Olympic (Summer) likes & dislikes
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gretriever
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 Posted: 06/15/04 - 09:35 Post subject:
| Pug wrote: | | MM wrote: | I love the track coverage...what little there is.
As previously mentioned, I hate the human interest stories. Just shut up and show a race.
I also hate the breathless post race interviews with competitors. "I want GASP to thank GASP God, GASP, my coach, GASP, my dog, GASP..." How about giving them 5 minutes before sticking a mike in their faces so they can actually complete a sentence? |
It's not even that they are out of breath that gets me, but rather that they don't have anything to say. "So how did you feel about your race?" "Are you happy with your performance?" "You really had to dig deep at the end, didn't you?" It's not like we don't know the answers to the question before it is asked. |
 To the immediate interviews. They make the "Hey, Joe Blow, you just won the 100m freestyle! What are you going to do?" - "I'm gonna to to Disneyland!" sound like Shakespeare.
The interest stories can be on occasion interesting, but as stated earlier, it now sounds like you have to have overcome a personal tragedy or life-threatening situation to make the team.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 06/15/04 - 09:53 Post subject:
| rtpd113 wrote: | | Orange Bubble wrote: | | rtpd113 wrote: |
I think people can't get into the olympics unless they had a personal tragedy in their life. |
Really? I never thought that was so. Do you mean "get into" from the competitors side or spectarot. On both accounts. I'm not sure why you believe that to be so. I think as a spectator it's part love of competition and love of country. For the atheletes, a lot of sacrifice, a lot of work, and more committment than I could ever muster up. |
What I mean is that everyone seems to have had a tragedy that inspired them on. It just gets old after hearing it all of time. |
I'm not even sure all of them had tragedies that inspired them, its more the "behind the music" effect where, midway through a perfectly happy story "things took a turn" and the stars had to overcome them to become the fabulous and insightful people they are today. But like Behind the Music (or E! true hollywood, etc) I have to wonder if some of these "tragedies" are played up a little more to seem like major adversities to get there. A great example is E! True Hollywood Story: Joey Lawrence. Nothing happened to him. Granted, there are many amazing stories of triumph, but they can't all be that way....some kids are just born talented to wealthy families who could provide for their training and then they made the Olympic team. It just doesn't make for as great a human interest story as one that overcame drugs or poverty or illness, etc. well, and I'm jaded 
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Pug
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Posted: 06/15/04 - 10:07 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | rtpd113 wrote: | | Orange Bubble wrote: | | rtpd113 wrote: |
I think people can't get into the olympics unless they had a personal tragedy in their life. |
Really? I never thought that was so. Do you mean "get into" from the competitors side or spectarot. On both accounts. I'm not sure why you believe that to be so. I think as a spectator it's part love of competition and love of country. For the atheletes, a lot of sacrifice, a lot of work, and more committment than I could ever muster up. |
What I mean is that everyone seems to have had a tragedy that inspired them on. It just gets old after hearing it all of time. |
I'm not even sure all of them had tragedies that inspired them, its more the "behind the music" effect where, midway through a perfectly happy story "things took a turn" and the stars had to overcome them to become the fabulous and insightful people they are today. But like Behind the Music (or E! true hollywood, etc) I have to wonder if some of these "tragedies" are played up a little more to seem like major adversities to get there. A great example is E! True Hollywood Story: Joey Lawrence. Nothing happened to him. Granted, there are many amazing stories of triumph, but they can't all be that way....some kids are just born talented to wealthy families who could provide for their training and then they made the Olympic team. It just doesn't make for as great a human interest story as one that overcame drugs or poverty or illness, etc. well, and I'm jaded |
but...but...but...the rich kid had a sore calf muscle! Surely he overcame adversity!
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msparks
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Posted: 06/15/04 - 10:31 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | | Not even Synchronized Monkey Fighting? |
I will pay a scalper whatever he wants for a ticket to the finals for this event. If no tickets are available at any cost, I hope that it makes pay-per-view. I'm down with it.
Olympic sports likes/dislikes? Likes: any event in which the victor is determined in an objective manner. For the record: objective (adjective): 3 a : expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations <objective art> <an objective history of the war> <an objective judgment> b of a test : limited to choices of fixed alternatives and reducing subjective factors to a minimum - Merriam-Webster.
Although I enjoy diving events, it's still a sport in which the participants must be judged. Judges have been known for their bias. We've had the Roy Jones Jr. debacle and we've had the big flap over figure skating at the last Winter Olympics.
Nope, use a tape measure or clock (scales for weightlifting) to determine the winner.
Obviously, enter me into the "no synchronized anything" club. Who gets my dues?
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