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Official XXX Summer Olympiad: London 2012- Take II

Re: Official XXX Summer Olympiad: London 2012- Take II

bigblue_dl said:
The chick that does the announcing for diving should jump off of a tall building.

The Olympics aren't nearly as entertaining now that swimming is done. Running is borrrrrrrring.
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I was thinking about diving... what makes a 7.5 jump, what makes a 8.0 jump... turns out... its whatever the judges should feel it should be. Well, that was a load of help (or just a load).
 
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alfablue said:
(the ending was posted hours ago on their App. )
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No ****. Do you really think I don't realize that this happened several hours ago? I don't understand why some people think it somehow makes them superior because they watch events online, live. Guess what, some of us would rather watch them in primetime, on TV.
 
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SteveP said:
Funny is Trautwig all but giving her the gold before her first vault. Another NBC fail. :mad:
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Again, seriously? The guy is paid to analyze and then announce the event. Going in, everyone thought the same thing he said, at the same time, everyone knows that it doesn't always go as planned. THIS HAPPENS REGULARLY IN SPORTS. Did anyone rip Fox, or ESPN or whoever for picking the Pats in the Super Bowl after the 16-0 season? No.
 
Re: Official XXX Summer Olympiad: London 2012- Take II

Patman said:
I was thinking about diving... what makes a 7.5 jump, what makes a 8.0 jump... turns out... its whatever the judges should feel it should be. Well, that was a load of help (or just a load).
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You get some ideas of it from the things that get criticized. Getting a clean entry is obviously big, as is getting a vertical entry (usually, but not always, hand-in-hand), with the smaller things being where they jump from on the board, how high they go, how far into the pool they go, and how good their form is in their execution.

I do agree that it would be nice to have a little more information on that, but unfortunately, NBC doesn't feel like the technical details suit the people they're trying to grab for ratings.
 
Re: Official XXX Summer Olympiad: London 2012- Take II

Craig P. said:
You get some ideas of it from the things that get criticized. Getting a clean entry is obviously big, as is getting a vertical entry (usually, but not always, hand-in-hand), with the smaller things being where they jump from on the board, how high they go, how far into the pool they go, and how good their form is in their execution.

I do agree that it would be nice to have a little more information on that, but unfortunately, NBC doesn't feel like the technical details suit the people they're trying to grab for ratings.
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I don't know how to explain my irritation with the diving announcer chick, except that I just find her extremely annoying.
 
Re: Official XXX Summer Olympiad: London 2012- Take II

bigblue_dl said:
No ****. Do you really think I don't realize that this happened several hours ago? I don't understand why some people think it somehow makes them superior because they watch events online, live. Guess what, some of us would rather watch them in primetime, on TV.
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This.
 
Re: Official XXX Summer Olympiad: London 2012- Take II

bigblue_dl said:
I don't know how to explain my irritation with the diving announcer chick, except that I just find her extremely annoying.
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Also this. The only one that's worse is the swimming announcer who thinks screaming into the mic means great announcing.
 
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