Quick Thoughts on the Olympics, Thus Far (Round 1)
I haven't watched all of the divisions, but wanted to offer some commentary on what I have seen, so far:
- Wow... the 60 kg Frenchman Milous was really given a gift against his Georgian opponent: Down a yuko with 30 seconds left, he was thrown for no score with only his Frenchness preventing the Ippon (the Georgian was ROBBED). With JUST 5 SECONDS on the board, Milous destroyed the guy with an ippon.
- Sigauque (right) from Mozambique is 27, though this dude looks like a teenager.
- Watching this stuff without Neil Adams doing the commentary just isn't the same... I just want someone to yell "ROIGHT THE WAY OVA!" or "HE SWITCHED IT!"
- Also, the randomly-timed advertisements on NBC.com's streaming are ANNOYING. Couldn't they find an intern somewhere to put in queues for commercials during the "Matte" times, or - better still - after matches?!? Also annoying is the fact that it crashed my computer several times.
- What's up with some folks not having their country abbreviation on the back of their gis? I saw it with Mozambique, Cambodia, and one or two others...
- Is it just me, or are there a TON of "golden score" rounds due to nobody scoring in the regular contest time? I have watched a number of contests where the only score was due to a second penalty in overtime. BOOOORIIIIING. Glad to see that all of the rule changes have made the contest so spectator-friendly and encourage such great judo!
- Good to see that there is plenty of bad refereeing in the Olympics, and that we don't monopolize it in our local tourneys
- The best example of bad reffing was in the 66 kg mens bracket: Ebinuma of Japan (white) vs. Jun-Ho of S. Korea (blue). It went into sudden death, and blue was making the best effort by far until white busted blue, and was awarded a Yuko. The replay confirmed that it was a good call - but the match kept going. In sudden death. Even though white had scored. Now... to be honest, I was keeping one eye on my kids, so I am sure that I missed the part where he waived off the score, but it was very disjointed. Anyhoo, skipping ahead to the end, time runs out, and it goes to ref decision. All three judges raise their flags for blue (S. Korea) - and then the Japanese coach goes nuts, everyone stands there for a few minutes, and then the refs pretend like nothing had happened, and raise their flags for white. Huh? I found this article that explained that it was "overturned by a reviewing commission." Huh? Terrible.
1 comments:
yeah, the flag waving change and the lack of neil adams are the 2 things that stuck out in my mind.
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