Sport Blog – September 2016

summer olympics 2016

2016 Rio Summer Olympics

The opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games took place on the evening of Friday the 5th of August in the Maracana Stadium Rio de Janeriro.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/05/sport/olympics-live-coverage-opening-ceremony/index.html

The official website is for the games is www.no2016.com

Well, the 2016 Summer Olympic Games are now a thing of the past, another one for the history books.

http://www.nbcolympics.com/

I don’t know about you, but I just couldn’t get all that worked up over them this year. This is not usually the case, I love the summer games. My favorite sporting events are usually water polo, swimming and of course, gymnastics, both the men and the women. So what happened!

I tried, I watched several of the events, starting with the opening ceremony, but just couldn’t get up the enthusiasm. I spoke to several of my fellow sport fans and they were also unimpressed with most of the televised games. So, again what happened?

Was all the commercials, which seems to last longer than the event itself. It seemed that for every 5 minutes of commercials, there was 5 minutes or less of watching the actual games.

Or perhaps it was the weird scheduling of the events. For instance, the TV menu would say, water polo, which I had been waiting for, only to find instead another basketball game between two countries that I didn’t even know had a basketball team.

I totally missed seeing the USA play basketball, water polo or even any of the gymnastics, I have no idea when they were actually on TV. Looked for them, even followed the teaser ads that NBC placed through-out the day, but totally missed them anyway. I keep thinking maybe they were on so late that I fell asleep before they aired. But if that’s the case, where were the re-runs.

I would also like to know what happened to showing the USA Olympic athletes actually getting their gold, silver or bronze medals. Only saw one team, and that was the women’s group gymnastics get their gold.

Most of my fellow sports fans were able to see some of the events, more than I got to, but no thanks to TV, it was basely due to watching the events on their Cell Phones by live streaming. Unfortunately not everyone in the USA has a mobile phone plan that allows for unlimited ‘airtime’.

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“They were bound to be big, but the Olympic ratings did not start out as NBC has grown accustomed to for a Summer Games” It stands as the lowest overnight for a Summer Games since 1996.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7461813/rio-olympics-2016-opening-ceremony-tv-ratings-fall-28-percent-from-london

Hopefully NBA will learn from their mistakes, they have four years in which to do so.

However, I am glad to see that the USA did so well in the games and to see the diversity in who made the teams. There were several events that I did not know the USA had a team good enough to make it to the Olympics, and not only make it, but they did very well.

The USA took home a total of 121 medals. A total medal count of 46 Gold, 37 Silver and 38 Bronze. Not bad, not bad at all. The next country in total medal count was China, with 70, Great Britain with 67 and Russia with 56. Again not bad, just wish the spectators watching from their TV sets were able to watch the USA get some of these medals.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/21/americas/olympic-games-closing-ceremony/index.html

The games last day was Sunday, August 21, which ended will the closing ceremonies. Rio sure knows how to go out on top. That was a show of shows put on by Rio. It was great seeing George Michael, The Spice Girls and The Who perform once again.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/06/sport/rio-olympics-2016-wrapup/index.html

As we said goodbye to the 2016 Summer Olympic Games and offer our congratulations to the many athletics that participated, we can already begin to look forward to the next Olympic Games which will be in 2020 and in Tokyo Japan.