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Originally posted by trojan-skipper:
Andrea Kramer needs to shut up.
Her questions of Michael Phelps are ignorant.
She says, which Michael will show up... Where's the killer instinct?
What a stupid question... The other guys are Olympians too....
I've found the NBC announcing team to be well below average. The candid interviews aren't well done. In the past from having known athletes being interviewed I knew the candids were sometimes fraudulent PR. One athlete was described as quiet, introspective and keeps to himself. You would be too if everyone on the team hated you. He was shown in the airport getting a kiss goodbye from his girlfriend. I was wondering where they hired the girl. I knew he didn't have a girlfriend. He never had a girlfriend that hot.
The game announcers don't do a very good job of explaining the game to the casual viewer. There have been times in beach volleyball where they've used terms the casual fan wouldn't have a clue what they mean. The field hockey announcer said the field was watered down. She didn't explain why or the effect. I got the information in a tweet from a team member.
Then there's the Bob Costas BS. Wilt Chamberlain was not the first beach vollleyball star before Karch Kiraly. Singin Smith was the big star before Kiraly. He was the first to 100 wins. Kiraly was third. Kiraly retired with the most wins. Chamberlain wasn't even a star. He played six man for a team called The Kettle They were a bunch of arrogant dlckhe@ds. Any team that arrogant should win more than they won. It's appropriate they were sponsored by a place drunks go to eat at 3am.
All of us who played two man made fun of them for thinking they were special. Chamberlain was old and immobile. Guys eight inches shorter could out jump him. The only think opposing teams had to be careful about was not leaving the ball on the net near him. His own team had to provide him perfect sets.
