âTiny Busâ making an appearance before the Rugby 7s opener match of the Games 
Japan at its awesome best! 
Guy
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A Filipina weightlifter on Monday brought home the first Olympic gold medal for the Philippines in history while dashing Chinaâs hopes of a perfect sweep of eight gold medals in weightlifting.
On Monday (July 27), Hidilyn Diaz captured the gold medal in the womenâs 55-kilogram weightlifting event, the first gold for an athlete from the Philippines since the country began taking part in the Summer Games in 1924. Diaz took the gold in dramatic fashion by setting an Olympic record with a total of 224 kg, just one more than the favored Chinese weightlifter, Liao Qiuyun.
In the snatch category, Diaz tied with Liao at 97 kg. During the clean and jerk, Diaz needed to lift 127 kg to better Liaoâs best mark of 126, but it was not until her third and final attempt that she succeeded.
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Also Bermuda in the womenâs triathlon, smallest country to ever win a gold, 60,000 people.
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Big win for Chen Nien-chin, indigenous middleweight boxer. One fight away from a medal.
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Wow! Swiss women 1,2,3 clean sweep at the mountainbike race.
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Yeah, unlike the Dutch they did it right.
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If they were Chinese, it could be max two from a country for the next olympic.
Screw that. The âtwo-per-countryâ rule is shady bullshit. It should be the best of the best no matter where they are from.
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It is also limited by continents.
What a joke! No wonder viewership is dying. The Olympics is becoming the Special Olympics rewarding the inferior.
Thatâd be a helluva boring olympics.
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I agree with this.
Guy
The problem with that is people just donât know these athletes, and most of these sports arenât that interesting if you donât have someone to root for. Even in the ancient Olympics, people were rooting for athletes from their own city states. Itâd be much harder to sell broadcasting rights to every country if most of the competitions are filled with athletes representing only a handful of nations.
Good. Screw most of the the commercial stuff. Locate individual events in the countries where they are popular and the marketing will take care of itself. Every four years the Olympics can truly be a worldwide spectacle. That sounds much more exiting, and host cities arenât forced to spend too much money or interfere with daily life near as much. With hundreds of host cities, it would be much more inclusive too.
If the events arenât going to take place at the same time and place, why have the Olympics at all then? Each individual sport already hosts their own highest tier events.
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Taiwan gets its first gold in Womenâs 59kg Weightlifting. Kuo Hsing-Chun. Won extremely comfortably. And I mean she could have done ~20kgs lesser in the final clean&jerk round and still won gold.
What a LEGEND!
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Amis woman gets the gold!!! As called for by none other in post #27 of this thread. 
Congratulations to her!
Guy
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So easy.
It would still be the same time. Why would having multiple locations change anything objectively?