Women’s Gymnastics Deserves Better TV Coverage

Re:Women’s Gymnastics Deserves Better TV Coverage by runako on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @11:36AM (#12262513)

> up until 10 years ago

This made me curious, as it didn't match my recollection. Checking the medal counts, it's apparent that the USA women's gymnastics team has been very competitive for roughly 30 years now. It's fair to wonder why the coverage isn't better by now.

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Re:Women’s Gymnastics Deserves Better TV Coverage by rdtsc on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @11:53AM (#12262664)

Looking there up until 2004 I see mostly SU, Romania, China. There is only a single gold for US in 1984 by Retton and a silver for Miller in 92.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_g...

That kind of jives with my recollection how medals were distributed.

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Re:Women’s Gymnastics Deserves Better TV Coverage by in_cahoots on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @12:09PM (#12262783)

You're ignoring the team all-around. The US got silver in 84, bronze in 92, gold in 96, and bronze in 2000. I think it's fair to say that the US as a team was one of the dominant forces in that time period, even if they didn't have the individual medalists.

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Re:Women’s Gymnastics Deserves Better TV Coverage by rangibaby on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @12:00PM (#12262719)

Also remember that the USSR (and friends) didn't attend the 1984 Olympics.

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Re:Women’s Gymnastics Deserves Better TV Coverage by rdtsc on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @12:02PM (#12262741)

Ah! Makes sense, forgot about that.

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