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[JockCartier 124]

25 minutes ago, Josh said:

Wait huh? 

Eliotte Friedman is an NHL commentator, surprised to see that he’ll be doing canoe sprint during the Olympics?

 

Also, “Calling the highly anticipated debut of the sport of breaking” or not… 

Friedman called the swimming, and even diving IIRC) in 2016. He was actually pretty good. 

But he did have an all-time terrible 15 minute stretch where he emphatically called gold medal swims by Phelps and Oleksiak by the wrong names 

[james89 863]

Alex Despatie as commentator is interesting. 

[Topicmaster1010 4,247]

8 minutes ago, Josh said:

Could they really not get anyone else? 

I think Steve Armitage called swimming prior to Rio but wasn't able to do play by play that year for some reason

[JockCartier 124]

Not a fan of that pairing of Despatie and Abel. Hopefully Fillion is on the international feed, she's taken to the broadcast booth quickly and well

Glad to see they have Harnett back on cycling. 

 

Like the Snoek and MacDonald pairing for swimming

Could have lived without Soonias on volleyball
 

[JockCartier 124]

6 minutes ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

I think Steve Armitage called swimming prior to Rio but wasn't able to do play by play that year for some reason

He was diagnosed with heart failure just before the games. Friedman stepped in on very late notice, and aside from the disastrous 15 minutes, I think actually equated himself pretty well doing a couple tough sports on short notice. 

It was only announced a week before the Olympics. Not sure how much warning they had before that, but given they had went forward with all the announcements like this with Armitage included, I don't imagine it was more than a week or two tops

 

Edited July 15 by JockCartier

[Josh 10,654]

They have a good variety of streams up, but wish they showed all tennis courts/table tennis matches/badminton courts/judo mats etc instead of only one. Unless I’m mistaken?

Edited July 16 by Josh

[intoronto 5,677]

Early look at graphics and music for the intro

 

[JockCartier 124]

On 7/16/2024 at 4:58 AM, Josh said:

They have a good variety of streams up, but wish they showed all tennis courts/table tennis matches/badminton courts/judo mats etc instead of only one. Unless I’m mistaken?

I don't believe they typically have recently, unfortunately

They usually have the field feeds for athletics, and I think I've seen them pick up the odd secondary court in tennis if a Canadian was playing, but that's about it. I don't think they do it typically for badminton, judo, table tennis etc

[JockCartier 124]

For the other Fire TV users, they don't have it on the Gem app yet, but the ICI TOU.TV app has their Olympic section up and it looks pretty good. Navigation has a couple more options than last time. I can't imagine the English one wouldn't be the same structure. Things seem to be well organized. Uses the Paris 2024 pictograms heavily, which are a bit esoteric for broad consumption, but they always include the event name with them.

 

Here's hoping it works as well as it looks

[james89 863]

It seems the CBC Gem Roku app has been updated since Beijing and will actually work this time!