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Posted 01 August 2012 - 09:45 PM

It's a pity ITV arnt covering the games because they would have blown the beeb out of the water in the sofa stakes!!! Good old auntie has had to rely on such second raters as Redgrave, McEnroe , Thorpedo, Olga Korbet, Lewis, and Johnson . Wow!!

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East stand second class citizen.

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 09:46 PM

I dont want to even think what it would have been like had it been left to the likes of Adrian Chiles and co!!!

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 09:47 PM

Lennox and Carl Lewis btw!!

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 09:55 PM

Mr Mercury, on 01 August 2012 - 09:47 PM, said:

Lennox and Carl Lewis btw!!

And they are just reviewing the football and get disturbed by some bum who has won seven Olympic medals (four gold) and a Tour de France! Unprofessional if you ask me...

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Posted 02 August 2012 - 08:39 AM

It's going to get worse- Colin Jackson will be wheeled out soon:-(

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Posted 02 August 2012 - 08:59 AM

Yeah, good old ITV
There you are watching some plucky Brit, neck and neck coming towards the finish line ....
And suddenly ...
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Posted 02 August 2012 - 10:25 AM

Somebody posted a link to this article on twitter, a view of the BBC's coverage from an american perspective.
Actually made me realise what a good job is being done by auntie:

http://www.salon.com..._been_replaced/

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Posted 02 August 2012 - 11:56 AM

I think the Beeb are doing a fantastic job, when have we ever had the opportunity to watch all Olympic events live?

I have just been looking at the BBC website where it gives impartial reports about our athletes and the events they are competing in. I flicked on to the Sky News Website and on the right hand side there is a cheap phone produced photo of Bradley Wiggins with the headline:

"Wiggins goes drinking after Victory".

About sums up Sky for me.

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Posted 02 August 2012 - 01:53 PM

Sky are struggling really as they have no rights to show any footage of the games so are having to make do with still photographs for everything. I suspect the photo of Wiggins out on the pop is the one he tweeted late last night as he was out celebrating. Is it the one with St Pauls in the background?

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Posted 02 August 2012 - 02:32 PM

I can't see St Pauls.

What I dont understand though, Sky sponsor the team so why look for a negative? Murdoch eske type reporting I guess..

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Posted 02 August 2012 - 03:00 PM

Mark Jones, on 02 August 2012 - 02:32 PM, said:

I can't see St Pauls.

Just had a look...they are the same two photos he tweeted in the early hours and its just a couple of pics more than a story in a negative way. The only bit of text with them is this which is just saying about how he is out celebrating :-

Wiggins secured his position as an all-time British sporting great on Wednesday when he claimed a seventh Olympic medal, and revealed he was partying late into the night to celebrate.

He later posted photos of himself on Twitter enjoying drinks near St Paul's Cathedral, saying: "Well what a day, blind drunk at the minute and overwhelmed with all the messages. Thank you everyone it's been emotional X."

To give Sky some credit they have been pushing the BBCs Olympic channels quite a bit not only in adverts but also on Sky Sports News.

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Posted 02 August 2012 - 04:24 PM

Lets see if Sky do anything with this one....another Team GB winner celebrating a good british way...getting plastered!

Asked how he's going to celebrate after winning gold in the double trap, Britain's Peter Wilson responds: "I'm going to get very, very drunk and probably do something silly." Sweden's silver medallists Hakan Dahlby asks if it'll be a free bar at the pub where Wilson used to work at back in 2009 and the 25-year-old says he hopes so.