I'm gonna say it...
I love the Olympics, whatever the sport. These people are all gifted almost beyond comprehension.
However, the interviewers ask the most insipid questions and worse yet, essentially rephrase the previous question and ask it again. And again. And again. I was just watching the interview of the baseball player who played on our Silver Medal team, and the questions…OMFG.
No depth, no insight, no knowledge of the sport is required to ask:
“How did you feel when…”
“What were you thinking when…”
“When did you realize…”
Formulaic and grotesquely insipid. I’m sorry for the rant but you know what? This is how the media treat Republican politicians:
“How upset were you when you heard that the hospitals in your undervaccinated congressional district are full?” Not:”How can you live with yourself after you told your constituents not to mask or social distance, and the hospitals are full of Covid patients?” Never that….well, almost never….
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These are elimination tournaments, but with increasing payouts the longer you last.
So maybe 1,000 players paid $600 each. But they only show the final table of the 9 top players.
Maybe 9th place pays $15,000 on up to 1st paying $120,000.
Every time someone gets knocked out, they ask them some variant of "are you disappointed."
First off, *everyone* except the one winner gets knocked out at some point. So it's silly to basically imply that 999 players out of 1,000 are inevitably disappointed.
Second, c'mon, 9th place turns $600 into $15,000. Sure, a lot more was so close, but really, why not suggest that maybe $15,000 is a sweet payout?
