After Showing Almost All Of The Women's Super G Skiing Competitors, NBC Failed To Show The Winner, Because She 'Didn't Have A Chance'
America's Lindsey Vonn was the first one to go down the Olympic Super G ski course in the women's final Friday night. Vonn made a mistake in the lower part of the course, veering too far to the right on a turn, costing her perhaps a half second on her time. That half- second proved very costly though as Vonn was passed and knocked off the medal list for the event after just a few other skiers had completed their run.
It must be wondered if the (lack of) drama of watching the American's time hold up for a gold medal, or a bronze or silver, effected the network's decision to not show all of the competitors in their live coverage. The final few competitors were left off the tv show , and when NBC ended it's coverage of the women's Super G, Austria's Anna Veith was announced as the winner of the gold medal by the NBC announcers Dan Hicks and Bode Miller. Veith was the winner of the gold in the event for the second Olympics in a row and the win was the fourth in a row for Austria , they said. Then they signed off.
I haven't watched much of the Olympics but I was watching this Friday night. As skier after skier came down the hill speeding past the twists and turns set out by the flags planted in the snow, Hicks and Miller kept the viewer up to date as to exactly how far they were off the leader's time. The camera showed Veith nervously watching each attempt that followed her from near the finish line. This went on for over a dozen skiers.
Then Hicks said it was safe to say that Veith was the winner because the only remaining competitors didn't have a chance of winning. NBC 'ended' it's coverage of the event and declared the top 3 finishers as the medal winners. Hicks said "we will see you tomorrow for the men's super g" and the tv coverage moved on to something else.
Sometime after this , the woman who was to win the gold medal, one of the ones who 'didn't have a chance', came down the hill.
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Wow, NBC left women's Super-G having anointed an Austrian the gold-medal winner because didn't think anyone outside of top 19 could win. And someone outside of top 19 just won.
JEONGSEON, South Korea -- As she crossed the finish line for the Olympic super-G Saturday afternoon,? Ester Ledecka?from the Czech Republic looked to the scoreboard, saw a massive green No. 1 next to her name and didn't believe it. Like really didn't believe it.
"I thought this was a mistake," she said. "I was looking at the board, thinking they are going to put up there a couple more seconds. I was waiting and watching until they would change the time. And then nothing happened. Everyone was screaming and I thought to myself, 'OK, now this is weird.' "
Weird because the 22-year-old had never made the podium in 23 World Cup alpine races. Weird because her best result ever in super-G was 19th. And weird because she was actually a snowboarder, the first winter sports athlete to compete in the Olympics in both skiing and snowboard racing.
But there was no mistake. Ledecka's time of 1:21.11 was one-hundredth of a second faster than Austria's Anna Veith, giving her super-G gold in one of the most stunning upsets of these Olympic Games. So perhaps then, it made sense why Ledecka refused to remove her goggles at the post-race news conference.
"I was not prepared that I would be at this ceremony," she explained. "And I don't have on any makeup."
American Lindsey Vonn , the favorite entering the race, finished tied for sixth. Vonn drew the first starting position and was about to post a strong run when she lost control three gates from the finish and nearly crashed. The miscue slowed Vonn by .38 seconds in the final interval, the exact margin by which Ledecka beat her.
"I knew exactly what I needed to do," she said. "I just made a mistake. Everything lined up except for one turn. But that's ski racing. That's why it's so difficult to win at the Olympics because anything can happen."
On Saturday morning, that anything was Ledecka. Before her race, her snowboard coach, retired U.S. parallel slalom racer Justin Reiter, joked to Ledecka that she needed to win Saturday so she could take all the pressure off on Feb. 24, where she's the favorite in the parallel slalom. A few hours later, Reiter watched in amazement as Ledecka stood in the finish area paralyzed by the result.
Lindsey Vonn choked.
I remember when the Olympics were 24hrs a day and they didn't cut away from any competition. ANY competition. They showed them ALL, no matter how little they were. You had to look in the TV guide to see the event you wanted to see for the time it was being offered for viewing. Sometimes 2am.
Now the Olympic coverage is nothing but CRAP !
Oh.....and only Amateurs were allowed at the games. Nothing was better than seeing a True Amateur defeat the Professional Russians.
My favs. were Hockey, Boxing, Wrestling and Weight Lifting.
I remember the 24 hour coverage too. I think I started losing interest when the professionals started competing.
Wrestling has always been one of my favorites to watch also. My son wrestled from grade school through high School with Coleman Scott. I became addicted... LOL
I think they still have round the clock coverage on the less watched cable and streaming channels associated with NBC. They have relatively few viewers. I read that of 19 million people watching the Olympics on Friday, 16 million of them were watching on the main NBC channel.
The winter olympics are tough because most of the events are sports that the 'average' American never does at any point in their life - skiing, snowboarding and figure skating.
Especially when the "Pros" started trashing hotel rooms.
I really looked forward to the boxing myself. True Amateurs there . Lot's of controversy occurred in that sport.
Roy Jones Jr. out boxing the South Korean in the FINAL, and still losing was a biggy. I think I actually threw something at the TV then.
Doesn't make any difference watching someone ski one-tenth of second faster than then next gal doesn't look any different.
The look on her face was priceless.
I quit watching the Olympics avidly during the London Olympics. NBC's coverage was terrible. Due to the time zones, a lot of events were already on late at night here. So what did they do? Fill in with "fluff" pieces - human interest stories about the athletes. Or irrelevant stuff, like one town's WWII experience. Ok, it's midnight, and you have to show this before you'll show the actual sporting events? I have to work tomorrow. When you already have plenty of footage from hours ago, and there is absolutely no need to fill in dead air time with crap, don't. If you do, I'm going to bed.
IM just happy Vonn didnt win.. So are many other people. Her disrespect toward America was well repaid.
She disrespected Trump. He is not America. He disrespects America and Americans.
Yes she did, and that is why she got huge backlash from the American people. Trump is our President whether people like it or not. Its about respecting the office.
Well this would be a straight up lie. Please dont do blatant lies, when you say something like this , it makes it hard to believe anything else you may have to say.
I dont see how. Its a pretty vague comment. I dont feel disrespected, why should any person feel that from a President who truly cares for the well being of the USA and its citizens.
When Trump shows any sign of respecting the office, then maybe I'll start respecting it.
Someone who has lied over 2000 times during his first year as president is not worthy of my respect. Someone who doesn't staff our Cabinet with anyone qualified, who gives people who can't pass background checks access to classified information, who puts loyalty to himself above loyalty to our country and our Constitution ... nah, no respect due there. Respect must be earned.
And it's rather ironic .. all the people who said Hillary shouldn't run because she put up with Bill's cheating are remarkably silent about the pussy grabber in chief's affairs. Melania won't leave him for own reasons, probably related to power and money - and that's up to her - but somehow it's OK if she makes her own decision, yet it wasn't OK if Hillary made her decisions for those same reasons. Hypocrisy sucks.
Please do explain how. How is an entire country synonymous with one ignorant, misogynistic, narcissistic, wasteful excuse for a man?
Frequent verbal attacks on anyone who doesn't kiss his ass. Wasting our money with his ridiculously frequent trips to his own properties, and profiting from the waste himself. Blatant lies. Putting together a White House staff and cabinet full of people grossly underqualified for their jobs, and full of enough drama for a telenovela. Shall I go on?
I certainly didn't feel disrespected by Lindsey Vonn. But Trump insults my intelligence by expecting me to believe his lies.
Some people hate her because she dated Tiger Woods. Until that, she was their darling .. but then she, a blonde white girl, dated a black man.
Trump really is America, at least some parts of it. That's what sucks. People who truly hate others because they want equal rights. But Trump is over the top with his ego and swamp filling, as you said. He's far worse than I thought he would be, and my expectations were very low. Will Jared lose his clearance? I wish ... I doubt it will happen.
I thought that showed poor judgement, not because of his race, but because of his past behavior. But the risk was hers to take; it had no impact on anybody else.
As far as the Olympics, I thought she skied pretty well - just that one flub on the final curve. She was in a difficult position, having the first run. She didn't get to see anybody else ski that run, and I heard they didn't get to do a training run on that course, either. She was the guinea pig.
Trump represents only a small minority of America. He's a nightmare. How is base keeps giving him passes is beyond me.
That is not how it works. You stand behind America. You dont disrespect it just because you dont like who is in office. Trump is what the States wanted, and he won it by quite a bit. America as a whole, is in a much better place now than it was in the past.
ya i know what you mean.. If you like your doctor , you can keep your doctor.. if you like your acme insurance and dont want the new healthcare, you can keep it... , also premiums will come down, it will make it more affordable... Isnt nice how we are lied to by our leaders.
Well he is at quite a disadvantage. He is not a career politician who has connections to all the seedy shady shit that goes on in Washington. He can only go by what career politicians advice that is given to him. He has not done a great job at getting good people in there, but I can say this, at least he is getting rid of those swamp people.
You can say many things bad about Trump, but saying he doesnt have loyalty to this nation is not supported by facts. That man loves this nation. He didnt have run for President. He is on the backside of his life span.. Why would any person who has never been in politics want to just throw 4 to 8 years of their life away to such a demanding job? I sure wouldnt. If I were his age I would be kicking back on vacation after vacation all over the planet.. spending all my money. Not Trump, he seen how bad of a shape America was in and he felt compelled to make it great again, and by gosh hes doing it well.
Well he has my full respect. He is not perfect and I am glad he isnt. I am glad he has flaws and I am glad he makes mistakes. It lets me know he is human like the rest of us who do the same exact stuff.
Big difference though. Trump was all talk, and never has hard any hard evidence that condemns him. Bill on the other hand told bold face lies and had hard evidence showing that he did do stuff. Then women came forward that were abused by Bill. Hillary went after those women. She didnt care that her husband did these things to women. That is yet another reason why Hillary is a very disgusting person.
I dont condone any kind of mistreating of women.. whether if it was Bill or Trump or who ever.. Any person who harms a woman and is unapologetic about it gets a huge X in my book. It needs to be something that is 100 % verifiable and 100 % proven.
He represents what America should be what most of the States wanted. He has been a great powerful leader so far.
Kind of like the money being wasted trying to prove he did something wrong or illegal. When all of this is done and ever with, the left will still be left clueless with not knowing anything more than them having 10 fingers and 10 toes.
Not his fault really. How is a man who is not a career politician who has deep ties with the corrupt swamp know who to put in office and who not to. What is great is that he is firing people, or people are screwing up and getting themself booted. It is indeed a swamp there, and it will be hard to get good people to fill in the spots. Most of those people are swamp creatures, so it doesnt matter who he puts in there, they are all part of what is wrong with this nation.
I feel she is turning her back on this country. It was disrespectful to be like that.
No he represents most of America. Remember the States elect the President, not the people. Hillary got the small slice of the States..
She got the most popularity from just 1 state and that is California. Just one state made the difference on popularity. Not all 50, just 1...
Remember that.
Question: Did you stand behind America when Obama was president?
I find your characterization of Obama to be in untrue.
He has sewn the seeds of discord. He eschews diplomacy, playing games with the lives of our military. He has made us a laughingstock with other nations. He gave away sensitive intelligence from sources other than our own intelligence agencies, endangering our relationship with an ally, just to stroke his own ego. He ordered the strike in Yemen that accomplished absolutely nothing positive, because he wanted to play with his toy soldiers. Ditto with the airfield bombing in Syria. He has stubbornly stuck to his desire for an expensive wall that will do very little to prevent illegal immigration, but will trample on the property rights of landowners along its path.
Whether it's wasted will depend on the outcome of the investigation. I'm sure you were against the witch hunt over Bill Clinton getting a blowjob in the Oval Office, and the multiple Benghazi hearings, yes? Sure you were.
So your defense is that he's unqualified and ignorant? I most wholeheartedly agree.
I would say the same about Trump.
But one, you see as standing for America, and the other you see as disrespecting America.
No hypocrisy there at all.
I believe one can question any President, and still stand for America. Trump supporters demand special treatment for him, though. As he does for himself. It's a bit pathetic, and reveals how little confidence he or they have in him. A confident man would be able to weather disagreement. He can't.
Agreed. In fact, it is the duty for all Americans to question any President or lawmaker, state or Congressional, if need be and not just be led around by the nose like sheep.
He is not America.
He's a lot more America than the lying dusky pretender who preceded him. You need to lighten up.
Wow.
I stood behind the office. I didnt always agree with Obama and what he did as President, but he was still my President.
I helped make sure this go around that someone was in office who was more aligned with my views on America.
Actually hes been planting ones of unity. Its the unbearable leftists who cant stand it and they are falling apart.
He does it as a NON politician. He says what people truly and really feel, not skirt around the BS of Political correctness.
Please elaborate on this one.. This man practically hero worships our military and he made sure they get taken care of.
Truly a false claim, as how many countries are now looking up to the USA once again. What you said, is what countries said about Obama. Trump has been a breath of fresh air to the world. Its nice trying to be the world leaders again.
Nope wrong --
There’s nothing that the president takes more seriously than the security of the American people. The story that came out tonight, as reported, is false. The president and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two countries, including threats to civil aviation. At no time, at no time, were intelligence sources or methods discussed, and the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known. Two other senior officials who were present, including the secretary of state, remember the meeting the same way and have said so. Their on the record accounts should outweigh the anonymous sources. I was in the room. It didn’t happen.
So the bottom line is, nothing was discussed as you said, and 2 other people where there to back up that claim. next .....
How would you know? Were you there to know if it helped with anything? Are you part of the mission who can attest that it did nothing? Even if it did nothing, so what.. You cant get them all the time.
That is quite silly because many countries have put up huge walls that helps keep people out. Its not even built yet and already you think it will fail. As for property rights, it is not going to hurt anyone to have a wall that will protect this nation. Those people living there should be proud to have a wall to help keep them and the rest of America safe.
Bill didnt get in trouble for the BJ, it was the lying he did about it. Same goes for Hillary.. and yes I think there is still much that needs to be known about it, and Hillary's deception about it, and her private servers full of secretive stuff that she felt needed to be deleted and devices destroyed. People who are afraid of wrath and lifetime prison time do these kind of things..
He is totally qualified.. Show me where a qualification for president is that you know the hearts and the future of other people... because that is exactly is what is needed here. He can only go by what people suggest to him. Trump isnt perfect and makes mistakes and good for him doing so. I dont want a perfect President, I do however want one that learns from mistakes and take measures to avoid them again in the future.
Sure, sure. His words about immigrants alone are proof enough of that.
And obviously as a non-diplomat. It doesn't take a politician, or even above-average intelligence, to know that you don't go looking for trouble.
Even those on SNAP benefits?
If you love our military, you don't go trying to start a war with your words, and you don't send men in on badly-timed missions looking for obsolete intel. You also don't go telling the allies of people you're going to bomb about your plans to drop bombs.
Why don't you provide us with a list?
Because we told them ahead of time so they could move everything.
Along entire borders? List?
It won't, and perhaps you'd like to give them some of your land as compensation.
The BJ should never have been part of the investigation. The GOP and Ken Starr made fools of themselves.
Funny how you find some investigations to be wasteful, but rehashing old repeated investigations not wasteful. Not hypocritical at all.
So, is that a qualification, or isn't it? You seem to be arguing out of both sides of your mouth. Good judgement of character is something every politician should cultivate. Trump's idea of good character seems to be 1) They're related to me or 2) They tell me what I want to hear. Nepotism and cronyism should play no part in naming Cabinet members, but that seems to be the Number One qualification in the Trump administration.
Israel along the border with Gaza
Would you consider Israel safe?
Safer now than when they did not have the wall .
And how are we going to patrol a wall that would be much longer than that?
What? You mean about people who are illegally here breaking the law who are criminals? His words represent what many people feel, but some are afraid to speak up in fear of being hurt or killed by the the intolerant left.
How is he looking for trouble? BY trying to keep the nation safe?
How are you trying to tie SNAP ( food stamps) to the military and Trump?
And you dont leave your men to DIE when they could had been saved, and you dont go on national TV talking shit about some anti muslim tape being the reason for the attack on our men at the embassy.
Your right, and those are the words from Trump himself.. How many times has Trump told the media to piss off when they ask what he plans to do to about situation X.. We are not going to tell anyone what we plan to do, giving them advance notice of an attack.
Please dont add more .. I said huge walls.. You said entire borders.. But any how here :
To help ensure safety and kill criminals out of our country, I would be more than happy to give a lot of what I have up.
No, I would say the liar in chief made himself look like a fool and even more his wife going after the women instead of going after her husband.
Im sure those mothers who lost their sons would like to know the truth how Hillary and Obama let their kids die, but hey we didnt know them personally so who cares right?
Well it seems like he can trust his immediate family since he knows them better than these swamp people who have been getting fired.
I didn't say anything about illegal immigrants. Funny you assume all immigrants are illegal.
By name-calling and inflammatory words? What a stupid way to "keep the nation safe".
You are aware that many military families qualify for such benefits, yes? And the GOP, you know, Trump's party, tries at every opportunity to cut those benefits. If he loved the military so much, he'd want them to either make enough money to not need SNAP, or leave SNAP alone so they can eat.
Oh, are we only going to have a wall along part of the border? That's his plan?
Easy to say when you're not in a position to be asked, isn't it? Eminent domain isn't a problem when it's somebody else's land that's being taken.
We know the truth. They knowingly moved to a location they were told was difficult to secure. I believe at least one family has even condemned the politicization of their son's death.
Some of those "swamp people" were hired at the urging of his oh-so-trustworthy family, who are as far in over their heads as he is.
Those are the people I am talking about. Why? Because the only people Trump talks bad about are the ILLEGAL immigrants. Those are the ones we are focusing on to keep out.. However you should be impressed with Trump because he is offering to give them more than Obama ever did by letting a huge amount of them. That would be a democrats paradise having all those votes in their corner.. but once again the dems cant do anything right and now they are going to lose the handout that was given to them by Trump.
If you think Trump has been the only president to have a potty mouth, then you are sadly mistaken.
I would say there are more people non military who use SNAP than military. I have had to use the program myself a few times when I was out of work, or a decrease in my income. In my situation it was needed, but there are many people who abuse and misuse it. I dont think its fair to say Trump doesnt care for the Military just because of the Snap Program. Not when he is getting a huge increase in money for them, and making it easier to fire people from the VA center. Believe me there are plenty in the VA Center I go to that need to be fired because of their piss poor attitudes, and how they treat me and fellow veterans.
Im guessing it will completely shut off Mexico from the USA. Good if it does. There are walls all around the world. There are walls , fences, gates around our homes. We have locked doors.. We do these things to keep the bad people out.
If i had acres of land in that area, and I am sure most of it is ranchers lands that has thousands of acreage, there is nothing harmful to have a wall up at your border line to mexico.
But yes it is easier to want it, when it inconveniences someone else. Tough luck for them, but they are the ones living there, not me.
IM not sure we will ever know the full truth, only what they want us to know.
Best part about being human is we make mistakes..and we learn and move on .
It wasn't .However when he committed perjury whwn questioned under oath in the deposition, the perjury charge was part of the investigation .