{"id":130960,"date":"2016-08-17T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T13:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/130960\/our-favourite-memes-and-gifs-from-the-olympics\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T13:19:08","slug":"our-favourite-memes-and-gifs-from-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/08\/17\/our-favourite-memes-and-gifs-from-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Our favourite memes and gifs from the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rio Olympics are the talk of the town everywhere you go. Here are some of the spectacular memes and gifs that have come from this world class event.<\/p>\n<h2>Usain Bolt becomes internet meme sensation<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/Cp4AR_RXYAYFmEN-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-117601\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/Cp4AR_RXYAYFmEN-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cp4AR_RXYAYFmEN (1)\" width=\"557\" height=\"545\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/Cp53Wc2WEAAZBKJ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-117602\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/Cp53Wc2WEAAZBKJ.jpg\" alt=\"Cp53Wc2WEAAZBKJ\" width=\"539\" height=\"538\" \/><\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<h2>Sidney Crosby gets a breakaway goal on Henrik Lundqvist<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/tumblr_n1gamwsXog1qhrx75o1_400.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-117605\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/tumblr_n1gamwsXog1qhrx75o1_400.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_n1gamwsXog1qhrx75o1_400\" width=\"489\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov break the laws of physics<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/tumblr_n0sj2n1gMp1r2c5kao1_500.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-117612\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/tumblr_n0sj2n1gMp1r2c5kao1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_n0sj2n1gMp1r2c5kao1_500\" width=\"491\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Chinese Olympian Fu Yuanhui&#8217;s laugh\u00a0in interviews is infectious<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/sVvqC4q.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-117685\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/sVvqC4q.gif\" alt=\"sVvqC4q\" width=\"491\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>And the final five US gymnastic champions are so humble<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/tumblr_obtiuv8VUi1szfoc8o4_500.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117631\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/tumblr_obtiuv8VUi1szfoc8o4_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_obtiuv8VUi1szfoc8o4_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>But all of this has\u00a0made us long for the winter Olympics where these ice skaters\u00a0melted our hearts<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/tumblr_n0qm0d0BIj1qa9r7oo1_r1_500-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117686\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/tumblr_n0qm0d0BIj1qa9r7oo1_r1_500-1.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_n0qm0d0BIj1qa9r7oo1_r1_500 (1)\" width=\"500\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/tumblr_n0yjdqpIFi1qkkh4no1_400.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-117687\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/tumblr_n0yjdqpIFi1qkkh4no1_400.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_n0yjdqpIFi1qkkh4no1_400\" width=\"499\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/tumblr_n0yjdqpIFi1qkkh4no5_4001.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-117688\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/08\/tumblr_n0yjdqpIFi1qkkh4no5_4001.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_n0yjdqpIFi1qkkh4no5_400\" width=\"497\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Reminding us to reach for the stars like Simone Biles.<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/26uf2S7MxxaVOlEFq\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/26uf2S7MxxaVOlEFq\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' 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Check out some of these memes and gifs from the Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7783,"featured_media":130961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[1126,11907,1724,1852],"class_list":["post-130960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-athletics","tag-olympics","tag-sports","tag-swimming"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["athletics","Olympics","sports","swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}