I also watched quite bit of the American hockey team and thought the game with Canada was a good one. The Americans and Canadiens seemed to play with more speed and skill than the previous game between Sweden and Finland. Not much extracurricular activity in the CAN-USA game. Clean hockey---maybe they know each other too well. Finns and Swedes however were pretty punchy---smack talking etc. It wasn't what I expected. You know the outcomes---I was pretty bummed about the way things turned out. Finns beat the US badly. I developed a little hatred for Canada.
There is also this guy, Vic Wild, married to a very attractive Russian snowboarder(who also medalled); he competed for Russia, made some very public statements about cronyism in the American team selection process. He won gold for Russia. Fascinating.
Russian TV coverage of these Olympics was interesting to me. It may be this way at home too, but Russian sport commentators are insufferably smug, coiffed, self centered people. It is usually some older guy who thinks he's hilarious and more handsome than God along with a woman, usually younger, blouse unbuttoned more than it would be in America. They spend hours on screen, bantering back and forth, smugly and arrogantly, and often talk at the same time----interrupting each other constantly. Both have Apple products that they read off of constantly. These people work in long shifts so as you begin to think you can't take any more of it, another pair will talk, in a studio for untold hours. It seemed like too much face time to me, though it is likely my friends back home are sick of "pink-eye" Costas, Matt Lauer etc.I hope people didn't have to watch Erin Andrews, who in my view would induce anyone to take hemlock after a few moments.
There was on very cool guy----who did a lot of interviewing----probably late thirties---like a kind of mellow Carson Daly. He did a really nice interview with Johnny Weir the American skater(Who by the way loves Russia and speaks Russian nicely). Johnny was quite the image on Russian TV and the discussion was warm, honest and lengthy. More depth I think that the sound bite we'd get in America. it struck me that Johnny Weir was certainly not hiding his "non-traditional lifestyle choice". I found this to be really good TV--they talked for about 35 minutes----from time to time getting interrupted by the primping anchors back in the studio---making sure we didn't forget that they and their Trump-like hairstyles existed. I shall post some phots of this soon.
There is also this guy, Vic Wild, married to a very attractive Russian snowboarder(who also medalled); he competed for Russia, made some very public statements about cronyism in the American team selection process. He won gold for Russia. Fascinating.
Russian TV coverage of these Olympics was interesting to me. It may be this way at home too, but Russian sport commentators are insufferably smug, coiffed, self centered people. It is usually some older guy who thinks he's hilarious and more handsome than God along with a woman, usually younger, blouse unbuttoned more than it would be in America. They spend hours on screen, bantering back and forth, smugly and arrogantly, and often talk at the same time----interrupting each other constantly. Both have Apple products that they read off of constantly. These people work in long shifts so as you begin to think you can't take any more of it, another pair will talk, in a studio for untold hours. It seemed like too much face time to me, though it is likely my friends back home are sick of "pink-eye" Costas, Matt Lauer etc.I hope people didn't have to watch Erin Andrews, who in my view would induce anyone to take hemlock after a few moments.
There was on very cool guy----who did a lot of interviewing----probably late thirties---like a kind of mellow Carson Daly. He did a really nice interview with Johnny Weir the American skater(Who by the way loves Russia and speaks Russian nicely). Johnny was quite the image on Russian TV and the discussion was warm, honest and lengthy. More depth I think that the sound bite we'd get in America. it struck me that Johnny Weir was certainly not hiding his "non-traditional lifestyle choice". I found this to be really good TV--they talked for about 35 minutes----from time to time getting interrupted by the primping anchors back in the studio---making sure we didn't forget that they and their Trump-like hairstyles existed. I shall post some phots of this soon.
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