It was a feel-good story for a few hours: Luge veteran Erin Hamlin gets the chance to enter her last Olympics carrying the U.S. flag into the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Games, winning that distinction after a vote by some of her fellow athletes.
And then Shani Davis tweeted.
With that, the entire process was called into controversy. The tweet posted to Davis' account said the process by which Hamlin won was executed "dishonorably" and included a reference to Black History Month -- raising the question of whether the speedskater was suggesting that race played a role in the decision.
It was a feel-good story for a few hours: Luge veteran Erin Hamlin gets the chance to enter her last Olympics carrying the U.S. flag into the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Games, winning that distinction after a vote by some of her fellow athletes.
And then Shani Davis tweeted.
With that, the entire process was called into controversy. The tweet posted to Davis' account said the process by which Hamlin won was executed "dishonorably" and included a reference to Black History Month -- raising the question of whether the speedskater was suggesting that race played a role in the decision.
You know what's dishonorable? Ripping a process you know full well was conducted as the process is laid out because you didn't prevail in the tie-breaker.
The "D" in Davis clearly stands for douchebag.. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
It was a feel-good story for a few hours: Luge veteran Erin Hamlin gets the chance to enter her last Olympics carrying the U.S. flag into the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Games, winning that distinction after a vote by some of her fellow athletes.
And then Shani Davis tweeted.
With that, the entire process was called into controversy. The tweet posted to Davis' account said the process by which Hamlin won was executed "dishonorably" and included a reference to Black History Month -- raising the question of whether the speedskater was suggesting that race played a role in the decision.
You know what's dishonorable? Ripping a process you know full well was conducted as the process is laid out because you didn't prevail in the tie-breaker.
It's difficult to get excited about the winter olympics, but I look forward to figure skating and some Nordic events like ski jumping. Hockey doesn't feature NHL players, so I'll probably skip that.
It was a feel-good story for a few hours: Luge veteran Erin Hamlin gets the chance to enter her last Olympics carrying the U.S. flag into the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Games, winning that distinction after a vote by some of her fellow athletes.
And then Shani Davis tweeted.
With that, the entire process was called into controversy. The tweet posted to Davis' account said the process by which Hamlin won was executed "dishonorably" and included a reference to Black History Month -- raising the question of whether the speedskater was suggesting that race played a role in the decision.
You know what's dishonorable? Ripping a process you know full well was conducted as the process is laid out because you didn't prevail in the tie-breaker.
The "D" in Davis clearly stands for douchebag..
not trying to defend him but I thought his argument is that it should not have came to a coin toss to begin with him carrying a clearly more impressive resume.
If he was white would the votes still have been split 4-4 and go to a coin toss? who knows
but he still comes off as a petty whiny douche _________________ (bleep) Kawhi
Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 18203 Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:13 am Post subject:
Aeneas Hunter wrote:
Gatekeeper wrote:
Even though my native country is hosting it, I don't give a <bleep> about the Pyongyang Olympics.
I think of it as the curling tournament that gets held every four years.
I was little enthused to see the women's snowboarding after all the Chloe Kim hype but after watching a two-minute clip on YouTube I'm over it. Just don't know enough about the sport to appreciate why she's so much better than the competition and I generally dislike all sports, with the exception of boxing, with subjective scoring.
I read an article about her in SI the other day. She seems like a good kid. Hope she gets her gold. _________________ "Suck it up. Don't be a baby. Do your job." - Kobe Bryant
They showed 3.5 hours of coverage on NBC4 yesterday, most of it was live from 5-8:30, with it repeating later on again from 8:30-12. I think the TV format doesn't work well with the Olympics at least here in the USA, since it was like 10 minutes of action followed by commercial, rinse and repeat. So you missed a lot of stuff. If you are really into the Olympics you pretty much have to stream the events, otherwise you are at the mercy of the TV director.
Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 18203 Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:47 am Post subject:
lakersken80 wrote:
I think the TV format doesn't work well with the Olympics at least here in the USA, since it was like 10 minutes of action followed by commercial, rinse and repeat. So you missed a lot of stuff. If you are really into the Olympics you pretty much have to stream the events, otherwise you are at the mercy of the TV director.
Oh yeah. I've always hated that about Olympic coverage. I expect we'll see a lot of the U.S. athletes (Vonn, Kim, Chen, etc) who've been featured in the NBC promos with whatever remaining airtime given to the events which draw the most viewers. _________________ "Suck it up. Don't be a baby. Do your job." - Kobe Bryant
It was a feel-good story for a few hours: Luge veteran Erin Hamlin gets the chance to enter her last Olympics carrying the U.S. flag into the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Games, winning that distinction after a vote by some of her fellow athletes.
And then Shani Davis tweeted.
With that, the entire process was called into controversy. The tweet posted to Davis' account said the process by which Hamlin won was executed "dishonorably" and included a reference to Black History Month -- raising the question of whether the speedskater was suggesting that race played a role in the decision.
You know what's dishonorable? Ripping a process you know full well was conducted as the process is laid out because you didn't prevail in the tie-breaker.
The "D" in Davis clearly stands for douchebag..
not trying to defend him but I thought his argument is that it should not have came to a coin toss to begin with him carrying a clearly more impressive resume.
If he was white would the votes still have been split 4-4 and go to a coin toss? who knows
but he still comes off as a petty whiny douche
Totally misses the Olympic Spirit. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
It was a feel-good story for a few hours: Luge veteran Erin Hamlin gets the chance to enter her last Olympics carrying the U.S. flag into the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Games, winning that distinction after a vote by some of her fellow athletes.
And then Shani Davis tweeted.
With that, the entire process was called into controversy. The tweet posted to Davis' account said the process by which Hamlin won was executed "dishonorably" and included a reference to Black History Month -- raising the question of whether the speedskater was suggesting that race played a role in the decision.
You know what's dishonorable? Ripping a process you know full well was conducted as the process is laid out because you didn't prevail in the tie-breaker.
The "D" in Davis clearly stands for douchebag..
not trying to defend him but I thought his argument is that it should not have came to a coin toss to begin with him carrying a clearly more impressive resume.
If he was white would the votes still have been split 4-4 and go to a coin toss? who knows
but he still comes off as a petty whiny douche
It was a feel-good story for a few hours: Luge veteran Erin Hamlin gets the chance to enter her last Olympics carrying the U.S. flag into the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Games, winning that distinction after a vote by some of her fellow athletes.
And then Shani Davis tweeted.
With that, the entire process was called into controversy. The tweet posted to Davis' account said the process by which Hamlin won was executed "dishonorably" and included a reference to Black History Month -- raising the question of whether the speedskater was suggesting that race played a role in the decision.
You know what's dishonorable? Ripping a process you know full well was conducted as the process is laid out because you didn't prevail in the tie-breaker.
The "D" in Davis clearly stands for douchebag..
not trying to defend him but I thought his argument is that it should not have came to a coin toss to begin with him carrying a clearly more impressive resume.
If he was white would the votes still have been split 4-4 and go to a coin toss? who knows
but he still comes off as a petty whiny douche
Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 35813 Location: Santa Clarita, CA (Hell) ->>>>>Ithaca, NY -≥≥≥≥≥Berkeley, CA
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 8:05 am Post subject:
Has anyone noticed that around a third of NBC's coverage, if not more, is just human interest stories? Between that, the commercials, and the commentary, less than half of the time spent watching is devoted to the actual competition. _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
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