…is shockingly lacking. They have three channels at their disposal. At this moment there is no Torino coverage on either NBC channel, although there is Nascar.
NBC's Olympic Coverage
Their coverage is summed up by their spelling of Turin.
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i thought Torino was the correct way to spell it?
I have been semi satisfied with coverage, after watching most of the week. While they have 3 channels (actually 5) there isnt THAT much going on to warrant all that coverage yet. Unless you wanted to watch EVERY single ski-jumper or EVERY luge guy go all 4 runs.
This morning the coverage gets 4 channels involved and you'll see more stuff going on. I often wish they would show everything that happens there, and i could just choose. but i guess we're still 10-20 years away from that. ;)
I have been semi satisfied with coverage, after watching most of the week. While they have 3 channels (actually 5) there isnt THAT much going on to warrant all that coverage yet. Unless you wanted to watch EVERY single ski-jumper or EVERY luge guy go all 4 runs.
This morning the coverage gets 4 channels involved and you'll see more stuff going on. I often wish they would show everything that happens there, and i could just choose. but i guess we're still 10-20 years away from that. ;)
They should edit out more of the chaff like women's hockey, women's ski jump & women's curling. Who really care about a buncha sweaty lesbians body -checking each other, anyway? There's already enough of that on this friggin' bboard.
Originally posted by Nguyen Sitch Hugh-Haitian:you're weird.
They should edit out more of the chaff like women's hockey, women's ski jump & women's curling. Who really care about a buncha sweaty lesbians body -checking each other, anyway? There's already enough of that on this friggin' bboard.
Originally posted by Thom Foolerie:…See what I mean?
Originally posted by Nguyen Sitch Hugh-Haitian:you're weird.
a buncha sweaty lesbians body -checking each other There's already enough of that on this friggin' bboard.
Figure skating must be the only sport where one competitor can hire a couple goons to break another competitor's leg, and you have more sympathy for the cunt who hired the goons. . .
I guess figure skating is probably the Olympic Sport that comes closest to matching the limited appeal of NASCAR. . .just as one slumbers through the droning *vroom vroom* of stock car racing in the hope there will be a fiery crash and a new hillbilly driver is sainted in the Church of NASCAR, the only appeal of figure skating is when one of the showgirls crashes to the ice and starts crying like a baby. . .and Michelle Kwan is the all-time Olympic champion of ass-landing. . .they should give her a special Lifetime Achievement Award. . .a Gold Medal. . .a Gold Medal shaped like a piece of cracked ice.
Kwan's performance (Kwan means "stumble" in Chinese) this time around was especially memorable. . .she didn't even make it to the actual competition. . .she landed on her butt two or three times in practice, started crying, then spent the whole night imagining yet another humiliation in the finals. . .no doubt she once more heard the laughter of the entire world ringing in her ears, so she bagged it. . .what a spoil sport, depriving the world of another crybaby Olympic Moment.
Her excuse this time around was really creative: She said the long plane ride to Italy, and then the *strenuous* march in the Opening Ceremony left her with a severe groin injury. . .ha ha ha. . .sitting and walking proved too much for this well-conditioned *athlete.*
Kwan was one of those special breed of athletes who never accomplish anything except hanging around forever, always losing. . .but they get the curious notion that just because they have lost so many times, they now deserve to win.
Kwan will now probably sign on with the Ice Capades or whatever that shit is called, and their private jet will crash on an ice-covered runway. . .
I guess figure skating is probably the Olympic Sport that comes closest to matching the limited appeal of NASCAR. . .just as one slumbers through the droning *vroom vroom* of stock car racing in the hope there will be a fiery crash and a new hillbilly driver is sainted in the Church of NASCAR, the only appeal of figure skating is when one of the showgirls crashes to the ice and starts crying like a baby. . .and Michelle Kwan is the all-time Olympic champion of ass-landing. . .they should give her a special Lifetime Achievement Award. . .a Gold Medal. . .a Gold Medal shaped like a piece of cracked ice.
Kwan's performance (Kwan means "stumble" in Chinese) this time around was especially memorable. . .she didn't even make it to the actual competition. . .she landed on her butt two or three times in practice, started crying, then spent the whole night imagining yet another humiliation in the finals. . .no doubt she once more heard the laughter of the entire world ringing in her ears, so she bagged it. . .what a spoil sport, depriving the world of another crybaby Olympic Moment.
Her excuse this time around was really creative: She said the long plane ride to Italy, and then the *strenuous* march in the Opening Ceremony left her with a severe groin injury. . .ha ha ha. . .sitting and walking proved too much for this well-conditioned *athlete.*
Kwan was one of those special breed of athletes who never accomplish anything except hanging around forever, always losing. . .but they get the curious notion that just because they have lost so many times, they now deserve to win.
Kwan will now probably sign on with the Ice Capades or whatever that shit is called, and their private jet will crash on an ice-covered runway. . .
NASCAR is the second most watched "sport" in America after football. I'd hardly refer to it as having "limited appeal".
On the radio this weekend, the announcer said that Kwan, "pulled out after feeling a stiffness in her groin."
Originally posted by Nguyen Sitch Hugh-Haitian:can you believe that a US high school boys team beat the crap out of our US Womens Olympic Hockey team in an exhibition? and then to see how absolutely dominating the Womens team is in early competition, it really makes me wonder about the quality of play going on there
They should edit out more of the chaff like women's hockey
Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:I hadn't heard of this. Article?
can you believe that a US high school boys team beat the crap out of our US Womens Olympic Hockey team in an exhibition? and then to see how absolutely dominating the Womens team is in early competition, it really makes me wonder about the quality of play going on there
Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:http://www.startribune.com/120/story/164082.html
I hadn't heard of this. Article?
Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:it was 2-1, dude and last year, that High School team was 29-0-2.
a US high school boys team beat the crap out of our US Womens Olympic Hockey team in an exhibition?
Originally posted by Nguyen Sitch Hugh-Haitian:Sounds like the Red Sox before 2004.
Kwan was one of those special breed of athletes who never accomplish anything except hanging around forever, always losing. . .but they get the curious notion that just because they have lost so many times, they now deserve to win.
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:or the yankees after 2000?
Originally posted by Nguyen Sitch Hugh-Haitian:Sounds like the Red Sox before 2004. [/QB]
Kwan was one of those special breed of athletes who never accomplish anything except hanging around forever, always losing. . .but they get the curious notion that just because they have lost so many times, they now deserve to win.
Originally posted by Thom Foolerie:Five years? Hardly sounds like an insult.
or the yankees after 2000? [/QB]
Originally posted by Rob_Gee:wait another 20 years, it'll start sounding worse!
Originally posted by Thom Foolerie:Five years? Hardly sounds like an insult. [/QB]
or the yankees after 2000?
Originally posted by Thom Foolerie:I can't argue with you there.
wait another 20 years, it'll start sounding worse! [/QB]