Pre-Recorded Disco Olympiad
Like most people lately, I've been keeping my eyes peeled towards the Winter Olympics currently being held in Torino, Italy. So far, it's been a pretty good show. The compettion's been great, the scenery beautiful, the Italians have been generous hosts.But it's the coverage that stinks.
NBC admittingly is doing a far, far better job than CBS ever did when it covered the Winter games back in the 1990s (when the only things the Columbia network seemed to cover were "Challenging Olympian Life Story!" or "More Figure Skating!"). So far they've kept those hideously annoying life stories to a minimum, and the skating far more toned down than last time around in Salt Lake City. Plus Bob Costas is still his old sarcastic self, as demonstrated by his jabs at the seemingly random disco soundtrack during the Parade of Nations.
By the way, what was up with that? I know the Europeans love their dance music, but why play only American and British acts from that period during an international event? And some really, really campy songs at that? I'm sorry, but intoducing countries with Van Halen, Donna Summer and the Village People? Ummm...I don't get it.
Anyways, back to NBC. The Peacock can still do a hell of a better job than this. Perhaps more live events should be in order. I know there's a time difference, but it doesn't hurt if you try, plus you can always tape them and play them all over again when the schedule of daily events is over in Torino.
Also, can NBC please quit with the editing for time? Last night I watched the women's ski jumping. The network focused on the American players for a bit, then on the Norwegians, then on a Canadian, and then some Swedes. But that was it. Never mind the Japanese jumpers or some other European entries. They might have been on the TV score board. But if you hadn't seen that, would you've even known that they even tried? Nope. They were edited out. Sorry!
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