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Best US XC results at Olys? Kikkan...and Hakkinen's 10th & 13th!
Offhand it seems to me that the biathlete Hakkinen did the best for the
US at the Oly's this time with a 10th and 13th. But of course I never heard of him til today. I noticed that US skiers were never mentioned or pictured in the two times I watched XC coverage of 3 events on NBC. Even if they weren't doing so hot they should've been mentioned, profiled, etc. Sheesh. --JP |
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Well, I'd like to see how our skiers look in comparison regardless of
whether that's good or bad. I just don't know. The public doesn't know. I think it would be helpful either way. --JP |
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The Olympic camera work was an international feed (note the break ups
on the screen the first couple days). Thus the best athletes got the camera time. If NBC did the camera work you can be sure that American's would have been front and center, from a ratings standpoint, if nothing else. On a couple of occasions the US announcers apologized for the lack of US camera time. My question is, what happened to the 50K XC coverage on the last day that was listed in all the papers? NBC seems to have just dropped that and went with an overview of the games. |
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i thought the announcers showed excitement and made it understandable
to neo-phytes. Robbin's did screw up twice. He said the Italian leader in the last leg of the relay hardly looked like his was pumping, when he was obviously pushing it to the max AND he totally flubbed Justin Wadsworth's name when discussing Beckie Scott, but i think it was just a brain-fart, still, you'd think.well, forget it. I'm not Robbin's age, so maybe i can't empathize. |
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Hakkinen had the second fastest ski time in one of the races, which
was impressive, and his shooting was decent. Interesting comments from Len Johnson at the Jenex site http://www.jenex.com/news/index.html Most interesting parts are comments/comparison to Chinese team and US Biathlon -- see below: JT "The Chinese Program is working, the US 2005 & 2006 Program is not: The Chinese ski program is relatively new, but the results are coming at a rapid pace. The new program director was previously in charge of the Swedish ski team. Since skiing has no real history in China, they picked athletes based on aerobic and general athletic ability and sent them to Scandinavia to learn how to ski. In the 10 K race today, one Chinese finished 18th in a time of 29'34". The best American was Wagner with a time of 31'41". That's over two minutes faster than the best American in a 10 K race. Wagner lost over 12 seconds per kilometer to the Chinese woman and the rest off the US skiers a lot more." "The fifth fastest ski time in the 20 K Biathlon was a Chinese. When we see how fast Jay Hakkinen skis, compared to the men on the US ski Team, we know something is wrong. Jay, who has been living in Germany, has his own training program. How can skiers as talented as Kris Freeman, Andrew Johnson and Carl Swenson be so far back in the two races they have entered to date this month. Let's hope that in the race on Friday they break out and show that they can ski. They are like a totally different team from the results at Val Di Fiemme in 2003." **************************** Remove "remove" to reply Visit http://www.jt10000.com **************************** |
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something interesting about Chinese sports training, in general, from
what i've read, is that they place a tremendous amount of emphasis on training the brain, on mental discipline. do you think our racers are mentally tough enough? (Yes,i realise that's a pretty loaded question.) I would think in biathlon having focus and concentration like a laser beam would help a little bit. |
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It was on at 7-8pm Sunday, with a special in between. The torrent is up
at denness.com, but so far the feed has been spotty. Gene "Ralph Scott" wrote: The Olympic camera work was an international feed (note the break ups on the screen the first couple days). Thus the best athletes got the camera time. If NBC did the camera work you can be sure that American's would have been front and center, from a ratings standpoint, if nothing else. On a couple of occasions the US announcers apologized for the lack of US camera time. My question is, what happened to the 50K XC coverage on the last day that was listed in all the papers? NBC seems to have just dropped that and went with an overview of the games. |
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rocket science is next...
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Anybody helping with the 50k mens and the biathlon mass start torrents?
Over the past 36 hrs it looks like there have been some successful downloads (completed) but I've gotten absolutely nowhere. A few mg on the first and zip on the biathlons. Gene Gene Goldenfeld wrote: It was on at 7-8pm Sunday, with a special in between. The torrent is up at denness.com, but so far the feed has been spotty. Gene "Ralph Scott" wrote: The Olympic camera work was an international feed (note the break ups on the screen the first couple days). Thus the best athletes got the camera time. If NBC did the camera work you can be sure that American's would have been front and center, from a ratings standpoint, if nothing else. On a couple of occasions the US announcers apologized for the lack of US camera time. My question is, what happened to the 50K XC coverage on the last day that was listed in all the papers? NBC seems to have just dropped that and went with an overview of the games. |
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