# Random Olympic pittings **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 27, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428 "2021-07-27T14:47:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/221 "2021-08-05T18:55:21Z")
I mean, the only team they lost to is equally, or maybe even _more_ woke than the US team. Why didn’t _both_ Canada _and_ the US lose their semifinal game? Edit: actually the real reason the US lost is karmic retribution for the 6 second penalty call on Canada in the 2012 semifinal. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/222 "2021-08-05T20:24:44Z")
Someone meaner than I might point out that an ex-President remaining miffed at a team because they declined to travel thousands of miles for a gourmet feast of fast food sandwiches years ago probably has bigger issues - both psychological and in his personal life. In any case, the Canadian team has a player who identifies as a non-binary gender. Since this offers no obvious advantage, nobody in Canada seems willing to publicly express a problem with it - which is to the good. The US team is good, the game was won by a random penalty as games often are, and Canada has its work cut out against Sweden but it would be nice to see them win. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/223 "2021-08-05T21:34:35Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > I mean, the only team they lost to is equally, or maybe even _more_ woke than the US team. Most definitely. From CTV news: > Canada’s Quinn is set to become the first openly trans, non-binary Olympian to win an Olympic medal, as Canada’s soccer team looks to triumph over the Swedes in the women’s final on Friday. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/224 "2021-08-05T22:02:12Z")
If our former president, figurehead for a radical group of Fascist Maniacs, was woke, he would have won the election instead of losing horribly. He should replace the Nazis with antifa and start winning again. The man with the orange skin governed terribly and spent too much time thinking about Radical Left boogeymen and not doing his job! ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/225 "2021-08-06T00:01:30Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > So tired of the homer coverage by NBC. I’m not happy with the coverage either - they’ve got a ton of cable channels and they still can’t get it right. I was amused by this opinion piece in the Guardian: > **[NBC paid $7.75bn for its Olympic rights ... and we got televisual vomit](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/aug/02/nbc-olympic-coverage-peacock-replays-primetime)** > > US viewers have been able to see everything at any given moment while understanding fundamentally nothing about what’s going on > From [NBC](https://www.theguardian.com/media/nbc) proper to NBCSN, the USA channel, the Olympics channel, and the Golf channel, there has been no shortage of options for Olympics viewing on basic cable. But instead of sticking with single events throughout primetime – introducing them, highlighting the stakes and the protagonists, getting the viewer comfortable with the quirks of competition – NBC has deployed this vast arsenal of broadcast resources to spray America’s households with a kind of inescapable Olympic televisual vomit. > Viewers have been able to see everything at any given moment (provided you have the Peacock streaming service) while understanding fundamentally nothing about what’s going on. NBC has never met a night of swimming finals that didn’t need to be spliced up with bizarre human interest segments on Caeleb Dressel’s first ride through the Florida wetlands on an airboat, or a routine on the double bars that couldn’t be improved by a quick jump to an ad break and some random highlights of Denmark and Indonesia in the badminton. We all want to know who the athletes are, of course, if only at a superficial level; and since the whole Olympics is so overwhelming, with so much going on at once, some measure of discombobulation from the host broadcaster is always understandable. But when we switch on the Olympics, I think it’s fair to say that most of us want to witness elite athletes perform spectacular feats with their bodies, not hear a series of driving stories about how they handle their daily commute. Pretty much. And I think it speaks to a lot of television media coverage in this country as a whole. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/226 "2021-08-06T05:06:25Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > a kind of inescapable Olympic televisual vomit. This is an eloquent description of NBC’s coverage. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/227 "2021-08-06T09:01:52Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > The Guardian has some amusing dry commentary on it. I just want to bring out the Guardian subheading here: > [@](#): > > - Loser of presidential election attacks team who won bronze ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/228 "2021-08-06T12:11:58Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > An athlete quits the team on the eve of the biggest matchup of most of their careers, yes they deserve derision. Whatever the sport or the social, racial or ethnic background of the individual in question. Because it would have been so much more noble to break her neck and die right there in front of the world. Fuck you. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/229 "2021-08-06T12:21:01Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > > [@AK84](#): > > > > An athlete quits the team on the eve of the biggest matchup of most of their careers, yes they deserve derision. Whatever the sport or the social, racial or ethnic background of the individual in question. > > Because it would have been so much more noble to break her neck and die right there in front of the world. Fuck you. - She died doing what she loved. Lying on the ground, unable to breathe and knowing she’s about to die. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/230 "2021-08-06T12:52:25Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > She died doing what she loved. > Lying on the ground, unable to breathe and knowing she’s about to die. Knowing too that she had given an incredible boost to the Olympics advertising revenue stream. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/231 "2021-08-06T14:24:28Z")
It’s just gotten worse and worse. And I honestly just wasn’t in the mood to watch the Olympics this year - they should have been canceled. Although they’re probably NOT in any way responsible for the growing health emergency in Tokyo, they are a very unwelcome distraction from an extremely serious situation that the government needs to get off its ass and address. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/232 "2021-08-06T18:47:12Z")
Why does she owe you any explanation? ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/233 "2021-08-06T20:56:32Z")
Read further in the thread: [Random Olympic pittings - #73 by psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/73) ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/234 "2021-08-07T08:08:06Z")
Another pitting for the Olympics coverage. I was watching the live stream of the men’s 10 meter platform diving, staying up late because it was exciting and they decided to stop streaming n round 4 of 6. It wasn’t being broadcast anywhere else that I could see but i managed to be spoiled while looking for it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/235 "2021-08-08T06:15:52Z")
Yeah, right now they got the same volleyball game that has already been aired 4 times previously running on 2 channels at the same time. How many times until Brazil beats us finally? I really wanted to watch that boxer dude take Gold. Couldn’t find it anywhere. Fuck it. Glad when this is done. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/236 "2021-08-08T15:51:14Z")
I think Brazil is considered the third best team in the world and the US squad the first. No one thought Brazil was an easy win, but they were skunked. The US volleyball coverage was poor - they cut to a half hour local news break after the first set. The Canadian coverage seemed to opt for long commercials and would return to the game having missed the opening of the set and the last eight points. Still, overall I would give the Canadian efforts high marks since they had five channels, showed many countries compete, had knowledgeable commentators and did not overuse split screens. Wish they let you know when things were on more precisely to avoid fluffy events, though. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/237 "2021-08-08T21:01:51Z")
Why does the end of every volleyball rally require a group hug? Just get on with it, FFS. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/238 "2021-08-08T22:32:38Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Yeah, right now they got the same volleyball game that has already been aired 4 times previously OH MY GOD! It’s on again today!!! ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/239 "2021-08-08T23:02:02Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > OH MY GOD! It’s on again today!!! Who won this time? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428/240 "2021-08-08T23:13:37Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > > [@Gatopescado](#): > > > > OH MY GOD! It’s on again today!!! > > Who won this time? - They’re in sudden death overtime. So far, no one has died suddenly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-olympic-pittings/947428.md?page=13)