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From: london@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (David London)
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Subject: American sportscasting sucks!
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Date: Wed, 1-Aug-84 15:17:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  1 15:17:52 1984
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	Well, the Olympics have begun, and once again ABC has demonstrated 
that American sports commentating is the worst in the world. We have seen
essentially no events in which Americans did not compete (and there were lots
of them); we are reminded every 5 minutes about how many gold medals the
U.S. has won so far; and we are subjected to boring 'human interest' stories
and offensive 'nationalistic' commercials whenever possible.
	The American commentators and some American athletes have again 
exhibited that they are the worst winners (gloating and ungracious) and the
worst losers ("the judging was unfair"). When the Rumanian women gymnasts
scored better than the Americans, it was because (according to American coach
Don Peters) they (the Rumanians) performed at night, when the scores were
inflated. But when the American men (at night!) scored more than the Chinese
and Japanese in the compulsories (when the Americans were clearly not as 
good), no mention was made of inflated evening scores. Typical American biased
reporting. And of course Kurt Thomas had to make some snide comment about 
Soviet judges.
	So far, my favourite result was the men's 400 m I.M. (swimming), won
by Alex Baumann of Canada, in which there were NO medals won by the U.S.
	The Americans are such hypocrites: on the one hand, they talk about 
how politics shouldn't enter into the Olympics and criticize the Eastern Bloc
countries for doing just that; on the other hand they never leave politics
out of their comments in their biased, tunnel-visioned reporting.

				David London,
				proud *NOT* to be an American.	
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