The Rio Farce, Day 8: Someone Finally Lets The Truth Slip Out?

(Deadspin)

Australian media-person Jason Whitaker noticed something many Olympic viewers have suspected for a long time, especially with the exploding medal count on the USA side:

Channel Seven admitting medal ceremonies being held for NBC scheduling. It's repulsive how much the Americans dictate the Olympics. #Rio2106

— Jason Whittaker (@thetowncrier) August 14, 2016

Other than move the Rio Olympics 90 years into the future... (Sorry, Jason, had to... :) )

And about 37 minutes later, he realized why the Great National Dick-Waving or Dick-Measuring Contest has so much pull in the USA...

I seem to have picked a fight with the United States of America ... https://t.co/p9PsHotntW

— Jason Whittaker (@thetowncrier) August 14, 2016

Also:

• Seems as if the gold medal count differences I made allusion to in the last two posts are still not resolved.  ESPN said that one of the swimming relays was #1,000 already (which was what I also saw in other sources), but the Rio 2016 website said USA entered at 975 gold total, so I'll go with #25 tomorrow being #1,000 total.