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Best experience watching the Olympics: a hotel lobby in England. Complete coverage, no chatter, no delays, and no commercials.
by golemotron 5y ago
Best experience watching the Olympics: a hotel lobby in England. Complete coverage, no chatter, no delays, and no commercials.
- Milner08 5y agoBBC have lost the rights this year, sadly. They can only show a few things and Discovery have the majority of them, so I and am pretty sure many people I know will not be watching.
- monkey_monkey 5y agoI think the BBC can only show 2 live events at a time, unlike the previous 2 Olympics where they had amazing live coverage of pretty much every event. Can't help feeling this is a very very short-sighted move by the IOC (selling the European rights to Discovery), and will further dimish the prestige of the Games.
- Idiot211 5y agoAgreed! A key thing that I don't think they realised is that the free to air rights across Europe always created an intrigue among the population that fed into the youth. No matter the background of a child in the UK, for instance, they would typically have completely free access to damn near every Olympic event. That's gone now, and that's really sad.
- maxclark 5y agoInternational coverage is lightyears better than US.
- morcheeba 5y agoMy coach was saying she preferred the tell-it-like-it-is British commentary ("That's a devastating defeat for the xxx who has been improving and really expected to place") to the candied-up American commentary ("all that work paid off for yyy")