Your flaw here is that the Olympics are not held for American TV, but for the whole world, and for many countries the basketball tournament in the Olympics is a major event.
I’m not talking about what events are in the Olympics but what is broadcast on the American channels for consumption here.
My first post on the subject literally started with, “In terms of what’s televised in the United States.”
The inverse of that is there are plenty of places in the world where you not going to be able to watch baseball much outside the Olympics.
That isn’t why baseball was removed though. The issue with baseball is that the Olympics are in the middle of season and MLB doesn’t want to take a break to have its best players go participate, particularly its pitchers. So baseball in the Olympics was much more an amateur event then the best of the best.
That’s some high-quality irony right there.
I think it’s obvious that NBC is going to show what they think is going to get the most eyeballs, like basketball as opposed to team handball. I was appreciative of the fact that I could go to Peacock TV and watch almost any sport that I wanted to.
Ok, got you, sorry for my misunderstanding.
One of the guys in charge of the 2028 Olympics in LA just said that Track and Field would be held in the first week and swimming in the second. A flip-flop from this year.
The Wikipedia article on the 2028 Games says
In order to facilitate use of SoFi Stadium for both the opening ceremonies and swimming, the scheduling of swimming and athletics events will be reversed in comparison to their traditional Olympic scheduling. Track and field will take place during the first week of the Games instead, after which the stadium will be reconfigured to uncover the pool in preparation for swimming competition during the second week.
Closing beginning with bad sound.
Perhaps the smallest Olympic cauldron in the history of the games.
OK new change: they turn off the large cauldron at the start and Marchand grabs the transport lantern of the flame (*) to take it away.
(*as it turn out the balloon was not really the flame, that remained grounded in the transport lanterns)
I’m gonna step out on a limb. Break “dancing” had no place in a sporting event. What-so-ever.
It was pitiful to watch. The dancers were so limited and restricted they kept repeating which apparently was a fault. They looked like flopping fish outta water.
The DJ stuff was lame. The music wasn’t good.
This needs to be in a dance competition, which there are many. Many.
Plus. There was one female competitor (the announcers called her “she” and “her”) whose name was 671.
Now look, nobody’s name is N-U-M-E-R-A-L-S.
No Mother named their kid 671. No birth certificate allows that. I imagine DL and Passports disallow it.
I can’t believe the IOC allowed it on an application or whatever you have to fill out.
That girl just made that shit up.
Stupid
If you’re on the street, breaking yeah call yourself anything you want.
If you’re on stage in entertainment, any way you wanna go is fine with me.
You’re on the Olympics, give your real name. Please.
The balloon carried “40 LED spotlights and 200 misting nozzles” so a sort of ersatz flame.
I didn’t watch the competitions, but I read that (almost) all competitors used stage names. And I don’t find a numeral as the stage name for a break dancer strange, rappers also sometimes have crazy names and it’s the same culture.
Yeah, Rappers don’t need to be in a sporting event either.
Some things just don’t fit everywhere.
“Stage” names belong, IDK? On the stage, perhaps?
ETA…I actually watched the breaking competition.
Oh, stage names have long been common in other sports, especially in (South American) football (soccer). “Pelé” was not the name in the passport of the greatest footballer ever, for instance.
Ok. Then.
Guess it’s good they didn’t ask for my input beforehand.
As there’s no show going on simultaneously with the re-entrance of the athletes, the NBC blabbering team can talk away without really interrupting anything.
Italy dismantled everybody this tournament. Only dropped one set (to Dominican Republic) in six matches, none in the knockout rounds. In the quarters, they beat in straight sets a Serbia team that had come within a hair of beating the U.S. during pool play.
They’ve had some good results recently in other competitions, so I guess it shouldn’t be considered a surprise. Plus, the US probably overperformed a bit by beating Brazil - the latter may have put up a better fight against Italy in the final.
Ah… some of the characters from the opening are reprising.
Let some of the complainers get triggered.
…aerial grand piano…because why not