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Here we are, one week into NBC’s coverage of the 21st Winter Olympics and I must say that I guess I just like the Summer Olympics better. Nothing against the Winter Olympics but some of the events, they just don’t give me that Ancient Greece feel for whatever reason. The freestyle moguls? Really? Is this the X-Games? Same with all of the snowboarding. I guess I’m just old school where I enjoy the skiing and the hockey and the curling.
Tragedy struck the Olympics before the Opening ceremonies even had a chance to get underway when a luge athlete from the Republic of Georgia died after crashing into a wall. NBC refrained from showing the graphic images although Yahoo! and several media outlets repeatedly showed the crash. Kudos to NBC for not showing the images and giving this fallen athlete’s family a small amount of respect and privacy that it needs right now. The NBC announcers of Bob Costas and Cris Collinsworth were even somber while “commentating,” on the Georgia’s entrance during the opening ceremonies. I thought NBC handled the tragedy about as well as any network could be expected to, considering it happened just hours before the telecast was slated to kick off.
And speaking of the Olympics, American skier Lindsey Vonn was recently ripped by several women’s organizations for posing on the cover of Sports Illustrated in full skiing gear in a skiing position. The organizations were saying that she was in a “prone” position that had sexual undertones. Umm, she was in a skiing position. Apparently these organizations have never seen a skiing competition. I know the Olympics are only every four years but come on. You should know what skiers look like when doing their craft. One of the organizations that I will not mention because I don’t want to give them attention (these people are the certain animal rights group, only for women who just attack anything to get their name out there), even put some “stats” out there that said women only appear on 4% of Sports Illustrated covers and usually it is with minimal clothes as they are seeking attention. What? Again, Vonn was dressed in full skiing gear in a skiing position. If this group really wanted to rip Vonn, wait one week and go after her for appearing in the Swimsuit issue, which she does. She and several other Olympians are in bikinis or really no clothes across a dozen pages, drawing attention to themselves and their sports. I didn’t hear this group attack this spread though. I don’t get these groups. They don’t pick their battles well.
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