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2016 rio olympic thread

BarcaDeac said:
it's getting harder and harder to find cities that want to host, especially winter
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I don't doubt that. I read a good article on what happens to a lot of the facilities once the Olympics are over. I read the huge stadium built in Russia for the last Winter Games has been used twice and is wasting away. Makes you wonder if the format of the whole thing will have to be changed one day.
 
liveanddiedeac said:
See my earlier post. The Greco-Roman wrestling coaches have to throw a stuffed Olympic mascot out onto the mat to issue a challenge, now that's funny.
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BTW, watched some freestyle wrestling and witnessed this, it was hysterical.
 
The IOC should come up with a plan to rotate the games between a few select cities that can reasonably keep facilities maintained and utilized year after year. Neither Rio nor Sochi had any business hosting the Olympics. There are plenty of cities with the infrastructure to handle the Olympics on a recurring basis.
 
Was everyone so down on these Olympics just because the people who were expected to dominate did so and it was boring due to lack of drama? I thought it was pretty great to see the best athletes in the world performing even if a lot of the competition was never really in doubt. Phelps and Bolt in particular since they had to rise to the level of expectations even though they're past their primes.
 
I think a lot of folks were down on it based on NBC's coverage, or lack there of.

I enjoyed watching some stuff, but I was a little over the Olympics by the end.
 
First week we watched every night. Second week would just tune in to see specific events -- Google is good about giving exact times for events.
 
But I did watch the whole bball game yesterday. Figures the one full one I actually watch is a blow-out, after watching bits and pieces of the others.
 
I don't really get the criticism, seems like the internet just complaining because it likes to complain. Every event could be streamed, tape delay is an obvious move for them (Like they aren't going to show the ladies gymnastics during primetime? People are upset because they already found out who won? Stay off the internet and social media, or watch it when it occurs - that's not NBC's fault), and of course they are going to focus on the events the Americans are best at. I can get some of the criticism for the presentation here and there, but that's pretty minor in my opinion.
 
WakeTheNation said:
The IOC should come up with a plan to rotate the games between a few select cities that can reasonably keep facilities maintained and utilized year after year. Neither Rio nor Sochi had any business hosting the Olympics. There are plenty of cities with the infrastructure to handle the Olympics on a recurring basis.
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I don't think that's a bad idea. Come up with 4 or 5 cities in different regions and rotate it around, then you don't leave places like Sochi or Rio with a bunch of Olympic level facilities that will never be used again.
 
CDeacMan said:
I don't really get the criticism, seems like the internet just complaining because it likes to complain. Every event could be streamed, tape delay is an obvious move for them (Like they aren't going to show the ladies gymnastics during primetime? People are upset because they already found out who won? Stay off the internet and social media, or watch it when it occurs - that's not NBC's fault), and of course they are going to focus on the events the Americans are best at. I can get some of the criticism for the presentation here and there, but that's pretty minor in my opinion.
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These were obviously US TV-friendly olympics. Tokyo I'm assuming will be nearly all tape delayed events in primetime. Unless we can convince the IOC to have swimming in the morning there so it's live here, like in Beijing.
 
I don't really have a problem with what NBC showed in prime time since those were events I wanted to watch anyway. But you can't really say that people could easily stream stuff live whenever they wanted in order to avoid spoilers, etc when most people have full time jobs that don't allow for that.

My larger annoyance was the prime time focus on Lochte-gate the last week (totally get why they did it as gossip "news" = ratings) but I would have rather that time been devoted to more sports.
 
CDeacMan said:
I don't really get the criticism, seems like the internet just complaining because it likes to complain. Every event could be streamed, tape delay is an obvious move for them (Like they aren't going to show the ladies gymnastics during primetime? People are upset because they already found out who won? Stay off the internet and social media, or watch it when it occurs - that's not NBC's fault), and of course they are going to focus on the events the Americans are best at. I can get some of the criticism for the presentation here and there, but that's pretty minor in my opinion.
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+1

People are mad because gymnastics and some other events weren't on their tvs, live every night at 8 pm ET. Nothing NBC could do to make that happen.

All things considered, I think they did a good job making as many events as possible available live and showing tape for events that occurred during the work day that people would definitely want to see, even if on delay.
 
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WakeTheNation said:
The IOC should come up with a plan to rotate the games between a few select cities that can reasonably keep facilities maintained and utilized year after year. Neither Rio nor Sochi had any business hosting the Olympics. There are plenty of cities with the infrastructure to handle the Olympics on a recurring basis.
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2 each from Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific. How would the CLT crowd feel about:

Los Angeles
Atlanta
London
Paris
Beijing
Tokyo
 
timthedeac said:
2 each from Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific. How would the CLT crowd feel about:

Los Angeles
Atlanta
London
Paris
Beijing
Tokyo
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I'd replace Beijing with Sydney but yeah, that's pretty much my list too for the summer games. As for the winter games, IDK. There are probably many places in the US/Canada that could handle them consistently, and in Europe. IIRC, Lilyhammer and Lake Placid both come to mind as good venues.
 
timthedeac said:
+1

People are mad because gymnastics and some other events weren't on their tvs, live every night at 8 pm ET. Nothing NBC could do to make that happen.

All things considered, I think they did a good job making as many events as possible available live and showing tape for events that occurred during the work day that people would definitely want to see, even if on delay.
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NBC could have shown those "premier" events live on TV though, instead of relegating them to Internet streams.

And cut down commercials by about 50%.
 
I did like yesterday during the men's basketball final, how they made a point of saying it was brought to you with limited commercial interruption, which basically meant they were broadcasting it like how they would any other basketball game, or sporting event -- commercials when there were timeouts/breaks, rather than cut away just whenever, like the men's volleyball final earlier. That was super annoying.
 
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