I thought NBC's coverage of the Olympic Trials was not as good as previous Olypmpic trials of the past. They showed 15 completed swimming events with highlights in the other events. Comparing this with the 2000 trails they showed 23 completed swimming events. They showed 22 in 1996 and 20 each in 1988 and 1992. Those other Olympic Trials were not live feeds but were 4 hours tape delayed.
The biggest dissapointment was not seeing Michael Phelps swim the World Record in the 400 IM at the start of the competition. Instead we see wasted time on his SUV, what he eats for breakfast, interviews after every race about his medal expectations by the press, walking on the deck throwing his silver medal to female fans in the stands, and having his picture taken with Cindy Crawford. That kind of stuff I can see on ET.
Then with a half hour left in the telecast they show one event the women's 50 Free. Then we hear from Bob Bowman and Ed Reese
about Michael Phelps quest for 7 golds and what relays he may swim and how the relays will be determined. Again wasted time.
Then we see Rowdy Gaines and Dan Hicks with the telestrater like John Madden does in Football diagraming the strategy for 7 golds that we have already heard about so many times. Then we see the VISA commerical that talks about the 7 golds so that message just keeps pounding in our heads. Again wasted time on something we already know.
Instead of hearing Bob Bowman and Eddie Reese I want to see there swimmers swim the races. Another dissapointment was not seeing Brenden Hansen's World Record in the 100 ***. I want to see the race not the highlights. Being the 1st American to go under a minute and the second person to do it would have been great to see. How about seeing Katie Hoff in the 200 IM. One of Bob Bowman stars and a lot like Michael was in 2000. Had a great race with Amada Beard and would be nice to see Beard swim the IM since we only see heer swim breastroke. Also lets take a break on talking about Harold the teddy bear.
Show some of the American Records races like Keller's 400 Free and Jason Lezek's 100 Free in the semi finals. This was the most successful Olympic Trials as far as records and we did not see a lot of them. Also I noticed they showed a lot of the same highlights repeatedly when they could have shown more races.
There were two event finals shown during the Track&Field Olympic Trials ( M 200 Fly W 100 Free) but who is going to know about those unless you happen to tune in. Also how does Track&Field get 3 times the coverage that swimming has? I noticed that when I watched the T&F trials they showed a lot more of the races and had a lot less personal stories.
With all the hype that Michael Phelps had I thought he swam one of greatest trials ever. To swim 17 events and swim as well as he did was something that I have never seen. I don't know of any swimmer that has ever done that many events and put up the places and times that he did.
I thought NBC's coverage of the Olympic Trials was not as good as previous Olypmpic trials of the past. They showed 15 completed swimming events with highlights in the other events. Comparing this with the 2000 trails they showed 23 completed swimming events. They showed 22 in 1996 and 20 each in 1988 and 1992. Those other Olympic Trials were not live feeds but were 4 hours tape delayed.
The biggest dissapointment was not seeing Michael Phelps swim the World Record in the 400 IM at the start of the competition. Instead we see wasted time on his SUV, what he eats for breakfast, interviews after every race about his medal expectations by the press, walking on the deck throwing his silver medal to female fans in the stands, and having his picture taken with Cindy Crawford. That kind of stuff I can see on ET.
Then with a half hour left in the telecast they show one event the women's 50 Free. Then we hear from Bob Bowman and Ed Reese
about Michael Phelps quest for 7 golds and what relays he may swim and how the relays will be determined. Again wasted time.
Then we see Rowdy Gaines and Dan Hicks with the telestrater like John Madden does in Football diagraming the strategy for 7 golds that we have already heard about so many times. Then we see the VISA commerical that talks about the 7 golds so that message just keeps pounding in our heads. Again wasted time on something we already know.
Instead of hearing Bob Bowman and Eddie Reese I want to see there swimmers swim the races. Another dissapointment was not seeing Brenden Hansen's World Record in the 100 ***. I want to see the race not the highlights. Being the 1st American to go under a minute and the second person to do it would have been great to see. How about seeing Katie Hoff in the 200 IM. One of Bob Bowman stars and a lot like Michael was in 2000. Had a great race with Amada Beard and would be nice to see Beard swim the IM since we only see heer swim breastroke. Also lets take a break on talking about Harold the teddy bear.
Show some of the American Records races like Keller's 400 Free and Jason Lezek's 100 Free in the semi finals. This was the most successful Olympic Trials as far as records and we did not see a lot of them. Also I noticed they showed a lot of the same highlights repeatedly when they could have shown more races.
There were two event finals shown during the Track&Field Olympic Trials ( M 200 Fly W 100 Free) but who is going to know about those unless you happen to tune in. Also how does Track&Field get 3 times the coverage that swimming has? I noticed that when I watched the T&F trials they showed a lot more of the races and had a lot less personal stories.
With all the hype that Michael Phelps had I thought he swam one of greatest trials ever. To swim 17 events and swim as well as he did was something that I have never seen. I don't know of any swimmer that has ever done that many events and put up the places and times that he did.
