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nutonthetiller
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Topic: Olympic Commentators Posted: 07 Aug 12 at 10:19am |
Richard Simmonds is in my view truly awful. I have found it better to watch with the sound off. He doesn't know the rules or seem to understand much about racing in any of the fleets. When you watch tennis or cricket the commentators are armed with loads of facts and anecdotes to fill in. Richard doesn't even seem to have read the sailing instructions, evidenced by him saying that the wining Chinese sailor should have done two turns when called for pumping.
His "Joker" is just cringe worthy. The medal race is the race where the top 10 competitors are forced to play the joker, there is no choice. If Simmonds was commentating on any other sport he would have been black flagged long ago.
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opalspark
Newbie Joined: 07 Aug 12 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 07 Aug 12 at 10:10am |
None off them are commenting on the ridiculous Nothe sailing, and as for the Joker race !!!!
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Oatsandbeans
Far too distracted from work Joined: 19 Sep 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 382 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 07 Aug 12 at 10:02am |
I'd be interested to know what people think of the current crop of TV commentators. Richard Simmonds is starting to really annoy me. I don't care for his style and he makes some real clangers. eg. He is surprisingly unimforned about how they race lasers offwind, as one sailor perfomed a neat transition from bye the lee to broad reach he said " that was a bit of a hand break turn that will slow him down". He also seemed oblivious to the fact that the brit boat had slipped from first to 6th on the first beat and then dropped down to ~ 15th during the race. This hardly seemed worthy of comment, (when the NZ boat climbed from last to ~6th in the same race). If that was not a shocker of a race for the brit what was? He was wondering what his coach was telling him after the race!! ( 4/10)
Leigh Mc Millan has been much better giving good insight and not being overly technical nor facile. ( 9/10) Shirley has been quite good on the interviews ( for an ex sailor!), (7/10) THe last one is the guy who normally does the snooker ( Rob something?), He was awful last time round, really cringeworthy! this time he has upped his game and is much better and even has surpassed Mr Simmonds so he gets 5/10.
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