Whinging gaigin Ryan Ginstrom who isn't even Nippon gathered himself up
onto his elbows and wrote:
> During the Olympics, I was disappointed by the Japaense TV coverage. They
> weren't showing olympic judo, they were showing the Japanese athletes
> competing in olympic judo. They would cut out from gold-medal matches to
> show the full matches of Japanese athletes in the repecharge (not even medal
> matches), and at least once they cut out of scheduled coverage alltogether
> when there were no more Japanese left competing that day.

I'm shocked and horrified to read that. Nearly as shocked and horrified
as I was to learn that there are events at the Olympics other than Judo
and the women's marathon.

> But the coverage of the 2003 judo world championships is even worse.<snip>

But the coverage is from Osaka...

> On the good side, I don't mind watching all of Inoue Kousei's matches -- 
> that guy is amazing.

Not being a judo fan, I take it he is relatively local in terms of origin?




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