23 Things We Were All Obsessed With During The Last Summer Olympics
Guys, remember when McKayla wasn’t impressed???
Queen Elizabeth "parachuting" into the opening ceremony with James Bond.
People loved the bizarre and thoroughly British opening ceremony, but watching QEII become a Bond girl made everyone LOL.
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The U.S. women's gymnastics team.
AKA the Fab 5, AKA Mean Girls IRL, AKA the first U.S. women's gymnastics to win a team gold since 1996. Luckily, two members of the team, Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas, are going to Rio for the chance for another Olympic win, so the obsession will definitely continue.
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McKayla Maroney's flawless vault.
Like, holy shit. IT MADE A JUDGE'S JAW DROP. Pretty much everyone became infatuated with her after that, and those who didn't were eventually won over by...
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Her "not impressed" face.
Ok, so she couldn't replicate her perfect vault in the individual event (and actually fell on her second try), which got her a STILL RESPECTABLE silver medal. But since Olympic gymnasts are programmed from birth to achieve perfection, she was a little disappointed, ok?, and unleashed a dissatisfied smirk during the medal ceremony that launched a zillion memes and even a presidential interpretation.
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