[GT] Wednesday August 10

[craigwd]

Originally Posted by CofR

New Zealand now 0-2. Great game today though, exciting finish

They're 1-2

[kobasew19]

That sucks for Harvey. She lost in the quarters 15-13. Apparently she beat the number one seed in an earlier round.

[CofR]

Originally Posted by craigwd

They're 1-2

Totally forgot they won!

[CofR]

Canadians about to swim on CBC now

[M*A*S*H 4077]

Fabian Cancellera owned the time trial to take gold. Froome got the bronze with Tom Dumoulin taking silver

[flames_fan_down_under]

Oleksiak 3rd in her heat. That was an insanely fast heat though, the winner seat an olympic record.

[CofR]

Both Oleksiak and Van Landeghem will advance to the semi finals

[CofR]

The semis for the Women's 100m Freestyle take place tonight, scheduled to begin at 7:12. Should be on CBC!

[flames_fan_down_under]

Oleksiak is such a good finisher of her races. It seems like after her last turn she moves up two or three places.

[Sainters7]

Thanks for the updates, dang I totally forgot to stream the swimming. This having to work during the Olympics thing is lame, I got spoiled over the weekend.

[cDnStealth]

Has anyone found a decent schedule for events? The one on CBC seems way more complicated than in years past.

[CofR]

Originally Posted by cDnStealth

Has anyone found a decent schedule for events? The one on CBC seems way more complicated than in years past.

No, I've been using the one on CBC, and it's not very convenient to use.

[craigwd]

Originally Posted by cDnStealth

Has anyone found a decent schedule for events? The one on CBC seems way more complicated than in years past.

Official Rio 2016 app is perfect, gives a schedule in MDT.

[flames_fan_down_under]

Wow Kierra Smith won her heat! She makes the semi finals with the 6th fastest time.

[DeluxeMoustache]

Lots of no shows for swimming today. Wonder if some of the water concerns are hitting athletes.

[TheSutterDynasty]

Originally Posted by troutman

Cupping, Olympic pseudoscience:

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org...pseudoscience/

That article is doing a disservice to science by being so bias against "pseudoscience". In the same breath it mentions:

(after discussion of claims of benefits of cupping) There is no compelling reason to believe that cupping does any of these things.

Systematic review and RCTs on cupping conclude:

Although RCTs provide a higher quality of evidence, we included non-RCTs in this study because the limited number of RCTs did not provide convincing evidence.

In conclusion, this overview of SRs suggests that cupping may be effective for reducing pain. The evidence is insufficient for other indications. All SRs are based on primary studies with a high risk of bias. Therefore, considerable uncertainty remains about the therapeutic value of cupping.

So no, there is no evidence for cupping. But there is also no strong evidence against cupping; more research is needed.

I don't perform cupping, I don't use it, and I don't recommend it. But to claim, with certainty, it does nothing is pseudoscience in itself. There are theories, however weak, to justify it's use (ie increases blood flow, a change in inflammatory markers, etc) so until it's disproven it isn't necessarily pseudoscience.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache

Lots of no shows for swimming today. Wonder if some of the water concerns are hitting athletes.

i thought the swimming pool was fine, it was the diving pool that was green
different venues

[CofR]

The Canadian Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay team qualifies and will swim in the final tonight

[GirlySports]

I would not want to play Fiji in any sport that involves tackling.

[FLAMESRULE]

Honduras may be sending Argentina home in soccer. 1-0 and Argentina needs to win.