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nineveh_uk) wrote2010-02-15 09:11 pm
nineveh_uk) wrote2010-02-15 09:11 pm
Oh BBC!
Can't you give the commentators crib sheets for pronouncing the sportpeoples' names? Who on earth is Thomas Malliche (Adam Małysz, Poland, looks like a WWI flying ace)? And how is it possible for a professional to mangle Vincent Vittoz so badly (clue: French, should not rhyme with the country Dorothy Gale travels to)? I don't expect them to be perfect, but recognizable would be nice.
Most amusing moment of the men's downhill: the cameraman strategically positioning his shot with a white box in the way in an attempt to protent the modesty of a rather tight-suited Bode Miller in the start gate. Mind you, the "spiderman" element of the US men's suits is always entertaining. Someone needs to tell them that a Superman costume doesn't actually give one the power of flight.
Most amusing moment of the men's downhill: the cameraman strategically positioning his shot with a white box in the way in an attempt to protent the modesty of a rather tight-suited Bode Miller in the start gate. Mind you, the "spiderman" element of the US men's suits is always entertaining. Someone needs to tell them that a Superman costume doesn't actually give one the power of flight.
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Oh yes. No one can call Defago gorgeous, and the Frenchman leading one of the biathlon/XC races for a while had a face like the back end of a bus. And all the ski-jumpers look like the spotty teenagers they are.
It'll take a lot to beat the bobsleigh bum flash, though! (Poor girl - and you can't blame the cameras, they are positioned there to show the athletes running.)