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I've watched a fair bit. I don't know if it's a west coast thing or what, but they are showing "live" events out here a few hours after they happen. Fucking NBC...not that their complete and all-encompassing failure to cover the olympics properly hasn't been written about a million times.

As for some of the female Chinese gymnasts - it's one thing to look young, it's another to have a pre-pubescent facial bone structure.

But hey, shenanigans are part of the olympic tradition.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 03:41:47 PM EST
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Some things here are live (that gymnastics competition last night), and some are tape delayed for prime time (like the opening ceremonies).  NBC has botched the Olympics beyond all recognition.  It's what they do.  But they are doing a better job this year, IMO, with less stupid commentary and longer segments devoted to the actual sports events.  It's bearable.  

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
by poemless on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 03:47:46 PM EST
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As long as there are no drugs...

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 04:13:37 PM EST
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Is that supposed to be funny?

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 05:10:27 PM EST
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I mean, the odds that Dara Torres is not doping is near zero.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 05:14:42 PM EST
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It would be great to prove that, but I don't see how.  She's given blood to last for years and years of testing.

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
by poemless on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 05:20:23 PM EST
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As one sportswriter put it, we've earned our right to be more than skeptical. It's one kind of awe inspiring to be the best in the world at something, it's quite another to beat the best 25 year olds in the world using a 41 year old body in a high-metabolism driven sport like swimming.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 05:26:55 PM EST
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Is that supposed to be funny?

Well, what is it that we are obsessed with?  Seems to me that it wouldn't matter if athletes were grown in test tubes and were only 13 yrs old, provided there was no definitive proof, no drugs and, most of all, no video.  Guess I am just warped.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.

by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 07:24:23 PM EST
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