Re: Olympic Swim Finals in the AM?

In article <Z_Wng.53747$fb2.8615@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mark P <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Michael Edey wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:41:12 -0300, jtaylor wrote:

"Michael Edey" <mike@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.06.26.06.50.33.361@xxxxxxxxxxx

More to the point I personally feel that an athlete needs to be ready to
swim fast when it's time to swim fast. That being said if a host were to
consider a large departure from previous programs the time to do that
should be during the biddin process. Not half a decade later at the
insistence of some foriegn media outlet who'll probably butcher the
coverage anyway.
So you don't think five years is enough time to adjust the training so the
swimmers can go fast in the morning?

Well since we're talking about swimming in 2008 (not 2011?) there's 2
years. Technically not a huge issue. The problem arises because:

1)It's not being considered as a means to further better competition or to
improve the games in anyway. It's simply a petulant bit of pouting from
NBC who can't seem to wrap their collective heads around what makes good
Olympic coverage. I imagine this is their bright idea to avoid the kind of
flack generated from time delaying Sydney & Athens coverage so long that
we had people here talking up the BBC's coverage.

2)While there's no rule that I'm aware of that states that finals must
occur after lunch it is a firmly held cultural custom backed by extreamly
strong precedent. Regardless of who's instigated the discussion it's one
that should have taken place _before_ the games were _awarded_. It should
have been part of the bid. The time to suggest such things was half a
decade ago not because the athletes needed that long to get ready but
because that's what due process demands.

3)At the end of the day one has to ask if some bright bulb thought this
was worth pursuing now, and not at the 2000 games, because of some
misfonded assumption about the relative worth of Chinese tv markets vrs
the Australian. The truly cynical might suggest that there's
circumstantial support for the idea that NBC felt they somehow needed or
deserved this more than the home country. It's possible that such might be
their only hope of ever delivering coverage worth watching but to summon
the nerve required to ask, at this date and time no less, would suggest an
incredible lack of respect.

In case it wasn't entirely clear - I'm not happy with the idea and it
doesn't have that much to do with the technical elements in the pool.

--Mike

Perhaps we could ask Beijing to switch their timezone to be the same as
EST? (It's not like they don't already have a government-mandated,
unnatural timezone system.) Then the finals can be held during the PM
*and* we in the U.S. can watch them live. Win-win.

I would rather just see the results listed. That way I don't have to sit
through a lot of boring swimming and award ceremonies.
.

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