Bad blood.
And the curtain has now closed on surfing’s grand Olympic debut. Italo Ferreira and Carissa Moore beaming from the top of the podium, Kanoa Igarashi beating Kolohe Andino for the wild battle of personal brands, Gabriel Medina glowering in the shadows and Angelo Bonomelli stewing livid on his couch.
The Italian surfer was first alternate and a spot magically opened up when Portugal’s Frederico Morais, currently the most handsome man on tour, tested positive for the dreaded Covid-19 except that result was kept hidden for much time not allowing for Bonomelli to less than 24 hours make it to Japan.
Italy knew the time was too short and didn’t make an attempt to send him. Second alternate Carlos Munoz of Costa Rica gave it a shot but was too late and that heat was run a man down.
“I just think (it’s) not fair for me to blow a lifetime opportunity. There is some negligence,” the 30-year-old told the Associated Press, adding “It’s mind-blowing how unfair it is,” for good measure.
Morias, for his part, did not give a darn, saying, “I worked two years to earn my spot. On my side the transparency was total, I was trying everything to the last minute, I was running against the time and once I understood there was no more chance for me to go I pulled out. More than transparency, it was my dream that got ruined because I did earn my spot fair and square.”
The International Surfing Association, which maybe should have seen this hooha coming and could have also delayed the start of the event by a day, also did not give a darn saying, “It is truly unfortunate Carlos was unable to arrive in Tokyo in time for his first heats, but his NOC took the decision to accept the reallocated slot and send him to Tokyo fully aware of the risk to the participation their athlete.”
A real lack of darns marring surfing’s grand debut, all things considered.
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Good for Bob.
Bad for Howard Rubin.
Sure thing.
Pretty fucking useless alternates if they’re sitting across the world waiting for the call, in an event plagued by …hmm…the plague?
“…how pathetic to be a grown man behaving like this online.”
You must be new around here…
And by here I mean the internet.
Restricting perfectly healthy people based on inexact “science” makes no sense.
Nice comment* The gimp suit your woman makes you wear doesn’t stop transfer of diseases.
Not everywhere unfortunately but getting there. The southern hemisphere fucked around securing vaccines.
The US has about 200 million sitting around that will just get dusty. Should send them down….
The stats don’t lie.
Hoax.
Not THAT into it
Looks like four more weeks of jail for bexy.
Ive leaned into it now and look like a grot couch potato, luvin the lympics, I haven’t watched it since Sydney 2000, its fuken sik!!
I really needed a proper do nothin break.
Go Straya/inglaterra/philippines/
brasil, nippon des
I’m enjoying it too. Just saw a pic of the bowl for the skate contest. Huge with a lot of vert. I’m picking Pedro Barros. Not on for another week though.
Occy?
Minus the beer
Maybe the “Surf Journalists” could do a bit of journalism and find out if Fred actually made it to Tokyo. Did he get booted from the Olympic Village, or get turned around beforehand? The answer to that question will allocated cuntedness to the right person.
He may have been waiting for his fake positive to turn fake negative like Cazza Marks.
Not gonna buy into your issues with fakeness but joe public can get test results back in about 12 hours.
The only way Fred doesn’t come out of this looking like a cunt is if he tested positive the day of the opening ceremony and got booted out of the village.
Fake false
Potato etc.
The quality and reliability of testing is hardly bulletproof.
Especially when it is a PERFECTLY HEALTHY young adult.
As we would say in straya, freddy is a shit cunt
Fredericunt
Sounds like my 2 year old daughter’s modus operandi. “If I can’t have it, no-one gets it you bunch of cunts wah wah wah” (some words added for impact)
Morais the story develops?
!!!
Wunderbar …..
Take a bow, please!
If any dreams were crushed they belong to Erik Logan. The ‘pop’ he was hoping for will never happen!
Wear a mask if concerned
Is this the “Nobody gives a fuck” story of the whole Olympic Games?
I think that’s Wilson’s “I’ve been ripped off, man”
so few darns given, for real. ‘cept by Angelo
Given that athletes were being sent home for testing positive, two or three alternates should have been allowed to be on site instead of trying to fly around the world to get there. Also, given the forecast, the comp had to run those three days. Insane that overlapping heats were not run and that the comp was not mobile. Multiple spots within 20 kilometers looked far better.
Crazy they are still testing people for this shit. No more tests no more COVID. Pretty simple folks.
Works for me, everybody over here has had a chance get the vaccine. If they get sick and die it was their choice.
I say lock down all the people that believe in covid for a year. Then when they come out, we will all be dead, right!?
Every adult can make up their own minds about whether they believe in it or not and whether they want to get the vaccine. This thing can’t go on forever, there has to be an end to it and I think it should be now.
It hasn’t stopped this legend kiwi doin his thang.
Interesting to see 3rd world countries all wearing masks around necks not face or not at all
Good one Hillary. Fuken twat.
https://youtu.be/DjJz6uJ7zJI
Who’s Hillary?
She’s nobody really.
(hand shake) Exactly. Let’s go back to arguing about silly stuff, instead of things of a “health nature”. Each person should be able to police their OWN lives, and stay in their lane.
Its fun arguing about things and having opinions but I’m not going to try and convince anybody of anything to do with the vaccine. It seems like the people that haven’t gotten it by now never will.
I’m just wondering how long the government is going to drag this thing out for with all the new mask mandates. There has to be an endpoint.
I think the unspoken outcome is very prevalent at this point. Sure, Our first one involved North vs. South. This one will be ugly!
At this point nothing would surprise me. I’ll put my money on the side with the tanks and the F16’s.
“Die when you die when you die you’re gonna die!” -GG Alin
Dead set, filth
If you’ve never seen this it’s worth a watch. His dad used to dig graves when GG was little for when he killed his wife and kids.
Yeah. Gnarly shit. “Hated” was the one I saw.
Die with your boots on!!!
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Didn’t they blast Slayer through loudspeakers at the start of the battle of Falluja. Maybe it was the invasion of Iraq during the first gulf war.
Went back to college in 2007 and was friends with guy that was a medic in Iraq. He had a pic of himself in Sadam’s Palace, also video of jumping scorpions in his tent haha. Took one of Sadam’s rugs and mailed it home.
Could play Iron Maiden songs on his electric guitar.
IED ended his military career.
Yes, and Metallica. No warfare is fair warfare. Less of a broadcast when you are in Country as a “Security Contractor”, but the dangers still exist.