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Article #67Re: Gripes about Olympic Coverage
From: Glenn Wichman
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 1984 20:04
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 1984 20:04
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bip.
I'm one who doesn't mind rooting for the "home team" a bit,
so I'm not against flag ceremonies. I don't think they lead
to nationalism necessarily. But the problem with ABC is that
they have forgotten that the USA is an immigrant country. 99%
of the population have their roots elsewhere. Personally, I
am at least as interested in the Swedish, Canadian and German
teams as I am in the US team.
It's not like ABC doesn't have time to show us the other
teams. We see each US athlete do his/her stuff THREE TIMES!
Once live, once instant replay and once "ABC SUPER SLO-MO".
I'd like to see the Americans once, and the teams from other
countries in that other time, regardless of whether those teams
are in first place.
-Glenn
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