OT: Worst OLN coverage of a Tri ever?

Jet said:

I was looking forward to the Australian IronMan reportage on OLN

today, but

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damn, they decided to do one of those st00pid 'art pieces' of it.

Hardly

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any coverage of the actual racing. Just lots of talking heads, camera
tricks, pictures of the pace car, and dumbasses who can't even

complete the

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first lap of the swim looking bewildered. Plenty of coverage on the

quirky

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people -talking- about the race, shots of the camera going backwards

away

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from an isolated cyclist, full of jump cuts and other crapola.

I just wanted to jump through the TV and strangle the

producer/director or

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whoever put together this horrid POS with the goofy music.

It's even worse than the broadcast channels who are notorious for

that

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stuff. At least the Sprint Tri series actually covers the racing.

I mean who do they think their audience is...are they trying to

appeal to

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Indie Filmmakers with their editing butchery. Only other Triathletes,
wanna-bes, bikers and runners are going to watch this.

Maybe it will get better in the second half hour.

jj

And this has to do with bicycle racing, how???

Scott said:

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Maybe it will get better in the second half hour.

jj

And this has to do with bicycle racing, how???

Sorry, meant to post in .misc

jj

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Jet said:

I was looking forward to the Australian IronMan reportage on OLN

today, but

Quoted message said:

damn, they decided to do one of those st00pid 'art pieces' of it.

Hardly

Quoted message said:

any coverage of the actual racing. Just lots of talking heads, camera
tricks, pictures of the pace car, and dumbasses who can't even

complete the

Quoted message said:

first lap of the swim looking bewildered. Plenty of coverage on the

quirky

Quoted message said:

people -talking- about the race, shots of the camera going backwards

away

Quoted message said:

from an isolated cyclist, full of jump cuts and other crapola.

I just wanted to jump through the TV and strangle the

producer/director or

Quoted message said:

whoever put together this horrid POS with the goofy music.

It's even worse than the broadcast channels who are notorious for

that

Quoted message said:

stuff. At least the Sprint Tri series actually covers the racing.

I mean who do they think their audience is...are they trying to

appeal to

Quoted message said:

Indie Filmmakers with their editing butchery. Only other Triathletes,
wanna-bes, bikers and runners are going to watch this.

Maybe it will get better in the second half hour.

jj

And this has to do with bicycle racing, how???

Leg #2 is by bicycle and can be considered as an interesting time trial.
There are some in this group who do cycling legs of team triathlons.
However, it may be more appropriate to complain on a tri newsgroup.