I liked the synchronized diving and I also really like looking at curling(maybe I smoke too much 
) but synchronized swimming is on at the moment and what I have to say about that is not even fit for the pit.
I lost all my taste for the olympics after a few trips down to Colorado Springs. I met several people from the olympic training center and ended up in a fight almost every time. If the term ‘having a big head’ were literal, then most of those arrogant fuckers couldn’t make it more than 5 mph due to thew wind restistance of their cranium. I’m all for America, but everytime those superior assholes on the Olympic team get their asses kicked, brings a small smile to my face.
Fact is JBirdman, I really couldn’t tell. It might be due to all that cannon fire years ago, but it’s just a lot of raw noise to me. And pointless, raw noise at that.
I too, am an Olympics junky, and greatly enjoy the Games - as much of it as the Networks let us see, anyway - but this walking larynx needs to be garroted every time he opens his mouth.
Also agree entirely with Suo Na. That’s why I go fishing.
It’s getting to be that the most entertaining part of the olympics is seeing what dumbass events they’ll put in next.
My favourite is the walking marathon, absolutely fucking hilarious! Dozens of grown men waddling round outside the stadium (yes, they have to do it out on the streets, the poor bastards) for hours looking like they’ve all had big titanium rods shoved up their butts. It cracks me up it really does.
But seroiusly, the massive influx of new events is diminishing the credibility of the real events no end. I mean what’s next, darts and karaoke???
next event for the olympics will be EXTREEM NAPPING, followed by the 50 meter nap, and then the marathon for incontinets (how ever that is spelled) 
Yes it is “GOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!” NBC even got that leather lunged European guy to do play-by-play, which I thought was a nice touch.
Right now I’m watching American Laura Wilkinson, the women’s 10 meter diving gold medalist, talking with that sage of our age, Bob Costas. She went from 8th place to 1st, which to me is damned inspiring. But that again could just be my own sappiness.
filthy, it’s Andres Cantor (is he still on Univision?) I’ll take Andres Cantor over Bob “I know almost nothing about the sport I’m announcing, but these are all great people!” Costas.
GODDAMN!!! It’s an old rant, but I AM SICK of the PHOTO-OP, PARTY LINE SHIT that passes for sportscasting!!! I mean, compare Bob Costas’ tripe with Howard Cosell (I said that it was an old rant!) Does anyone else remember the football game that Cosell was announcing that stunk so bad that Cosell decided to ignore the game and instead gave a play-by-play of the sunset? Could you imagine any of today’s announcers having the guts to say “Well, this game isn’t worth watching. I might as well talk about the sunset…”? NOOO, every event is a drama, and we get to hear about the hard work and the sacrifices that the stableboy had to make to get this once in a lifetime chance to clean up after the dressage competition!!!
On the other hand, how about water polo!!! The skill, the strategy, the ability to tread water and dribble a ball with your nose!!!
I didn’t see that Coselle game but heard about it. I’ve always thought of him as one of the best sports announcers ever, although his delivery used to set my teeth on edge.
It must be really tough to dramatize some of these sports (games? Is everybody sober?). That’s why they they pry out every, little, nickle & dime factoid they can about anybody even remotly connected with it. The idiots fail to realize that if the event’s a tight one, it’ll have it’s own drama and nobody cares about whatever bullshit they managed to dig up.
Hey Gomez, Walking races go back a long way. I think they were out of the Olympics for a while (not sure) and have been brought back. They do look kinda funny, don’t they?
And Khorkina smiled!
Actually…Russia got the gold for both men’s and women’s trampolining…didn’t know slavs had an inherit skill in bouncing up and down…but what do i know?
Re: the neverending an pointless profiles that are done on NBC.
Although most are utterly insipid, one that was done yesterday was a piece of such inspired, yet unintended hillarity that I could not keep from sharing it.
At the beginning of the men’s cross-country bike race, as the racers were lining up for the start, the last guy to get to the line, all the way at the back of the pack, was a rider from Kenya. Immediately after the race started, he was profiled. NBC took a shot from a David Attenborughesque nature documentary of sunrise over the Serengeti as they told this poor guy’s story. It seems it’s difficult to train in Kenya because the lions might get you! (I swear, that is the allusion that was used in the piece).
Then they show slow-motion footage of the guy riding in the very race that they were about to cover. Eucalyptus was all over the place in the background and the guy was in the same outfit and on the same bike. NBC couldn’t even get the most bottom of the totem pole cameraman to go into the slums of Nairobi or Mombassa to get some real footage of the racer at home.
As NBC showed the slow-motion racer, they told how his older brother was set to be the first African bicyclist in the Olympics leading up to the Atlanta games. However, days before he left, he was kidnapped and has not been seen since. As Harry Smith tugs at our heartstrings about the way that this poor rider strives to be the best he can for the memory of his brother, NBC cuts back to the race just as the rider is about to begin a downhill. Ten seconds down the hill, the poor guy goes over his handlebars. We hear of the guy the next time, as he crosses the finish line last.
From such a poor job of editing one would think that coverage is live!
Yeah, okay, it was really great how she managed to dive very well at about the same time the Chinese and Canadians were fucking up royally, and she wins the gold medal and there is tears aplenty, and you think to yourself, now that was a great Olympic moment, but then she has to open her fucking mouth and ruin everything! How does it feel to beat out the team that’s won this event ever since water was invented?
“I can do anything in Christ…”
AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!
This is my biggest pet peeve about athletes:
You know, I’m really happy that you are religious or whatever, but I didn’t see fucking Christ up on the platform! Take a little credit, goddammit! You did it by hard work, didn’t you?
Or are you telling me that Jesus doesn’t like Chinese people?
If you don’t like the crap that NBC is pushing (in the USA) try switching to MSNBC or whatever their news counterpart is (355 or 356 for DirecTV people) they have a lot of alternate stuff one, including mens soccer (GO USA!) and even water polo. I for one would love to see Rugby played in the olympics, it is played everywhere and IS a physically demanding sport, unfortunately I don’t think they could get enough games in during the olympics.
Hey, ReservoirDog, got a question…
I, too, am extremely annoyed and often offended by this shite. But, while watching the Olympics, I noticed a number of obviously religious gestures (crossing self, kneeling in prayer, etc.) that didn’t bother me because they were done privately rather than as public announcements.
IOW, the cameras caught an athlete in a moment of private thanksgiving = no problem. Athlete deliberately makes public announcement that victory is due to personal religion and/or deity = offensive.
Does this ring true for anyone else?
*it’s Andres Cantor (is he still on Univision?) *
Nope. He and most of the sports staff from Univision are now on Telemundo, the bastard Spanish channel.
I believe you forgot the second “i” in that last word. And if I were you, I wouldn’t go around pissing 'em off, either. 
BTW, I agree that synchronized diving sucks, but not as much as synchonized swimming. Those stupid swimming caps they wear and those Kathie Lee smiles on their faces…it’s enough to make me call for a new Olympic sport - put them all in a pool with “defenders” on the sides. Last one afloat wins.
BTW, it wasn’t sappiness affter all. I was just really drunk. But I still think the games are cool. I just don’t see them as some kind of microcosm of the world, which is what these NBC dumbfux are determined to do. It’s just sports, and it is entertaining.
Agree, but now the coverage has something else to pucker up their already too-tight assholes: C.J. Hunter, WHO IS NOT EVEN FUCKING COMPETING tested positive somedamnwhere else for drugs. WHO GIVES A RAT’S ASS???
I also think the Romanian girl, who’s name I can’t pronounce, got big-time ripped off when they took her medal for a cough medicine violation.
I’m pissed enough that I’ve quit watching. It’s all turned to bullshit.
Frankly, I think pretty much every Olympic sport would be a lot more interesting if it were “to the death”. Sure, this would deplete the world’s supply of athletes every four years, but imagine how easy it would be to keep on winning after you’d eliminated half of your future competition…
I took four doses of NyQuil tonight to show solidarity with Andreea Rudicon. Presumably that’s why my monitor screen’s getting all radical. It’s bullshit they took her all-around medal away. I’m rooting for her appeal.
As for C.J. Hunter, I just think it’s hilarious that the guy is claiming he did nothing wrong when his drug test shows 2000% the accepted level of the banned substance in his system. Plus, what the fuck is Johnnie Cochran doing there? If that’s not an admission of guilt, I don’t know what is. Also, his wife Marion Jones is fast as a motherfucker.
What kind of screwy scoring system are the Olympics using? How can the US Women’s softball team lose three games during Olympic competition and yet still win the gold medal? That doesn’t make any sense, especially since the team that finished second and won the silver only lost two games.
I understand the mechanics of the system they used, namely, that 8 teams qualified for the Olympics and then played an intial round of games and that the top 4 teams qualified for the medal round. I understand that the US lost 3 games in the opening round, qualified for the medal round in 4th place, and then won 2 games to win the gold medal. What I don’t understand is why such a stupid and unfair system was used. If they’re going to use only 8 teams then why don’t they use a fair system, like the double elimination method used in the US College World Series and in countless weekend beer softball leagues?