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Too much Olympics already

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Too much Olympics already

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Postby MrFoolish » July 26th, 2021, 9:09 am

Do we really need near constant Olympics news on the BBC News channel? They've already saturated BBC1 with the Olympics.

Stop trying to force me to watch it! There's no atmosphere without the crowds and I'm not interested.

I would like to hear the real news (yeah, covid, Brexit... you know). It's like the Prince Philip thing all over again.

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Re: Too much Olympics already

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Postby Padders72 » July 26th, 2021, 9:15 am

It is once every 4 (or 5) years, I am sure you can tolerate a bit of sport for a short while, after GB are winning the odd thing and a bit of pride in national success is never a bad thing. For the rest of the time there is Antiques Roadshow to keep you entertained.

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Re: Too much Olympics already

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Postby pje16 » July 26th, 2021, 9:17 am

I am try to record the highlights show every night at 7.30pm
It has a different title to to the other Olympic shows, but when i use series link with Sky
it records every f'ing show :roll: :roll: :roll:

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Re: Too much Olympics already

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Postby Stompa » July 26th, 2021, 9:20 am

I agree, it is a bit irritating. Just be grateful we're not getting the same ridiculous level of coverage we got in 2012!

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Re: Too much Olympics already

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Postby pje16 » July 26th, 2021, 9:24 am

this was a great look back to 2012
As much as you need to know in just 59 minutes
a wonderful trip down memory lane
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... -episode-3

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Re: Too much Olympics already

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Postby bungeejumper » July 26th, 2021, 9:52 am

This morning, bright and early, the Tesco delivery driver. "So what about peaty, then?" I stared at him, bleary eyed. "Whisky doesn't really agree with me, but I generally stick to malts that don't taste of antiseptic." But it was too late - he was already off about the wrestling and the taekwondo and the judo, which we'd respectfully allowed the Japanese to win. ;)

For a moment or two I considered whether to ask him what Dina Asher-Smith does with her days when she's not doing completely pointless things like running the length of Sainsburys at maximum speed? But he was already off into another world. I thought it best to leave him there. :|

Can't even watch the ten o'clock news these days without reaching for the mute button whenever the sports bores come on and drone for twenty minutes about how some female boxer has tragically had her nose broken, or some such stuff. And that's another whole subject. The Five Ring Circus seems to bring out the worst in every commentator who's too old to have made it into to Colemanballs. There was the one with the vampire haircut telling us that some sporting nobody was looking forward to a "medal-ridden games", which was presumably meant to be taken as a good thing.

Listen you fools, I have no interest. I had every trace of any sporting instinct stamped out of me at school, where the ex-army morons in charge of collective exercise would victimise and shame anyone who wasn't in the first fifteen at rugger. Actually I'm built like a weightlifter - my ancestors were blacksmiths - but I had the very good sense to triple-break my leg at age thirteen, so I've been out of team sports ever since, and my idea of a workout is a couple of thousand feet of mountain. Or repairing an eight foot stone wall in the garden, which is my current endeavour.

Sigh, only another two weeks to go. :( I'll get the iPlayer stacked up with repeats like Alastair Sooke's two three-parters on classical Greek art and British sculpture (both fantastic). And maybe I'll switch off entirely and just listen to some good music instead?

BJ

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Re: Too much Olympics already

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Postby didds » July 26th, 2021, 11:34 am

bungeejumper wrote:
Listen you fools, I have no interest.



I sympathise over the carp school PE teachers thing entirely!

But one man's sport is another mans reality TV shows etc etc etc.

I just turn it off - quasi permanently as it happens.

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Re: Too much Olympics already

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Postby gryffron » July 26th, 2021, 12:22 pm

Poor old beeb. It’s one of the very few sports events they still get. But what a clever idea putting it a place a dozen time zones away, so at least it doesn’t flood our evening viewing. I think all future olympics should be arranged similarly. Vladivostok, Brisbane, Pyongyang. I’d vote for them all. But Paris 2024. No, No, No. That’s far too close.

Gryff

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Re: Too much Olympics already

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Postby SalvorHardin » July 26th, 2021, 12:25 pm

In case people want to avoid even more Olympics coverage, in addition to avoiding the BBC's miniscule coverage (at least compared to last time), if you have Eurosport on the Sky TV box in addition to avoiding the regular Eurosport coverage on 410 and 411 you can also avoid channels 983 to 989 which have been set up just for the Olympics and are covering a lot of different sports :D
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Re: Too much Olympics already

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Postby bungeejumper » July 26th, 2021, 12:37 pm

I was quite amused to see that the BBC had been deluged with thousands of complaints about its lack of rowing coverage. If only some of those thousands had picked up a newspaper, they might have learned that all rowing events in Tokyo had been cancelled for two days because of an incoming typhoon. But maybe that was too much to ask. :|

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Re: Too much Olympics already

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Postby pje16 » July 26th, 2021, 12:51 pm

what numpties :roll:
they could have looked here as well
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/57959891

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Re: Too much Olympics already

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Postby UncleEbenezer » July 26th, 2021, 12:58 pm

This year's olympics have brought an unusual phenomenon. Someone talking sense about them in the mainstream media.

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Re: Too much Olympics already

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Postby Clariman » July 26th, 2021, 6:35 pm

I'm a bit fed up of sport just now, because many professional sports people have been living their normal privileged lives for some time, while many 'ordinary' people have suffered and are still suffering. Other 'entertainment' professions where people operate at the highest calibre with the same dedication have been unable to do anything meaningful, let alone live normal professional lives. I'm thinking of the performing arts - music, theatre, dance etc. And the vast majority of ordinary people are living partially restricted lives.

Sports really does operate in an exceedingly privileged way and I am fed up of it. And I am utterly fed up of how sports audiences have been allowed to behave in some settings - and it is accepted.

Sorry for the rant.

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Re: Too much Olympics already

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Postby didds » July 27th, 2021, 2:39 pm

Snorvey hits a mail on teh head - elite/pro sports is just a branch of the entertainm,ent industry.

why is what makes CM's excelletn point even harder.

meanwhile its hardly the pro sports bracket at fault here - if govt had said Ok to the arts, and no to the sports induxstry, I doubt anything would have changed (aside from the reversal of scenario).

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