Olympics Thread
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@kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:
NBC pay gigantic amount for broadcast rights
I gave up watching their coverage in 2000 as you wouldn't have known any other country was competing in Sydney, much less little old NZ.
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@kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:
@bovidae in fairness given how the Sydney Olympics went they were probably doing kiwis a favour.. .
Yeah. I would have liked to have seen Waddell's race and only did years later when it showed up on YT.
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@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:
@nevorian said in Olympics Thread:
Seems ridiculous too that final wasn’t in tonight’s session which is normally the case
Yeah what’s the story about that? Weird watching a final in the morning.
As I said before, it's all to do with having the finals broadcast in the evening for the US market. They must pay the IOC the big money.
Fair enough. Seems stupid then that the Australians (and perhaps other nations) didn’t keep to the same schedule during their trials.
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@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:
@nevorian said in Olympics Thread:
Seems ridiculous too that final wasn’t in tonight’s session which is normally the case
Yeah what’s the story about that? Weird watching a final in the morning.
As I said before, it's all to do with having the finals broadcast in the evening for the US market. They must pay the IOC the big money.
Surely the European market would be bigger with more countries involved obviously don’t agree to ‘pay’ the IOC
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@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
Women's hockey:
Great win for the Black Sticks.
Full time: NZL 3 - 0 Argentina.
Good start to the campaign. Who had the higher rank going in?
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@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
Women's hockey:
Great win for the Black Sticks.
Full time: NZL 3 - 0 Argentina.
Good start to the campaign. Who had the higher rank going in?
Argentina were ranked 2, I'm pretty sure we're not first!
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@nevorian said in Olympics Thread:
Surely the European market would be bigger with more countries involved obviously don’t agree to ‘pay’ the IOC
Here is a recent article:
Olympics organisers have done away with tradition for the Tokyo Games, switching the swimming heats to night time and the finals to the morning. Swimming heats are always held in the morning session at Olympic Games, followed by the finals in the evening session on the same day. However the heats will be held in the night session this year, followed by finals the next morning. And there's a very simple reason for the switch - the American TV audience. While the time difference is perfect for the Australian audience, it's not exactly ideal for Americans. Swimming finals would be broadcast in the early hours of the morning in the States if they took place in the night time in Tokyo. So organisers have made the change to satisfy the billion-dollar TV networks in America. The same situation occurred 13 years ago at the Beijing Olympics when broadcasters wanted to show Michael Phelps’ chase for eight gold medals in prime time in America. “We did the same thing back in 2008 - flipped the prelims and finals in the spring meet right before trials,” Lindsay Mintenko, managing director for the US national team said.Obviously this depends on the time zone of the Olympic host country.
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@machpants said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
Women's hockey:
Great win for the Black Sticks.
Full time: NZL 3 - 0 Argentina.
Good start to the campaign. Who had the higher rank going in?
Argentina were ranked 2, I'm pretty sure we're not first!
Great result for us then
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@machpants said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
Women's hockey:
Great win for the Black Sticks.
Full time: NZL 3 - 0 Argentina.
Good start to the campaign. Who had the higher rank going in?
Argentina were ranked 2, I'm pretty sure we're not first!
Black Sticks women have been steadily improving since a couple of years before Gold Coast Comm games where they obviously did very well. Still a great win to beat Argentina who are always near the top of the ladder but there are other improvers also Japan China Gt Britian
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This is a good game (Bball) between Italy and Germany. Germany were leading and Italy have made a good run in the 4th. Now up 6 with a minute to go.
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@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@bones said in Olympics Thread:
So Taekwondo is weird and a shit watch.
Agreed. Not enough clean strikes. CF Jr used to do karate and I hope for a better spectacle in their kumite/ fighting
Yeah it's like a passive aggressive form of ballroom dancing.
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