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Occasional Hope I don't know why you are so worried about Dina's form in the opening 100 m heat. She looked relaxed, calm and composed, while the American next to her was going flat out throughout. Expect a lot, lot faster in the semi-final.
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There’s another Eurosport stream with commentary and no adverts, this is online thoughOriginally posted by Jogger
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I dont give a damn for your thoughts fortunately. You forgot one more thing I dont like your thoughts who ever you are. It's called free speech.Comment
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Oh forgot to say I like it when we do well and we win medals: you clearly have trouble reading my posts silly twerp wont be too many of those that's why its top 6.Last edited by philipo; 30-07-21, 20:55.Comment
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That's a loaded comment and one I find pretty offensive. There have been occasions within the AW forum when athletes from other nations (overwhelmingly Black or Asian) are disrespected, sometimes just by omission, or swathing generalisations and stereotypes, including referrals to them as "the Africans", or comments such as "you can't trust their ages" or not mentioning now Olympic Champion. then silver Doha medallist, Selemon Barega but focussing on his age mate boy wonder 5th placer, Jakob Ingebritsen doing well against "men"!
I haven't seen all the comments you are referring to, but some of the ones I have seen are just pointing out that Del Ponte's time won't mean much in a final against what they expect from SAFP and ETH and with another acronym - TBH - they are probably right in this context!
By the way, the language may be prejudiced or discriminatory but there's a power element that comes into that language being classed as racist.Comment
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To be fair, from what I read, if I had to rely on the BBC then I would be pretty angry too. I am in the happy position of having Eurosport and can dip into their catchup coverage as and when and at what time I want. But not everyone has streaming services or a smartphone. Channel hopping from BBC1 to BBC2 to red button on 601 in the hope of catching some athletics sounds absolutely soul destroying. Phillipo you have my sympathy.Comment
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You’re right LS, there can be generalisations and comments which are not always positive on any MB (including this one at times - but rarely with any ill intent), but to be fair, the Twitter comments I’ve seen have been blatant in their mocking and ridiculing, and some are making it about “the white girl” not being good enough etc. and if we want to stamp things out, we have to own it when we get things wrong, too. Some athletes court controversy (SCR and her tweet today) for self-promotion, but Del Ponte did nothing but run her best. Will she make the final, let alone medal - odds are against her - but people can support their people without savaging the oppo.
To be clear - not all tweets for SAFP were the same in tone - but a lot were. Athletics is probably the most multi-cultural of sports, so no need for that, IMO.Comment
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Put Del Ponte in the search bar on Twitter, scroll back to the time of the race and it's all there. Referred to as "chippers cousin", her effort and excitement ridiculed, and people generally disparaging about her run. I doubt most will have heard of her pre-race, so what had she done to deserve it? I agree with your observations RE the coverage disrproportionate coverage Jakob/white athletes receive and that subconscious bias needs to be tackled, but it isn't the same as mocking & disparaging like we saw today.
I don't think this is the time or place to debate this though, I regret making the comment here on a thread about Olympic results.Last edited by Christy93; 30-07-21, 22:19.Comment
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Re the BBC TV coverage, I do remember we did have Olympics pre 2012 where a lot of the morning events in the first few days not being shown live because other sports were being shown. With only 2 channels being available I do think they could make it easier to indicate when things might be shown if they are not live. Also wonder whether they could use BBC4 which doesn't start its usual programming until 7PM.Comment
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It would be really helpful if they were just consistent about what was on when on which channel. I think in the end I saw almost everything on the first day (apart from field events which were very skimpy but that's par for the course) but not in the right order. Some things were on both channels.
On the plus side I think there's less chat than usual.
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