The 2012 London Summer Olympics Thread

They need to move the broadcast to ESPN in 2016. :)

We tried. I had the joy of co-chairing the Olympics Digital Media committee for ESPN. Do you know how hard it is to build out a 20 year Olympics plan? Damn near impossible. Anyhow, we put together what we thought was a fair offer. But alas did not get it.

NBC is getting even huge ratings than the Beijing Games. Beijing had the better Opening Ceremonies. But still London games are great!

My only problem with NBC was their removal of the Brits tribute to those killed recently in a terrorist act. Shows very little class.

NBC coverage: Outrage by claiming 7/7 tribute in Olympic Opening Ceremony 'wasn't tailored to U.S. audience' | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181011/NBC-coverage-Outrage-claiming-7-7-tribute-Olympic-Opening-Ceremony-wasnt-tailored-U-S-audience.html?ito=feeds-newsxml)


NBC is getting even huge ratings than the Beijing Games. Beijing had the better Opening Ceremonies. But still London games are great!


Better? Depends on what aspect you are judging it by. The reason I liked London's opening ceremonies so much is because they paid tribute to their history, their cultural, and to their politics. I don't recall seeing China give a nod to communism or to their health care like the Brits did. Visually? I think the Chinese put on a performance that has blown away any other Olympic opening ceremonies I've seen. My favorite part was probably the drummers, which was awe inspiring to say the least.


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Well they probably didn't need to run a promo touting an interview with "gold medal winner Missy Franklin" right before her race. That probably could have been scheduled better.

They did that last night with Lochte right before his race!

They said "Watch Ryan Lochte tomorrow, who already has a silver and 2 golds..." right before his race. Idiots. Thanks for spoiling it for me.

I swear to god. Everyone needs to get over it. Seriously. The GD games are on the other side of the earth and the events all take place during the day (here). Get the eff over it people. NBC is damn if they do and damned if they don't. They cannot, no matter how much people would like, reverse the the static effects of the space-time-continuum nor can they stop everyone and their brother from reporting on results. They are a business that has to try and make money. If you didn't know that the women had already won then did it matter that they presented the event in a way to make it more exciting to the viewer? Why does anyone care? They didn't change the results.

I don't have a problem with them giving the results just give people a warning or make them click a box before doing so. Its much better to watch when you don't know the results and right now its near impossible to go all day without hearing them.

Michael Phelps Asks Bob Costas If He Wins Or Loses Tonight | The Onion - America's Finest News Source (http://www.theonion.com/articles/michael-phelps-asks-bob-costas-if-he-wins-or-loses,29026/)

Badminton Tanking: I think I might have actually watched this match Shameless shuttlers lose for gains | Olympics 2012 (http://www.reuters.com/london-olympics-2012/articles/badminton/womens-doubles/2012/07/31/fans-boo-chinese-korean-teams)


Looks like those players got DQ'd and sent packing. *tips hat to IOC* This is exactly what should have been done.

2012 London Olympics -- IOC asks for probe of badminton coaches, officials - ESPN (http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/badminton/story/_/id/8225091/2012-london-olympics-ioc-asks-probe-badminton-coaches-officials)


On a secondary note. Wilbon is a complete ****ing retard. He encourages teams and players to lose games to enhance their standing? Why in the **** does ESPN continue to put morons like him and Skip Bayless on TV. I couldn't even listen to it all it was so retarded.

Ouch.

Weightlifter Sa Jae-hyouk dislocates elbow in London Olympics’ most gruesome injury (VIDEO/PHOTOS) | Fourth-Place Medal - Yahoo! Sports (http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/weightlifter-sa-jae-hyouk-dislocates-elbow-london-olympics-083825819--oly.html)

Looks like those players got DQ'd and sent packing. *tips hat to IOC* This is exactly what should have been done.

2012 London Olympics -- IOC asks for probe of badminton coaches, officials - ESPN (http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/badminton/story/_/id/8225091/2012-london-olympics-ioc-asks-probe-badminton-coaches-officials)


On a secondary note. Wilbon is a complete ****ing retard. He encourages teams and players to lose games to enhance their standing? Why in the **** does ESPN continue to put morons like him and Skip Bayless on TV. I couldn't even listen to it all it was so retarded.

I agree with you in regards to the badminton players. You gotta send the message that if it ever happens again, you're tossed no question asked. Their sport is going to lose a lot of fans over this, and deservedly so.

On your secondary note, retards = ratings. Say something outlandish and people will pay attention, and discuss it whether they like it or not. That's how retards like that get jobs.

Going back the the US Women's gymnastics team win the other night, and I wanted to share this if you missed it. This was by in far the best vault I've ever witnessed, and how how a judge didn't give this a perfect score. Hands down this should have been given a perfect score, and it was so good it actually dropped a jaw on one of the judges.

McKayla Maroney's Vault Was So Good It Literally Dropped A Judge's Jaw (http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/us-gymnast-mckayla-maroney-landed-the-vault-of-her)


Crazy good.