VILLAMARV Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Also the 16 year old Kiwi lad in the ski halfpipe final - his massive grin will be a thing I remember from these games. Great moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 1 hour ago, Tegis said: Lets not discuss Hockey An awesome game in the womens final Canada v USA, but what where Canada thinking with that last penalty in the shootout? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 22, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 22, 2018 On 21/02/2018 at 01:43, LondonLax said: Why all the hate for one of your athletes? We're British (OK, English). It's what we do. See also: Villa fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted February 22, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 22, 2018 Finally a gold for André Myhrer in the Slalom. At 35, a crowning moment. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 It's hardly hate. We reserve that for moments like Beckham in the World Cup against Simeone n that It made me laugh when she fell over in the first race, because it's getting silly now. Never nice seeing someone get injured in any sport though and that's a shame. The way the BBC does things doesn't help much. Endless montages, Clare Balding fawning, Going from medal chance to medal chance, banging on about Lottery funding and doing post race interviews designed to coax a few more tears out of her for some more click-bait articles and endless replays. Replaying the 'tears from Sochi' in the lead up to it all. If you're not watching via the BBC filter it might seem a bit weird I suppose. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Ok maybe hate is not the right word but there is definitely a whiff of schadenfreude in this thread. As an Australian I understand 'tall poppy syndrome' very well But we normally leave our winter Olympians alone. We're usually pretty pleased that we managed to have a squad there at all. I was wondering if there must have been some sort of scandal with her or maybe she had been mouthing off in the lead up to the games but it sounds like it is just the media building her up with expectations she couldn't deliver on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 22, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 22, 2018 14 minutes ago, LondonLax said: Ok maybe hate is not the right word but there is definitely a whiff of schadenfreude in this thread. As an Australian I understand 'tall poppy syndrome' very well But we normally leave our winter Olympians alone. We're usually pretty pleased that we managed to have a squad there at all. I was wondering if there must have been some sort of scandal with her or maybe she had been mouthing off in the lead up to the games but it sounds like it is just the media building her up with expectations she couldn't deliver on. Like I said, it's what the British (especially the English) do. Take someone like Tim Henman - OK, he never won a major, but for years he was one of the top four or five tennis players IN THE WORLD. And what did he get? "He's shit", "He's a loser", etc., etc. Usually said by armchair 'experts' who can barely break into a trot. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 is our jen at these games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 22, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 22, 2018 Just now, maqroll said: is our jen at these games No, he's busy sorting his wrestling figures. The real one is there as a reporter for the BBC. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 28 minutes ago, LondonLax said: Ok maybe hate is not the right word but there is definitely a whiff of schadenfreude in this thread. As an Australian I understand 'tall poppy syndrome' very well But we normally leave our winter Olympians alone. We're usually pretty pleased that we managed to have a squad there at all. I was wondering if there must have been some sort of scandal with her or maybe she had been mouthing off in the lead up to the games but it sounds like it is just the media building her up with expectations she couldn't deliver on. To be fair, I was just commenting on the unfortunately familiar story of big build up, huge optimism, disqualification and then crying afterwards (understandable obviously but a bit wearing on the fourth occasion) and that led to me taking the piss by commenting on an imaginary training regime. I was watching her races not to see her fail but hoping that she won and I'll be doing the same next time around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 While we're having this little chat Clare Balding just said on my telly "We know physically she's hurting but how is she psychologically? - we'll have the full interview" Mrs VM just said how weird it is that the TV is just having a 10 minute chat about what she's going to do now and what 3 people in another country feel she'll be feeling right now etc. It's awful telly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 (edited) Anyone else noticed how stuff is a bit hard to find on the BBC platform? Ive written a couple of posts whingeing about the BBC coverage that I never posted in the end but I was just reading a few articles about why. Didn't realise they had lost the Olympic rights after 2020 and will be sub-letting the rights from Eurosport. Apparently part of the deal with them was to give up some rights for 2018 and 2020. Quote Last year the BBC lost control of the future destiny of Games coverage after Discovery won the pan-European rights from 2018 onwards, and 2022 in the UK, in a £920m deal. But, despite wider pressure on the BBC’s budgets, it has now agreed a deal that will ensure it has live coverage of the Olympics until at least 2024 and continue an association that began with radio coverage of the 1928 Games. In return, the BBC has agreed to grant Discovery exclusive pay TV rights to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and the 2020 Games in Tokyo. So while the BBC will have less extensive coverage than was the case at London 2012 it will still be able to fill up to two channels a day with live coverage and highlights – meaning it will show all the key moments, but will have less depth than previously. Meanwhile, Discovery will market itself as the only place to watch every last moment across an array of live and on demand services. The new model will kick in from the 2018 Games onwards. The BBC is believed to have paid around £110m for the rights to 2022 and 2024, as well as handing over the pay TV rights to 2018 and 2020. Both they and the Discovery Channel refused to comment over the actual sum paid. Under current legislation at least 200 hours of the summer Games and 100 hours of the winter Olympics are obliged to be shown on free-to-air TV. Discovery looked into the possibility of showing the Games exclusively on its own free-to-air channel before entering negotiations with the BBC. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/02/olympics-bbc-discovery-deal Shame, because things like Wimbledon and the Olympics have been transformed by free to air multi platform options (watch any court/watch any sport) in a great way. This sounds to me like the olympics will be going back to some sort of partial coverage. Presumably that's why the coverage of the ice hockey on the BBC has been patchy at best and the only links on iplayer or the sport website are 2min highlights reels. The IOC should be careful imo. I love the olympics. Winter probably more than the summer games, but neither to the point where I care enough to pay for it. Cricket is beginning to realise it's mistake in this regard. A highlights package doesn't include the soap opera and half the story is no story at all. Case in point, I live in Wales. Rugby is king over here. Since the England home games are only available somewhere else I just cant be bothered to follow it at all. The only reason it ever registered with me was because my friends seemed to care and it was a shared experience. F1 is another example. Free on BBC2 every other Sunday? watched every race for decades. Half on one channel half on another? havent watched a race since then. Apparently that Hamilton chap has done ok, shame he'll always be a name on a list as opposed to a character I'd invested time in following like Senna or Prost or Mansell or Pique or Schumacher. You'll always have an interested minority you might be able to fleece for a few quid and I suppose that's all that matters now. Who is going to take up archery or diving or snowboard cross or be inspired as kids if they have to have parents interested enough and rich enough to be able to watch it in the first place. Most of the olympics are so minority (think synchronised swimming) that the olympics are their only real showcase. Why do I envisage a future where the Syncronised swimming is live on BBC1 while the 100m final airs on PPV though? These things have never ended well for the consumer. Edited February 23, 2018 by VILLAMARV wordwang 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Anyway on with the show....... Curling semi final for the women is just starting then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 7 minutes ago, VILLAMARV said: Anyway on with the show....... Curling semi final for the women is just starting then. Yep. Hopefully they can make it to the final. Best of luck to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 Sweden playing semi in the curling AND the men's biathlon relay at the same time! I'm giddy with excitement Well, not really Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 (edited) No Curling medals for Canada then! well done to the Swiss men. Great shot to knock us out in the playoff to be fair to them. Sweden v USA is on from about 6:30am tomorrow. hopefully we'll be watching the girls in the final at midnight (Sat/Sun) rather than the bronze medal match tomorrow at 11am. As we are all such aficionados now we better 'pick up 2' in the next couple of ends though eh boys and girls Not been the best start so far. Also on the point of the TV rights earlier on - the Korean Curlers or 'Garlic Girls' one of the stories of the games and yet the only coverage we've seen is the game against GB. Shame really. I also like how the BBC showed this tweet on their website and I'm not sure they've noticed it's from someone called @ssdr1ver. lol. Edited February 23, 2018 by VILLAMARV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 1 minute ago, VILLAMARV said: Also on the point of the TV rights point earlier on - the Korean Curlers or 'Garlic Girls' one of the stories of the games and yet the only coverage we've seen is the game against GB. Shame really. Can't stand the Kardashians 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 2 minutes ago, VILLAMARV said: As we are all such aficionados now we better 'pick up 2' in the next couple of ends though eh boys and girls We have the knack of starting slow bit it's only 1 now and we will pull it back in the 4th end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 This Hasselborg of Sweden is growing on me.. little cutie in her own way.. not as nice as Miss Sloan though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 6 minutes ago, AvfcRigo82 said: This Hasselborg of Sweden is growing on me.. little cutie in her own way.. not as nice as Miss Sloan though. I'm not really sold on her raccoon make-up around the eyes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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