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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: eskimo2 on February 11, 2002, 08:38:46 PM
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I have always wondered. Television in the U.S. generally covers Olympic sports that U.S. athletes do well in, and sports that we traditionally suck in are for the most part ignored. (With the exception of figure skating, they'll show ice skaters warming up before they'll waste air time showing XC skiing) Is this true everywhere? Does Finish TV seriously recognize Winter Olympic sports other than skiing? Are Dutch TV viewers made aware that there is more to the Winter Olympics than speed skating? Or, is this kind of arrogance limited to the U.S.?
Thanks for your replies,
eskimo
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What winter olympics? Sorry, we suck so bad in the winter games here in Aust that we get no coverage. HOWEVER, during the summer games the priority was given to the events our athletes were in. Generally speaking it wasnt too bad although the swimming, horses and womens 400m were flogged.
I'd say every country does it to some degree.
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with dignity.
Just looking at all these analysis of how certain athlete got here and analysis of the analysis of the analysists...
and more arguing and arguing and arguing..
good grief.
Its like CNN took over hehe.
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Man the US is pathetic now. The only events we win are "halfpipe". Basically we are only good at stoner sports anymore. So they keep adding them to the Olympics so we can win something. What's next, hackeysack? Magic the Gathering?
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The X-Games have taken over. I've tried to watch for 3 days now and I've yet to see what I would call a sport, aside from a first round hockey game.
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Originally posted by funkedup
Man the US is pathetic now. The only events we win are "halfpipe". Basically we are only good at stoner sports anymore. So they keep adding them to the Olympics so we can win something. What's next, hackeysack? Magic the Gathering?
ROTFLMAO!!!
eskimo
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In Poland all the sports are usually showed in its entirety if possible.
Since we suck at everything, there isn't much to cherrypick ( with exception of Ski jumps which 33% of the nation watched last sunday )
As for the US coverage, i must say that it is indeed distasteful.
I turned on the ESPN to find "women farmer's walk" and some other "tractor pulling" type of events.
One word: pathetic.
Where are all the hockey games ? Skiiing events ?
Half pipe ? I thought you smoke those ...
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whats a stoner sport?
is it that one where you throw them 10 pound rocks and see how far they go?
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3-4 hours a night of highlights and some extended coverage each night depending on which of the 4 main stations you watch, (there is sattelite coverage as well if you can afford it).
So the coverage isn't too bad.
The 5000m mens and womens ice skating was brilliant and the Ski Jumping has been excellent too.
I'm looking forward the Biathlon and Luge tonight, (New Zealand has a woman in the luge who has an outside chance at a medal).
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anybody catch the interview (fox i think) with the nigerian cross country skier? it was very funny. he was a marathon runner who was talked into trying cross-country. i think they said he's on ly been on ski's for a couple months.
it was great 'cuz ussually they all talk about how great it is to be at the olympics and how glad they are to be there, all i heard this guy say was that he was freezing, that it's very cold, ect.
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Originally posted by gavor
What winter olympics? Sorry, we suck so bad in the winter games here in Aust that we get no coverage. HOWEVER, during the summer games the priority was given to the events our athletes were in. Generally speaking it wasnt too bad although the swimming, horses and womens 400m were flogged.
I'd say every country does it to some degree.
No swimming there, it seems no interest here...which is a little stupid I would think.
theres like an hours or two of highlights, most of it's on cable...
HOWEVER the best part of the sydney olympics (apart from being there) is being repeated with The Ice Dream with Roy and H.G
Tronsky
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Stoner sports would be anything that is based around a piece of equipment, is decided by "style points" and doesn't involve teamwork or endurance. They aren't competitions in the true sense. Basically for people who are too stoned to handle real competition. Skateboarding, any kind of jumping of any vehicle, etc. Anything on the X-games. :)
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Fd - The Olympics are on NBC. They have exclusive rights to broadcast the games in the US. If you send a check for a few billion to ESPN I'm sure they could put it on for you. :)
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in France they try to balance each competition ....
So you have about ten 6 secondes sequences per minutes ...
so I'm allways lost :)
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we have a very good coverage here in germany. We have some
main channels who constantly report live.
I only like to watch downhill, ski jumping and ice hockey, tho.
Not much interest in the rest ;)
btw. i like the landscape of Salt Lake city, looks like a nice
place for living. Anyone from there ?
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Sweden shows more or less everything the channels have time to show no matter we suck in it or not.
Tripple vicotry for the US in half-pipe, I was hoping the Finnish dude with the nice hair do would win, don't understand how he finnihsed 7:th, he was WAY better then many, defiantly desrived a medal.
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Here in Holland we show about everything as long as there is no speed skating :D
Broes
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though delayed 24hrs, NBC's HD broadcast is outstanding. That and with the 5.1 audio, I find myself watching ice skating events which would otherwise have bored me to tears. :)
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Originally posted by funkedup
Fd - The Olympics are on NBC. They have exclusive rights to broadcast the games in the US. If you send a check for a few billion to ESPN I'm sure they could put it on for you. :)
which is at root of the problem...
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Coverage in Bermuda totally fell apart...the guys who had the rights to show the Games had technical difficulties and another channel had to "pick up the ball". We missed the opening ceremony as a result. Normally this is not a big deal but this year we had a Luger representing our country...and because we didn't see the opening ceremony we were EXTREMELY unlikely to see any of his runs....he is a Bermudian for crying out loud! As it turned out he (Patrick Singleton)crashed on his second run and was out of the running at that point. He did have a good 3rd run, but it was too late. He ended up 36th out of 50. Too bad because he really works hard at the sport, but unfortunately he is not taken seriously enough to warrant a great deal of financial support! The poor guy has to hitch rides from one training spot to another while the other competitors take luxury buses or fly.
My sister even tried to drum up some corporate sponsorship for his a couple of years ago, but there was basically no interest.
The Jamacan bobsled team, while kinda funny and cool in their time, actually did more harm than good to those from smaller countries who want to try and comptete in winter sports. No-one takes it seriously!
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i am not that pleased with the coverage in the US provided by NBC.
most of the stuff is taped and there are more commercials than actual coverage. but i guess NBC has to do something after the new contract they just gave katie couric.
k1
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Nothing pisses me off more than the "tape delayed for prime time" crap. They even had teasers and saved the womens mogul medal winner until after 10:00 pm, when I knew she was the first American to medal. This is the freakin Olympics! Show it live! The Olympics are the greatest sporting event of our age and they are trivializing it so they can package it in a nice neat prime time bubble.
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Yeah: Curling is _not_ a stoner sport. Although I'm surprised Bocce hasn't made the summer games.
Salt Lake City might look purty Ghost, and there are lovely places to visit in Utah, but you might want to read up on the Mormon Church before deciding to move there. Of course, I'd be surprised if you haven't seen their missionaries.
Remember these are the people who cooked up that awful recording, featuring the mormon tabernacle choir yelling "Citius! Altius! Fortius!" that you hear at every possible moment during the Olympics.
But I understand that Salt Lake's not a bad place to live: good skiing. The locals even let you drink outside of your domicile (if you go to a club where you're a member).