2016

2016 has been a hell of a year and it seems like NO ONE is safe from what the internet has been calling the worst calendar year ever. We still have a few days left before we can all breathe a sigh of relief and move on to complaining about how much worse 2017 is. That's why this brave man has set up a fund to protect national treasure, Betty White, from 2016. From the GoFundMe page, here is his pitch:

Help 2016 catch these hands if it goes anywhere near Betty White! If she's okay with it I will fly to where ever Betty White is and keep her safe till Jan 1 , 2017. Now , assuming she doesn't want a strange Greek standing gaurd outside her door all monies will be donated to the Spartanburg little theater to help craft new stars of stage and screen to carry mantle of the legends that have left is this year.

So... It's not going to Betty White really but hey, it's for a good cause. Besides, who knows what she would really do with all that free money anyway? 

What fresh hell is this?!

So Tinder has revealed the top six sports by gender that were most-swiped in Rio, but they didn't get specific about which athletes may have been the chosen ones. That leaves us left guessing which athletes they might not be mentioning...

For Women's Sports they listed:

Table Tennis, Field Hockey, Rowing, Weightlifting...



...and Rugby and Swimming.





For Men's sports they listed:

Tennis, Weightlifting, Gymnastics, Sport Shooting, Judo...



...and Boxing.



Wait, let's take a look at that Judo guy again...



Okay, yeah, we get it.



#Olympics!

Ever wonder how your Grandpa would compare with an Olympian at their own sport?



Well, some scientists did, and they set up an experiment with seniors doing the same activities as Olympians and then measured the difference between the Olympian's record and the centenarian's. Specifically, Usain Bolt, who ran the 100-metre in 9.58 seconds...



...with, say, Donald Pellman, a competitor in the 100 to 104 age-group, who did the same event in 26.99 seconds, which was only a 64.5 percent decrease in performance compared with Bolt.

The centenarian athlete who showed the lowest percent decrease in performance between an Olympian and himself was Robert Marchand, a Frenchman, who holds the world record for his age group in 1-hour track cycling. He cycled only 50.6 percent slower than Bradly Wiggin's record.



After 40, our performance decreases by about 10 to 15 percent per decade usually, so you'd better start running now if you want to catch these Grandpas.