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Must be said that despite the BBCs best efforts in the run up to the games with those stupid teasers that looked like they were advertising perfume, I am enjoying it a lot. Especially the slopestyle snowboarding and skiing events down the ramps, slopes, jumps and half pipes or whatever they are called. I'm enjoying the commentary even though I have no idea what they are on about most of the time, plus the competitors actually look like they are having fun, which is something you see less and less of in modern sport. So good on them.

Having said that it's hard to see where all the money has gone as apparently they have spend 50 odd billion dollars, with nearly 9 billion being spent on a road/rail link. Still, great 1080..
 
I am really enjoying the coverage, I think mainly because they are sports and events that I do not get to watch very often.

Agree what you say about the competitors having fun and supporting and consoling each other. Really enjoying some of the youngsters let loose in the commentary box with clearly no formal media training. Many of these events do appeal to the younger generation so why not have a 20 year old doing the commentary with knowledge and enthusiasm rather than rolling out the same aging faces who are expected to analyse any sport irrespective of whether they have any knowledge.
 
Love the Olympics- great athletes and great friendships and they are all at the top of their game.

4 years intensive training and qualifying to slide down a slope a tenth or hundreth of a second faster than the others- thats pressure.
Great coverage by the BBC
 
GB72 said:
I am really enjoying the coverage, I think mainly because they are sports and events that I do not get to watch very often.

Agree what you say about the competitors having fun and supporting and consoling each other. Really enjoying some of the youngsters let loose in the commentary box with clearly no formal media training. Many of these events do appeal to the younger generation so why not have a 20 year old doing the commentary with knowledge and enthusiasm rather than rolling out the same aging faces who are expected to analyse any sport irrespective of whether they have any knowledge.
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Definitely this.

It annoyed me that people complained about the commentators of the snowboard slopestyle final. I don't want stone faceed impartial commentators, I want them cheering team GB and getting excited about everything!
 
CheltenhamHacker said:
Definitely this.

It annoyed me that people complained about the commentators of the snowboard slopestyle final. I don't want stone faceed impartial commentators, I want them cheering team GB and getting excited about everything!
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where was this complaining? the two guys in the booth absolutely made it for me and my buddies who were watching- we understood nothing but got caught up in the infectious excitement they created.

I think I heard the oldest competitor in slopestyle was 28!! its a young guys sport at that level unlike golf
 
There were lots of complaints and the BBC felt it necessary to issue a statement about it. I think it stopped short of a full-blown apology, but it gives you an idea of the volume they had.
Bunch of miserable SOB's complaining about that if you ask me.
 
titleistho said:
where was this complaining? the two guys in the booth absolutely made it for me and my buddies who were watching- we understood nothing but got caught up in the infectious excitement they created.

I think I heard the oldest competitor in slopestyle was 28!! its a young guys sport at that level unlike golf
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Few newspaper articles, a couple of hundred complaints. Classic british nature. Some people were having fun, and we don't like that!
 
I haven't seen any of it yet. Probably won't see any of it any way. It's on while I'm at work, so that's a no. Most stuff on the red button isn't in hd, so it's like fuzzy vision. Can't see the point.

I normally watch the ice hockey, but have no idea when it's on.
 
murphthemog said:
I haven't seen any of it yet. Probably won't see any of it any way. It's on while I'm at work, so that's a no. Most stuff on the red button isn't in hd, so it's like fuzzy vision. Can't see the point.

I normally watch the ice hockey, but have no idea when it's on.
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Ice hockey is on now
 
Loving the ice hockey

Kessel and Van Reimsdyk from the maple leafs are looking great for team USA (although my family in law dictates I must support Canada) :rofl:
 
CheltenhamHacker said:
Few newspaper articles, a couple of hundred complaints. Classic british nature. Some people were having fun, and we don't like that!
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And quelle surprise, it's that bastion of moral righteousness and lover of all things BBC, The Daily Mail stirring it up again and complaining http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...whoop-unsporting-delight-rival-fell-over.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ar...se-action-end-cosy-childish-cheerleading.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-skier-Katie-Summerhayes-crashes-seventh.html

You'd kind of think that the type of person who is watching dudes with long hair pulling back flips on a snow board wants that type of person commentating. Yes may be not for the figure skating, but I really enjoyed their commentary and thought the BBC were gutless when they did their sort of apology. They should have told the complainants to go do one...
 
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