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Yep. And I think it's not only olympics, but the whole sportentainment industry. I used to watch quite a bit of sports. Olympics set, F1, basketball, football,

by mantas 2y ago

Yep. And I think it's not only olympics, but the whole sportentainment industry. I used to watch quite a bit of sports. Olympics set, F1, basketball, football, cycling... Now I don't give a damn neither about plays nor results. The only excerpt from Paris olympics I saw was some politicised BS from opening or closing ceremony. The whole thing seems to be about money and advertising. Sports themselves seem to be getting re-made for looks-nice-on-TV and people who just want some noise in background and ain't actually interested in a given sports mechanics. I'll better watch some podcast on youtube explaining nooks and crannies of some sport than broadcast of an event.

xnorswap 2y ago
If you want to watch some real sport on YT, check out bobsled and skeleton. The IBSF tv team broadcast it themselves for free on youtube. ( e.g. https://youtu.be/Y2BXBTmSZGo?t=2195 https://youtu.be/Y2BXBTmSZGo?t=2195 ) A dozen hours of live sport every weekend over winter, no adverts, decent commentary. (You might recognise the main commentator from motor-racing coverage) Since the same pictures feed is used on the German TV coverage, you often get a minute to take a timeout and look at some beautiful Alpine scenes in the middle too while they play adverts on TV. It used to be on Eurosport UK too, but at some point they cut it loose, I guess there just wasn't the audience for it.
monicaaa 2y ago
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