Well I'm sure it's so they don't crash into them.Okay, I have a question about the speed skating. Why are the skaters allowed to touch the skater in front of them with their hand? I’ve seen some put their hand on the skater’s back, and lower. Why is that allowed?
Apparently they "borrowed" the car they were caught driving drunk. It seems that they will only have to pay a fine. The driver, trainer William Raine, will have to pay $4600 and Dave Duncan and his wife are fined $930 each. They have all be released and may leave once they pay their fines.Remember, Lochte tore a poster & told lies. Brazilian authorities extorted thousands of dollars from some of those with Lochte that night before they could leave the country. Somehow I expect the Koreans will handle this rather more serious behavior both more appropriately and with more forgiving spirit.
Homeschooling is a pattern for many Junior champions in any individual sport. My DD's sport was swimming and many of the top Junior swimmers are homeschooled so they can concentrate on the hours of practice required to be at that level. I even met a parent at a pool (my DD had to practice while on vacation) who was pulling his 12-13 year old DD out of school the next month so she could concentrate on her swimming. Hmmm ... that was a couple of years ago ... I'll have to try to remember her name and see how she's doing now.Speaking of Sasha Cohen, she published an essay in the NYTimes this weekend, about the experience of life after the Olympics and a sporting career is over. In it, she did mention that her education was lacking while she was skating. (This is a pattern common with really gifted freestyle skaters; they are almost all home-schooled, but usually schoolwork slips in the pursuit of ice time.) Here is Cohen's piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/.../sasha-cohen-olympics-pyeongchang.html
I am really disappointed in NBC's coverage this year. Last night i watched the skating gala and I realized they cut a ton of skaters so I went and watched it on the app. I can't believe they cut Javi's performance!!! It reminded me of Scott Hamilton's exhibition skates.
Since most of the shows were already taped, why not finish out a sport or ceremony before jumping to something else. I ended up taping the last several days so I could fast forward through all the crap and get to the stuff I wanted to see -- what little they showed of it!
Like I said above, they are too confident and did some really stupid coverage and camera work this year! It was a frustrating watching experience and my least favorite winter Olympics. Even their coverage of the opening ceremonies was edited and cut, but they announced you could watch the whole thing on demand! So after sitting through the 4 hours on TV, you then have to go to on demand and sift through that opening ceremony coverage to see what you missed -- no thanks.
The way they could improve was to devote even more channels to live coverage, so that people could watch the sport they wanted all the way through. NBCSN was good, but they probably could have used a third channel in prime time. But when multiple events are occurring at the same, they can't show them all live on the main NBC station, plus recaping the events that Americans won medals that occurred when the US was sleeping, plus the medal ceremonies, plus athlete profiles, plus the Korea pieces.
I also think the massive reshuffling of the Alpine schedule really jostled their programming plans in a major way as well. I don't know that I would mind if more than one network shared the broadcasting. Clearly the other networks largely bowed out of the way during the games as far as their programming scheduling anyway. Why not let another network in to help broadcast more of the events, and share some of the expense?
Sure, NBC or the lead network would obviously get to select the premiere events for their own channels so they would pay the lion's share of the costs. A second network in the mix would allow for better coverage and more opportunities for the audience beyond resorting to the online coverage which was a bit flat and uneven at times in its commentary, or lack of in some events.
I actually felt like NBC did a pretty good job. The way they could improve was to devote even more channels to live coverage, so that people could watch the sport they wanted all the way through. NBCSN was good, but they probably could have used a third channel in prime time. But when multiple events are occurring at the same, they can't show them all live on the main NBC station, plus recaping the events that Americans won medals that occurred when the US was sleeping, plus the medal ceremonies, plus athlete profiles, plus the Korea pieces.
I also thought they did a pretty decent job of showing things live, but you're right about a limited number of channels. Seems like if previous years, they also used USA and CNBC along with MSNBC (I think NBCSN is fairly new to their channel lineup?).
For as much as I prefer events live, it doesn't always necessary make it good TV watching - especially when you have events like alpine skiing where there are delays due to wind or athletes crashing.
I also thought they did a pretty decent job of showing things live, but you're right about a limited number of channels. Seems like if previous years, they also used USA and CNBC along with MSNBC (I think NBCSN is fairly new to their channel lineup?).
For as much as I prefer events live, it doesn't always necessary make it good TV watching - especially when you have events like alpine skiing where there are delays due to wind or athletes crashing.
My "Olympics Multiview" channel had the NBC, NBCSN, USA, and MSNBC feeds, but most of the time NBCSN and USA were not showing Olympic events. USA was the typical SVU rerun or whatever. I never noticed if MSNBC showed anything at all, but I don't think so. I was shocked to see NHL games on NBC proper. At least show the Olympic Hockey, right? I do think they do the best they can with the prime time live coverage, what with the time zones and all, but, yeah more airtime in general would have been great!
I also thought they did a pretty decent job of showing things live, but you're right about a limited number of channels. Seems like if previous years, they also used USA and CNBC along with MSNBC (I think NBCSN is fairly new to their channel lineup?).
For as much as I prefer events live, it doesn't always necessary make it good TV watching - especially when you have events like alpine skiing where there are delays due to wind or athletes crashing.
Homeschooling is a pattern for many Junior champions in any individual sport. My DD's sport was swimming and many of the top Junior swimmers are homeschooled so they can concentrate on the hours of practice required to be at that level. I even met a parent at a pool (my DD had to practice while on vacation) who was pulling his 12-13 year old DD out of school the next month so she could concentrate on her swimming. Hmmm ... that was a couple of years ago ... I'll have to try to remember her name and see how she's doing now.
Replying to myself ... I just found the girl I was talking about and she is in the top 20 in FL for the 2019 class (we met her in Clearwater). So she's still good and she might be back in school because she swims in the HS state meets ... but FL allows homeschoolers to compete in the state meet like Wisconsin so who knows? Anyway, I wish her luck .Homeschooling is a pattern for many Junior champions in any individual sport. My DD's sport was swimming and many of the top Junior swimmers are homeschooled so they can concentrate on the hours of practice required to be at that level. I even met a parent at a pool (my DD had to practice while on vacation) who was pulling his 12-13 year old DD out of school the next month so she could concentrate on her swimming. Hmmm ... that was a couple of years ago ... I'll have to try to remember her name and see how she's doing now.
Swimming has a similar profile this way with skating, because both require access to facilities that are in fairly limited supply. (Although a family is much more likely to have their own pool than to have their own ice rink, LOL.) A young man thatwe know recently transitioned from singles to pairs, and moved 5 states away in order to train with his new partner. He was homeschooled here, but he has moved without his family; luckily his new city has a professional-children's high school that allows for odd training hours.
Homeschooling is a very double-edged sword for "professional" kids (in parens because I'm also including elite-level amateur athletes for the sake of this post, since the scheduling needs are so similar.) While it lets them have the flexibility to develop a rare talent, it can also be an excuse to simply not bother with much learning in the name of maximizing potential in the short-term. I would never consider it for my child (even if she were extraordinary talented, which she isn't. She's good, but not truly great.) DD spends too much time in the "rink bubble" as it is. I feel it is critical that she stay in touch with the rest of her young world.
They seem to be trying to drive a lot of people to the online app, which IMO isn't set up very well. Unbelievable they still haven't figured out that maybe if someone wants to catch this race or that match they might not enjoy having the result spoiled simply by the header and photos at the navigation point to get to watch the event. It's also rather stupid if they want people to retain any habit of watching television versus online in the first place. It can't be that insurmountable to improve how to deliver the broadcast options to the customer.