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Rio Looks Apocalyptic A Year After The Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro were doomed from the start. Some daft optimists thought that maybe, just maybe, if we just believed in Brazil, the politicians would pull through on their promises that the games would lift the city up to a new level of prosperity. But a year later, the opposite…
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Watch A Rubik’s Cube Master Race The Fastest Man On Earth
Video: Speed cubing champion Anthony Brooks is used to racing the clock when he’s solving a Rubik’s Cube puzzle, but since we’re in the middle of the 2016 Olympics, he decided to challenge the world’s fastest man, running the 100m, to a head-to-head race.
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How Much Pee Would It Take To Turn An Olympic Pool Green?
One of the frothiest stories to bubble forth from the shit-tastic Rio Olympics this week was the sudden, inexplicable greening of not one, but two Olympic pools.
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Those Weird Purple Circles On Michael Phelps Were From Cupping
What do bong-ripping Olympian Michael Phelps, artisanal snake oil saleswoman Gwyneth Paltrow and chicken aficionado Jessica Simpson have in common?