I'm a red blooded American male and have been watching the Olympics nearly every day..
I love the " human interest stories" about the athletes behind the scenes..the one on Gabby Douglas was great..showed her training in her youth and what she went through...also showed her praying and said how much God was in her life...same with Missy Franklin.
The "human interest" stories make the Olympics better IMO
If you give priority to sob stories over live telecast and can put up with delayed broadcasting, you probably have a some feminine wiring in your brain.
I so agree with you! There is plenty of Olympics coverage on other channels, but I’m just so taken with the behind the scenes stories, and not just the Americans. I love watching.
The big problem with the human interest stories, over and above being girly, is they’re a waste of time. The Summer Games are literally the largest sporting event on the planet, hundreds of hours of sports happen every day for 17 days, and yet most of the prime time coverage isn’t showing any of the sports, it’s blathering on the soap opera of the people. The prime time show should be the ultimate high light package, condensing everything that happened that day into a 4 hour Sports Center. Unfortunately they know their primary audience are not sports fans, it’s women that only watch the Olympics every couple of years. Thus human interest stories instead of sports. The biggest travesty is that they have all these channels but they focus everything down in prime time, they should use one of the channels to do the Sports Center version.