Posted on 08/12/2012 5:19:58 AM PDT by the scotsman
'Our sister site in the States, Yahoo! Sports, has published a 'report card' on how they felt London did in hosting the Olympic Games. Read their thoughts below:'
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.eurosport.yahoo.com ...
The tennis final was on NBC live. Soccer events were on other NBC channels, not the main one. You had to be alert to catch the things you wanted to see. Not everything made prime time.
Yep. And for those who don't click on the link I provided...
...a 15-year old "volunteer" timekeeper forget to reset his watch and cost South Korea's Shin A Lam, the presumable gold medal winner in fencing, the medal that she was all but guaranteed to win.
Imagine that... You prepare all your life for this moment... And then some zit-faced teenager gets distracted and forgets to reset his watch. And now you lose...
And then there's the lovely McKayla Maroney (who I posted in the pic above), the absolute world champion in vault gymnastics, a young woman who nailed perfectly her complicated and difficult routine 33 times in a row --and then fell on her ass the only time it mattered.
Gotta love the Olympics!
There’s a lot of grousing about how NBC didn’t cover that, but I think it’s retarded. Why should NBC have covered it? It’s a sport Americans don’t watch and don’t understand, an athlete none of us know anything about, and the whole spectacle of it is because of a rule we never heard of. Yeah it was a bad thing that happened to her, but that doesn’t mean NBC should have covered it. What should they have done? Showed the film of her crying for 5 minutes while explaining the whole thing in voice over? What would that accomplish? There’s a lot that happens at the Olympics, it’s just plain not possible to cover it all. And thanks to the internet there’s really no compulsion to even try, anybody even slightly interested in this situation found out about it, without NBC grinding their coverage to a halt showing footage of a girl crying.
And then your loss is ignored altogether on the only TV station that matters because they were too busy playing re-runs of scantily-clad beach vollyball players.
My mother always told me my face was "going to get stuck that way forever". Now with the internet it can.
Some of us don’t have “other” NBC channels but that’s probably for for the best.
Didn’t watch a single second of the games. Way too political and corrupt to matter.
Giver her a break. That scowl that is now famous the world over is Maroney being pissed at herself.
Fact is, McKayla Maroney is an order of magnitnude better at vault gymnastics than anyone else in the world. Fact is, she could probably compete on the mens' level and still beat them (during tryouts, she vaulted a full foot and a half higher than the gold-medal winner).
Maroney losing to Romania's Sandra Izbasa is akin to losing tic-tac-toe to a 4-year old. She lucked out and I'm certain if you asked Izbasa who the best vault gymnacist in the world is, she'd answer McKayala Maroney.
Looks like he kept the American flag aloft while the Mexican flag dragged on the ground.
This isn't competition, folks ... it's an entertainment extravaganza and an enormous business venture.
I can understand why nobody wants to give a lot of attention to that story. I mean, how serious can a sporting event be if a competition is held at its highest level and the timekeeper is some 15 year-old kid? LOL.
Been watching the Braves, they're kicking ass.
The Nats have been, too, though.
I’m concerned more about the crime and transportation and facilities and infrastructure in Rio than the weather.
Thanks for the compliment. It is big, for HER, but it’s not big for us, and NBC’s job is to entertain us. I feel really bad for her, it’s a shame. But she’s by no means the only person to get hosed by bad officiating in this Olympics (last 2 teams our women’s soccer team faced have some serious complaints to make too), or any other. She wasn’t ignored by the only TV station that matters, she was ignored by NBC, which matters here, but not in South Korea where she’s from, or Canada, or most of the rest of the world. And I’m pretty sure no fencer has ever gotten million in endorsements, at least not in America.
As much as we can complain about NBC’s coverage (and there’s plenty of room for legitimate complaint), ratings were up, they actually broke even, a rare thing for Olympic coverage. They did their job, they got lots of eyeballs to the ads during their very expensive event. Were there stories missed? Of course. Good stories? Yes. Sad stories? Yes. Important stories? Well it is just sports so lets not go crazy. If it hadn’t become an internet stink she probably wouldn’t know or care if NBC had or hadn’t carried her story.
I see the US Men’s Basketball team got the Gold without actually having to play defense.
The main NBC coverage is geared towards women, men have to go to the other channels.
Wow, that’s just as much of a travesty as what happened to the US Basketball team in 72.
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