So true. We always laugh at how they are played everywhere, all the time when we visit Southern California. Every radio station, every shop, every restaurant. We call it Chili Pepper Week when we are in the LA area.
...you'd THINK they'd get former SUMMER Olympics athletes, not winter ones.....what was up with THAT???
I think there are entities within the breakdancing communities that handle international competitions. My understanding was that IOC chose to use the ballroom governing body instead -- who have been clamoring for years to have latin and other styles of ballroom included in the games.
That was a critique I had of the opening ceremony. The pacing was off then and it was off for closing ceremony. I actually enjoy the artistic aspects of it but they weren't able to grasp the world wide audience aspect which is you need to find a good balance between length of each segments so you don't lose people's interests as well as the message you're trying to get across as well as the appreciation for the artistic component. Unfortunately in my book Paris lacked that a lot and it suffered for it.
The muck just keeps getting deeper. It's a shame the competitors are the ones who suffer the most.
It's an opinion piece one of which they even state the person should be given the benefit of the doubt while also putting out there their concerns. I think there should be looking into BUT I find that the article is very USA-bias which to me minimizes the issue because this isn't about the U.S., it shouldn't be about the U.S. It should be about wanting fairness for all athletes and held to the same rules. Even the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution is headquartered in the U.S.
It has everything to do with decades long issues within gymnastics which is very well known within the sport; this isn't the first time this has been an issue where there's judging problems and not the first time in the Olympics either. If you watched rhythmic gymnastics they also said the same thing and they (the commentators) also were annoyed at how long the judges took, although nearly every team and then when it was individual (enough of them) did an inquiry and the US wasn't even in either one in the finals having failed on the individual to qualify (not sure if they tried for group).
So they "broke" qualifying for "breaking?"
Wow. I'm shocked. Shocked I tell ya.
It would not surprise me if the greed of the IOC brings the games to the brink of collapse in the future. The repeated tarnishing of their image over situations like this within the competitions along with the doping messes might be just enough to have turned off enough interest for people to attend and/or watch televised coverage to make it collapse financially. I believe I heard it reported several years back that the fee paid by American TV to broadcast the games was the biggest financial piece of the IOC revenue.
