On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 5:11 PM, Chris Neuman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Despite the fact that the US doesn’t dominate the Winter games quite the > way they do the summer games, I commented a few days ago to my wife how odd > it was to not see the US higher up in the medal standings. My theory is > that it’s a regression to the mean. > > I present, without opinion of any kind, a story that appeared in today’s > Globe and Mail about the US performance in PyeongCheng to date. The author > links the Elizabeth Swaney debacle and DJT to the American performance and > crowd presence. > > https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/ > sports/olympics/the-americans-and-their-terrible-horrible- > no-good-very-bad-games/article38026417/ > > (The author is something of a provocateur, a fact you’ll likely pick up on > in the first para. I still haven’t forgiven him for his hit piece on my > hometown of Edmonton two years ago, when he was here to cover the Women’s > World Cup. Such a Toronto-centric A-hole.) > The answer to why American athletes aren't doing well has to be found in the time before the Olympics, during World Championships and other international events. Are the Americans dominant there? I don't follow any of these sports and I will defer to anybody here who does. I thought the Winter Olympics added snowboarding and other X-Games style events to give the US more medals and it may be that they have been passed by other countries. as we don't pay attention to these sports outside the Olympics we see NBC try to rev up interest in the games by talking about and to local athletes without giving a sense of if they are objectively expected to win medals at their sports. With our sense of national entitlement deflated, US viewers may choose to stop watching as American athletes continually fall short. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
