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I agree with the Teddy Bear, Woodstock, and Gary regarding the
rather disgusting olympic coverage.  Take Sunday (please?),
the camera-person for volleyball should have been put in the ring
with one of the heavyweight boxers. (with no helmet) Constant
zooming and panning with the effect that you couldn't see anything.
Once in awhile you'd see a glimpse of the ball flying past the
corner of the screen.  Lots of good closeups of the players talking
to each other between plays.  Thats what's important, right? :-)
Should of had one camera frame the entire court, and LEAVE IT THERE.
Let the other cameras play with their zoom lenses, and use it for
SUPER-SLO-MO *if* they ever get anything good.  One gets really tired
of seeing a nice spike but not seeing where it lands. etc etc.

I also wonder about the artistic merit of all the nice closeups
of the (bicycle) road racer's butts by the camera-on-a-motorcycle.
(Which was probably a nice distraction/nuisance they could have done
without.)

It was painfully obvious that they were concentrating almost exclusively
on the US team.  The constant switching back and forth between events
is extremely annoying.  I'd much rather watch a tape-delayed broadcast
with events in a reasonable sequence to "live" action which is unwatchable.

Last night's (Wed) coverage was somewhat better.  They actually showed
other countries in the gymnastics!  (talk about a cliffhanger!) The
v-ball camera-person was much better also.  But the constant inane
patter they seem to feel is necessary. -ugh- "What do you think about
this event?" "Well, both teams are top competators, both are in excellant
condition, I think we'll see a really close match here tonight...."
and on and on and on...
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