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I always liked the 'proper' events on track and field, and have got more comfortable with the 'sitting down' sports that the UK does well at - bikes and boats.
But I cannot get on with the horse abuse events (especially when the English tabloids get over excited about medals).
I've watched the Olympics in other countries before and from what I've seen they tend to be much more focussed on their own nation's competitors than the BBC does. I think the BBC does a genuinely great job on this, and I doubt many people at all will be watching Eurosport instead.
I agree that the BBC does an excellent job, but their contract this time restricts them to only having 2 channels. In 2012 (and I think 2016) they had channels dedicated to each sport and you could watch everything live. Eurosport have that contract this time and theyll have plenty of viewers.
yeah, I've just been reading up on that. it seems as though after 2022 (discovery) Eurosport will have even more of the Olympics, so we could be in very different territory next time around.
the fact that their amount of live sport is restricted this time probably makes it feel a little thinner than in recent years.
I'm not impressed with the Eurosport coverage that I've seen tbh for all the money they've spent on the rights, the show's seem a bit cheaply made and slightly boring.
many of the sports arise from combat, I think it would be quite exciting to watch professional paintball teams/1 on 1 matches
I don't like it so I don't watch it.
I'll look over now and again if something that looks like it could be interesting comes on if it's on down the pub but I wouldn't purposely put it on at home and then log onto the Internet to moan about it being crap, when I could just turn it off.
Another thing that Sludge doesn't like
There's a bit of a changing of the guard at this olympics, with some youngsters breaking through, the women's 800m final was 2 nineteen year olds in 1st and 2nd (a yank and a brit) both of them beating their respective national records. I think the late 20s is usually the peak age for that event.
Incredible action
https://youtu.be/JHM-z_rHz9M
God bless Phil Cornwell
Monkey Tennis !
Inner City Sumo !