God it’s getting boring. I like Dave and really glad he got a 1,2 this year but I don’t need 30 minutes on slalom. In the same episode 5th Feb - there was a 4 second comment on one of our female boarders taking gold in border cross and another 3 seconds on the silvers won by another lass.
Why aren’t we covering those things in more detail? I’d be happy with 10-12 minutes on slalom and then cover the other GB athletes.
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I thought the same.
As someone mentioned on the main Ski Sunday thread, it is probably that the BBC bought the rights in advance and reckoned on Wengen and Kitzbuhel for downhill, and as much slalom as they could get.
It would be great to see some more freestyle, since there are a bunch of GB athletes doing well. Maybe the organisers of X Games and other events set the prices too high?
I'd also like to see some skier- and boarder-cross, regardless of whether there is a GB athletes competing. It's the most fun bit of the Winter games to watch.
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There are definetly a couple of British competitors in the ski/boarder cross to watch out for
Charlotte Banks and Huw Nightingale both doing very well more so than the skiers etc
I just can't see freestyle being anything close to mainstream TV coverage @tomj, interesting athletes or not, certainly of interest to those competing etc, but very niche ultimately.
"Cross" racing though, absolutely. As sporting/action event it's brilliant for coverage often highly dramatic, needs no special understanding of what moves have been executed by commentary team, great to watch. That's regardless of athlete country in my view too.
Also great to run courses like this, our kids love this on mountain with a couple of really good course in Val Cenis, we all set off in handicap order to try and time the ending.
I do like slalom though, problem I see is there should be more ski Sunday to bring more of anything to screen. We're completely hosed down with football, horse racing etc, skiing has virtually nil screen time in a year.
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because it's called Ski Sunday & not Wintersports Sunday?
See the British Bobsleigh team won a place on the podium last week. Would like to see more events covered.
This is mentioned on another thread, but they don't have rights anymore for footage of most of the freestyle events. Blame FIS.
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This is mentioned on another thread, but they don't have rights anymore for footage of most of the freestyle events. Blame FIS.
Well more accurately blame the BBC/production for not buying the rights - it's not like they wouldn't have been able to, just that they chose not to spend the money there.
After all it is free
After all it is free
@Chaletbeauroc, they won't sell you one or two segments worth of footage - you have to buy bundles of whole series - more than all of SS screentime put together. Beeb wouldn't ever be able to fund that.
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That’s a shame - I look forward to the program every week but I do want more from it. Shame that the bbc thinks yet another day cup replay for a town is more important.
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I used to watch ski sunday when it concentrated on the racing, then it became a magazine type programme with segments on slopeside stuff etc and I became bored with it. Eurosport now does the racing very well and I watch that instead.
The one other skiing event I enjoy watching is the aerials where I can distinguish the somersaults and twists very clearly. For some reason no one shows much of it even on Youtube http://youtube.com/v/fPArSV8kPOk
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If Ski aerial isn't already dead, it's dying. It's been eaten by Big Air - look at the ages of the competitors - just in that clip you had people competing in their 5th olympics. I'd be amazed if Aerial is still an event past the next one or two Olympic cycles.
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But it is much nicer to watch than big air where I cannot even distinguish a twist from a somersault. However I see your point it needs a lot more training than just coming off a ramp into an air bag hence the older competitors.
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@johnE, err, thats how they train too - although they used to train by jumping into pools.
Big air and ariel are essentially the same thing, except that the aerial jumps are smaller, the FIS approved trick list (yep there is one for both disciplines, and ones 3 times bigger than the other) is tiny and much simpler, and people actually watch big air.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
They all train on trampolines and/or airbags etc first, then water ramps, then on snow. Lots of training in all these events before you do the complex tricks with multiple twists and somersaults. When I was judging I saw some bad crashes but luckily they all survived although I have seen several helmets written off. I record Ski Sunday and fast forward through most of the alpine racing as freestyle just gets the odd mention. So far this season the moguls team have had one podium and 11 top ten results but very little mention.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I just can't see freestyle being anything close to mainstream TV coverage @tomj, interesting athletes or not, certainly of interest to those competing etc, but very niche ultimately.
"Cross" racing though, absolutely. As sporting/action event it's brilliant for coverage often highly dramatic, needs no special understanding of what moves have been executed by commentary team, great to watch. That's regardless of athlete country in my view too.
Also great to run courses like this, our kids love this on mountain with a couple of really good course in Val Cenis, we all set off in handicap order to try and time the ending.
I do like slalom though, problem I see is there should be more ski Sunday to bring more of anything to screen. We're completely hosed down with football, horse racing etc, skiing has virtually nil screen time in a year.
They could show a lot more racing if they got rid of the endless montages! One week I timed almost ten mins of intro before the racing started.
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I've got increasingly fed up with the fast-switching clips too - it's like they feel they can't keep viewers' attention without trying to turn it into a pop video. I'd rather they did without them and just got on with the feature, even if it made the programme shorter.
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I don't mind the montages, or the so-called 'woke' segments, or any of the racing. I just like to see the anything to do with the mountains in winter on mainstream TV. So I usually watch the whole programme.
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I just like to see the anything to do with the mountains in winter on mainstream TV. So I usually watch the whole programme.
This. I love anything that takes me into crisp mountain air and freshly-fallen snow, even if mediated by TV. For that reason, I'd be happy to watch almost anything to do with winter sports.
The slalom coverage is getting quite repetitive and boring, though. The montages and athlete vignette pieces were just filler because the BBC had only bought so much coverage. To the point made earlier, the BBC are on a budget and will have bought a package that covers the closest we have to a household name winner in snowsports.
Although I suspect most man-on-the-street interviewees would probably say that snowsports are of no interest and can't see why the BBC should be spending anything on them, Dave Ryding or not.
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