Trying to watch Skiing and Snowboarding on regular TV is almost impossible or never on these days??

[BenedictGomez]

and now with the Olympics, we're shown more profile stories on the athletes, per hour, than actual full field races.

It's intolerable. I think NBC hires private investigators to find out who has a family member whose brother's, finance's, former high school principal recently died. It'd ridiculous.

That and the fact they used to show 50% gymnastics/swimming or figure skating/ice dancing versus all the other sports combined. Thank the Lord for streaming, it's made Olympic coverage a zillion percent better recently.

 

[deadheadskier]

Bigtime. I volunteered at the World Cup Biathlon last year, and even in that sport the athletes are household names like baseball or football players here.

Checks out with what my customer said about the XC and Biathlon events up in Aroostook County. He proudly mentioned that "The County" (population 67k) had more athletes on the upcoming US Olympic team than any other county in the country and no one knows or cares who they are, but all of the international competitors were stars and household names in Europe and millions tuned in to watch in those countries. I forget if this was 2018 or 2022.

Which gets back to my point that TV popularity for sporting events is often driven by how relatable the competition is to the citizenry. Because so few people ski and even less have raced, there's no demand for WC racing on US TV compared to Europe. I know my interest in watching racing went way up once I started competing myself. It's more relatable to me because I now know how difficult it is to do, which makes watching it all that much more impressive to me.

I think it's great to watch racing on TV, especially now with how much better the technology is with drones and higher definition cameras. The only reason why I don't go to the WC at Killington is I just don't like being in large crowds anymore. I rarely go to large sporting events or concerts these days for the same reason.

 

[2Planker]

Bigtime. I volunteered at the World Cup Biathlon last year, and even in that sport the athletes are household names like baseball or football players here.

US Olympic Biathloner Sean Doherty is huge in Europe, but in his Conway NH home… no one really knows who he is.

 

[Smellytele]

Checks out with what my customer said about the XC and Biathlon events up in Aroostook County. He proudly mentioned that "The County" (population 67k) had more athletes on the upcoming US Olympic team than any other county in the country and no one knows or cares who they are, but all of the international competitors were stars and household names in Europe and millions tuned in to watch in those countries. I forget if this was 2018 or 2022.

Which gets back to my point that TV popularity for sporting events is often driven by how relatable the competition is to the citizenry. Because so few people ski and even less have raced, there's no demand for WC racing on US TV compared to Europe. I know my interest in watching racing went way up once I started competing myself. It's more relatable to me because I now know how difficult it is to do, which makes watching it all that much more impressive to me.

I think it's great to watch racing on TV, especially now with how much better the technology is with drones and higher definition cameras. The only reason why I don't go to the WC at Killington is I just don't like being in large crowds anymore. I rarely go to large sporting events or concerts these days for the same reason.

I have to say it is better to watch on TV than in person as basically you only see the finish in person. The rest of the course you only see on the tv screens there as well. Though you do get the atmosphere at the event.

 

[deadheadskier]

Yeah, it's the atmosphere that I don't have an interest in. Being nuts to butts with 20k people

 

[KustyTheKlown]

i go to a lot of concerts and recently have found things to be more crowded and/or audiences to have worse etiquette. not so much at the jamband things, but holy shit the more mainstream and electronic music i go to see. lcd soundsystem at knockdown center was so oversold. the entire night was spent battling people. it was not fun and it was the venue's fault. i feel like at least in nyc, a lot of venues are conflating comfortable capacity and legal capacity. like the lcd venue can fit (hypothetically) 4000 people, but only 2000 of them can see the show bc they have secondary spaces and shit. so all 4000 cram into the 2000 space. im encountering this shit more and more. the other night at jamie xx it was not oversold, and was comfortable, but this one couple decided to keep drifting basically to the point of contact. i was like breathing on their shoulders. i asked thm to move. 2 min later thy were right back on me. i started intentionally bumping them 'dancing'. they fuckin moved.

 

[deadheadskier]

Terminal 5 is pretty damn bad about that. I'm likely never to return, but if I do, I'm in early grabbing a spot on the rail upstairs and not moving all night.