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Social Download: Internet Reacts to Rio Olympics, Michael Phelps and Simone Biles

The Olympics are still dominating the TV landscape, with Rio-based memes galore finding their way onto the Internet.

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Simone Biles midair
Simone Biles.

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The Olympics are still dominating the TV landscape, with Rio-based memes galore finding their way onto the Internet.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BI366pLhbkk/

Many of them are Michael Phelps related. (Can you believe the dude went out with 23 gold medals??)

We’ll never look at Jim from The Office the same again.

https://twitter.com/MoeSmith93/status/763332353288654849

Of course, amazing Simone Biles has her share of memes too.

https://twitter.com/RyanLittleton1/status/763225671191695360

https://twitter.com/PT_Fri/status/763222531860029440

https://www.instagram.com/p/BI8g0qODdlG

https://www.instagram.com/p/BI_ZcC8BNwn

https://www.instagram.com/p/BI_YfaXArRI

Jokes! So many funny jokes!

https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/762698459287728129

https://twitter.com/thatRamosgirl/status/762507460233965568

https://twitter.com/bobpowers1/status/764278875392204800

https://twitter.com/seanoconnz/status/761958623006208000

https://twitter.com/JohnRossBowie/status/763221246305644544

https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/762731638149177344

Some of of the jokes were related to cupping, that thing that leaves weird bruises all over the swimmers.

https://twitter.com/bobpowers1/status/762842216066719744

https://twitter.com/melmstephens/status/762821594762752000

We’re totally down to include stripping as an Olympic event.

Girls named Simone are killing it.

Oh, whatever is to become of Michael Phelps?

And finally… we couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

 

Social Download: Internet Reacts to Rio Olympics, Michael Phelps and Simone Biles
Filed Under: Entertainment, TV, Simone Biles, 2016 Summer Olympics, Michael Phelps, social download