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So some of the sports have annoying commentators, but here are some great things about the Olympics:
Variety and better sports
There's a shed-load of great sports to watch and enjoy, sports that normally don't get reported on despite high level competitions because of media bias towards the wall-to-wall festival of boredom called football. Here there are sports that are more exciting to watch, more skillful, faster, more challenging, more technical, or some combination of these. Here then are some sports that are worth the airtime.
Everyone can watch
No subscription necessary. Just 24 channels of well-shot HD sports. Brits who moan about the Olympics being inaccessible to them, what more can you ask for than free footage of every event with a catch-up service too?
No commercial crap
No stupid advertising boards or animated screens providing a constant bombardment of sponsorship BS. No massive logos on the competitors. Despite all the Olympic sponsorship, there's nothing on screen except the sport, and the scores. The only on-site screens are there to provide footage or information to the audience. All sport should be like this!
A better audience
Here's a nice example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19057400
"It had the feeling of a music festival for horse-lovers - Glastonbury meets Glorious Goodwood with champagne and seafood bars to counter-balance the burger vans and Portaloos. Some sprawled themselves across the grass and soaked up the sunshine, others found a free spot to lay out their picnic.. "
An audience of people with a deeper interest in the sport they've gone to see. Crowds who can enjoy the show and cheer exciting sport whoever's playing, and cheer the winner, whoever wins. It's all good fun, and has a genuine appreciation of the quality of play.
Sport pretty much for the sake of sport
It's simple: You compete for the prestige of winning an Olympic medal. You represent an entire country, and everyone in that country is rooting for you unless they're a miserable turd.
Variety and better sports
There's a shed-load of great sports to watch and enjoy, sports that normally don't get reported on despite high level competitions because of media bias towards the wall-to-wall festival of boredom called football. Here there are sports that are more exciting to watch, more skillful, faster, more challenging, more technical, or some combination of these. Here then are some sports that are worth the airtime.
Everyone can watch
No subscription necessary. Just 24 channels of well-shot HD sports. Brits who moan about the Olympics being inaccessible to them, what more can you ask for than free footage of every event with a catch-up service too?
No commercial crap
No stupid advertising boards or animated screens providing a constant bombardment of sponsorship BS. No massive logos on the competitors. Despite all the Olympic sponsorship, there's nothing on screen except the sport, and the scores. The only on-site screens are there to provide footage or information to the audience. All sport should be like this!
A better audience
Here's a nice example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19057400
"It had the feeling of a music festival for horse-lovers - Glastonbury meets Glorious Goodwood with champagne and seafood bars to counter-balance the burger vans and Portaloos. Some sprawled themselves across the grass and soaked up the sunshine, others found a free spot to lay out their picnic.. "
An audience of people with a deeper interest in the sport they've gone to see. Crowds who can enjoy the show and cheer exciting sport whoever's playing, and cheer the winner, whoever wins. It's all good fun, and has a genuine appreciation of the quality of play.
Sport pretty much for the sake of sport
It's simple: You compete for the prestige of winning an Olympic medal. You represent an entire country, and everyone in that country is rooting for you unless they're a miserable turd.
