"Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<bjssor$mv4p8$1@ID-101276.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> 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.
> 
> But the coverage of the 2003 judo world championships is even worse.
> Watching it, you would think that this was one of those cheesy Japanese
> yarase-mentaries on the Japanese team's successes and failures at the
> tournament, rather than actual coverage. I realize it's because they can't
> get enough TV time to show the whole tournament, but in the time they did
> have I'd like to see the most exciting/important matches, not one of the
> Japanese players winning on points in the first or second round. At least
> they did show (clips of) the gold medal matches.
> 
> </rant>

That reminds me of the women's marathon in Paris a few weeks ago.  All
I heard was that Japanese women took 2nd to 4th places.  Never found
out who actually took 1st.  A friend pointed out that I (and the rest
of Japan) wouldn't know the name of the person anyway, so it wasn't
news worthy!

Now back to your regular programming...

Reg.