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Re:Ask HN: What caused the Olympics to become so terrible? by pySSK on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:59PM (#30235015)
Agree completely. The reasons I think are:

- America has just so many participants so it makes some sense that 100% coverage is on US athletes

- too much focus on personal side of things (X just had a baby etc.) is becuase US gets regular news-people/non-expert commentators. Since they don't often know much about the sport, they make everything into a personal interest stories.

How other countries do it:

- focus on the sport

- former athletes of the sport in question are brought in

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Re:Ask HN: What caused the Olympics to become so terrible? by el_nahual on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:09PM (#30235144)
US coverage is less fun because they focus on US athletes all the time, even when they are not participating. So if there's no swimming on, instead of watching some random-ass sport--which is fun--we have to watch a random human interest story--which is not fun.

Obviously they should cover US athletes when they are participating but they cover them all the time. It's just more boring.

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