I watched a 30 minute clip of the events held yesterday. No LZR there, no worlds records, a couple of Canadian records. It is good to see a few records broken without LZRs.
A very nice 100 m butterfly by a tiny young lady.
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Putting the commentary aside, I thought the coverage was excellent, three and a half hours of solid swimming coverage, and the 800 was the only race that wasn't shown in it's entirety.
Wait till you see how much they've massacred the men's 1500 free.
On the commentary, I definitely hear what you're saying, the commentary is extremely formulaic and in most cases you could substitute the commentary from any race for that in any other race except for names, but isn't that the nature of swimming races? Really, the only variable is time.
I have it on videotape. Maybe this weekend I'll time how much time has been devoted to commercials and how much to interviews. Thank God for FastForward.
Luckily, with swimming on TV, I can turn the sound off. This makes the experience a bit better than watching tennis (where you absolutely need to hear the sound but are trying to blank out the inanities of the commentators, *** Enberg, J. & P. McEnroe, C. Drysdale and Co.)
Anyway, any time I can get three and half hours of swimming coverage on a national network I'm pretty pleased.
I agree with you there; it was a bit better than sitting through shot after shot of the CBC staff sightseeing in Manchester and Barcelona.
Putting the commentary aside, I thought the coverage was excellent, three and a half hours of solid swimming coverage, and the 800 was the only race that wasn't shown in it's entirety.
Wait till you see how much they've massacred the men's 1500 free.
On the commentary, I definitely hear what you're saying, the commentary is extremely formulaic and in most cases you could substitute the commentary from any race for that in any other race except for names, but isn't that the nature of swimming races? Really, the only variable is time.
I have it on videotape. Maybe this weekend I'll time how much time has been devoted to commercials and how much to interviews. Thank God for FastForward.
Luckily, with swimming on TV, I can turn the sound off. This makes the experience a bit better than watching tennis (where you absolutely need to hear the sound but are trying to blank out the inanities of the commentators, *** Enberg, J. & P. McEnroe, C. Drysdale and Co.)
Anyway, any time I can get three and half hours of swimming coverage on a national network I'm pretty pleased.
I agree with you there; it was a bit better than sitting through shot after shot of the CBC staff sightseeing in Manchester and Barcelona.
