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Originally posted by ironweed
Serious question - do you watch any significant part of the Olympics? If so, which part(s)? I tend to find virtually the entire production to be unwatchable. My wife, of course, watches the figure skating like the future of Western Civilization depended on it.
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It's the production that's unwatchable, particularly at night.
This past olympiad, I tivo'd the stuff on Bravo, Telemundo, MSNBC, CNBC, etc. during the day. Much, much better. It was pure sports, as one would want. Handball, water polo, field hockey, cycling, ping pong, soccer. All the good stuff that you never see at night with the fluff. In particular, one significant highlight was listening to Bill Clement calling the water polo games. Wow--the guy can announce. And, unlike the NHL, the goalies don't have padding to block all but 3" of net, so "Score!" comes out a bit more often.
The night time sucks. Of course, that's when track is and the other glamour events, although I could do without gymnastics and swimming, really (too slow to develop).
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