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Olympic coverage this year SUCKS!
IainB:
Ok, I must admit that I smirked after reading this:
http://www.businessinsider.com/roubini-the-london-olympics-are-an-economic-failure-as-london-is-totally-empty-2012-8
-Renegade (August 06, 2012, 07:20 AM)
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Crikey! Looks like a major business fail for London.
How could that happen? ;)
mouse53:
I will add that from what I have heard, since I won't waste time watching the garbage, the judging has been questionable even to those watching at home.
IainB:
...Sorry for all you people who would like to watch the games and don't have access to the BBC (via Sky) where there is complete coverage live of all the disciplines and no intrusive publicity ... think what you like :D
-joiwind (August 06, 2012, 06:07 AM)
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I am one of those who "boycotts" the Olympics, and I hardly ever watch TV, but I was interested in this post at The Week: How the BBC crushed NBC and brought Olympics coverage into the future
Until I read that, I had not really appreciated what all the complaints in this discussion thread were about.
Now that I do, I'm surprised you all put up with it. The NBC seems to be a national disgrace. Mind you, some people think the BBC is a national disgrace too, but there you are.
Renegade:
Something has always seemed "off", in an H. P. Lovecraft sense of the word...
-Renegade (August 05, 2012, 11:23 PM)
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This is the kind of stuff that I mean when I say "off"...
Not really nice reading for people that love the Olympics...
Utopian? Yeah. That always works out well... Who else had Utopian dreams? Stalin - bodycount 60+ million, Mao Tse Tung - bodycount 70+ million, etc. etc.
Collective? Yeah. Right. Ummm... Borg anyone? Socialism? Communism? Those always work out well. See above.
Dream? Yeah. Exactly my point -- the dream is completely Chthonic. See above.
The rest of the article is a circle-jerk.
barney:
Well-l-l-l,
There's a lot of comment here about the politics/commercialism/restrictions of the Olympic event. Most of it reasoned. But there's been little comment about the participants, apart from a few comparisons like unto The Hunger Games.
I watch the Olympics. I enjoy the Olympics. There is no more beautiful sight to this old cripple than to watch some young body, male or female, surpass what we consider our physical limitations. Doesn't matter why they are there, what their reasons might be - they press the borders of human frailty by performing feats heretofore unimagined. Maybe they want the money from endorsements and merchandising, maybe they have ulterior motives for later activities, maybe it's just plain pride. These kids - for the most part they are kids - put a lot of blood, sweat, & tears into getting there. Maybe they're being exploited, but that does not reflect upon their art, their expertise, their ability.
I cannot imagine anything more beautiful than the floor exercises or the bar exercises. They demonstrate what the human engine can do, given practice and will and a dream. La misma with the diving and the track events. Say what you will about the venue, these participants are physical and mental ideals to be lived up to. (I say mental because, no matter their ability to speak or do mathematics, they had/have the mental ability to continue, to force their body into exertions that the body wanted to deny - if you don't like mental, call it force of will.) These folk have learned a discipline very few of us will ever know - or have ever known.
Why have they done what they have done? I neither know nor care their personal reasons. They are proof positive that the human body can be more than compulsive consumption, more than sex organs and opinions. And they give us dreams of grandeur that we'll likely never achieve, but at least know to be possible. They give us dreams.
So, I watch. Mayhap I cannot create art :(, but I can damned well appreciate when I see it :up:.
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