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Olympics Day 11 Megathread (Tuesday, 6th August) (aussie.zone)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the need for better commentators is definitely a big piece of it. Especially when it comes to the score differences between two different tricks/runs.

But even the best commentators can't make the fact that there was a roughly 60% failure rate look good. The idea that the supposed best in the world (because that's what Olympic athletes should be) are failing to land any points 60% of the time made it absolutely laughable. And I mean that quite literally. The people I was watching with were quite literally laughing at how absurd it was that this is the standard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't remember being as upset as you about the street final. Was it the men's or women's? I didn't watch the women's final.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The men's was certainly much better than the women's (or, frankly, the girls', since it seemed like nearly all of them were about 11–16), but it was still really poor to my eyes. I think I had given up before they got to the finals though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I admit I skipped the women's competition since I had your kind of experience with it when watching Tokyo and it didn't look like this time around would be different.

I enjoyed the men's final though. But we did have a good commentator.