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Forums > General Discussion   Shooting the breeze...

9's Olympic sailing coverage

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Created by paddymac > 9 months ago, 4 Aug 2012
paddymac
WA, 937 posts
4 Aug 2012 9:59PM
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I'm looking at the current Australian Sailing Team standings and I see:

Men's Laser 1st
Men's 49er 1st
Women's Elliott 6m 1st
Men's 470 2nd
Women's RS:X 11th
Women's 470 11th
Women's Laser Radial 12th
Men's Finn 13th

So we could get 3 Gold and 1 Silver from 10 events. What an amazing effort!!

On Channel 9 I've seen one 30 second cross to a journalist to give an update. Once. Did not include any footage of the sailing.

The sailors could end up kicking the asses of the swimming and athletics teams and we see sod all.

One of the Olympics values is equality. Shame it doesn't filter through to TV coverage.
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No I don't have Foxtel

SandS
VIC, 5904 posts
5 Aug 2012 12:12AM
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Yes , not right ! Some coverage is deserved !!

We are seeing more discus , javelin , beach ass ball , etc etc .

More people are into sailing than those sports .

shoodbegood
VIC, 873 posts
5 Aug 2012 12:19AM
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I could watch the sailing all day, but for the lay man, I can understand that it doesn't make great TV. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Underoath
QLD, 2433 posts
5 Aug 2012 3:15AM
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shoodbegood said...

I could watch the sailing all day, but for the lay man, I can understand that it doesn't make great TV. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.


They show rowing../lame.. they show smimming./lamer.. they show equestrian./even lamer.. all **** sports to watch-

hey - just now, they are showing the 20km walk now! Struth!- the walk, lame lame lame..... i wait 4 years, and they show the walk....

I wouldn't take too much interest in the sailing, but hey, a bit of eveything would be good.

evlPanda
NSW, 9204 posts
5 Aug 2012 7:11PM
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We'll see some coverage when they move all the events to the swimming pool. All I've seen is swimming, swimming, swimming.

stjepan
NSW, 124 posts
7 Aug 2012 1:28AM
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The Central Coast's very own and fellow coastie Tom Slingsby got gold in the Laser - Men's One Person Dinghy Medal...

jbshack
WA, 6913 posts
7 Aug 2012 11:35AM
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I guess it would be hard to show it all on one channel, especially with the time difference. But i have Fox and have watched sh-t loads of sailing But with 8 channels Fox have not done any better. Last night there were two channels doing the same talk back interviews (at same time) and then later two channels both doing boxing, at the same time[}:)]

Good on our Aussie sailing team

DanP
VIC, 286 posts
7 Aug 2012 2:53PM
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This gives a fair indication why sailing doesnt get a guernsey on free to air TV:

jbshack
WA, 6913 posts
7 Aug 2012 1:24PM
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DanP said...

This gives a fair indication why sailing doesnt get a guernsey on free to air TV:



Super funny.."Duck ya -u-ken head"

Sad part is he sounds smarter than a few of the other sporting commentators

evlPanda
NSW, 9204 posts
7 Aug 2012 3:50PM
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Oh for Olympic slalom:

paddymac
WA, 937 posts
10 Aug 2012 8:41PM
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3 gold, one more possible. What an amazing result! Congrats to some great sailors.

jbshack
WA, 6913 posts
10 Aug 2012 9:28PM
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Great win in the 470's. True olympic spirit afterwards aswell.



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