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I guess our miscommunication is on what I really have a problem with. I've been bombarded by stories and announcers declaring him to be the greatest Olympian ever and acting as if nobody else even belongs in the discussion. ESPN.com has a writer that actually declared that "Michael Phelps saved the Olympics" - no joke. What Phelps has done is impressive. But I, personally, was more impressed by Usain Bolt's complete destruction of the 100 meter field.
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I guess we're coming at it from different directions. The whole argument in this thread started because someone actually said "who cares?" about Phelps achievement, so I think there's equally ridiculous stuff coming from the Phelps backlash bandwagon.
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And speaking of humongous comebacks, USA Softball comes into the bottom of the ninth against Japan, down a run,, and scratches a run across, and then gets a three run HR to win it and advance to the gold medal game.
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LOL, typical ESPN. Honestly, if anything, Phelps has probably taken a lot away from the Olympics for a lot of countries outside of the USA. He was pretty much the entire story for the first week of the games. If it hadn't been for Stephanie Rice and the time she's spent on my TV screen, I'd have gone insane by now. Seriously though, the older I get, the less caught up in the Olympics I seem to be getting - Outside of the basketball, anyhow.
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I don't see why the statement that Phelps saved the olympics is so bad. I honestly had little interest in the olympics coming in. There isn't any major track and field stars for the U.S. and outside of the dream team, no one else I know of. Their isn't a rival like there was before with the Soviets. It hasn't been a secret that the olympics don't have the same luster they used to and previous ones were seeing major rating dips.
It'll be interesting to see how the ratings come in for this week. No Phelps and no gymnastics. Sure I'll catch the dream team if it's on, but outside of that, I really don't see myself dedicating much time to anything that'll be on NBC this week. Last edited by RainMaker : 08-20-2008 at 12:17 AM. |
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Because its utterly silly. The Olympics are doing quite fine around the world. Just because some Americans may not be as interested isn't exactly a big deal overall.
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Tell that to the IOC if their rights fees fall, since those provide over half their total revenue. And for Torino & Beijing, over half of their TV revenue came from NBC. And without Phelps, NBC's primetime numbers were down 14% on Sunday and 19% by Monday.
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DING! not often I feel that Jon hits the nail on the head but he's got this one pegged. Money drives everything, the Olympics are no exception to that and the real money is from American TV rights. If you lose the interest of the American public you lose a big chunk of money and without money they can't put on 57-gagillion swimming events and create their "second coming" of medalists like Phelps. |
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The ratings are down not even mostly because of Phelps, IMO.
Internet + tape delay = terrible ratings In the information age, only live sporting events are going to get good ratings. And Phelps didn't save the Olympics. Please. That is just plain silly. Maybe he helped the Olympics make more money, but to most of us that isn't the point. It might be the IOC's current goal, but the Olympics will be fine without him.
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By the way, 200 meter results
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That might have been the point, of course. I am waging a counter-propoganda war. This is important stuff.
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he isn't an American, why would you expect the coverage/media hype for a Jamaican to be as huge as for an American? there's always a level of homersim in the Olympics. to wag your finger at people who cheer for the hometown kid who did great at the Olympics is plain dumb. you're a communist.
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+1 I find myself caring a lot less about watching the track & field events since I already know the results. I tuned in to watch a lot of the swimming live (not just Phelps). |
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For example, there's a very good chance I won't watch the 200m final tonight on NBC. I already know the result and I already watched video of the race thanks to the internet. Why would I sit through all the commercials and pre-event hype for less than 20 seconds of competition later tonight? Now if the final had been live there is no way I would have missed it.
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boggles my mind that NBC isn't charging for the video-streams on the website - i think that'd be a huge potential source of revenue for them -- perhaps in the future and this is just sort of a "test run" of it
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The 4 by 100 relay should be amazing. I wonder why there is no 4x200 one. I'd think Jamaica will win, but team USA could pull the upset.
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So the swimmers can have more medals than the track athletes. Duh.
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So we've had "Who cares?" about Phelps accomplishment and now we've gotten to Phelps not having a major impact on the ratings. I think we've left the realm of reality.
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I never said he didn't have a major impact. I said I think the internet + tape delay is a bigger impact. I didn't watch NBC's coverage of the 100 meter final and probably won't watch their coverage of the 200 meter final. I pretty much never miss those events and I have never missed those events if they've been televised live (except probably in 1980, but I was 2 years old about to turn 3 so I'm not sure). As shown above there are others in the same boat. Do you think the ratings for Phelps' races would have been the same if it were tape-delayed and everyone already knew the result? Or do you think maybe NBC is well aware that the ratings would have taken a huge hit because of tape delay and that's why they negotiated with the IOC to run those races in the morning in Beijing so they could be live in U.S. primetime?
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Media Life Magazine - Beijing Games hold lead over Athens
Still, the network’s momentum has clearly cooled a bit after the huge numbers for the opening week, which featured Michael Phelps’ eight gold medal run and the bulk of the gymnastics competition. That’s not surprising. Nearly every Summer Games sees ratings dip from the first to the second week because the second-week events tend to be less popular. The second week has slipped an average 12.5 percent the past four Games, dating back to Barcelona, according to an analysis by SportsBusiness Journal. The smallest dropoff, 9 percent, came in 1996, when the U.S. hosted the Olympics in Atlanta. U.S. Games tend to see higher ratings generally. The past two Olympics have fallen an average 12 percent in their second weeks, and that’s about where NBC stands right now. Monday’s viewership was off 11 percent from the previous week, when Phelps captured his third and fourth gold medals. If ratings stay on a similar trajectory, NBC will still finish well ahead of Athens as well as Sydney 2000, the lowest-rated primetime Olympics ever. Here's another interesting profile about the average Olympic viewer on NBC. Just a snippet here: The median age is 48, the largest viewing cell is women in their late 40's, but much of the increased viewership is coming from men this year, up 18% over Athens (women up 9%).
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Did anyone catch that comment during women's gymnastics the other night about how Michael Phelps and Alicia Sacramone had the biggest amount of hits on the Olympics site? The announcer was impressed about Alicia being up there, and I was chortling at home. I know I looked her up only because someone on this thread posted a pic iof how hot she was. NBC discovers internet pr0n!!
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May/Walsh win the Gold!
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Andrea Kremer is really terrible at the empathy thing.
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Sad decision by the Olympic games organization, not allowing the Spanish competitors to wear a black lace in the memory of the 153 dead passengers that died yesterday in a terrible plane crash in Spain.
The Spanish Olympic delegation asked the Chinese organization to allow Spanish competitors to wear that black lace today, and to have the Spanish flag half lowered in memory of yesterday's victims but the Chinese didn't approve it saying that they don't allow those kind of public acts not related to the Olympic games. What a bunch of insensible hardheads, but what else could you expect from a country dictators like the ones governing in China? Fun how the Olympic games should support civil rights and freedom and all countries including mine are sucking Chinese asses because their economic power and business opportunities in their huge market :/
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I haven't read back about the Phelps-Bolt-saved the Olympics-greatest olympian ever discovered saga, but I wanted to share this, so take it however it applies:
On Saturday night, I was in a high class restaurant in Manhattan named Keen's Chophouse (expensive as hell, I got the cheapest thing and damned to heck if I care what the waiter thought), which is the last place I would expect too many people to care about sports, much less the Olympics. As my party and I were finished with our meals, we wandered over to Keen's adjoining bar to wait while some others went to the bathroom. Well, Phelps was about to race for his eighth gold (the relay) live. The bar was packed, mostly with guys like you or I that could give a rat's ass about the Olympics. And every eye was riveted to the TV. No sound was being made at all as this race started. Once it did, everyone started yelling support at the screen. The bartenders were yelling at the screen. Everyone was pointing. No one was ordering a drink or looking anywhere but at Phelps and his teammates trying to get that gold. Once they did, the place just exploded. Everyone was giddy with happiness over Phelps getting his eighth gold. It was pretty overwhelming, I have to admit. Any time you see that sorta passion from a large group of people who don't normally care about the Olympics, that's really something. Phelps has definitely had an impact (at least on Americans).
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For what i'm reading, the IOC made the ruling after the BOCOG (Chinese Olympic games organization) asked them to rule against it, as Chinese government doesn't allow public showing of symbols related to tragedies. The IOC agreed to disaalow it to not to offend the Chineses. Before Spain, USA asked also for it when a Voley coach parent was killed early in Pekin at the start of the games, it was denied too. Spanish sportment are ignoring it and wearing the black lace, for example the Spanish sailing gold medal winners today were wearing it when receiving the medal. I doubt the COI will have the nuts to disqualify them for something like that.
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Wow, just watched the end of the Norway-South Korea Women's Handball semifinals. Norway was up three with a minute to play (the clock in handball is a running clock). Norway gets a two minute penalty, and Korea starts a comeback after a steal and a missed Norway shot.
Korea actually ties the game at 28 with :06 to play. Norway's goalie has to fish the ball out of the net, get it to a teammate at half court... (when a player has the ball at mid court, the play can begin) the player at halfcourt gets it to a fast teammate who gets a shot off with :01 to play.. and it beats the goalie, sending Norway to the Gold medal Game, 29-28!
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What are the odds anything actually happens?
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Very slim to none. The IOC appears quite willing to bend themselves not only over but into a pretzel to keep the Chinese happy.
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seriously - that's fucking disgraceful if nothing happens, the IOC can go fuck themselves - she ought to be stripped and the chinese team golds ought to be stripped too
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Yeah, like no one expected that?
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