Katie Ledecky, a 15-Year-Old American, Won Gold in the Women’s 800m Freestyle
Fifteen-year-old American Katie Ledecky made her debut in the Women’s 800m freestyle…and won the gold medal with the second-fastest time ever. She was three-years-old when Michael Phelps made his debut as a 15-year-old at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and finished fifth.
British star Rebecca Adlington, who won the event in Beijing, finished third.
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August 3rd, 2012 at 3:07 PM
Aaand USA takes the lead in Gold medals!!
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:09 PM
And we haven’t even started track & field yet.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:10 PM
USA!! USA!! Take it away Jimi …. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMhq1L0cJf0
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:11 PM
Was really hoping the Trinidadian swimmer was going to be black.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:12 PM
This is how you send me an alert. Kudos to the Washington Post for listening to it’s readers and revising its olympic alerts:
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:14 PM
NC State Wolfpack and Mecklenburg Aquatic Center alum Cullen Jones taking the silver!
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:16 PM
Great swim by the young girl.
Just as well she’s not Chinese…
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:22 PM
If this Canadian lead holds it will be:
Polite charming women who get drunk outside vs Soon to be obese married to jesus corporate sock puppets
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:26 PM
It really blows me away that a 15 year old can be the best in the world at anything.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:26 PM
The American 4×100 Medley relay team could feature the 2012 Gold Medalists in Butterfly (Phelps), Back (Grevers), Free (Adrian)… and the US has a bronze medalist in the Breaststroke.
It would be a huge upset if they lose tomorrow, assuming those first three all participate.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:29 PM
US Men have never lost the Medley relay. The Japanese probably have the best shot, but highly improbable. Like Nigeria playing defense in basketball improbable.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:30 PM
It really blows me away that a 15 year old can be the best in the world at anything.
i’d like to know the % of people in the world who can actully swim. I bet it’s like 35%.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:30 PM
thats pretty improbable
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:31 PM
Humbly, I was the best Tekken 2 player in the world at that age.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:33 PM
fucking rocked our entire neighborhood in GoldenEye. My brother and I were unstoppable.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:33 PM
Why do we all feel so bad for Rollo getting big tits shoved in his face? Send him a box of condoms and some singles and let him hit the self-destruct button.
/Sorry Rollo, our amusement takes precedent over your home life
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:34 PM
I wonder what Rollo did to get out of the house and away from the awkward situation he refuses to address today.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:35 PM
I was already boozing at college sophomore level.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:35 PM
Humbly, I was the best Tekken 2 player in the world at that age.
challenge accepted. i’ll even let you choose my character.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:35 PM
I was pretty damn good as whackin it
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:36 PM
He’s fucked, I think it may be too late to tell his Wife.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:37 PM
I think he doesnt want to tell his wife because she’ll start making him go to bed with her and kill his late night drinking & TBLAD sessions.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:38 PM
fucking rocked our entire neighborhood in GoldenEye.
promiximity mines put a lot of friendships to the test.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:39 PM
It’s close to that point, if we are to believe everything he’s said. Always tell your wife everything… even if the everything is a slightly softer version of reality.
Like if he said jokingly “your sister said ____… maybe she was hitting on me, lol”… it sets the precedent, and makes everything a lot more believable now if he has to expand.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:40 PM
That’s worse, it’s like he’s keeping the sister on the bench for a rainy day.
I think I would get really really drunk and take my GF for a long walk to middle of nowhere and just spill and then blackout the whole backlash.
/Like time travelling
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:41 PM
I will demolish anybody at Perfect Dark…won hundreds in beer money destroying everybody my freshman year at college.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:41 PM
Soused clearly had the best piece of advice for him. It involved 4 ounces of good whiskey and a dinner table.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:42 PM
GoldenEye and Mario Kart, two of the best games of all time
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:42 PM
I meant Tekken 3, got my years mixed up. You can have Nina.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:42 PM
Also the part the SIL said “You walked in on me” she is already laying the groundwork her defense. Scary.
I suppose there is such a thing as too many breasts in your life.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:44 PM
Abso-fucking lutely. By not telling the wife immediately, when and i mean WHEN this eventually comes out, wife will question why you kept it a secret and may believe whatever the sister comes up with.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:44 PM
I used to do that with SMB1, nobody thought I could beat it under 10 minutes.
/Probably because I could not stand straight each time
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:44 PM
I’ve got a wife and two needy female dogs, and all three get jealous if I spend too much time with one of the other two. I just know my first kid is going to be a girl.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:45 PM
Tekken Tag was the best of the series.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:47 PM
Best case scenario SIL has done this to the wife before.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:48 PM
Yeah honestly I don’t see how this doesn’t end up in a divorce and at least one corpse.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:48 PM
I feel like the wife is having her sister test him out
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:49 PM
Rollo is rapidly approaching “shoot her and bury her in a shallow grave” territory.
/no, no he isn’t
Also, I was ALWAYS the Helicopter Pilot in GoldenEye and my brother was Baron Samedi. We did that on purpose to try and balance the matches by giving our opponents bigger targets to aim for. We still ran roughshod.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:49 PM
If that’s the case, then he’s failing by not telling his wife. He’s fucked either way.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:50 PM
He’s probably pounding that ATV.
/ Not a euphemism
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:52 PM
Rollo is done for. No way this doesn’t end with the SIL’s lips around his dick by the end of the weekend, and someone dead.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:53 PM
No way this doesn’t end with the SIL’s lips around his dick by the end of the weekend, and someone dead.
I just hope it’s not Rollo who gets killed. There’s no way the wife or SIL is going to come on here and tell us the rest of the story
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:53 PM
He’s locked himself in the bathroom with beer and a laptop, “buying the Browns”
/still wants this to catch on
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:55 PM
SIL is coming to TBL Chicago, I’m sure she’ll let you all know how it turned out.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:55 PM
I’ll be anxiously following the Backwoods Gazette all weekend trying to find out info on our beloved, peoples champ. Long may he run.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:55 PM
If that’s the case, then he’s fucked by having a miserable wife who doesn’t trust him.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:57 PM
If that’s the case, then he fucked up by marrying her in the first place
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:57 PM
Like I said before… if she’s so crazy that she either 1) doesn’t believe him or 2) is just testing him, he’s got a younger replacement for her sitting right there anyway. It’s a win-win.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:58 PM
His wife is a firearms enthusiast, I think it’s a given that he’s a goner if she ain’t forgiving.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:59 PM
his defense for that if she comes out with that first is to say, it was an accident and i ran out of there, didn’t think an accident was something to make a big deal over since he was really embarrassed by it.
then again, the SIL can go crazy when he tells his wife and “think it’s hot now that they have a greater chance of getting caught”
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:59 PM
It’s like that movie Chloe.
/Spoiler alert people die
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Plus, if he fucks up his marriage, there goes that mortgage loan he’s been so eager to nail down.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:01 PM
He’s locked himself in the bathroom with beer and a laptop, “buying the Browns”
/still wants this to catch on
OK, I’ll help but you’re doing it wrong. Buying the Browns would be more along the lines of peeing in a port-o-potty that is already filled with shit. See, because you are pouring gold over the feces. The gold would be the payment and the peeing on the poop would be your declaration of ownership over said poop.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:01 PM
We’re also all forgetting that in addition to the crazy-ass SIL and the possibly unforgiving wife and in-laws (with whom he’s living), there’s the batshit ex-boyfriend of the SIL who showed up twice last night to cause trouble and called the cops on Rollo’s ass.
He’s dealing with a lot of shit here, people.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:02 PM
Okay, what about “selling the Browns”. Does that work for everyone?
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:03 PM
ALso, this thread by default needs to become TBLAD so none of this needs to be rehashed elsewhere. Again.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:03 PM
i’d say selling the browns, otherwise people might think you’re giving yourself a cleveland steamer while wearing gear for the Dog Pound section.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:04 PM
I learned last night, BTW, that you can cheer Rollo up by quoting L.A. Confidential lines at him. He does love that flick.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:04 PM
That was some Janet Evans shit right there
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Dibs
I only saw the parts with the lady love, that film was no Gia
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:04 PM
i’d say selling the browns, otherwise people might think you’re giving yourself a cleveland steamer while wearing gear for the Dog Pound section.
Things just started to hit a little too close to home for me
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:04 PM
/takes off pants
//cracks open beers
///explains to co-workers that Nada said it was cool
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:06 PM
Unless you really like Total Recall.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:07 PM
Yet no beer for me, WTF?!
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:09 PM
I said beerS, plural. I’m not your fucking wife. Come get it yourself.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:09 PM
so you shit on yourself frequently?
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:10 PM
I bet if you were my sister-in-law, you’d walk it over here. Walk it over in that slutty, sister-in-law way.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:10 PM
At this point Rollo is screwed. He oughta just bang the SIL for a little bit, let the wife find out, take the financial hit, stick her with the kid, and get the hell outta Dodge. Freebird. Sounds like a messed up situation anyway. Have fun while and when you can, then move on.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:12 PM
You want him to turn into Kid Rock?!
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:13 PM
Brother Rollo needs to see the light and the truth. When he gets here tonight, I will impart these pearls of wisdom:
I’m giving you a choice: either put on these glasses or start eatin’ that trash can.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:15 PM
Did anyone make it all the way through JMac’s Jets camp novella? TL;DR for me.
I did find irony in the fact he was dumping on ESPN for Tebow overkill.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:15 PM
nah, wait to see what happens with the wife, if he gets kicked to the curb, call up the SIL and find out if the hype would have been worth it.
it’s double jeopardy at that point if the SIL goes crazy and says he fucker her.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:16 PM
These beers you speak off are they metaphorical?
/In basketball shorts
//barefoot watching Canada beat on some swamp donkey scangers while drinking
///At work
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:18 PM
Wife kicks him out, no way the SIL gives a shit about him anymore.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:19 PM
Isn’t there already barns, an ATV, a restraining order, a ranch, farms, crazy family, Bud Light platinum, whiskey, and a bunch of other white trash stuff going down? At this point, why not go all out?
I wish I could continue this discourse, but it is rapidly approaching Happy Hour.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:20 PM
never know, that’s even crazier drama for her, then she can say “he’s with me now” and that trumps roid rage stalker. that kind of drama attracts the crazy bitches like a moth to a bug zapper.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:20 PM
It ain’t braggin’, muthafucka, if you back it up.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:21 PM
You guys hiring?
/wants to drink at work
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:24 PM
I never lost a head-to-head trick attack battle in Tony Hawk 3 on PS2. I was stupid good at that game.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:25 PM
SIL is coming to TBL Chicago
Dibs
Based on the location of the events, i beleive i am the closest TBLer and should have first dibs
/based on photo i’ll take sloppy seconds
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:27 PM
i loved that game, played for hours after school with friends.
nearly put my controller through the TV trying to get a 1,000,000 point trick on the last level of the game.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:30 PM
I feel like C&C Music Factory summed this up well.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:30 PM
Tony Hawk 3 was second to Unreal Tournament, though. when the LAN was set up in the computer lab we easily had 16-20 people for about 3-4 hours after school in there.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:33 PM
I don’t know…can you swing a sack of door knobs
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:34 PM
Trying to remember – what was actually the “last” level? Kind of runs together for me.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:37 PM
i think it was “japan”. lots of neon lights and rails in the air, to me it looked like you were on the inside of a pinball machine, but in a city and on the buildings.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:38 PM
Can I!
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:40 PM
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. The Tokyo competition level. Yeah, putting together a 1,000,000+ trick there was very difficult. The easiest place to do that was probably the airport — just go back to the baggage claim and grind for 2 minutes (or more if you can keep your balance).
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:44 PM
essentially i did that on Tokyo. must have taken me hours, then i went to class, came back and did it on the first try. i was happy, then pissed when i realized i wasted all that time on it.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:48 PM
What would be the male version of that Lifetime movie, “Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?” That’s Rollo’s life.
/She sucked him off
//He wasn’t responding for a loooong time in that TBLAD overnight
//Tried to play it off
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:52 PM
That also could have been the dozen beers and severa; shots he had in like 2-3 hours.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:53 PM
Nah, if the SIL was as skanky-looking as Tori Spelling, he woldn’t be tempted.
August 3rd, 2012 at 4:55 PM
well, if he doesn’t tell the wife soon. i’d be worried this was true.
August 3rd, 2012 at 8:38 PM
Where is the saga continuing? I want to know how the day went. Did he see more bewbs? Was he propositioned again? Did he tell his wife?