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The choices Eurosport makes is getting worse and worse. Maybe it's different in other countries, but here they have Weightlifting Group B on Eurosport 1. Literally everything is more interesting than the group B of a weightlifting competition. 

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2 minutes ago, Vektor said:

The choices Eurosport makes is getting worse and worse. Maybe it's different in other countries, but here they have Weightlifting Group B on Eurosport 1. Literally everything is more interesting than the group B of a weightlifting competition. 

 

Same in UK! Although we have Eurosport 5 that's broadcasting Softball with audio/commentary from that weightlifting competition too :lol:

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8 minutes ago, Vektor said:

Eurosport was nowhere near as bad at picking events pre-Discovery. They really are sabotaging the broadcast to get more Discovery+ subscribers. 

 

I have said this before, but it has become a recent pattern in their tennis GS coverage. Some really questionable matches were shown on TV, while the more interesting/marquee ones were left for the Player. 

 

Also, i think the Olympic schedule hasn't been the best in Tokyo. In 2-3 hours you will get 3-4 finals at the same time cross-matching each other.. With 2 weightlifting finals today, they could have had one of them now, when it could have been shown and not bunched with other finals. It's not that early Japan time..

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I really like this ESPlayer. Being able to watch any event I want is the most important. Then the lack of commentators is not really a problem for me. Most of them are talking stupid things all the time anyway . Watching live sport with ambient sound is the best way to do it for me. 

 

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I have a theory as to why the TV coverage of the shooting in particular has been so awful this Olympics. Copied from a UK website to which I belong.

 

Exactly: it was extremely badly presented here. The English guy on the commentary is the one who does the regular ISSF broadcasts & he was complaining about it.

I’m wondering if this & other broadcasting problems are a product of COVID. Usually Olympics TV production for specialised sports is outsourced to TV producers who cover the same sports week in week out. But if they are not able to travel, it will just be done by Japanese TV crews who don’t necessarily understand what camera placements, on-screen graphics, replays etc etc are needed for that particular event.

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3 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

I have a theory as to why the TV coverage of the shooting in particular has been so awful this Olympics. Copied from a UK website to which I belong.

 

Exactly: it was extremely badly presented here. The English guy on the commentary is the one who does the regular ISSF broadcasts & he was complaining about it.

I’m wondering if this & other broadcasting problems are a product of COVID. Usually Olympics TV production for specialised sports is outsourced to TV producers who cover the same sports week in week out. But if they are not able to travel, it will just be done by Japanese TV crews who don’t necessarily understand what camera placements, on-screen graphics, replays etc etc are needed for that particular event.

it might well be...

 

in any case, it's the worst shooting range I've ever seen, the worst tv coverage I've ever watched and the worst Italian performance since Seoul 1988...

 

definitely not the best memories I'm gonna save for these Olympics...

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