Official Tokyo 2021 Olympics thread

[PortCityProphet]

If she feel the way she feel that's fine but the only thing I wonder is...this aint her 1st rodeo in the lympics so it really feels like she aint built for that type of pressure of being the GOAT. I mean this is the only reason you get into the sport at a high level. Once every 4 years. Those other 3 and 3/4th years you have no pressure on you cause you're invisible.
So yeah its been a stressful year for everyone but it was also a stressful year when you came out with goats on your leotard. If you can't block all that out to do what you're made to do then you just aint tough like that.

 

[SchoolboyC]

Anybody else hate the way NBC covers the olympics? They focus way too much on already established people and swimming for some reason. I wish they spent more time on the combat sports like boxing, judo, wrestling, etc...I also wish they just have live feeds on the internet so people can see specific events in totality. Like I want to see some of these lesser known events.

Cause that's what brings the ratings: Swimming, track, men's basketball & women's gymnastics.

I'll still take NBC over ESPN having Stephen A cover archery and using athletes personal trauma to promote events

 

[PortCityProphet]

Anybody else hate the way NBC covers the olympics? They focus way too much on already established people and swimming for some reason. I wish they spent more time on the combat sports like boxing, judo, wrestling, etc...I also wish they just have live feeds on the internet so people can see specific events in totality. Like I want to see some of these lesser known events.

They've done a horrible job in the internet age. In the 90s and early 2000s it was great but 2012 and on...we got internet aint no holding secrets just give it to the people and replay it later cause anybody who wants to know a result is gonna know before they air it anyway.

 

[93 til]

Just lost a 21-0 lead in Rugby

 

[8WON6]

Cause that's what brings the ratings: Swimming, track, men's basketball & women's gymnastics.

I'll still take NBC over ESPN having Stephen A cover archery and using athletes personal trauma to promote events

The bold is also one thing i was going to mention. Over-doing it on everybody's personal traumatic life story.

 

[mannyrs13]

Hopefully everything ok with Simone. I was reading something about a medical issue and then came here and saw she didn't do as well as expected on that vault thing. Hopefully she just didn't get discouraged and quit from a bad performance. Her team depends on her. Hopefully she gets back on track and continues her success.

 

[RiffRaff]

I ain’t downplaying mental health AT ALL… but given the stakes and it’s a team event this ain’t a good look

Do what you want as an individual, but as a TEAM I think just dipping like that is kinda messed up and they probably looking at Simone sideways.

 

[Cladyclad]

This mental illness shyt is getting out of hand

 

[Reign X]

Simone Biles deserves higher scores






More info at the link.

This is the equivalent of Lebron scoring 80 pts and the NBA deciding that nah, we're going to give him 40 pts instead cause it's not fair to the rest of the players.

Or like refs having trouble calling games with Shaq. He got fouled all the time. But he played through it, didn’t just leave his team hanging in the nba finals.

no problems with her speaking out about scoring in general. Don’t hide behind mental health and let your team down like that in the Olympics.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Watching her presser, she choked in the bright lights. Gabby didn’t

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

I'm about to sound a lil chauvinistic here, I'm sure...


but one thing I can't stand is hearing a group of women screaming. And watching these women athletes, I keep having to mute it out.

All I hear is a bunch of birds screaming every time I turn on the women sports


one chic just got done doing a jerk and clean, and she did it successfully, and fell out on the floor screaming and crying cause she was so happy


the way she screamed, I thought she was injured

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Anybody else hate the way NBC covers the olympics? They focus way too much on already established people and swimming for some reason. I wish they spent more time on the combat sports like boxing, judo, wrestling, etc...I also wish they just have live feeds on the internet so people can see specific events in totality. Like I want to see some of these lesser known events.

They've done a horrible job in the internet age. In the 90s and early 2000s it was great but 2012 and on...we got internet aint no holding secrets just give it to the people and replay it later cause anybody who wants to know a result is gonna know before they air it anyway.

Nbcolympics.com and the app have live feeds of everything, the time zone gap makes some hard to catch live but you can catch everything except the random feeds (USA basketball)they want you to pay for peacock premium

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Anybody else hate the way NBC covers the olympics? They focus way too much on already established people and swimming for some reason. I wish they spent more time on the combat sports like boxing, judo, wrestling, etc...I also wish they just have live feeds on the internet so people can see specific events in totality. Like I want to see some of these lesser known events.

I hate the coverage of the Olympics period, but especially the basketball.

They need to get some NBA announcers and some replay cameras to make the Olympic basketball games more watchable. The way they cover it, it ain't exciting at all.

This feels like watching the Olympics when I was a little boy. Surely they can do things to make it look more exciting.

 

[triplehate]

People take this medal shyt like they personally have money on it. Nothing in life changes if we get a silver or gold brehs

 

[choc_cardigan]

People take this medal shyt like they personally have money on it. Nothing in life changes if we get a silver or gold brehs

Nothing in life changes if you make this post but here we are