Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!Q.T.Honey!enews.sgi.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!i61-195-247-171.us.catvmics.ne.JP!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: And I thought the olympic coverage was bad Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 03:28:48 +0900 Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3F621060.7060701@hotmail.com> References: Reply-To: declan_murphy@hotmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: i61-195-247-171.us.catvmics.ne.jp (61.195.247.171) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1063391292 24019996 61.195.247.171 (16 [139419]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:5327 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. 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? -- "Having tried intelligence to win the war on terrorism and achieved mixed results - bad and worse - the defense department has decided to go the other way and give stupidity a chance." - Alan Abelson