Summer 2024 Olympics

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why do the commentators talk so so much about the athletes' families and show them at every moment the athlete competes. What if someone was estranged from parents? Not married? Childless? Do they matter?

NBC’s prime time was the worst with this. They seemingly spent half the Tokyo track coverage talking about Allyson Felix’s daughter and the fact that she was a mom. And yeah she also ran some races, or something. But she’s a mom!!! With a KID! Yes it’s impressive and all, but really. The swimming wasn’t much better.

Peacock has much less of that, thank goodness.

Yes NBC prime time sucks- they also don’t take the time to explain the scoring or moves or whatever. They off-handedly say things like ‘oh his chest was down that’s .1 deduction’ or some new swimming rule with butterfly or breaststroke got a guy disqualified? Like explain these things to me- so much more interesting than a swimmer’s wife gender reveal after he wins a bronze.

[Anonymous]

I’m not a huge fan of the coverage. I wish they would just show all the medaling events of the day, instead of the same 4 things over and over again. Or human interest crap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do the commentators talk so so much about the athletes' families and show them at every moment the athlete competes. What if someone was estranged from parents? Not married? Childless? Do they matter?

NBC’s prime time was the worst with this. They seemingly spent half the Tokyo track coverage talking about Allyson Felix’s daughter and the fact that she was a mom. And yeah she also ran some races, or something. But she’s a mom!!! With a KID! Yes it’s impressive and all, but really. The swimming wasn’t much better.

Peacock has much less of that, thank goodness.

Yes NBC prime time sucks- they also don’t take the time to explain the scoring or moves or whatever. They off-handedly say things like ‘oh his chest was down that’s .1 deduction’ or some new swimming rule with butterfly or breaststroke got a guy disqualified? Like explain these things to me- so much more interesting than a swimmer’s wife gender reveal after he wins a bronze.

I like a little of the human interest stuff PLUS the explanations. I'm glad you wrote this because I was thinking that they were explaining a lot less.

Peacock is better for the sports but I think I'd prefer a hybrid approach because it's just too much to watch four hours of a competition I didn't really understand. I'd love to see a snippet of something like a start of an archery competition, get a little explanation of how it works and how they train for it, what the goals are and what the variables are, and then see some of the highlights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Watching these guys on the rings and pommel horse makes my carpal tunnel practically flare up 😂 love Stephen Nedoroscik!

Yeah, totally didn't understand what this guy was doing meditating during all the excitement of the competition until he showed up next to the pommel horse and took off his glasses
Great job keeping his cool!

[Anonymous]

I loved watching the men's gymnastics and seeing how pumped they all were for their teammates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do the commentators talk so so much about the athletes' families and show them at every moment the athlete competes. What if someone was estranged from parents? Not married? Childless? Do they matter?

NBC’s prime time was the worst with this. They seemingly spent half the Tokyo track coverage talking about Allyson Felix’s daughter and the fact that she was a mom. And yeah she also ran some races, or something. But she’s a mom!!! With a KID! Yes it’s impressive and all, but really. The swimming wasn’t much better.

Peacock has much less of that, thank goodness.

Yes NBC prime time sucks- they also don’t take the time to explain the scoring or moves or whatever. They off-handedly say things like ‘oh his chest was down that’s .1 deduction’ or some new swimming rule with butterfly or breaststroke got a guy disqualified? Like explain these things to me- so much more interesting than a swimmer’s wife gender reveal after he wins a bronze.

I like a little of the human interest stuff PLUS the explanations. I'm glad you wrote this because I was thinking that they were explaining a lot less.

Peacock is better for the sports but I think I'd prefer a hybrid approach because it's just too much to watch four hours of a competition I didn't really understand. I'd love to see a snippet of something like a start of an archery competition, get a little explanation of how it works and how they train for it, what the goals are and what the variables are, and then see some of the highlights.

You need the happy medium of the live daytime coverage spread across NBC, USA, CNBC, and E! They don’t have the human interest pieces, and during dead air in the events they’ll do some analytics and commentary and occasionally air some canned pieces. I don’t have peacock, but I’ve been enjoying the live coverage much more than the Primetime packaging. If I see an event I want to watch on the schedule, I DVR it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loved watching the men's gymnastics and seeing how pumped they all were for their teammates.

From the outside, it seems that they have a genuine camaraderie and friendship. It’s nice to see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do the commentators talk so so much about the athletes' families and show them at every moment the athlete competes. What if someone was estranged from parents? Not married? Childless? Do they matter?

OMG, it used to be so much worse 20-25 years ago. It used to be all sob stories and little sport. With Peacock, there's so much more pure sports coverage.

“ABC’s Up Close and Personal with JimMcKay.”

Those were the days!

[Anonymous]

The men’s triathlon is being postponed until tomorrow due to water quality concerns in the Seine. Plan B apparently is to cut out the swimming altogether and just do the biking and running, if the water quality isn’t up to par tomorrow.

SMH and shame on the organizers. This has been a known problem for a long time and they’ve had months if not years to figure out a contingency plan. Plan B should have been to plan an alternative location for the triathlon in another body of water. They can surf in Tahiti, surely they could find another river or lake in France and plan the course around that. Not cut out 1/3 of the race! I feel bad for the athletes who may get screwed due to sheer incompetence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do the commentators talk so so much about the athletes' families and show them at every moment the athlete competes. What if someone was estranged from parents? Not married? Childless? Do they matter?

NBC’s prime time was the worst with this. They seemingly spent half the Tokyo track coverage talking about Allyson Felix’s daughter and the fact that she was a mom. And yeah she also ran some races, or something. But she’s a mom!!! With a KID! Yes it’s impressive and all, but really. The swimming wasn’t much better.

Peacock has much less of that, thank goodness.

Yes NBC prime time sucks- they also don’t take the time to explain the scoring or moves or whatever. They off-handedly say things like ‘oh his chest was down that’s .1 deduction’ or some new swimming rule with butterfly or breaststroke got a guy disqualified? Like explain these things to me- so much more interesting than a swimmer’s wife gender reveal after he wins a bronze.

I like a little of the human interest stuff PLUS the explanations. I'm glad you wrote this because I was thinking that they were explaining a lot less.

Peacock is better for the sports but I think I'd prefer a hybrid approach because it's just too much to watch four hours of a competition I didn't really understand. I'd love to see a snippet of something like a start of an archery competition, get a little explanation of how it works and how they train for it, what the goals are and what the variables are, and then see some of the highlights.

Definitely agree. I like getting some explanation of point deductions, fouls, etc. especially with the highly technical sports (that I know nothing about) like fencing. A little bit of the human interest stuff is fine, especially if it's about an athlete who overcame great obstacles in his/her life to get where they are today. There's definitely a balance to be had.

I have not watched NBC's prime time this year because we now have Peacock. Peacock's been fine with the swimming so far so I'll take what I can get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The men’s triathlon is being postponed until tomorrow due to water quality concerns in the Seine. Plan B apparently is to cut out the swimming altogether and just do the biking and running, if the water quality isn’t up to par tomorrow.

SMH and shame on the organizers. This has been a known problem for a long time and they’ve had months if not years to figure out a contingency plan. Plan B should have been to plan an alternative location for the triathlon in another body of water. They can surf in Tahiti, surely they could find another river or lake in France and plan the course around that. Not cut out 1/3 of the race! I feel bad for the athletes who may get screwed due to sheer incompetence.

When I saw all the heavy rain during the opening ceremony I had a feeling this would happen. They really needed relatively dry weather in the days leading up to the event.

[Anonymous]

Watch Ledecky swim 1500m!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Watch Ledecky swim 1500m!

#1

American Katie Grimes places much lower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The men’s triathlon is being postponed until tomorrow due to water quality concerns in the Seine. Plan B apparently is to cut out the swimming altogether and just do the biking and running, if the water quality isn’t up to par tomorrow.

SMH and shame on the organizers. This has been a known problem for a long time and they’ve had months if not years to figure out a contingency plan. Plan B should have been to plan an alternative location for the triathlon in another body of water. They can surf in Tahiti, surely they could find another river or lake in France and plan the course around that. Not cut out 1/3 of the race! I feel bad for the athletes who may get screwed due to sheer incompetence.

When I saw all the heavy rain during the opening ceremony I had a feeling this would happen. They really needed relatively dry weather in the days leading up to the event.

They should have had it down in Marseille with the sailing.

[Anonymous]

I'm watching dressage with the Palace of Versailles in the background. The visuals of this Olympics are absolutely stunning.