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re: Do the Olympics not have the same luster or are we missing mega star athletes in them?
Posted on 7/25/24 at 6:50 pm to sidewalkside
Posted on 7/25/24 at 6:50 pm to sidewalkside
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Do the Olympics not have the same luster or are we missing mega star athletes in them?
It’s very very simple….. it was a massive deal when you had 15 tv channels.
It was huge when your average American only had basic cable.
It was still cool when people started getting satellite and 200+ channels.
It became a “select sport” hit by the time Netflix released.
In the age of TikTok and 10 second videos, what’s the Olympics?
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Posted on 7/25/24 at 7:27 pm to beerJeep
Had this discussion with my wife yesterday. Its a confluence of a number of things changing over time.
One, a bipolar world encouraged an us vs. them narrative. You'd tune in to see a team of plucky Americans take down the Evil Empire.
Two, the level of accessibility and advertisement- when you had 3 channels, and one of them was going to be 14 hours of wall to wall Olympic coverage, they sold it super hard-- they'd tie in every major brand they could.
Three, it existed as the only major showcase of women athletes for decades; now, there's the DEI Olympiad 24/7/365 pushing marginal sports on thirty different channels-- so you no longer develop a rooting interest in a Nadia Comaneci or Mary Lou Retton, because you get Simone Biles thrown on the screen every other day on ESPN, even during her boyfriend's football games.
One, a bipolar world encouraged an us vs. them narrative. You'd tune in to see a team of plucky Americans take down the Evil Empire.
Two, the level of accessibility and advertisement- when you had 3 channels, and one of them was going to be 14 hours of wall to wall Olympic coverage, they sold it super hard-- they'd tie in every major brand they could.
Three, it existed as the only major showcase of women athletes for decades; now, there's the DEI Olympiad 24/7/365 pushing marginal sports on thirty different channels-- so you no longer develop a rooting interest in a Nadia Comaneci or Mary Lou Retton, because you get Simone Biles thrown on the screen every other day on ESPN, even during her boyfriend's football games.
Posted on 7/25/24 at 8:27 pm to DrSteveBrule
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Allowing Simone biles on the team after the shite she pulled last Olympics.
This post was edited on 7/25/24 at 8:34 pm
Posted on 7/25/24 at 8:30 pm to Obtuse1
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Having the yips doesn't make you a great athlete but a lot of great athletes have had the yips
Having the Twisties as a gymnast can be deadly. If you aren't in the right mental state while you're twisting in the air during an exercise and you miss your landing you're talking about getting seriously hurt/broken neck and possible paralysis.
It's a lot different from having the yips in baseball.
Posted on 7/25/24 at 8:33 pm to whoa
“The games haven’t even started”
Wrong. A couple of sports have already started the early competitions.
Posted on 7/25/24 at 8:38 pm to fr33manator
Posted on 7/25/24 at 8:44 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
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It's a lot different from having the yips in baseball.
I understand what the twistues are but my point was elite/pro athletes having mental blocks that prevent performance has been around forever. It is also true that golfers, for example, can just play through it with the only danger being injury to their ego or the putters they smash over their knee. Gymnasts, many X gamers, and free solo climbers, for example, do indeed have a lot more on the line than humiliation. Baseball pitchers that have the odd loss of control aren't much danger to themselves but could kill or maim a batter at least until they started coming to the plate in a suit of armor.
Posted on 7/25/24 at 8:50 pm to Mr Clean
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I'm not sure what channel it's on.
You're a dumb arse if you don't know that the primary channel is NBC. It's been on NBC for longer than I can remember.
This post was edited on 7/25/24 at 9:07 pm
Posted on 7/25/24 at 9:43 pm to sidewalkside
We just have more content to choose from now. Used to be you watched the Olympics because nothing else was on tv.
Posted on 7/25/24 at 9:44 pm to sidewalkside
If you have peacock it’s front and center, and has been, for a while. I’ve throughly enjoyed their coverage of rugby 7s during lunch the last couple of days.
Posted on 7/25/24 at 9:51 pm to sidewalkside
I'm ready. I know it's NBC/peacock
About 45-50 neighbors friends are coming over for ceremonies watch party. Tomorrow
First cost has 3 Ryan Murphy and Caleb Dressel in swimming and a girl in skateboard .
I want the USA to regain the 4x100 in track... It's been to long (20+ years) since we medaled there ( bad exchanges, failed drug tests)
Eager to watch the US vs Aussies in the pool
The women's cycling road race in Tokyo was amazing.... One lady pulled a Joan Benoit and took off and every seemed to forget about her ... The favorite who finished second thought she had won when she crossed the line but the winner finished a couple minutes earlier
We we all cheering for the eventual winner to finish it strong after we found out what was happening....no idea who she is or anything but it was a great underdog story and why the Olympics are great
About 45-50 neighbors friends are coming over for ceremonies watch party. Tomorrow
First cost has 3 Ryan Murphy and Caleb Dressel in swimming and a girl in skateboard .
I want the USA to regain the 4x100 in track... It's been to long (20+ years) since we medaled there ( bad exchanges, failed drug tests)
Eager to watch the US vs Aussies in the pool
The women's cycling road race in Tokyo was amazing.... One lady pulled a Joan Benoit and took off and every seemed to forget about her ... The favorite who finished second thought she had won when she crossed the line but the winner finished a couple minutes earlier
We we all cheering for the eventual winner to finish it strong after we found out what was happening....no idea who she is or anything but it was a great underdog story and why the Olympics are great
Posted on 7/25/24 at 10:15 pm to Celery
What else are people watching right now? I love when the Olympics come around because it gives some excitement before football season in an otherwise “dead” time of the year.
Posted on 7/25/24 at 10:28 pm to sidewalkside
I was excited about our guys in the freestyle wrestling, but now that the Russians are disqualified, it sort of lost it's luster. It's like cancelling the Alabama game.
This post was edited on 7/25/24 at 10:29 pm
Posted on 7/25/24 at 10:37 pm to DrSteveBrule
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Allowing Simone biles on the team after the shite she pulled last Olympics and I'm not watching.
Simone inspires a lot of young girls to do mostly the right things. My state and regional champion niece is one of them. You can’t expect women to have man values. It doesn’t work that way.
Posted on 7/25/24 at 11:10 pm to Salmon
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The games have become too political with every athlete feeling the need to be as much activist as athlete.
People are exhausted.
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The vast majority of the athletes do no such thing.
If people were so exhausted from politics, you would think they wouldn't focus on the small handful that make political statements, but for some reason, they choose to ignore the literal hundreds of athletes that just go to compete and focus solely on the handful.
Weird.
Agree. People are exhausting themselves with politics. If a single thing happens or is shown or said at a sporting event that lasts for over two hours, everyone--from all sides-- immediately runs to boards like this and/or social media to bitch about it for hours.
Posted on 7/25/24 at 11:15 pm to sidewalkside
This is true. Yeah and field events were hyped for months. .
Posted on 7/25/24 at 11:27 pm to sidewalkside
Break dancing is now an event, so…
Posted on 7/26/24 at 12:15 am to Napoleon
This post was edited on 8/8/24 at 5:27 pm
Posted on 7/26/24 at 12:49 am to jennyjones
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Worried about Conservatives? I’m pretty sure the middle eastern immigrants in France would have a bigger issue with it
Yes but they’re not white. It’s only socially acceptable to rail against white guys.
Posted on 7/26/24 at 12:57 am to sidewalkside
The Olympics are ghey now.
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