Olympics '04

MagSec4

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If anyone has been following the Olympic games and/or care to discuss anything..

I don't really get to watch much of them at all, but I have tried to follow some of what's gone on as best as I could, and there are a couple of things that have pissed me off.

Firstly, the narrators/commentators that cover them on TV in the U.S. are a gang of arrogant know-it-all asshats: I'm watching events like gymnastics and diving ..amazed at the things these athletes can do, and these putas dwell on every possible negative thing ..they judge, pick-on, and criticize left and right, for things that I couldn't possibly even begin to notice. "Oh, that's going to be another deduction there.. her hands were 2 millimeters off to the side" "No. No. That score was TOO high" I'm sick of hearing comments like these over and over and over in the arrogant manner that they do, and many times while I'm saying "Wow that was fucking cool!"
..Shut the fuck up, I'd like to see you go over there and try to do ONE tumble!
Just the tone in which they speak a lot of times makes me want to give them a good flogging to the face with a month-old philly-cheese sandwich on moldy whole wheat bread for a half hour or so.

Another thing that bothers me: The man who won(wins) the final 100m dash gets the gold and is titled 'The world's fastest man'..
(In these Olympics the gold medalist's time for that final was 9.8something seconds)
Fair enough that he wins that race and gets the gold and all.. but how can you keep calling him 'The world's fastest man' when somebody else ran those same 100ms in 9.5 seconds in the semifinal (right there, just a half-hour before the final!)

A third: The individual-event 'Still rings' (men's gymnastics) final was bullshit. The judges gave the man who went first a certain score, it happened to be a pretty high score, so then for the men that went afterwards (even if they did as good or better) the judges wouldn't dare give a higher score than that. They were all excellent, they really were; but that one Bulgarian dude quite clearly performed better than the others, and he should've won the gold. That poor dude got shafted blatantly by the judges. I have no problem with the one who won gold, he was excellent.. but not as good as the Bulgarian.

EDIT: Goddamn that is one long post.
 
About bad judgements you're right, i saw some horrible ones :ill: , i didn't see the one yesterday on the rings cause i was away all day, but i got a good description from friends and they say the same as you.

About the speakers talking about every little flaw..well, it's their job, i can't see many technical errors in the athletes performances, if they weren't pointed out i wouldn't understand the following judgements. I dislike when the speakers talk like if they were better than the actual athletes too if this is what you mean, they're hateful when they do that, but pointing out the flaws is necessary, done in a polite and respectful way.
 
The Swedish commentators are seldom that cocky, but it happens quite often that they talk about totally irrelevant stuff. Especially during football games. And this nonsense they're talking is obviously so important that they forget to comment what's happening in the game.
 
Yeah, this woman's tone and attitude are just ..ahh!

Oh man, you guys should hear how football games are narrated in Colombia. These people sound like automated narrating machines on crack. They narrate and describe every single thing that happens, never missing a moment, never missing anyone's identity; I remember this one particular guy talked so extremely fast, just listening to him was quite the entertainment for me.. They barely take time to breathe let alone to go off on any sort of tangent.
And whenever a team scored he'd scream out 'Goooo.....oool' sustaining the 'o' for half a minute or some crazy length like that, then take a breath and scream it again.
 
:lol: Is it Spanish that is a quickspoken language or Swedish that's a slowspoken one? I'm always amazed at which razortongues Spanish speaking people must have...

The commentators in Swedish television can be talking so slow that if you neither are watching the screen nor understanding the language you could think a ornithlogy program (or something else that's not sooo exciting) are beeing broadcasted.
 
Child said:
The commentators in Swedish television can be talking so slow that if you neither are watching the screen nor understanding the language you could think a ornithlogy program are beeing broadcasted.
:lol:


I don't know, I never thought Spanish was particularly fast or anything, but I've heard from many people that we speak Spanish really fast.
But the speaking speed of this guy I was talking about was insane, bro.
..even to us.
 
Child of Time said:
:lol: Is it Spanish that is a quickspoken language or Swedish that's a slowspoken one? I'm always amazed at which razortongues Spanish speaking people must have...

The commentators in Swedish television can be talking so slow that if you neither are watching the screen nor understanding the language you could think a ornithlogy program (or something else that's not sooo exciting) are beeing broadcasted.
:lol: @the ornithology olympics

they talk fast here too, and some get incredibly excited when an italian is doing good or winning, i imagine they with veins popping out of their forehead and screaming while they should be describing everything calmly :D it's like watching a comic movie

some days ago there was one that thought to be offline, but he wasn't and we heard him on the background commenting in roman dialect, saying "culo" every other word while the other speaker was almost screaming to cover him :lol:
 
I have veins popping out of my forehead every time I watch the Italians play. Totti and the rest better be where I am in any potential afterlife, because a) we're in hell b) if not, I can still (try to) beat them up.

Anyway, olympics...I like watching some stuff. Actually I'm much more interested in diving and some gymnastics than before. Still, the Finns are mostly sucking and I'm disgusted by all the praising of some athlete that can run really fucking fast. Yeah, it's cool that he can do that but people in audience are reaching over to them like they're gods.
Maurice Greene makes veins pop in my head too. There's just something infuriating about his body language. The guy must think he has a vagina in front of his face all the time.

All in all, I couldn't give a rats ass if Petter Petterson or Hugh Jazz wins the 100 metres or any other competition.
 
Horsey said:
Maurice Greene makes veins pop in my head too. There's just something infuriating about his body language.
Ha! If you knew what he says..

He has a tattoo in his arm that says GOAT (Greatest of all time) because, and I'm quoting him now, "I AM the greatest of all time"
Right before that final race he said that noone can do what he's done, that he really was the greatest of all time, and that he would win that one too.
(He didn't :tickled: )
I've never known of a more arrogant and annoying athlete than Maurice Greene, and I was very happy he didn't win yesterday.
 
Ya know, gay men would sure love watching those high dive games. All those muscular guys wearing speedos.....
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Anyways: really. I'm glad Canada finally won a gold medal. :D
I suggesting visiting Athens for the past while to my family. Not to visit the Olympics for me though. I'd be sneaking away, hoping to find Andreas...
 
i love the olympics. i'm kinda disappointed in the finns so far, but who am i to judge, i'd never get in the olympics to do anything. i just wish Joona does well tomorrow, if he doesn't i hope the canadian Despatie guy wins the gold. (he's so cute too aaww) i'm talking about diving, yes.

oh, and i like the finnish commentators.
 
Naku ist krig said:
"ALL HAIL SATANIK BURGER OG DESTRUKTION, CAUSE IT DOESNT MATTER IF YOU CAN NOT DO MATHS - ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IS THAT YOU CAN EAT SOME PILLS AND USE GO TO A GYM ONCE A WHILE. THE OLYMPIC GAMES TOTALLY FUCKING RULE *raises her middlefinger* "
-Avril Lavigne, that canadian girl who has something under her skin.
well surely what's under her skin and/or skull is not a brain. not that she knows what she's saying anyway.

reminds me somehow of a showgirl on tv here that was saying that a young sort-of-famous man was dead, arrived to the point of saying "prematurely dead" she said "prematurely..." did a completely confused what-is-the-next-line look and finally said "dead" after looking on the screen with written the speech she had to say. i wonder what else she thought was the ending of the phrase after talking for half hour about this dead man.
 
Sorry to double post but for everyone who is watching olympics....the judges have eyes deep into their asses! the russian guy just did a beautiful exercise and got a horrid score, i'm no expert, but i have eyes and also experts are saying this at the tv :err:

*goes out and stops the spam*
 
Unfortunately I've been stuck infront of telly past week (and still am), there was nothing else to do when I was visiting parents and, because of dad stealing the remote every time, it was the olympic games we watched.

I don't really care so much for sports, but now I've actually enjoyed watching it, don't know why. I've espesially liked gymnastics and men's diving (*drool* :o ahem). Also all women's shooting stuff was interesting, I remember being happy when that young Ukrainian girl won the pistol competition.

Finnish commentators have been ok so far, only thing that annoys me is the constant "whining" us doing so bad, making excuses for it and keeping asking the athletes many times what went wrong. Blah. Winning finally a medal made people shut up a little, tho.
 
Hiljainen said:
Sorry to double post but for everyone who is watching olympics....the judges have eyes deep into their asses! the russian guy just did a beautiful exercise and got a horrid score, i'm no expert, but i have eyes and also experts are saying this at the tv :err:
Not only that, but they gave Paul Hamm a much better score! The other guys and especially the Russian had very clearly done a better job. I really wanted to see tomatoes and random paraphernelia flying towards the judges' stand.
And I wasn't crazy getting pissed at judges for things like that^, the all-around men's gymnastics competition, the parallel bars final, and the Still rings final. It turns out they indeed kicked out a few judges for incompetence, but they say any results given cannot be changed now.
I'm also pissed at the judges in the boxing competition.. The Colombian dude should've won :bah:
 
MagSec4 said:
Not only that, but they gave Paul Hamm a much better score! The other guys and especially the Russian had very clearly done a better job. I really wanted to see tomatoes and random paraphernelia flying towards the judges' stand.
And I wasn't crazy getting pissed at judges for things like that^, the all-around men's gymnastics competition, the parallel bars final, and the Still rings final. It turns out they indeed kicked out a few judges for incompetence, but they say any results given cannot be changed now.
Yep, i got pissed off and i didn't watch carefully the performances after Hamm, so i can't actually say if the italian was better (i doubt it anyway, the russian's exercise was almost perfect). But i'm sure the russian was a lot better than Hamm, then why didn't he get at least the silver medal (if not the gold one)??
 
He didn't win any medal, he got 5th place, which is outrageous. Hamm got a silver, but I don't think he should've won a medal at all.. it should've been Nemov (the Russian), the Italian, and the Japanese dude. And I'm sorry you missed it, but the Italian did indeed put a very nice performance too.