Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

Is Chance Carnegie DuPont a result of the marriage between the Carnegie and DuPont families? I thought Rooney Mara was insanely rich.

 

I watch Olympic Track and Field as closely as I do in large part to see athletes from the Caribbean countries excel. St. Lucia and Dominica here, Grenada and the Bahamas recently, Jamaica before that - it's awesome.

 

this is pretty much why I stopped watching the Olympics in 1984. The TV guide said there would be coverage of the hammer throw. As a former thrower who always wanted to try the hammer, I wanted to watch it. There was an interminable feature on America’s best hope overcoming adversity and making the Olympics. After 20 minutes, cut to his best throw. Good enough for 7th place or something. Briefly you see the medalists. Some Germans East and West, or maybe a Finn or something. Whoever they were, you didn’t get to see them if you were watching American TV.

 

so you’re saying coverage is better now?

 

Daley Thompson had a similar opinion about the '84 Olympics tv coverage and wore this on his teeshirt after his decathlon victory.

https://www.mediastorehouse.co.uk/p...los-angeles-usa-los-angeles-21476995.jpg.webp

 

@Dr. Wankler you can watch this guy throw the Big Hammer!

 

He was one of my favorites.

 

Peacock has been fantastic and at a great price point. Good mix of NBC coverage and World Feed options, and complete events all over the place.

 

I’ve been watching telemundo, but it is mostly soccer.

 

Peacock has every event in its entirety, for $8 a month or $14 for premium plus. That's staggeringly cheap to see exactly the Olympics you want to see since you can watch any event in its entirety, live or on replay, or choose from a variety of viewing options for multiple events, to medal events only, to highlight packages. Never been anything like it in my lifetime but I sure hope it's the norm from now on.

I've just watched the Men's Trap Final in its entirety. Interesting event. I did think it was a bit hurtful to play "Dancing Queen" when the Swedish shooter was eliminated from competition (six shooters for 20 targets, five for the next ten - here's where the Swede was out, four for the next ten). American Vincent Hancock became the fifth athlete all time to win the gold medal in the same event four consecutive Olympics.

 

Tokyo!

the swimming one is crazy because any order male/female and it is a 400 Medley so 100 meters of each stroke. The time swings and lead changes can be crazy.

 

The smile on Bol's face as she got to the line was wonderful. Cool event.

By the way, kayak cross wasn't nearly as fun as ski cross or snow cross are in the Winter Games.

 

I concede the point about the edited version of that scene of the Opening Ceremonies; we had been in the hospital with our daughter when it aired live and appreciated being able to watch the whole thing without commercials, but noted we did not see what people had gotten angry about. But I don't know why one would expect any network in the world to allow you to watch that event without their announcers, and if that's the standard of allowing us to choose what we want to see, we'll be disappointed to the end of time.

We watched the replay of the full team vault competition. Is that what you mean or something else? It's still available on the app, for another week. No commentary but the scores are provided.

EDIT: you don't mean that. I haven't even tried to watch the individual one yet.

 

When not at the events, during the day, I watch the Olympics on French TV (France 2 & 3). Although they tend to cover French athletes, they do a decent job with their coverage since it is pretty much uninterrupted for long stretches. The cycling competition yesterday was simply epic.
I also did use a VPN to watch CBC Canada. Excellent coverage as well and a ton of replays on their site. Highly recommend.
Going to my last event today, Track and Field, before, regrettably flying back to the States tomorrow.

 

The coming together of Maestro Mr. Bean, Vangelis, and Chariots of Fire was brilliant, as was that whole show.

Something I've often watched are interviews with Paul O'Donovan, Irish Lightweight Sculls goal medalist with partner Fintan McCarthy this year and silver with his brother Gary. These guys are hilarious - and very good.

 

Seriously, what happened with judo today, if someone wrote a movie like that, I would think it was cheesy.

Here is a short summary of it on French TV. It is French but self explanatory. Team score is on the top left. Out of 6 fights, Japan was leading 3-1. France tied 3-3 and a draw was needed for a final fight. I don’t know who wrote that script! lol…

 

The cycling road race was one event that had excellent coverage in the US. It was on live on CNBC with relatively few ads. Watched the last 1 1/2 hours of it and it was engrossing. I guess Pogacar would have won had he showed up but Evenepoel is a star in his own right. And boy the drama of him getting a puncture a few km from the end and the look of horror on his face until his team car arrived with a new bike…