Posted on 07/26/2012 6:38:15 AM PDT by C19fan
The 2012 Olympics begin in London on Friday, though the Games have already begun with six womens soccer matches on Wednesday and eight in mens soccer on Thursday.
Im already feeling the overkill.
I have loved the Olympics for a long time. The history, the parade of nations, the round-the-clock cavalcade of sports.
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Not everything was live, obviously, because of time zone differences, but back then, there were fewer media outlets, so you had to go out of your way to find out what happened before it was aired during Prime Time...today with the Internet and Cable TV, it's easy now to find out what happened.
In fact, I recall that even the famous USA-USSR Hockey Game in 1980 was not shown live. But I remember even before they showed the game it was clear that Jim McKay couldn’t contain his excitement because he knew what had happened.
My bad: you would need to buy a VPN account with an IP address located in the UK.
Maybe BBC Worldwide operates a subscription service?
#6 has been my pet peeve for over 30 years.
There is so much subjectivity in the judging and besides, how much of THAT can we be expected to see during the overall Olympic programming.
Also, women's softball....REALLY???? Wall-to-wall coverage of a sport hardly anyone wants to watch, even when there isn't an Olympics!
I agree. If a victory doesn’t come from a measure, or a time, or a score, then it’s not a sport. Gymnastics and figure skating come to mind.
If I ran the Olympics, I would basically scrap every event that has been added since the 1976 Montreal Games.
11. The mascots. The London ones look like giant walking penises (or, as one commentator has said, the products of a one night stand between a Dalek and a Teletubby [NOT the purple one, obviously])one of which is emblazoned with the 2012 logo - which itself looks like a profile shot of two people engaging in a sexual act occasionally referred to as “a Lewinsky”.
I mean seriously, WTF?!?!?!
Just be thankful it's not Vuvuzelas
Yup! It gets to be so trivialized.
And the overall commercialization has spoiled the whole experience.
Actually looks more like one person PIITB of the same gender... I could not say PIITV of a woman because both logos are of the same "gender"
Trick question - both are bogus.
I think it was the switch to professional athletes.
“Will not watch one minute. NBC’s horrid coverage.”
Totally agree!! All of the mindless chit-chat, interviews, travelogues, etc., along with more commercials than sports events, make it unwatchable.
I actually believe that it should be all athletes. This is a stage to see who is the best overall athlete in their respective event. Why put an age limit on it? If your good enought to qualify as a 40 year old, then why can’t you?
There are many anonymous UK proxies. We watch BBC/iplayer all the time.
I agree with all that you say.
Will also add that allowing professionals to participate has helped degrade the Olympics as well, since it’s obvious most pros won’t feel particularly devastated if they fail to win a gold. Maybe embarrassed, but to them the Olympics are just an exhibition anyway.
And along those same lines, there are now so many other major competitions throughout the year that the dramatic “everything is riding on how well they do here” scenario is seldom felt anymore. They just move on to the next big event.
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