MLS Summer Interregnum Thread (Nations League, Euros, Copa, Gold Cup, Other PBP)

It's been confusing for me this this time to find the sports I want to watch. I turn to one channel and theyre not putting what I want to see. Then I turn to the other channel and its some kind of studio show. I feel that for whatever reason this olympics was not as viewer friendly in the way they've shown it on tv.

 

The publicly funded BBC has been showing every event with commentary and analysis since about 2000. Most cable and satellite services provide a "red button" link to a directory of sports.

NBC spends so much on TV rights that they apparently have nothing left in the budget for coverage. They assume they have a captive audience who they can bombard with ads.

Someone around 1980 they decided that human interest stories attracted more female viewers and this is why, 41 years later they cut to vignettes during live events.

At least I think they still do. I watched McClaughlin's wr on YouTube and that's it. There's been more than enough sport on TV this summer without spending all night watching the Olympics.

 

The nbcolympics.com streaming is the way to go when you want to see something specific.

 

This (on any broadcaster) is the most irritating thing about the Olympics. I don't care about the life story of the athlete, where they grew up, how inspiring their grade three teacher was, or that their parents escaped from the Soviet Union in the bad old days. Such an annoying waste of time that could be used showing more actual sports.

 

I’m in the same boat. I don’t even want the athletes autograph or have my picture taken with them. I just want them to put the ball into the back of the net, or marvel how far they can jump. What flavor ice cream they prefer or what social cause they are peddling is of no interest to me.

 

But "ever since they were a child, they dreamed of being in the Olympics".

 

And I grew up dreaming of being modest. And now that I've achieved that, the world can simply marvel at the reality of my modesty, not learn all about how I got here.

 

Having been to an Olympics (1972) I can tell you that there's a heck of a lot of down time during a nine day track meet.

 

True but they show these interviews while there are events in progress.

 

That's any track meet whether a single day, the rare two-day or a week+ trials.

 

That's not always the case. The old NYC Diamond League event would have junior races between the professional races to keep everything moving.

 

******** that hat.

 

Olympic record shot put for Crouser!

 

and again with his second throw going even farther.

 

It's bad enough we don't have the fastest Lamont in the world, but 6th in the 4 X100 heat feels like the lowest point in US track in a long time.

 

Still a better finish than all the times in recent memory where our relay teams have fouled the handoff.

 

This was worse for me. I'd rather see them moving fast and ******** it up than see them moving in the wrong order and appearing to go backwards. They were .02 seconds from advancing on time from their heat with how horrible that run looked. USATF needs to get their shit together. They needed more acclimation time, a camp and coaches who know how to win a relay. They were out of it on the second leg. It wasn't all about the passes.

 

[Coach] Holloway has enjoyed a great amount of success internationally, serving as the men’s head coach of the United States’ 2013 World Championships Team, and as Team USA’s sprints and relays coach at the 2012 Olympics. He also was the head coach of the 2004 NACAC U23 Championships Team. Every U.S Olympic team since 1992 has featured at least one athlete coached by Holloway, with six of them combining for nine medals. Seven Gators who competed collegiately under Holloway or were coached directly by Holloway have combined for 15 medals.

 

And the greatest athlete in the world is now a Canadian. Bow before your masters.

Damian Warner is first athlete to surpass 9,000 points in the event at the Olympic Games and the 4th ever to do it overall. Also would have gotten a bronze medal in long jump if his decathlon jump was counted.

In other news, the Canada/Sweden gold medal match has been moved to 9 pm local time. That is 5 am PDT on Friday. Not too bad, I'll wake up early for that match.

 

That might not make for a better game (Finals are weird), but it certainly won't hurt. An 11am local start would've been unmitigated hell for the players.

 

True. They had to change the city though. Instead of Tokyo, it will be played in Yokohama.

 

Apparently the venue in Tokyo was booked at the time.

 

It's great to see the improvement. Who is that Karl Lewis dude?

 

Some druggy.

 

Ended Whitney.



Thx,

Jay!