Brilliant Gold. WR.
London 2012 Olympic Competition
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The mens sprint team win the gold with a 2nd world record in 2 rides 
I want to laugh at your comment, but I know it is not easy to convince a non rower to understand the hard training and competitiveness behind the scene (competitive rowers make races look easy). The pain and all the hardship they can hide so well... just amazing!
One of them (Helen) was at the venue today signing autograph and let children touch her gold medal and photograph with her. Such a generous gold medallist.
I'm probably a huge curmudgeon (well I know I am, so there) but this insanely sycophantic bias coverage is starting to get on my tits. If it was any other country - specifically the US - we'd find it unbearable.
And to think of the grief people give even slightly bias football pundits & commentators.
And to think of the grief people give even slightly bias football pundits & commentators.
You're nowhere near as big or as old a curmudgeon as me but even I think it's a bit of a laugh (especially all the things that shouldn't even be in the Olympics like clay traps).
If i were to guess, Drifter's reasons for taking against rowing are political, not sporting.
Helen and Heather certainly made it look easy, of course it wasn't but they just glided along yesterday. You could see what it meant to them at the end, the bond such sport can create.
I just feel bad (I don't) for anyone not British watching for their athletes. In the swimming where that Scottish lad got a silver, the Beeb just completely ignored the bloke who won it, despite the fact he even broke the World Record, and just waffled on about how amazing our lad was, and showing only replays of him.
It's amateur. Amazing as it may sound, there are other people at this thing.
Every country's coverage is going to be biased towards their own athletes. I don't see how you could expect any different.
It's not the same as getting Niall Quinn to commentate on City games for example, though if you were talking about people getting upset at commentators being biased towards an English team in the CL then fair enough. Though even still it's more a case of people shouldn't be upset about that than people should be annoyed at the Olympic coverage too.
We're sooo biased though. And it basically is the same as getting Niall Quinn to commentate on City. The only big difference is the intended audience for that is less in on the bias. The BBC are the biggest broadcasting network in the world though, so it isn't just us lot watching it. I just think it's a bit cringey personally. At least fecking pay lip service to the people who're actually winning the things you're showing.
What can you expect, it's Great Britain in Great Britain's games ... you should see the coverage over here in the Czech Republic, they stopped the coverage of the men's cycling time trial for the kayaking medal ceremony in which a Czech got the silver ... the trouble was that it was just a screen of the stage for give minutes before the ceremony even started.
I expect more of the BBC than I do Czech television though tbf. No offence.
it's not the same coverage abroad as it is in Britain, here in Sweden if a Swede is competing in any event, it is shown, regardless of what else is going on.
Won't most/all countries have their own coverage as well though?
The majority of people watching the race you mentioned on BBC will have cared more about the Scottish lad winning Silver than the Hungarian fella winning Gold, World Record and all. They're just catering towards their audience.
Admittedly it's all a bit weird. I don't even think of myself as British and yet I find myself vaguely pleased when someone I've never heard of wins a Bronze in a sport I watch once every four years.
It was the same in Australia for the last olympics and USA before that, they only show events with home athletes in. Beeb commentary may be biased but at least you can watch every event.
Is the Olympic coverage any different this time to what it was like at Beijing, Athens and Sydney? I'm not sensing a huge shift in commentary style.
And the BEEB do show recognition of the other nations in my experience, have been enthused with their achievements.
And the BEEB do show recognition of the other nations in my experience, have been enthused with their achievements.
Of course. I don't expect them to not show them. But when England play football and get beaten, the pundits and commentators don't just ignore everything the winning side did and focus only on what we did. Which I've seen happen a couple of times in this already. And football punditry get's lambasted all over the shop. It's far more professional than a lot of this tbf (when there's bias involved...the non GB events have been dealt with very well I agree).
It's not really riling me or anything, I'm just starting to find it silly. Yes the Beeb have better overall coverage than most. But they're the Beeb. They're supposed to. That's my point.
Yep, gone are the days of limited cameras and feeds. Pretty much every country will have customized (biased) coverage. In all fairness although US TV is showing all their medal contenders they are also attempting to cover other athletes as well.
Yeah with the multichannel coverage that has been done the past few Olympics we are getting a wider variety of sports and atheletes to watch. Of course the majority of the focus in on US atheletes, but from the sounds of it that is pretty normal in many nations that they focus on their own atheletes.
You compare a football team getting beaten to a British swimmer achieving a commendable silver, is that really a fair comparison? After all a silver medal isn't comparable with losing a football match and walking away with nothing.
Am I the only one thinking that sports where someone only tries to get as fast as possible from A to B are totally boring?
Not to mention that they are decided by who got the better doping method in 9 out of 10 cases.
Not to mention that they are decided by who got the better doping method in 9 out of 10 cases.
Agreed
In the swimming the BBC have been interviewing the winners, mostly yanks, but other countries as well, as well as any GB contestants.
I partly agree with Mockney here. I would sort of like to see more of the other athletes who actually win some of these events, yet at the same time you can understand why the BBC do what they do. Most of the audience will only watch some of these events for the Brits. Nobody would have cared about canooeing today if we didn't get a medal at all and they have to cater to their general audience.
On Dutch TV we only see Dutch hopefulls so all countries are the same then?
On French TV , we get to watch the french athletes first and foremost and then the rest.
But are they moaning like the Brits? They aren't here
I had expected that China would have more medals than US by now but I was wrong. After the athletics I think that US will lead which I thought wouldn't be the case before the Olympics.
Another joke decision in the boxing
Terrific effort by GB against Spain in the basketball, unfortunately fell just short of winning. Hit some great 3pt shots in the final minute, the decision not to foul on the last possession was a shocking choice.
FAO resident Swedes.
How do you currently like them meatballs?
How do you currently like them meatballs?
What was the FT at the start of the 4th quarter for?
Commentator said it was a technical foul for something said by the players/coaches as the 3rd quarter finished.
I couldn't watch the game but how it was so close. Spain are surely the second best team in the Olympics while GB are not that good. Did Spain play with full formation?
Im getting a bit pissed off at the "team gb" games I have to say.
It's driving me to switch off the events that have brits in them.
Great result.
Spain has 5 NBA player. 3 of the played for the majority of the game, 1 a little over a quarter and their captain not at all. Still a much better team on paper than GB. Some definite underestimation going on. Similar to the US team in Beijing.
Spain were full strength but were poor which allowed GB to make it a more competitive game than it should've been. Spain missed quite a few FTs particularly early in the game and GB hit a lot of last-ditch three-point efforts in the final minute to keep the game alive. Could've gone to OT had GB fouled with 5 seconds left.
Ominous start by USA, could be a long night for the Nigerians.
Need goal-line technology in the handball
Why don't you just watch RTE then?
I mean where else would you see the likes of this?!