Its a shame that the coverage of the women's downhill by the American media wasn't a bit more balanced. It would be somewhat understandable if Vonn was the only American with a shot at winning a medal. Obviously she was in no condition to post a competitive time so if you're in the media, why build up the event for inevitable disappointment?
Mikaela has beaten almost all (or all?) Lindsey’s WC skiing records, and is a decade younger. Odd that they wouldn’t play her up, unless she asked them not to in order to take some of the pressure away? Lindsey has rarely failed to perform due to the spotlight on her, so maybe this is a bit strategic?
I think Vonn is more in the media lineage of Suzy Chapstick, Picabo Street, etc., compared to Schiffrin. Differential hype to sell more Wheaties.
Breezy Johnson wins women's downhill Breezy is also what Roby's wife calls him after too many garbanzos
I watched the mixed doubles Curling this morning. Two big wins by Team USA. The woman on the team is a ringer for Amy Pohler too.
Are they still doing that stupid highest total medal count, instead of one that accounts for population and wealth? Asking for a friend
This isn't just a Lindsey Vonn thing, but an NBC thing and especially an "NBC in primetime coverage" thing. I've sure we've all noticed that they show a hell of a lot of ice skating in prime time compared to other stuff. Well...from what I once heard, it's partially because they cater towards women and people who generally don't watch a lot of sports. This is why it's a lot of "Rah rah rah USA!" and human interest stuff with storylines that may not necessarily be sports or what other countries are doing. If you want to watch something specific, unfortunately you gotta dig on Peacock. It used to be easier prior to the Comcast sell-off of the other channels, but now it just seems to be NBC, USA and very little on CNBC. Regular Olympic coverage: "Here's some event. We're gonna show it." NBC prime time: "Here's a bit of an event where the US is competing. We'll show some of it, then some of another event where the USA is going for a gold medal, then a human interest story, then it's back to the ice skating."
I watched the match between the UK and the US. For the entry into the semi finals. But seeing that we have an R in the thread title i don’t feel I can brag about who trounced whom.
Only you remember that. But then that so called whupping was recorded by Trump when he wanted his first Noble Prize.
By all rights, I should be really into the Olympics, since I'm a pretty hardcore skier. But I just can't tolerate the vapid presentation. When I was a kid it was unwatchably awful and it just gets worse every fücking time. It may be that I'm just not in their target demographic because I actually enjoy sports. Anyway, I felt that it was extraordinarily selfish for Lindsey Vonn to take a spot that could have gone to an athlete who could actually compete. I assume it was driven by a thirst for ratings/money/clicks instead of sporting reasons. The ending was utterly predictable.
Yeah, following the Olympics on Peacock is pretty enjoyable. Apart from the commentary, that is. No profiles of athletes, just the live action - showing all the competing athletes from the start of the competition to the medal ceremonies. The downhill coverage was particularly good as it didn't contain many commercials. I haven't checked the Primetime coverage on the main channel yet. I just don't see the point of that when everything is On Demand.
We were living in the US team practice town of Park City back then. TV’s didn’t have replay but I had a recorder that had a camera. We and our ski nuts had a party that night with that running constantly.
Not my earliest, but that was a great run. What's lost in the highlight is how many skiers before him wiped out in the places where he became airborne and almost lost it. Every place he started waving his arms or almost went "into the netting" or "into the hay bails" were places previous competitors did lose control.
It is one of the absolute wild things about the skiing circuit, as the skiers that go early have totally different conditions to those who go hours later.