Comments on: 7's lies, damned lies and medal counts

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:51:40 +0000

I wonder how ABC2 is going to cover the Paralympics.

By: Hydroxy

Hydroxy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:42:07 +0000

I have had a big screen TV for around a year now, and with the countdown to the Olympics approaching I was glad I had invested in this TV.

I was thinking that with channel 7 having so many digital channels, that I would have access to 5 separate channel 7 stations with varied coverage, however all I seem to have access to is 5 channels all with the same coverage on it, every night.

What an extremely bad coverage this has been.

What has made it even worse is the amount of commentary which is from what seems to be people who know very little about sport in general, or if they know something about sport they do not seem to know much about the particular sport they are commenting on.

I do not watch NRL or AFL but I do know that when I hear it on TV most weekends the commentary is much better than what I have experienced from 7s coverage of this Olympics. Where is the passion in this Olympics commentary?

I find myself not really into this Olympics at all, and I would say that it comes down to a very poor coverage on behalf of the 7 network.

By: j_p_z

j_p_z — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:27:32 +0000

joe2: “my expectation was that it would have been someone [--Jamaicans?--] connected, with that damnable Obama”

um, I think you may be confusing Obama with Colin Powell, as people so often do. IIRC, Powell has West Indian family background; Obama, to the best of my knowledge, does not. Beyond that guess, I’m at a loss as to what you mean here. Perhaps the Obama team is thinking of using “Draw Your Brakes” as its campaign theme song?

By: joe2

joe2 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:49:05 +0000

Thanks, via collins, my expectation was that it would have been someone connected, with that damnable Obama, that had caused all the probs via j_p_z .

By: via collins

via collins — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:39:18 +0000

Oh boy Joe2, did you get snookered there. Try Jamaicans.

My fave moment has been the 466th ranked bloodnut from Melbourne Australia playing the #1 ranked feller, Chinese now that you ask, in table tennis. # 1 looked utterly staggered as # 466 gave him serious top spin action.

I saw a few moments of the Ch 7 wrap this morning. Sheesh. So that goes for hours each day? No, it couldn’t….

By: joe2

joe2 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:27:17 +0000

Leftist terrorist ?

By: j_p_z

j_p_z — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:56:30 +0000

joe2 — guess again.

By: joe2

joe2 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:15:42 +0000

“I heard that at one of the track meets, the presumptive victor, who was about to win by a sizeable margin, was actually taunting his nearest competitor, who was his countryman and teammate, right there on the field.”

Which American was that j_p_z ?

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:48:53 +0000

Oooh, that was apart from having a big serve at the Chinese who apparently don’t rightly deserve to be in 1st place…and that, like, don’t you think the Chinese are taking this sport thing waay too seriously?

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:42:18 +0000

I had to laugh at the Channel 9 Today team this morning…carried on forever about how the total medals is what should count (“what kind of a message to our children is it, telling them that Silver and Bronze aren’t just as worthy efforts as Gold”…I kid you not) and how Australia should rightly be in 3rd place on the table…

What the doofuses failed to notice was, by their logic, it’d actually put Russia up in 3rd place, not Australia…