OT: Olympics
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I was at a boxing session in Montreal I. 1976, saw Howard Davis, Michael Spinks, and Clint Jackson, at least that’s what remember. The place was going crazy shouting the USA chant and at least one of the US boxers beat the hell out of a Russian.
I’ll be in Canada (Canadian Rockies) this year during the Olympic. Probably won’t be indoors to watch much, but interested to see the Canadian broadcast.
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"BTW - you know what's GREAT about The Olympics? NO DUDES POSING AS WOMEN!!!"
LOL, Ask and ye shall receive
Nikki Hiltz ran the second fastest time ever of any American in the women’s 1500-meter race at the U.S. Olympic Trials Sunday, qualifying for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
( Sorry nuts, just think you put a jinx on the issue by mentioning it)
Hmmmm…lol…Maybe it was just swimming?"BTW - you know what's GREAT about The Olympics? NO DUDES POSING AS WOMEN!!!"
LOL, Ask and ye shall receive
Nikki Hiltz ran the second fastest time ever of any American in the women’s 1500-meter race at the U.S. Olympic Trials Sunday, qualifying for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
( Sorry nuts, just think you put a jinx on the issue by mentioning it)
Hiltz is a woman. Just because she says she’s non binary or whatever and cuts her hair like a little boy doesn’t mean she’s still not female"BTW - you know what's GREAT about The Olympics? NO DUDES POSING AS WOMEN!!!"
LOL, Ask and ye shall receive
Nikki Hiltz ran the second fastest time ever of any American in the women’s 1500-meter race at the U.S. Olympic Trials Sunday, qualifying for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
( Sorry nuts, just think you put a jinx on the issue by mentioning it)
Women are verbal and open to "narratives" that give them "feels."
The media, NFL and politicians learned that a long time ago.
The Olympics are the best at sports narratives
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I can't disagree. That's why soap operas, Hallmark and Lifetime, etc channels are so huge with female viewership.Women are verbal and open to "narratives" that give them "feels."
The media, NFL and politicians learned that a long time ago.
The Olympics are the best at sports narratives
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I think a large part of it is tv shows what we are good at. The women's gymnastic wins so they show that. They are not going to show sports we stink at.
US TV sucks at the Olympics. Every foreigner agrees. ABC was probably better than NBC has become, but then you have to consider how giant corporations control everything these days.. both the TV networks and the advertising dollars.
This is what I do also. I agree, the TV coverage is a lot of fluff to draw out the coverage, but if they just televised more sports it would do the same.
That's the problem.. the fluff takes so much time and resources.. often produced and packaged up before the events start.. but the time they are broadcast and talked about and introduced is time that should be used to show events.. even events not being participated in by Americans but by world class athletes with their own stories (which I don't mind mentioned but don't care to be watching mini-documentaries about while they could be showing me stuff going on at the Olympics venues.. even if it is live fan interviews at the Olympics sites.. make me feel like I am there.
Can you imagine if they treated the NFL like they do the Olympics? Cut from one game for a mini-documentary while action is going on we could be watching? You almost get that sometimes during Rutgers broadcasts where the announcers are busy chatting about godknowswhat while plays are going on.
it may be because thats where i saw my first Olympics but agree, alot of good memories of abc doing winter and summer Olympics and never been a fan since the switch to nbc...didnt like Costas
guess I laughed and didn't know what I was laughing about..
So the laughing should be directed towards me
Won't blame the article, will blame myself for not checking out my claim thoroughly
Thanks to newell I checked her out and found this
>Hiltz is a biological female who describes herself as "gender-fluid." The track athlete came out as transgender in 2021, but said her gender fluctuates daily. "Hi I'm Nikki and I'm transgender. That means I don't identify with the gender I was assigned at birth<
So "BTW - you know what's GREAT about The Olympics? NO DUDES POSING AS WOMEN!!! " holds true
Only as a way of establishing place and time.. bring the scene to TV viewers. But once you use a relative of an athlete rather than a professional communicator (are there any more employed in media?).. you waste viewers time having to ask questions about the athlete.
Some people think Simon Biles traitorously let down the whole team and nation... but I think of the waste of time in the broadcast and in the teaser ads for the olympics.. only to have her drop like that. Just highlights my issue with the broadcasts all too well.
And I’ll be on the opposite coast, Prince Edward Island, sitting on the beach eating lobster, clams and going deep sea fishing with 18 family members! Life is good
This ^^^
TV or streaming will be tuned to Olympics no matter if it's just background noise or muted at the time. I never know what sport may catch my fancy. But it's sports, the thrill of competition and it's better than any of the garbage programs they have out there.
Reminds me of those torturous Sweeny Murti segments on WFAN. He was practically counting the marshmallows in players Lucky Charms.
As another thread reported - Olympics are more popular with women than men. The in-depth narrative stuff is a reason why. I don't care if am athlete overcame elephantiasis and leprosy as a 10 yr old but that stuff is what producers churn for a month. Women respond to it.
It's not only extremely irritating only getting parts of a competition rather than the whole event, but it's also pretty predictable. If they're showing a majority of an event in primetime, it's usually a pretty good bet that USA won gold. Olympic hockey is probably my favorite sporting event, but it's so tiresome to have to listen to the Miracle on Ice references every four years. Since I don't have a TV subscription anymore, I'll be watching via online streams and am interested to see how much different the foreign broadcasts are. Hopefully I'll get more of the actual sport of it and not just side stories and USA cheerleading fluff.
As for my favorite events--I like watching water polo, volleyball, and handball, but if I have downtime I'll put on whatever event is on.
I definitely will watch. I was involved with swimming for a long time. Cool thing during the swimming trials. Watching the men's 100 breast final, someone my daughter swam with came up on the blocks and won the damn thing to qualify for the olympics. Swim team tryout attendance jumps dramatically after each olympics.
I'm disappointed Trenton's own Athing Mu won't be defending her gold medal, but I'll still tune in here & there. My wife & MIL will watch whenever they can.
for you maybe, everyone to their own interpretation.
I was just accepting the fact that I was wrong when I replied to nuts and thanking the poster that proved it.
