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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No, the variable is the human element... That is quite complex. The announcers should know details about the athletes, and portray the drama that is behind the scenes. They should bring home to the viewer something that can be related to, the struggle for accomplishment.
I agree, with respect to commentary between races, and to give him some credit Byron did give little tidbits about various swimmers. It's got to be tough when you've got hundreds of swimmers racing eight at a time sometimes only for 20s or a minute. The annoying thing about Steve is the commentary during the race, and that is where it is hard to see exactly what original you are supposed to say in the 22s that it takes for a 50free. The IMs seem to be the most engaging to watch and easy to comment on. I don't know, perhaps you could skip the whole "horse race" style commentary and just calmly continue to talk about the swimmers, I don't know if that would detract from the excitement or not. I suspect the current approach works better in the Olympic context where you are getting bits of coverage from multiple sports instead of an entire week of racing shown in relatively non-stop 3.5 hour coverage where the repetitiousness can get grating.
No, the variable is the human element... That is quite complex. The announcers should know details about the athletes, and portray the drama that is behind the scenes. They should bring home to the viewer something that can be related to, the struggle for accomplishment.
I agree, with respect to commentary between races, and to give him some credit Byron did give little tidbits about various swimmers. It's got to be tough when you've got hundreds of swimmers racing eight at a time sometimes only for 20s or a minute. The annoying thing about Steve is the commentary during the race, and that is where it is hard to see exactly what original you are supposed to say in the 22s that it takes for a 50free. The IMs seem to be the most engaging to watch and easy to comment on. I don't know, perhaps you could skip the whole "horse race" style commentary and just calmly continue to talk about the swimmers, I don't know if that would detract from the excitement or not. I suspect the current approach works better in the Olympic context where you are getting bits of coverage from multiple sports instead of an entire week of racing shown in relatively non-stop 3.5 hour coverage where the repetitiousness can get grating.
