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This one is about Kitty and the Mayor kissing and making up. This one from US Associated Press

Diplomat incident avoided: Aussies get rooms at Rio Olympics
By STEPHEN WADE Jul. 27, 2016 4:47 PM EDT
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A near-diplomatic incident — as Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes termed it — came to an end on Wednesday ahead of the Olympics. The Australian delegation gave the mayor a tiny "boxing kangaroo" doll as the sign of a truce. It also said it's now happy with its rooms at Rio's Olympic Athletes Village. The 700-member delegation refused to check in three days earlier because of water and gas leaks, electrical shorts, malfunctioning toilets and general filth.

The unfinished village, built at a cost of about $1.5 billion, marks the first organizational crisis of South America's first Olympics, which open in just over a week. Attention now shifts to dozens of venues, which will be filling up in the next few days with thousands of athletes hoping to practice. Problems here could make village problems seems small.

"It was almost a diplomatic thing," the mayor said, speaking to Australian officials and members of the men's field hockey team at the 31-building village.Paes apologized and acknowledged Australia's "was the worst building." "Australia was right," he said. "It was not in good shape. That was a mistake of the organization. What we have to do now is go ahead and organize it. They've got their building now, and I hope things go well from now on." As his offering, Paes gave delegation head Kitty Chiller the keys to the city, and a doll representing the official mascot Vinicius......
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Diplomat incident avoided: Aussies get rooms at Rio Olympics

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Rio de Janeiro's mayor Eduardo Paes, left, greets Australia's delegation head Kitty Chiller during a ceremony at the Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, July 27, 2016.

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Rio de Janeiro's mayor Eduardo Paes, right, holds a toy Kangaroo he received from the Australian Olympic delegation as he talks next to Australia's hockey player Aran Zalewski during a ceremony at the Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, July 27, 2016.
 

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Great article in the Daily Tele last Monday saying how the ARU targeted women from other sports once the IOC voted to put in Rugby 7's for Rio at the 2009 vote.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...o/news-story/867944556531b81659a81c8d38d9d08f

In 2014 Emilee Cherry was voted the world’s best women’s sevens player and next month she’ll be a key player in Australia’s pursuit of Olympic gold in Rio. Just over four years ago, however, Cherry had never made a tackle in her life. And she wasn’t alone. At the start of the last Olympic year, over half of the members in Australia’s 12-woman Olympic squad hadn’t even stepped onto a rugby field........... Four years on and the Australian women’s sevens team are ranked no.1 in the world and are a excellent gold medal chance in Rio...............

WOMEN'S SEVENS TEAM TO STORM OLYMPICS
Chloe Dalton, 23 Basketball guard for the WNBL Sydney Flames team, 2012-13
Ellia Green, 23 Sprinter who represented Australia in 100m at World Schools, 2009.
Shannon Parry, 26 Member of Australia’s 2010 and 2014 World Cup XVs team.

Nicole Beck, 28 Member of winning 2009 Australian sevens World Cup team & 2010 Australian 15s World Cup team.

Charlotte Caslick, 21 Australian touch football representative 2012-13. Australian 800m champion in primary school.

Amy Turner, 32 Represented NZ Maori in sevens, NZ in touch football and Queensland in rugby league. Drove trucks in Mt Isa mines.

Sharni Williams, 28 Played hockey for Canberra Strikers in the national league. Debuted for Wallaroos in 2008. Former mechanic.

Evania Pelite, 21 Represented Australia in touch football, 2013
Emma Tonegato, 21 Represented Australian Jillaroos in rugby league, 2013
Alicia Quirk, 24 Represented Australia in touch football, 2010-13
Emilee Cherry, 23 Australian touch football representative 2011-12
Gemma Etheridge, 29 Australian touch football representative, 2012

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...o/news-story/867944556531b81659a81c8d38d9d08f

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Last Friday Sports illustrated did their usual Olympic medals predictions in their Olympic preview edition. They only put up their predictions on their site yesterday. Here are their medal predictions table. You will note they follow the US tradition of puting the list by total medals not by gold. They are predicting Australia to finish 5th in totals and 3rd in gold as they have - well journo Brian Cazeneuve has like he has for the last 4 or 5 summer Olympics.

Cazeneuve is a swimming reporter, went to the US trials and is picking the Oz swimmers to beat up somewhat on the US team. Time will tell I guess. This is is his predictions in swimming which is why his total Oz position is so high

Men
50m Free McEvoy Silver (Manaudou France gold)
100m Free McEvoy Gold
400m Free Horton Gold
1,500m Free Siver (Paltrinieri Italy gold)
100m Back Larkin Gold
200m Larkin Gold
4 x 100m Free Silver (France Gold US Bronze)
4 x 200m Free Silver (US Gold GBR Bronze)
4 x 100m Medley Silver (US Gold CHN Bronze)
..........4 Gold 5 Silver

Women
50m Free Cate Campbell Gold Bronte Bronze
100m Free Cate Campbell Gold Bronte Silver
800m Free Ashwood Silver (Ledecky US Gold)
100m Back Seebohm Gold
200m Back Seebohm Gold Hocking Silver
200m Breast Taylor McKeown Silver ( Kaneto Jap Gold)
200m BFly Groves Gold
4x100m Free Gold
4x100m Medley Gold
.....7 Gold 4 Silver 1 Bronze
Total 11 Gold 9 Silver 1 Bronze = 21 medals

He is giving the Yanks 4+4+8=16 for the men and 5+3+4 for the women for a total of 9+7+12= 28 medals which is about right for total medals. He gives Phelps the gold in the 100m fly and silvers in the 200 fly and 200 IM, and with relays would mean golds in the 4x200m and 4x100 medley. Not a bad Olympics for Phelps add 3 more gold and 5 medals to his total.

Canoeing gives 0+1+1=2 and Jess Fox a bronze
Cycling gives 4+2+0 =6 across all disciplines, Gold to Glaetzer in Sprint, Teams Pursuit, Meares in Kerin and Buchanan in BMX
Hockey 1+0+1=2 Gold to men, bronze to women
Rowing 3+1+1=5 Gold to Men's and Women's Quad Sculls and Kim Brennan (nee crow) Single Sculls
Rugby 1+0=1 Women's Seven's.

So that is 37 medals from those sports above and 13 across all other disciplines. If he is close to right and our sailors do better than his 3 silvers then it could be a bloody successful games for Oz.

All his predictions are at
http://www.si.com/olympics/2016/08/...dal-picks-predictions-projected-medal-count#s

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Jeremias said:
How close have his predictions been in previous Olympics, RussellEbertHandball?
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Around 75%-80% for medals by country but not necessarily for individuals, eg he might pick 2 of 3 US winners in athletics event, but the third one he left out might get a medal and one of the two miss out.
 

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Jacquelin Magnay will be writing for the Australian - has been for a month or so now. Was a politics reporer for SMH and then moved into sports in the mid 1990's and then became a senior Olympic writer at theSMH from 199-2008 before moving to the Telegraph ( or maybe Daily Mail) and became their chief Olympics reporter for London.

Anyway she is writing some good stuff and to get around the paywalls it looks like a link from her twitter account will do the job. So I will put up a tweet and the first couple of paragraphs of some of her stuff


This is a tale of two Olympics. Along the 10km long Barra beachfront, waves are pumping and the wind howling as scores of joggers and skaters join families in the early evening for a refreshment stop. Suddenly at a midpoint surfboard-themed beach bar with coconut accoutrements, a Carioca whips out drums, a rhythm is established with tapping feet and banging of caipirinha glasses on tables, and the early evening is transformed into an invigorating party under the darkening shadows of Sugar Loaf Mountain.

This is the carefree Olympic Games Brazilian style that International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach describes as “full of passion and joy of life”. Elsewhere in the city, the crawling heavy traffic is brought to a standstill by an obstruction up ahead. Annoyance gives way to fear as armed men thrust guns at car windows, demanding lines of passengers get out and lie on the road so they can ransack the vehicles and passengers for valuables. For the past three evenings the same gang used the same stretch of road in the middle of Rio de Janeiro for their highway robbery.

“We have full confidence in the Brazilian authorities in regards to security and we are in contact with them, getting regular reports, and the IOC is taking into consideration Olympic-related security measures,” says Bach.
 
2 articles in the Oz press that were taken from the UK. This first one in the Fin Review on Tuesday came from The Telegraph

Forget the Jeremiahs – The Rio Olympics will be a triumph
It seems half a lifetime ago, when Zika was nothing more than a hotly-contested Scrabble suggestion, that Rio de Janeiro won the 2016 Olympics on a call to "live your passion". Theirs had been a bid full of brio, vibrancy and caipirinha-fuelled verve, their victory toasted by huge plumes of silver glitter that rose high into the Copacabana evening.

Jacques Rogge, then president of the International Olympic Committee, acclaimed Rio's campaign as one with "absolutely no flaw". Even a newly inaugurated President Obama, still full of his audacity of hope, could not seize the day for his hometown Chicago in the face of a Brazilian juggernaut, graciously bowing to the prevailing will to stage the first Games in South America. It was a moment of affirmation not just for a country, but a continent.

Seven years on, one could be forgiven for imagining that this was all just a sick joke. The slickness with which Rio projected itself to the world, in videos framed by Christ the Redeemer and the soft plucks of flamenco guitar, has since unspooled into a hellish vision of disease, dysfunction and drug cheats galore.

This, at least, is the perception beloved of Jeremiahs who specialise in such quadrennial angst. Every four years, the story is the same, as an Olympic host city emerges somehow unscathed from hand-wringing predictions that nobody will come, nothing will be finished on time or, in Rio's case, that clouds of mosquitoes will descend from Sugarloaf Mountain like the third plague of Egypt.


Somewhere, in the midst of all this exaggerated horror, there is a wonderful spectacle straining to be unleashed. Sandwiched between all the doom-mongering and the subsequent agitating about legacy are the finest 17 days of sport the world can conjure. Soon enough, all the tales of crime-ridden back streets and malfunctioning showers in the athletes' village will be superseded by Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps and a cast of thousands striving to make Rio remembered for happier reasons.
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The games will be good
Looking forward to these Games ought not to be a renegade view. Bolt is making his last stand, Phelps his last splash, while Mo Farah is leading Britain's pursuit of 48 medals by seeking to become only the second man, after Lasse Viren, to win the Olympic "distance double" twice. Plus, all this is unfurling against one of the most bewitching city scapes on Earth.

With all due respect for Eton Dorney, the rowing venue at London 2012, it hardly rivals its Rio equivalent of the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas – boasting Corcovado Mountain and the Tijuca forest as a backdrop – in the aesthetic stakes.
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The chaos of the village
A certain ambient level of chaos is part of the tapestry in Rio. True, the Australian delegation were none too impressed last week to find their section of the Olympic Village resembling a trashed student dormitory, but it was nothing a few kind words from the mayor and a gift of a furry toy kangaroo could not cure.

Competitors inured to four years of grind and sacrifice are, for the most part, relaxed about a few strips of masking tape over their bathroom tiles.
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So, let us savour Rio for the showpiece it puts on best: a carnival, laced with every shade of Carioca colour. It is not as if, away from the fixation with the crime and the poisoned waters,Few could argue that the £7.3 billion ($12.7 billion) ploughed into the Rio Games would not be more fruitfully spent on improving the city's overflowing public hospitals or on resolving its deepening fiscal crisis.

In this context, the blandishments afforded to International Olympic Committee worthies who will glide through town in their courtesy limousines can appear uncomfortably Fifa-esque.

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Economic benefits? Few
Often, tangible long-term benefits are slight. This informs much of the revisionism around the £9.2 billion London Games, now described as a colossal waste of time and money by people who were only too pleased to lap up the pomp and patriotism at the time. Where is the school sport revolution, goes the cry. What about childhood obesity? These protests overlook the reality that the Olympics are, fundamentally, a two-week party.

To pretend that a host nation spends the ensuing years in some delirious haze of virtue and joie de vivre is a delusion. The Super Bowl happens on a Sunday night, after a week of hysterical build-up, and by Tuesday it is all but forgotten. Sport packs up and moves on with brutal speed, and the Olympics are no different. They do not make us rich but they do, however fleetingly, make us feel better about ourselves. Can a price ever really be put on that?
there are not stirring stories to relish. Take the 10 refugee athletes who have gathered in Brazil under the Olympic flag, in what the IOC is heralding as a "symbol of hope for the world".

Just a year ago, Syria's Yusra Mardini was traversing Turkish mountains and negotiating treacherous Mediterranean waters aboard a trafficker's makeshift dinghy. When the boat's engine stopped, off the coast of Lesbos, she and her sister had to drag themselves to shore, eventually passing out from exhaustion. It is little wonder that Mardini, who will swim in the 200 metres freestyle despite being terrified of the open sea, can scarcely credit that she is in Rio at all. "The Olympics is everything," she said. "It's a life chance."


Is it still 'faster, higher, stronger'?
Forget, for a second, the official Olympic mantra of "Faster, Higher, Stronger". The refugee contingent at Rio 2016 will ensure a reconnection with the ideal of Pierre de Coubertin, father of the modern Games, who believed that Olympians should be defined as much by the struggle as by the result.

Many of them have fallen far short of the official qualifying standards in their disciplines, but past precedent should reassure us that this hardly matters. Eric "the Eel" Moussambani, a wild card from Equatorial Guinea thrown into Sydney 2000 at late notice, was a swimmer of quite comic ineptitude. And yet his conspicuous effort rendered him a cult hero.
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The drug taint
Martini-and-metenolone cocktails, dirty urine samples passed through holes in the laboratory wall and swapped for clean ones: these were perhaps the most egregious acts committed against the spirit of Olympic competition.They cannot fail to leave a taint.
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The Olympic icons will shimmer once more. Bolt will, his suspect hamstring permitting, sign off with the flourish he intends. These will be thoughts that linger from Rio, not the screeching warnings about muggings and car-jackings or the sour sight of that Russian flag still fluttering by the Olympic flame. It is the trompe l'oeil that the Olympics always manage to pull off, where, despite all the fear and the rancour and the idea that we are all heading off to the nine circles of hell, they somehow turn out to be alright on the night.
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Forget the Jeremiahs – The Rio Olympics will be a triumph



And this in one from today's Australian by David Walsh - of the chasing Lance Armstrong fame for 13 years - from the Sunday Times. He looks at the drug question and unlike Armstrong sides with the sportsman in bolts case.

Rio Olympics: True believers need a clean Usain Bolt
During the London Olympics Usain Bolt’s long-time coach Glen Mills was shooting the breeze with a colleague about what might happen at Rio 2016. Bolt had been musing about switching to the 400m and going for the 200-400m double in Brazil. Mills was not sure what he would do. One thing he did know, though. “There’s no way that any 30-year-old will beat Yohan Blake in 2016.”

Mills has a natural instinct for knowing what not to say in public. This was a private observation. Even then he was not straying far off the straight and narrow in suggesting there would be no record-breaking third consecutive 100m gold medal for Bolt. Blake was the coming man and, as coach to both sprinters, Mills might have been expected to know. You can imagine Mills now calmly distancing himself from that pronouncement. Bolt turns 30 on August 21, a week after the 100m final. Officially he will be 29 when he beats Blake and the other six finalists at the Olympic stadium in Rio. Come the biggest moments Bolt does not do doubt, nor stage fright. At the Olympic Games you can set your clock by him.
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Twenty years before I had sat in an Olympic stadium in Seoul and watched Florence Griffith Joyner do the same thing in the 200m semi-final — decelerate before the finish and still break the world record. An old East German record. It did not seem right. In the final later that evening Griffith Joyner surged all the way to the line and clipped 0.22sec off that new, now old, world record. They remain the two fastest 200s ever run by a woman, 21.34sec and 21.56sec. There were good reasons for not being sure about Griffith Joyner. Her physique had changed, her voice, her dramatic improvement. And then Flo-Jo’s sudden retirement after Seoul, aged 28. Ten years later she died after an epileptic seizure.

If we did not believe the fastest woman in the world, why should we trust the fastest man? Can a clean athlete break records set by those who doped?

Upon this question hangs the credibility of athletics. It has been this way since that evening in Beijing. If Bolt is not genuine there is no athletics, just a show, comparable to the theatre but less noble. If Bolt goes down, who continues to care?

Richard Moore was once an elite-level cyclist. He represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Games and since then has worked mostly in cycling journalism. He watched Bolt win in London four years ago and wondered if what he saw could be trusted. Clean or dirty? The question was more easily asked than answered.

Moore decided to explore. It was not a straightforward task. Bolt preferred not to co-operate, his coach Mills would not be interviewed but the journalist was undeterred. He spent a lot of time in and around the capital of Kingston, travelled to other places in Jamaica. Athletes, former athletes, family members, mentors, coaches, former coaches, scientists, schoolmasters, drug testers were all interviewed.

Time was spent listening to the story of former Jamaican anti-doping chief Renee-Anne Shirley, who blew the whistle on her country’s lax testing. Moore called his book The Bolt Supremacy: Inside Jamaica’s Sprint Factory. It offers a compelling insight into the nation’s passion for running fast.

What rugby is to New Zealand, sprinting is to Jamaica. They are countries of a similar size, NZ’s 4.4 million population against Jamaica’s 2.9 million, and each now dominates one important corner of the sporting universe. Their advantage is not in facilities they have built, nor in anything that money can buy.

Kiwis love rugby more than any other country, so too with Jamaica and sprinting. Usain Bolt did not turn up in any old country but from the country where sprinting is the sacred sport.

If you are suspicious of Bolt, you might feel like questioning what Arthur Wint and Herb McKenley did at the 1948 London Olympics, because those boys were extraordinary too. They were part of Jamaica’s first Olympics team. What kind of training facilities do you imagine they had in 1948? Spikes? Coaching? Both were 400m runners.

Like Bolt, Wint stood 195cm and he too won a gold medal in London. McKenley was second. Why should they have been the best in the world? One-two in the 400m at Jamaica’s first Olympic Games. Mosey down to the national stadium in Kingston and to get there you may walk along Herb McKenley Drive before reaching the stadium on Arthur Wint Drive.

Should we also distrust what Javon Francis did at the Jamaica Schools Championships two years ago? He targeted Bolt’s 45.35sec record for the 400m, told his Calabar school principal, Albert Concho, that he would not just win that 400m final, but he would get the record as well.

His nearest rival was so far behind that Francis would not have been able to hear him. All he had in his head was Bolt’s 45.35sec. He won in 45sec. On seeing the time he fell to his knees in a Bolt-like pose, and in another nod to the fastest one, he started doing press-ups. Watch Francis race at these Olympics and you will better understand how he splintered that Bolt record.

Look out for another young Jamaican in Rio, the 400m hurdler Jaheel Hyde. Twice world under-20 champion, Hyde posted a photo of himself on social media 2½ years ago with the message: “Look out, greatness is coming.”

Nothing that has happened since has made his boast seem excessive. Hyde could have had a career in soccer but he chose athletics. Britain’s best sprinter, Adam Gemili, spent seven years on Chelsea’s books, was let go and then focused fully on athletics.

There is an understanding in Jamaica of how best to take athletes through the transition from high school to the life of a professional sprinter. Hyde is coached by the former 400m runner Bert Cameron, who continues to treat him like a schoolboy athlete with two free days every week. That was similar to Mills’s approach with the young Blake. They take them along slowly in the belief they will last longer.

There have, of course, been many Jamaicans who have tested positive through the Bolt years: Blake, Asafa Powell, Steve Mullings, Nesta Carter, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Sherone Simpson are among the more high-profile runners. Most have tested positive for stimulant-type products sometimes found in unregulated substances. Mullings and Veronica Campbell-Brown tested positive for diuretics but Campbell-Brown was subsequently cleared.

Renee-Anne Shirley told Moore something that is universally true. “When any country is winning gold medals, they don’t want to look too closely. Every country wants to hear their anthem, to see the gold medal around their athletes’ necks.”

Through the positives and the bad publicity, Bolt somehow survived with his reputation intact. Shirley never pointed a finger towards the athletes but at officials who, she felt, were not properly committed to the anti-doping process. For a time, the World Anti-Doping Agency held the same view.
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Rio Olympics: True believers need a clean Usain Bolt

I am very very skeptical, but Bolt's defence is better than Armstrong's. Armstrong wasn't a climber before he got cancer. Bolt at least has been dominating since he was a teenager.
Bolt’s defence has always been the same. “If you have been following me since 2002,” he said in London three years ago, “you would know I’ve been doing phenomenal things since I was 15. I was the youngest person to win the world juniors at 15. I ran the world junior record, 19.93sec, at 18, world youth record at 17. “I’ve broken every record there is to break in every event that I’ve ever done. For me, I’ve proven myself since I was 15.” There has never been any evidence that links Bolt to doping and for those whose scepticism suffocates admiration, there is the danger that acclamation is being denied to one who absolutely deserves it. And in the end it does not matter who is to blame for this. Something has been lost. Bolt has been competing at the highest elite level for almost a decade. There has been little variation in his career trajectory. From when he started racing, he has always been faster than the other guys. It will be like that in Rio, too. He has suggested a 200m record may be possible. You may wish to set your clock by that.
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But even though Walsh defends Bolt his last line is correct
To have any faith in the Olympics you must first believe that Bolt himself is not cheating.
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I prefer the picture that went with The Sunday times article headlined with - over the picture intoday's Oz

Hats off to Bolt, the greatest Olympian
Sprinter is Mr Clean who can restore athletics’ credibility with a third treble
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Time for a swift one: Usain Bolt, on a promotional visit to the Oktoberfest in Bavaria
 
Jeremias said:
How close have his predictions been in previous Olympics, RussellEbertHandball?
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Jeremias I just checked Sports Illustrated swimming predictions and of the 8 events so far and 24 medals they have got 7 out of 8 golds right, with the only one wrong was they predicted French to beat Yanks in 4x100m Free relay today, so he got the order wrong, they correctly predicted 3 silver medalists and 2 bronze medalists correctly, and they have picked 6 medalist, but wrong colour, giving 18 out of 24 medalists. So that's 75% as I said in my last post.
 
This great article bagging NBC approach to broadcasting the Olympics in USA is from the Washington Post and by their Olympics reporter Sally Jenkins.

By ‘packaging’ the Olympics, NBC insults viewers, and the athletes themselves

RIO DE JANEIRO — I would tell you what happened on the opening day of the Olympics, but as a woman, I’m not really into results; I’m more about the journey. I would give you the latest on French vaulter Samir Ait Said’s horrifically broken leg, or tell you about the craziest bike race finish you’ve ever seen, but those aren’t things a woman particularly wants to know, according to NBC executives. So you can blame me for hijacking your viewing experience.

Women don’t watch the Olympics for the live results; they watch it for the narrative. Or that’s the reasoning of NBC, anyway. As the network’s chief marketing officer John Miller explained: “The people who watch the Olympics are not particularly sports fans,” he told Philly.com recently. “More women watch the games than men, and for the women, they’re less interested in the result and more interested in the journey. It’s sort of like the ultimate reality show and miniseries wrapped into one.”

NBC has been advancing this paperback romance novel approach for many years now, tape-delaying and heavily packaging the Olympics with soft-focus stories, often very successfully. To be fair, there are some very nice, smart execs at the network, and many of the packaged pieces are terrific, as is the live coverage, when it happens. And it’s not inherently sexist for them to say that women have some different viewing habits and interests than men. Women behave very differently as consumers: They read more than men, for example, and are more likely to buy fiction.

But the overnight rating for NBC’s hour-delayed telecast of the Opening Ceremonies in Rio was a 16.5, the lowest for a Summer Games since 1992. The reasons for this aren’t entirely clear yet, but it’s a good guess that the network patronized and frustrated a huge segment of its audience, men and women alike, and that begs for closer examination.

If we’re lucky, the Rio Games finally will persuade NBC execs their Harlequin strategy is outdated. One major problem with the NBC approach is that it’s based on viewer “studies,” and it’s more than a little self-selecting: If you produce a variety show, you’re going to attract variety show viewers. If you produce a sports telecast, you’ll attract sports viewers. This is where NBC’s real offense lies. It’s not so much that it insults the audience — but it sure does insult Olympic athletes, especially female athletes. The Olympics is the most prominent competition in the world and 53 percent of Team USA is female, which means American women likely will bring in more medals than American men. Yet they will be presented in packaging aimed at a Ladies’ Home Journal crowd. Exactly how does that grow a hardcore audience for women’s sports, or a year-in, year-out base for other Olympic sports, for that matter?.....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...eda1fe-5b3f-11e6-9aee-8075993d73a2_story.html
 
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