or not, the rule is clearly stated and all world class athletes know the rule.

[malaise]

5. I know the rules

The irony is still hilarious

[Rustyeye77]

9. Thats because the US has better Ganga.

joking

[malaise]

11. LOL

[not fooled]

13. And I'm sure

the Jamaican ladies have never partaken.

I lost interest in these 'Lympics after they booted Sha'Carri. But, big congratulations to Jamaica. That's a great story.

[malaise]

23. I too am disinterested but because I think they should have been cancelled

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given the Covid pandemic. That said you should have heard the screaming on this street during the final and after

[Dream Girl]

31. Me too. I was so disgusted by that I turned me off from the whole thing!

[Tommymac]

12. Weed is legal in her Home state. The IOC looks like buffoons.

But what else is new?

[madaboutharry]

6. Bob Marley is having a good laugh somewhere!

[malaise]

7. Peter Tosh

is laughing the loudest

[madaboutharry]

17. Lol!

[Paladin]

8. Serves US right... (nt)

[ripcord]

16. The decision wasn't made by the U.S. but by the Olympics

It is typical of Americans that we have decided cannabis is acceptable so the rest of the world needs to give in and give us what we want, the ugly American is back.

[elias7]

19. Well, Canada and Mexico legalized it before some of our states did

And it’s only legal in 18 states for recreational use.

And it’s legal for med use in:
Argentina, Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Rwanda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

This is not really an ugly American scenario, though I’m sure we could find other examples…

[argyl]

63. That's some pretty puny reasoning for using the term " ugly American."

And the " ugly American" in the Burdick and Lederer novel is not the kind of man the title suggests he is.

[PatrickforB]

14. Now THAT is funny!

What is not funny is that cannabis is even still illegal. The prohibition has always been, is now, and always will be...

STUPID, based on greed, not fact.

[malaise]

20. They still lock up people for planting herb here

and yet every citizen can have a plant for every adult in the household

[90-percent]

26. also based on

also based on racial discrimination. In the late 30's morality cop Harry Anslinger thought it was a good way to persecute blacks and Mexicans because he felt both minorities used weed a lot. Nixon amped it up because he felt it was a good way to persecute hippies and war protesters and college students that didn't want to get drafted and die in a stupid senseless tragic war we ended up losing anyway..

Stupid, destructive and unfair law that's taken perhaps 70 years to unwind, although there may still be a few socially retarded states that still jail people for weed?

-90% Jimmy

[reACTIONary]

35. And he need something new to rant about....

... with the demise of prohibition.

[90-percent]

39. yes

he needed a new side hustle in addition to censoring movies.

Good point. I'm still upset the government made Coca-cola remove cocaine from the soft drink. Now I have to add it myself

As my hero Frank Zappa once said; "America is a nation of laws. Badly written and randomly enforced."

-90% Jimmy

[reACTIONary]

62. I'm not experienced in this regard....

... but off hand I would say that you are mistreating the cocaine.

My father told me that back in the day Coca-Cola was referred to as dope, and he had a friend who had chronic pain in his jaw who drank it for relief.

[MagickMuffin]

49. Based on Racism

research the 1937 Harry Anslinger, a big racist and used a huge dog whistle to promote his racist views on America.

[spooky3]

15. LOL! And Congrats!

[malaise]

24. A local radio station has folks calling in to say what they had for breakfast

They do this every weekend - one guy said he had ginger tea and a big head spliff to celebrate the sweep

[Rustyeye77]

27. Ok... I give up...what is a big head spliff ?

eom

[malaise]

30. THIS - irie and mellow

[paleotn]

18. That is pretty damn ironic.

[DinahMoeHum]

21. Tee hee! Sha'Carri gets the last laugh!

[Mosby]

28. Is she?

https://mobile.twitter.com/itskerrii/status/1421086855186026497

Or is she getting ratioed?

[DinahMoeHum]

41. Heh heh. "Missing me yet?" Touche!

[RoadRunner]

22. Best. Post. Evah.

[malaise]

32. Ha

[barbtries]

25. sweet.

i'm not really paying attention this time around but happy for Jamaica!

[IronLionZion]

29. Legalize all drugs

let's see how fast people can run


Congrats to Jamaica

[SheltieLover]

33. Congrats to Jamaica!

[Uncle Joe]

40. Congratulations to Jamaica

Thanks for the thread malaise.

[moondust]

42. What's in the water down there?

Jet fuel?



Congrats!

[malaise]

46. Tradition - the best high school track and field program

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in the hemisphere

[shanti]

54. I showed my BFF your post

and here was his response: Is di yellow yam dem a eat mek dem run so fast.

[malaise]

58. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Well done

[DenaliDemocrat]

43. The US did NOT

The international Olympic committee did

[roamer65]

44. ..

Way to go, Jamaica!

[HipChick]

47. Get di broom fi di clean sweep! ...

Congrats JA!!

[malaise]

48. LOL

[malaise]

61. Look who weighed it - very classy

Sha’Carri Richardson
@itskerrii
·
38m
Congratulations to the ladies of Jamaica for the clean sweep. Powerful, strong black women dominating the sport. ✨

Link to tweet

[IcyPeas]

50. heck, Marley even wrote a song about running....

[malaise]

51. LOL

We have lots of running songs - running from knives or guns

Quarrie (the great Donald Quarrie) was a boy to I man last night
im couldn't follow

[Demovictory9]

52. 👍😊

[rickyhall]

53. Someday the white fog may clear.

[spike jones]

55. It reminds me of the time the swimmer Michael Phelps got caught smoking weed

and his sponsor, Kellogg, dropped him. The company was boycotted by the weed smoking public. The lesson being if your income depends on selling frosted flakes and pop-tarts, don’t piss-off the stoners.

[malaise]

57. And that's the truth

[questionseverything]

59. I stopped buying Tony the Tiger then

Screw kellogs besides the generic is cheaper

[H2O Man]

56. Recommended.

My dreams of competing in Olympic races has gone up in smoke.

[malaise]

60. That was never one of my dreams

I've never been that competitive or driven

[Rhiagel]

64. Sha'Carri might have Medaled, if given the chance...

"More interestingly, her personal best of 10.72 - achieved at a meet in Florida in April - would have been good for the silver medal, ahead of Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce (10.74) and Shericka Jackson (10.76)."

https://www.11alive.com/article/sports/olympics/olympics-womens-100m-final-shacarri-richardson/85-a9ade14b-ebff-4f2c-8fea-825860f37682

[malaise]

65. Yep -she may well have split the three