Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site oddjob.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!zehntel!ihnp4!gargoyle!oddjob!london From: london@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (David London) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: American sportscasting sucks! Message-ID: <361@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Aug-84 15:17:52 EDT Article-I.D.: oddjob.361 Posted: Wed Aug 1 15:17:52 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Aug-84 01:54:52 EDT Organization: U. Chicago: Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 28 <> 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. ..!ihnp4!oddjob!london