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The Olympics kick off today with the opening ceremony! Check out our ongoing coverage at Roflympics!
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The eye infection that has been plaguing Bob Costas has spread to his other eye, forcing the commentator to step down in favor of (hopefully infection-free) Matt Lauer. This is how the internet responded.
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Journalists have arrived and are starting to cover the Sochi 2014 winter Olympics. After early reports doubting the city's preparedness for the big game(s) and human rights protests across Russia, press at Sochi are naturally a bit concerned. As these tweets gathered by the Washington Post show, they had every right.
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The Olympics are hard enough.
You've got the best athletes in the entire world up against you, and you need to be at the absolute top of your game to succeed.
The last thing you need is the Olympic village itself trying to defeat you too.
That would seem to be the case for poor Johnny Quinn, who had to ram his way out of a bathroom that had a jammed door just a few days ago. Earlier this morning, Quinn found himself trapped again, this time in an elevator in his hotel.
Johnny Quinn: breaking barriers all over the place! Now if only the Russian government would follow his example...
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Saturday Night star Leslie Jones has resurfaced on Twitter just in time to live-tweet all the action of the 2016 Olympics.
Leslie Jones is taking on every Olympic sport and rooting on team USA with a terrifying passion. Her love of the Olympics has gained the attention of the Internet and has earned her a personal invite from NBC Rio Olympics producer Jim Bell.
We really hope this is not a joke. The Rio Olympics NEED a little Leslie Jones commentary
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Olympian swimmer Ryan Lochte isn't known for being particularly articulate, or even for forming complete sentences, and his Twitter account doesn't do much to dispel that perception. But some of his finest tweets, when formatted in Impact Bold, made us seriously wonder whether Lochte doesn't put much effort into the English language, or if he's actually an undercover Zen Buddhist.
