2016 Olympic chatter

• friendfromlowry

  gut;1808326 wrote:I wish the Olympics was 3 weeks. And I wish they showed more of other finals rather than endless prelims of the same thing in diving, swimming, gymnastics and track. There are a few other sports that get decent coverage, but I'd say almost 3/4 of the 28 sports get very little coverage if an American isn't in medal contention (and even then if it isn't a popular sport...)

  I think it would have been interesting if instead of shoving swimming and track down our throats every night, they showed the occasional water polo, handball, badminton, etc. match.
• Sonofanump

  Summer Olympics is Track, Swimming, Gymnastics. Secondary is Wrestling, Velodrome Cycling, Basketball, Volleyball.
• vball10set

  Sonofanump;1808342 wrote:Summer Olympics is Track, Swimming, Gymnastics, Volleyball and Basketball. Secondary is everything else.

  fify
• Laley23

  

  Ive been essentially tuned out of the Olympics since Phelps swam his last race. Watched the 100M final live. Tuned in to NBC Primetime stuff only 2 times the second week (and not for very long), and only had SN/USA/NBC on 1 time during the day the 2nd week.
  
  I watched about 5 minutes of the Basketball Gold Medal game yesterday and watched the ET/PKs of the soccer.
  
  For me, the Olympics is full of dumb sports that I dont care about. I kinda get into it initially, then lose interest fast. I enjoy Volleyball (both beach and regular) and Rugby (the 7s, though USA was out fast lol). I dont care about a single other event. I watch the main track events (100, 200, 4x100), the Swimming when Phelps was in it, and some of the 4th Q of the USA Basketball games.
  
  EDIT: I also watched the final 7 holes of the Golf Final Round
• Sonofanump

  vball10set;1808344 wrote:fify

  No you did not.
• vball10set

  Sonofanump;1808356 wrote:No you did not.

  lol
• vball10set

  http://www.toledoblade.com/business/2016/08/22/Speedo-drops-sponsorship-of-Ryan-Lochte.html
• thavoice

  As usual I go in thinking I wont watch much, bet get roped into the swimming, track and a few of the oddball events
• like_that

  

  Sleeper would love this and I 100% agree. This fits with the recent discussion in this thread. NBC is fucking delusional.
  
  http://www.barstoolsports.com/barstoolu/if-you-blame-millennials-for-the-lowest-olympics-ratings-in-16-years-you-should-fuck-yourself/?utm_campaign=SocialflowFB&utm_source=BarstoolFB&utm_medium=Socialflow
• Automatik

  

  Can't blame us. I watched the shit out of it, almost daily. I'm sad they're over.
• iclfan2

  

  I'm far from a millennial apologist (and I am in the age group) but that article is spot on. Twitter is THE source of information the second it happens. Not capitalizing on that, and the stupid tape delays, was ineptitude at its finest.
  
  
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• superman

  NBC executives right now.
  
• vball10set

  I watched CBC almost exclusively...NBC's broadcast was pathetic.
• jmog

  I used the NBC app to watch the events I wanted to live. Other than having the nightly stuff on in the background while the family was doing other stuff I didn't watch NBC at all.
  
  NBC really screws themselves with the tape delays when most people that are interested in a given sport already knows the outcome.
  
  I meant it was all over twitter/FB that the US women's gymnastics team won gold by like 1 pm, but they didn't show it on NBC until 8-9 pm. Seriously, do they think no one looked at FB/twitter all day to "not spoil" it?
  
  I am not a Millennial (37 years old) so I KNOW they are on social media much more than I am.
• iclfan2

  

  I also found it odd that they acted like the taped delayed stuff was live.
• vball10set

  iclfan2;1808403 wrote:I also found it odd that they acted like the taped delayed stuff was live.

  Exactly--that only compounded their patheticness (?)
• Heretic

  

  like_that;1808369 wrote:Sleeper would love this and I 100% agree. This fits with the recent discussion in this thread. NBC is fucking delusional.
  
  http://www.barstoolsports.com/barstoolu/if-you-blame-millennials-for-the-lowest-olympics-ratings-in-16-years-you-should-fuck-yourself/?utm_campaign=SocialflowFB&utm_source=BarstoolFB&utm_medium=Socialflow

  I read that too and it cracked me up.
  
  Let's see...
  
  1. You run everything on a tape delay...
  
  2. And then pretend it's live even though in today's world, anyone who has even one iota of desire can find the results in seconds and know what is going to happen.
  
  3. You show, what, one-third of the stuff you could be showing...
  
  4. Because your goal is to apparently cater to your impression of a middle-aged housewife during prime-time hours. So you throw in a shit-ton of "heart-warming" features on various athletes at the expense of showing anything other than event finals and big names. And then go to commercial. And then go to the studio with Costas. And then back to commercial. And then to the track/pool/gymnastics place for a couple minutes of competition. And then commercials. And then another feature.
  
  Fact is NBC sucks. The appeal of the Olympics is seeing all these sports you don't watch on TV all that often and watching people around the world competing at their highest level to win. NBC only is willing to offer that if they can completely package it, edit the hell out of it and dress it up --- while pretending it's still an organic experience. Fuck them.
• jmog

  I don't have a ton of problems with the "heart warming" stories at night. I just wish they did those instead of the controversies.
  
  I mean if I had to hear about Lochte one more freaking time I was going to scream.
  
  Just in my personal favorite Olympic sport of wrestling there were two much bigger stories.
  
  Kyle Snyder from Ohio St became the youngest US gold medalist ever in wrestling. Zero coverage on primetime.
  
  Helen Maroulis not only became the first US woman to win gold in wrestling but she beat a Japanese woman who had not lost in 15 years since Women's international wrestling became a sport back before the 2000 Olympics. She had won gold 15 years in a row between the Olympics and World Championships. Yoshida (who she beat)
  
  Helen was on prime time for 30 seconds, Lochte for like 30 minutes in the same night.
  
  They gave more time to the idiots from Mongolia that stripped in protest after a BRONZE medal wrestling match than they did to Snyder or Maroulis.
  
  I have seen stories that Maroulis is getting much more press (all positive) in Japan than in the US, because she beat their wrestling "god" and did it in a very respectable manor (great sportsmanship, wrestled to win instead of stalled her way to a lucky win, etc).
  
  Japanese fans love Helen Maroulis overnight, American fans do not know who she is...
• SportsAndLady

  

  Bob costas is so damn creepy and weird. Can't stand that guy.
  
  His "interview" with Simon Biles and the other gymnast was just downright awful.
• vball10set

  jmog;1808424 wrote:
  I mean if I had to hear about Lochte one more freaking time I was going to scream..
  ..

  this is how I felt about their coverage of Bolt--he's the goat of track and all, but it was like I was watching Jamaican News Network
• sportswizuhrd

  vball10set;1808431 wrote:this is how I felt about their coverage of Bolt--he's the goat of track and all, but it was like I was watching Jamaican News Network

  CBC didn't air T&F? I wasn't in town so missed on CBC coverage.
  
  Didn't mind all the Bolt coverage at all, it wasn't any more than the coverage of the gymnastics or Phelps. Bolt, Phelps and the girls were getting coverage for all of the right reasons unlike Lochte.
• vball10set

  sportswizuhrd;1808438 wrote:CBC didn't air T&F? I wasn't in town so missed on CBC coverage.
  
  Didn't mind all the Bolt coverage at all, it wasn't any more than the coverage of the gymnastics or Phelps. Bolt, Phelps and the girls were getting coverage for all of the right reasons unlike Lochte.

  Sure they did, but they didn't ejaculate all over Bolt like NBC did. My point is that Phelps and the gymnasts are American, so they should be getting the bulk of the coverage by an American station. Bolt is an icon, and he should have gotten coverage--it was just overboard for a non-American imo.
• SportsAndLady

  

  I didn't mind the Bolt coverage at all. We were watching history and NBC and it's announcers got excited about it. What's the big deal?
• wildcats20

  

  SportsAndLady;1808445 wrote:I didn't mind the Bolt coverage at all. We were watching history and NBC and it's announcers got excited about it. What's the big deal?

  Agree.
  
  You could make a case that Bolt is the biggest athlete in the world. There was nothing wrong with his coverage.
  
  Plus, outside of showing him in the tunnel, what did they do that was so crazy?
  
  His coverage was no different than Phelps. Both deserved every second of it, IMO.
• vball10set

  lol, sorry to have an opinion, guys...carry on