I'm also tired of NBC's assumption that I only want to see the American athletes, and the top American athletes. I also cheer on Italy (because I live there) and on an extremely shallow note that you are allowed to think considerably less of me for, many of those international athletes are really hot. So let me see the other things.
They show the qualifying heats for swimming because Americans do well in swimming and at least in the shorter events it has all the excitement of the race. But I really would like to see more of the kayaking this year. Last time we watched it on the online coverage, and mildly horrified though I was at the effort of putting in completely fake white water rapids in China it was pretty cool.
My brother and I also want to see the modern pentathlon thing which if Wikipedia is not lying to us involves jumping horses AND shooting things which sounds kinda awesome. Again if Wikipedia is accurate two Americans are in this so I hope that we get an internet feed.
As a former varsity swimmer I actually like the swimming events, but I certainly agree that NBC should show us other things.
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Date: 2012-07-18 04:22 pm (UTC)They show the qualifying heats for swimming because Americans do well in swimming and at least in the shorter events it has all the excitement of the race. But I really would like to see more of the kayaking this year. Last time we watched it on the online coverage, and mildly horrified though I was at the effort of putting in completely fake white water rapids in China it was pretty cool.
My brother and I also want to see the modern pentathlon thing which if Wikipedia is not lying to us involves jumping horses AND shooting things which sounds kinda awesome. Again if Wikipedia is accurate two Americans are in this so I hope that we get an internet feed.
As a former varsity swimmer I actually like the swimming events, but I certainly agree that NBC should show us other things.