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19 hours ago, Stopharage said:

On Sky, Eurosport have 9 channels of Olympics going. Not sure if the same for Virgin, BT etc and if it’s free to me as we pay for Sky Sports?

9 HD Eurosport channels on VM. Plus one in 4K HDR (currently showing the road cycling).

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Watched some judo earlier - elite judo is so weird because it can be very defensive. All I could hear while watching the two guys pull each other round by their jackets was “Leave him alone Wayne, it’s not worth it”.

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What a ride by Kiensenhofer to win the road race. The lack of radios on the Olympic road race and the women seemingly never getting time gaps made it interesting and I’m glad she could hang on. Van Vleuten thought she won as well and didn’t know about Kiensenhofer.

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The coverage on Japanese telly is 75% Judo, 10% swimming, 10% split between Badminton, Table Tennis & Tennis, with the remainder so far being football, softball, and hockey.

 

I didn’t even know there was a cycling race going on! I did get to see a bit of the skateboarding because I think it was the first event today (and there were two Japanese competitors). I forgot the huge bias towards showing the Judo every time. It’s fun to watch for a bit, but not for every minute of every day.

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In addition to its eponymous channel, Discovery owns stations such as Quest and Really and is a major investor in the rightwing outlet GB News. Its complicated Olympics agreement with the BBC meant the UK’s national broadcaster gave up some of its rights to show coverage of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in return for being granted limited coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and 2024 Olympics in Paris.

After 2024 there will be a new Olympics TV rights deal for Europe. At this point the BBC could face a competitive bid from other British free-to-air channels such as ITV for the rights to show highlights of the events.

 

 

I didn't realise Discovery funded GB News, definitely not subscribing now. With budget cuts and the next winter games in China in 2022 I'm not surprised the BBC decided to sacrifice them to save money. The current coverage isn't very satisfying with barely anyone from the BBC actually in Japan and you wonder how much funding is going to end up being cut to lower profile sports who will no longer have the Olympics as a showcase every four years on tv showing them to a wide audience. 

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If you have Amazon Prime, you can just subscribe to the Eurosport channel for a month instead and get just as much, or quite possibly literally the same, coverage.

 

(Previously you'd be offered a 7 day free trial first, but I think they may have disabled that for the duration of the Olympics.)

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Well that triathlon start was a bit of a shambles.

 

For anyone who missed it: there was a boat blocking half the athletes from diving in, the starting buzzer sounded, they dove in, and the boat had to hurriedly reverse out of their way. Then everyone was called back to restart.

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2 hours ago, hmm said:

If you have Amazon Prime, you can just subscribe to the Eurosport channel for a month instead and get just as much, or quite possibly literally the same, coverage

 

That wouldn't help ryodi, mind you, as Discovery own Eurosport.

 

Indeed, if you do have a Discovery+ sub you'll find the live commentary stuff is just Eurosport anyway.

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There’s a general tone to the BBC coverage I find a bit off, if a favoured athlete loses to a surprising country it’s always ‘how on Earth did they fuck that up so badly to get beaten by them!’ instead of maybe that other athlete just did a better job?

 

Mostly happens with British competitors of course but also noticed it in the swimming with the Tunisian kid.

 

What was particularly galling was saying how the Taekwondo reigning champ was so emotional because her family weren’t able to be with her this Olympics to support her matches. When the female that beat her is on the refugee team :(

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In Australia all we really get is endless swimming, and in between some talking heads telling us about the swimming successes of the past, and what they are showing later.. after all the ads, and repeats of Australia winning some swimming events, then some more ads.. at which point you might be tempted to give up.

I have enjoyed some of today's swimming though, I must admit. Maybe it's Stockholm syndrome.

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13 hours ago, ryodi said:

 

I didn't realise Discovery funded GB News, definitely not subscribing now. With budget cuts and the next winter games in China in 2022 I'm not surprised the BBC decided to sacrifice them to save money. The current coverage isn't very satisfying with barely anyone from the BBC actually in Japan and you wonder how much funding is going to end up being cut to lower profile sports who will no longer have the Olympics as a showcase every four years on tv showing them to a wide audience. 

It’s not so much the BBC decided to sacrifice them, as Discovery paid a ridiculous amount of money for a pan- European deal.

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8 hours ago, Cheeko said:

There’s a general tone to the BBC coverage I find a bit off, if a favoured athlete loses to a surprising country it’s always ‘how on Earth did they fuck that up so badly to get beaten by them!’ instead of maybe that other athlete just did a better job?

 

Mostly happens with British competitors of course but also noticed it in the swimming with the Tunisian kid.

 

 

Wasn't that more about him being the rank outsider and the slowest going into the final? The commentary wasn't "how did they lose to him?" It was "how has he done that?" That is giving credit to the winner for pulling off something incredibly unlikely. 

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Really pleased for the guy, who seems a thoroughly decent individual despite the immense pressures he has been under inside and outside competition.

 

On the BBC side of things, I really did not like the commentators celebrating like they had already won.  The Chinese still had a hell of a chance and nearly did it.

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And I have had my first good cry at a medal presentation. Daley has been a poster child that didn't deliver for so long and suffered so much abuse over the years, to finally deliver was fantastic. Then he started crying on the podium and I was off. 

 

I live the Olympics :wub:

 

And Pidcock going out and totally bossing the mountain bike race. Amazing scenes. 

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Peaty is an absolute machine, supremely self-confident but not arrogant with it, he comes across really well in interviews. 
 

So fucking chuffed for Tom Daley as well, the shite he’s had to endure over the years. I too had a leaky eye at the medals presentation.

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2 hours ago, feltmonkey said:

It's so brilliant to see Tom Daley finally win an Olympic gold.  The guy is an inspiration.


How the fuck is he still only 27?  I mean I get the concept of time and everything but he’s been around forever and is barely in his prime?  I really like him, balls of steel for coming out but seems very happy with his life and is an eloquent guy to boot.  History will remember him kindly.  

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