Official Olympics 2012 thread

motown67 said:Makes me want to watch re-runs of the Beijing opening to see what a real olympics start is supposed to look like




Parts of London were great. Parts were not. Overall I liked it.





Interesting post by Ai Weiwei





http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/28/olympic-opening-ceremony-ai-weiwei-review
 
rootlesscosmo said:I'm not into Harry Potter being so central to the UK's representation of itself to the world.




I feel much the same way about Mr. Bean, personally. But there he was, too (or, more accurately, Rowan Atkinson), mugging along to the theme from Chariots Of Fire. And the thing is, that's how quite a lot of world sees Britain - that and Harry Potter and James Bond and, yeah, someone like Branagh reciting Shakespeare. Instead of being a bit pompous and self-aggrandising about such things - and Olympic opening ceremonies can certainly be that - Boyle decided to have a bit of fun with it.
 
I actually generally like KB but he just seemed like he was mugging HARD. But that said, I blame NBC more than him or Boyle; they kept flashing to him, possibly because they didn't like shooting all the soot-covered workers.





I know criticizing NBC is some low-hanging fruit but seriously, they're so wack with the coverage on practically every level (except for all the live streaming; I've definitely appreciated that).
 
It's already concluded but I just have to say that Team Archery = much more exciting than I might have imagined.
 
Highlight for me so far was when the Japanese mens gymnastic coach attempted to dispute the last score by rushing the judge's table with a wad of cash in his hand.
 
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mannybolone said:





I know criticizing NBC is some low-hanging fruit but seriously, they're so wack with the coverage on practically every level (except for all the live streaming; I've definitely appreciated that).




http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/28/1114648/-NBC-We-skipped-terror-tribute-because-it-wasn-t-tailored-for-the-U-S-audience





LOL, smh.
 
Duderonomy said:mannybolone said:





I know criticizing NBC is some low-hanging fruit but seriously, they're so wack with the coverage on practically every level (except for all the live streaming; I've definitely appreciated that).




http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/28/1114648/-NBC-We-skipped-terror-tribute-because-it-wasn-t-tailored-for-the-U-S-audience





LOL, smh.




Incredible conceit (on behalf of NBC; not turning this into a 'Meriman bash). An official "F*ck not given" to the dead. The whole Olympics are not tailored for the US audience, perhaps best NBC skip them, and just show the podium shots of US medallists on the news?
 
Shoulder-to-shoulder.


I hope Al Queda is reading and take note not to tailor future TERROR against teh UK.
 
Crticising NBC cost journo his... Twitter account, Twitter tips-off NBC first, doe:





http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9440137/London-Olympics-2012-Twitter-alerted-NBC-to-British-journalists-critical-tweets.html





Users of the social network vented their anger against Twitter yesterday after Guy Adams, a foreign correspondent for the Independent, was suspended without warning from the site after posting a series of critical tweets about NBC???s coverage of the Olympics.





One of the tweets urged his followers to send their views to Gary Zenkel, the president of NBC Olympics. Mr Adams subsequently published Mr Zenkel???s corporate email address and a complaint was filed by NBC.





But in an email to The Daily Telegraph, Christopher McCloskey, NBC Sport???s vice-president of communications, said Twitter had actually contacted the network???s social media department to alert them to Mr Adams???s tweets.





???Our social media dept was actually alerted to it by Twitter and then we filled out the form and submitted it,??? he wrote.
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I'd be happy if the BBC just made their iplayer available worldwide. It's all paid for, share it around. Coverage has been great on digital though - seems like every single event is covered live.











Glad Japan got the team silver in gymnastics. If they hadn't, there would've been questions asked about partisan judging. The Brit team did well to get a medal for the first time in 100 years. On the floor work one of our guys did a one-hand-windmill to one-hand-windmill spring B-Boy style!
 
Duderonomy said:DOR said:
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This was pretty crazy. Girl got robbed straight up. Judges and time person should be ashamed.








In other news.





How Olympic Divers Really Look While Diving





http://thefw.com/olympic-diving-funny-faces/
 
I thought she was robbed but I read today that the clock 0>1 thing is common in fencing and that the girl who won had lost a bout before in identical circumstances, so she was coming with the "Meh". Korean sat down for so long because apparently if you leave the mat you concede defeat and the judges took an age to overrule her objection.
 
rootlesscosmo said:Highlight for me so far was when the Japanese mens gymnastic coach attempted to dispute the last score by rushing the judge's table with a wad of cash in his hand.




Yeah. That's the rule apparently - you have to pay a fee to submit an appeal/query (?!) but not a good look regardless.
 
skel said:The arm muscles on these gymnast dudes are incredible.





I need that training regime.




Holler at me, bro.





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mannybolone said:rootlesscosmo said:Highlight for me so far was when the Japanese mens gymnastic coach attempted to dispute the last score by rushing the judge's table with a wad of cash in his hand.




Yeah. That's the rule apparently - you have to pay a fee to submit an appeal/query (?!) but not a good look regardless.




HORRIBLE look. It's like, um, maybe just bill the team later? For all the lengths they allegedly go to avoid corruption, impropriety, they actually require cash $$ to be exchanged between national teams and the judges before the final scores are rendered?! There shouldn't even be any cash allowed on the floor.
 
"Canadian equestrian Hawley Bennett-Awad is in a London hospital with a concussion and back injury after being thrown from her horse during the cross-country phase of the Olympic three-day eventing competition.





The 35-year-old from Murrayville, B.C., fell from her horse, Gin & Juice, Monday at the third fence of the challenging 28-jump course at Greenwich Park and was taken to the Royal London Hospital by ambulance........................."
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http://www.thestar.com/sports/london2012/equestrian/article/1234496--london-2012-canadian-equestrian-suffers-concussion-in-fall





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