Winter Games Days 3 And 4

[joggerjayne]

The Games are in full swing, and we are all still on Cloud 9 after watching the amazing performance by Jenny Jones.

[Zacs-Master]

Sounds like a nice girl too.

[jno]

a slightly less amazing performance by the BBC, though

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26116848

[joggerjayne]

Doesn't she.

[Prudie]

It's not really my thing but I would like to watch the women's figure skating. Has it happened, did that young russian girl win gold - Lipnitskya? When's it on?

[Zacs-Master]

Jno, I caught a bit of introduction by the BBC to the snowboarding and it was cringeworthy. I think they almost broke into some inner London patois in describing how 'awesome' it was going to be. Talk about dumbing down.

[joggerjayne]

A British snowboarder cheered ... when another British snowboarder won a medal ...

And people complained?

Seriously?

Are they for real?

Are there really such pathetic, small minded people in the world?

The Winter Games are about passion, excitement, emotion ...

Not about bland, sterile commentary.

Those people should switch off the Olympics, and never, ever watch them again.

Un ... bloody ... believable !

[jno]

it wasn't the cheering when Jones won, it was the cheering when a rival fell that seems to have upset people.

But these people are supposed to be commentators rather than cheerleaders.

[joggerjayne]

Zacs ... it WAS awesome !!

I was watching it in a bar up a mountain, with a few other Brits who were on holiday.

We were going absolutely crazy.

It was the best television EVER.

Actually, the people who complained are obviously not winter sports people, so why should we care what they think of the coverage?

[joggerjayne]

Oh, jno ... is that all it was?

When a rival falls and gets hurt, everyone is concerned.

When I rival puts her hand down on the snow and, in doing so, gives Team GB our first ever Olympic medal in a snow event (Alain Baxter story to follow in a separate post) ..

... the commentary team should be going WILD !!!

These people don't get it. These are winter sports!!

Feel the passion !!!

[joggerjayne]

I don't want commentators to give me a factual description.

Not of snowboarding.

I've read that link, and what the commentators were saying, and frankly ...

... it's brilliant.

[murraymints]

JJ ...welcome home xx....it's been a very exciting games so far ...some of it..no most of it has been spectacular...I can only watch some of the snowboarding and aerial ski stunts through my fingers ..fearless !! ....as for thundering down a track at 100mph on a tea tray...EEK .....!!! .. figure skating/ice dance fantastic too...curling today also....who cares about the commentary..I've had it on with volume off at times so as to make my own mind up about things ! ....sure that wasn't you at the bottom of the ski run posing in the Ray bahns and Versace outfit ?? Lol

[joggerjayne]

Hey, minty.

Sadly, not me. But I was having a jolly time.

[Zacs-Master]

Ok JJ time for your Ritalin. ;-)

[ChillDoubt]

I thought the commentary was refreshing and a little off the wall, which is what slopestyle is anyway, surely?

And to be fair, they weren't actually celebrating that the others slipped, merely excited at what it meant for Jenny Jones. As for Aimee Fuller, surely she was just pleased as punch (ok, maybe a tad exuberant but hey!) for her snowboarding friend and colleague? She knew it wasn't perhaps the done thing with her "probably not" comment but given the significance of the medal for Team GB I'm sure we could allow them a little leeway.
It was hardly in the "Your boys took a hell of a beating" section of sports commentary.

[joggerjayne]

Oh Zacs, it's really annoying.

An amazing GB success, and then these petty, small minded whingeing people try to spoil everyone's fun.

[ferlew]

Apart from Jenny, my fave highlight so far is the Russian couple, she danced in a black tutu.
(Can't spell the name, sorry)

[Ken4155]

I saw a snippet of the Pairs Skating (if that's what it is called) and whilst the Canadian pair were waiting for their marks, their coach left them to attend her "other pair" who were Americans!! How does that work?

[murraymints]

Ferlew...they were fab....especially her !

[ferlew]

She reminded me of the dancer in Black Swan murraymints.

[joggerjayne]

I didn't see the skating.