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Ryan Lochte reveals details of gunpoint robbery by Rio gang posing as police https://t.co/tp5UE1yKND #rio2016
— Rick Eyre (@rickeyre) August 14, 2016
If a story seems just too crazy to be true, then sometime it is.
Friday NY tabloid front pages. @RyanLochte @USASwimming @USOlympicNews #RioOlympics2016 pic.twitter.com/FxJMSH27AZ
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) August 19, 2016
If Ryan Lochte was Rio's Biggest Loser, was Mijaín López Núñez its biggest winner?
Surely the 130kg mens greco-roman #wrestling is *the* blue riband event of #Rio2016. Mijaín López Núñez #CUB again! https://t.co/Wjp0b5dZAj
— Rick Eyre (@rickeyre) August 15, 2016
More news from Rio 2016's second week:
Hope Solo. Gracious in defeat. Not. https://t.co/NuyBt24NcS #football
— Rick Eyre (@rickeyre) August 12, 2016
In case you missed channel 7's replays the 100m final, here's the GIF re-enactment: https://t.co/7w4wL1IPK8
— Rick Eyre (@rickeyre) August 15, 2016
What happened when the Olympic committee tried to exclude Brazil’s African faiths https://t.co/CNP9NC3oMl via @RNS #Rio2016
— Rick Eyre (@rickeyre) August 15, 2016
Note the all-important third column in this infographic. #Rio2016 #GBR https://t.co/bk3CRi5z7W
— Rick Eyre (@rickeyre) August 17, 2016
Bulgarian athlete charged after allegedly choking a maid and attacking others with a broomstick https://t.co/pTaFgERGNJ #Rio2016
— Rick Eyre (@rickeyre) August 17, 2016
A reminder, if you needed one, that the future of the Olympic Games is climbing up a wall:
#Sportsclimbing wall installed in Rio shopping centre, will be moved to a favela after #Rio2016 https://t.co/Gtbn1eAmQM
— Rick Eyre (@rickeyre) August 18, 2016
I'm fairly sure Sunette Viljoen is the first women's Test cricketer to win an Olympic medal (silver today in the javelin)
— Rick Eyre (@rickeyre) August 19, 2016
One silver one bronze for India #IND at #Rio2016 and the pollies are jumping on the bandwagon https://t.co/Vj5InCzBKM
— Rick Eyre (@rickeyre) August 21, 2016
The state of Maryland won 18 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze at #Rio2016 . According to the @baltimoresun at least. https://t.co/kmcY207Z2X
— Rick Eyre (@rickeyre) August 21, 2016
Malcolm Knox on the finals of the #handball: https://t.co/gW91ogDO9I
— Rick Eyre (@rickeyre) August 21, 2016
It's the cost per team member of the Australian sailing team that I find so remarkable. #Rio2016 https://t.co/ELHe0F6ZUD
— Rick Eyre (@rickeyre) August 24, 2016
Finally, here is the Closing Ceremony in full, followed by a passing observation arising from the handing-over ceremony to Tokyo 2020 (or eventually 2021)
One of these men turned up at the #Rio2016 closing ceremony dressed as Super Mario pic.twitter.com/FQ2YQV444j
— Rick Eyre (@rickeyre) August 22, 2016
My outline for the 2020 opening ceremony: City of Tokyo recreated in stadium. Enter Godzilla, flattens everything. Athletes march in.
— Rick Eyre (@rickeyre) August 6, 2016