I had NBC and BBC open this AM and NBC was annoying with commercial breaks etc. Closed that window :)

I also hate how we are almost surprised when the US doesn't win because no one cares to mention more than a passing blurb, that we aren't favored, but that apparently doesn't make good press.  And forget an interview with the actually winner(s), we get Americans, regardless.  I think it's in bad taste to interview someone right after a bad performance and pay no attention to the winner(s).

But this morning Lauer was chatting with Lochte's family and said something like how did they feel about him not winning in his signature event to which the family replied, it's the first time he swam in that even.   Ouch, and the video is suspiciously absent from their site.

GW Bush was an Ivy League school grad. Dumb as a post.
Mitt sounds stupider and stupider.

I think Trump graduated from somewhere or other and is a billionaire and sounds as stupid as they come.

And - I will say that Obama has many academic credentials but he is so used to equivocating and pandering that his utterances don't sound so bright either.

I think that for people to express themselves intelligently, their brains have to be connected to their hearts and intuitive faculties. Politicians strive to disconnect their brains so that they can feel safe - and in the process they sound more and more like empty-headed idiots reading cue cards.

I think attack training your dog has everything to do with being insecure, wanting to make other people feel insecure instead, feel powerful, force projection....I just have no use for it at all.  I have a hard enough time governing my tongue, I'm last person that needs a rabid dog.  I think it is antisocial and ignorant, but those people have their own crowd that disagrees with me and worships what they do.  In my mind they are like the pro gun I got my own arsenal fruit loops, and often hang out in the same circles.

... to the roof of their car, ignored their own young sons' protests about the dog's distress, and then actually had the chutzpah to claim repeatedly that the dog "enjoyed riding up there" because he was in an "airtight kennel" -- whatever that means, but apparently not so airtight that the poor pooch's feces couldn't run down the car windows when he unloaded in fright.

I'm sorry, Jim, but that particular episode speaks volumes about Mitt and Ann Romney. Ironically, the "Seamus on the car roof" story was actually put out by the Romney presidential campaign itself back in 2007, in order to highlight Mitt's no-nonsense approach to "emotion-free crisis management.

But unfortunately for the candidate, the predominate public takeway from Part IV of that 2007 Boston Globe profile was his almost total lack of empathy for not only the family dog but also his young sons. Even Fox News' Chris Wallace took Romney to task for it that year in a persoal interview, asking the candidate, "What were you thinking?"

And let's be honest here. The Romneys' continuing and painfully obvious defensive reaction to this day serves only to highlight the candidate's own emotional immaturity, as exemplified by his rank unwillingness to own up to his own personal decisions when he makes a mistake -- even on something as seemingly trivial as this personal anecdote.

And I'm sorry again, but if you're not willing to assume personal responsibility for your own actions and the consequences derived thereof, then you have no absolutely business running for any public office, let alone the presidency.

Someone is going to get close enough to get some footage at some point.  You have to worm your way in with trainers in order to even get into their stables or barns.  Someone will do it though because look at the muscle development of Romney's horse...that is rollkur. Until we have evidence though, I am wrong for many people.

Immoral...that's a piece of cake Jim, if ya put any stock in a book called the Bible.

Mark 10:25...It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

And again, for good measure.

Matthew 19:24...And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Test her, they don't need to claim they know anything when they don't; it's the definition of sore loser, and could corrupt her reputation even if she's clean.  And if not, then say what you have to say.

Being fast does not equal doping, maybe a good reason to test, but don't make an allegation you can't support.  And not you in particular, but people w/i the sport that have clout.  Those accusation don't disappear and I would imagine they wouldn't take kindly to the Chinese claiming we are doping because we have some phenom that is breaking all the records.

Where's your outrage for the 2012 US goalie, Hope Solo who actually tested positive and has been warned ?

Perhaps I am more skeptical of these complaints because I remember when the Williams sisters burst onto the pro tennis scene, and proceeded to eat everyone's lunch. They faced similar accusations including that they were using performance enhancing drugs.

OMG! people declared, their serves are too powerful for a woman, their game is too physical, dammit, those Williams sisters are just too dominant.

Now, oh so many years later, other tennis players have stepped up their game and their conditioning. Now no one blinks an eye at Serena's vicious serve.

And let's not forget poor maligned Caster Semenya, the South African runner who also turned in times that astonished and improved at a rate others questioned. That poor girl had to undergo tests to prove that she is female. She was attacked and publicly humiliated. And guess what? She is a girl, and she won fair and square.

But that's clearly not the case here. It only happened once, your taking one leg of a long race out of context, and there are a lot of entirely plausible explanations for why it did happen that don't involve doping. I mean, who's to say that Lochte himself didn't inadvertantly let up a little during the last 50M of the 400M medley?