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Watch This Gymnast Bot Stick An Impossible Landing
We can’t get enough of these tiny but impressive robot gymnasts who flip through the air and stick their landings. We’re probably only seeing the one time it lands upright in about 100 attempts, but who cares? They’re only going to get better and better.
This Is BMW’s Badass Bobsled For The US Winter Olympic Team
Late last year, BMW teased Winter Olympics fans with a concept sketch of the two-man bobsled it was designing for the US Men’s Bobsled Team. But with the season officially starting last Saturday, the design, which will hopefully help the two-man team win their first gold medal since 1936, was finally unveiled.
Watch This Adorable Gymnastic Bot Totally Stick The Landing
The last time we checked in on the state of robot gymnasts they performed admirably on the horizontal bar, but fell out of medal contention with a laughably horrible dismount.
This Time Lapse Of Rio De Janeiro Makes It Look Like A Beautiful Make Believe World
Say what you want about Rio De Janeiro possibly being undeserving of hosting a World Cup and a Olympics but you can’t deny that the city can be vowel stretching beautiful. I’m not kidding. It looks like another world. Avatar with a beach. Watch it.
How Is It Possible That Olympic Athletes Keep Breaking World Records?
The Olympics are over. Athletes have been crowned. GIFs have been made. And world records have been broken. In four years, we’ll do the same thing all over again. And world records will continue to be broken. How is that possible? How do Olympic athletes keep getting better and keep breaking records? Will it ever stop? Can humans ever max out?
Is Usian Bolt Faster Than Gravity?
Usain Bolt is fast. Like, really fast. He’s pretty much the fastest dude that ever was fast. And while that’s impressive in its own right, could it be that he’s actually faster than gravity, one of the fundamental forces that rules the very nature of the universe in which we live?
Watch Patrick Stewart, Pro Olympic Ticket Scalper, Get The Better Of Simon Pegg
The London Olympics are coming to a close and what better way to celebrate than with a thematic comedy video featuring Patrick Stewart, Simon Pegg and Maisie Williams. The first two you’re probably familiar with, Williams, however, is more recognisable as Arya Stark from HBO’s TV translation of Game of Thrones.
How Sports Photographers Shoot The Hardest Assignment Of Their Career: The Olympics
Reuters has put together a short video, featuring interviews with its team of photographers and photo editors, about how they are able to capture the incredible images taken of the athletes at the Olympic Games. These are the shots we’re all wallpapering our computers with and emailing back and forth amongst friends.
