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From: grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman)
Newsgroups: net.rec,net.misc
Subject: Re: Gripes about Olympic Coverage
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Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 16:04:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  9 16:04:56 1984
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bip.

	I'm one who doesn't mind rooting for the "home team" a bit,
    so I'm not against flag ceremonies.  I don't think they lead
    to nationalism necessarily.  But the problem with ABC is that
    they have forgotten that the USA is an immigrant country.  99%
    of the population have their roots elsewhere.  Personally, I
    am at least as interested in the Swedish, Canadian and German
    teams as I am in the US team.
	It's not like ABC doesn't have time to show us the other
    teams.  We see each US athlete do his/her stuff THREE TIMES!
    Once live, once instant replay and once "ABC SUPER SLO-MO".
    I'd like to see the Americans once, and the teams from other
    countries in that other time, regardless of whether those teams
    are in first place.

						-Glenn