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" From the the flag bearer from Tonga who glistened at Friday&amp;#039;s Opening Ceremony to the gas leaks at the Olympic Village, A LOT of weird stuff has already gone down in Rio.  This, however, might be the weirdest.  SF Gate reports that an Olympic kayaker capsized after hitting a sofa during a practice session on Friday. Apparently, the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon and Guanabara Bay \u2013 which will host several canoeing, kayaking, sailing, and swimming events \u2013 are so filthy, an expert told athletes not to put their heads under water last week, according to the AP.  In other words, if the water is that gross, it wouldn&amp;#039;t be totally absurd for a discarded sofa to be in the water.  Whether the kayak hit a sofa or something else is up for debate, but someone wasted no time making a Kayak Sofa parody account on Twitter. And if there were an Olympic event for wisecracks, it would take gold.  Its first post was pretty low-key:       So there I was minding my own business. #kayaksofa \u2014 Kayak Sofa (@riokayaksofa) August 6, 2016    But things escalated quickly, and the &amp;quot;sofa&amp;quot; asserted the Russian team hired them as a blockade:       I was actually hired by the Russians to help them win #KayakSofa \u2014 Kayak Sofa (@riokayaksofa) August 6, 2016    That it would sell drug-free urine to athletes worried about their drug test results:       Any athletes worried about their drug test results come see me. Will sell drug-free urine stored in my cushions #kayaksofa #justsayno \u2014 Kayak Sofa (@riokayaksofa) August 6, 2016    And that Michael Phelps would have had to receive two medals if he faced the Kayak sofa:       They would have had to give @MichaelPhelps two gold medals for facing me. #Rio2016 #kayaksofa #MichaelPhelpsisabeast https://t.co/QMHARvTd4N \u2014 Kayak Sofa (@riokayaksofa) August 8, 2016    That&amp;#039;s not to say the Kayak Sofa is all sass. The sofa took a sunrise selfie this morning, like the basic in all of us:       Beautiful morning in Rio today! #Rio2016 #kayaksofa pic.twitter.com/niap3PDt1K \u2014 Kayak Sofa (@riokayaksofa) August 8, 2016    Here&amp;#039;s to hoping the sofa keeps us cracking up all Olympics long. Love you, Internet.  h/t: Brit + Co.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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