Olympic thread

Too many shots to the head.

 

I bet the pole vaulters from those days suffered with dodgy knees in later life.

 

Been trying to find the basketball, but I've had to resort to a dodgy stream.

Bit weird it's not been covered.

 

Every sport is covered on the Paramount+ app. Two different sports are shown on the pair of Eurosport channels.

 

Also on Virginmedia if you keep scrolling down past TNT sports and Sky Sports HD channels there's Eurosport HD channels 3 to 8. Basketball is on now, Eurosport 6 HD

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/o...tor-REMOVED-Paris-coverage-sexist-remark.html

He thinks he's still on Radio Sheffield with a comment like that.

 

Wish I'd have seen this earlier FFS. But thanks for the heads up.

 

Shame for Peaty that he couldn't get the Jon done.

 

If that was football VAR would have been called.
Congrats to the Italian but fro overhead Peaty touched first.

 

She's right. All that the opening ceremony will be remembered for is the unfunny parody of the Last Supper, where they saw Christianity as something to make a joke of, but wouldn't have done something similar for another religion.

 

Finding the BBC coverage slightly disappointing. Way, way too much chatting by the pundits/presenters rather than showing more events. There's BBC Extra on iPlayer but it's a bind flicking to that to see what it's showing. There's some sports that have barely had any coverage at all, but they find time for Balding et al to talk for a good hour each night.

With the BBC, sport is fast becoming secondary to people talking about sport.

 

I've looked into this due to my basketball issues earlier - and apparently a lot of it is down to what their contract is with the TV rights.

So expect an awful lot of padding in the next few weeks as they fill time between events

 

So they've not got a contract just to show the Olympics? In all its glory? Just certain events?

 

I'm not 100% sure either way, it all seemed very complicated when I read it.

But I think basically they can't show everything - it's like when the Masters Golf starts and they can only show it between certain hours.

 

Shambles.

We've discovered that Discovery+ are showing quite a bit tonight anyway, including all the Eurosport channels, so will probably give that a go now.

 

I agree with you but when TV hosts are paid a lot but hardly heard from, the press go after them for earning too much.

 

The BBC had full rights in 2012 and 2016, so they streamed everything with commentary. The IOC then sold the broadcast rights for Europe as a whole to Warner Brothers Discovery. Because the Olympics are crown jewel sporting events they must be available on free to air TV, and the BBC has secured the rights for limited coverage. Sadly London and Rio were the perfect combination of tech/streaming capability and rights availability, and we're unlikely to see coverage at the same level ever again.

 

It wasn't the Last Supper, it was the Feast of Dionysus.

 

https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/a...pologise-to-christians-for-last-supper-parody

It was Last Supper. They have done the right thing to say sorry but were thick to do it in the first place.

 

https://x.com/BBCSport/status/1817505941073600733

This is disgraceful. The fact he only got 4 years is even more disgraceful.