I wanted to make this a poll but couldn't figure out how to do it!
Do people think that the swimming finals should be moved ot the mornig so that they will be on during the evening prime time here inthe States? Many different swimming sites from other countries think that it is a lot of us in hteStates blowing & whinning.
Is the change necessary? Of course not. Is it a big deal? No.
Major sporting events are always scheduled for maximum revenue. Day games in baseball and football used to be the norm, now night games are commonplace. Swimming will be the same story. The competitors will adjust to when they have to swim and swim fast regardless of the time of day.
I can see why other countries would be upset that the Olympics are catering to US television. The bottom line is money talks and everyone knows this.
Just thought I would like to make my comment in Chinese 我喜欢游泳
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Just thought I would like to make my comment in Chinese 我喜欢游泳
在小山下面的游泳
George, you are wonderful. I know that every time I come onto the discussion threads here, you will have something interesting, enlightening, or funny or all of them.
Thanks,
Craig
I was an Asian history major and worked in a Chinese restaurant but can't read any, only cuss. What did you write?
i voted no...
but with the mention of revenue.... it would be interesting to see the analysis on what countries have the largest percentage of viewing televisions, and what countries have the largest $ input. i bet the US has one of the lowest viewing % and the highest $
The ironic thing is that NBC will still *** with the coverage and delay it for any old reason, including hyping a featured race, and present it as 'plausibly live' coverage anyway.
I love swimming, first phrase, second phrase, swim down hill. I used this translator www.freetranslation.com/
The translator did a bad job translating the second phrase. If I translate it from Chinese back to English, it becomes ''swim at the foot of the hill''.
I know the free transltor is not perfect, neither am I. May be it saw that video of Phelps swimming fly down the hill he was near the bottom of the hill when it finished. I will have a look but I may have lost that one when my computer went down hill.
i showed it to a friend. He said it seemed rather funny to him. In college I worked inthe kitchen of family friend's reastaurant to try to learn some chinese. When the owners were trying to talk to me. they would stop everything they were doing and speak to me in English. I had known them all of my life.
I think it would be better if it was changed into 在小山下面游泳. :)
在小山下面的游泳
