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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 wrote:Watch Ledecky swim 1500m!

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.

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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.

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.

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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?

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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.