BBC Gone Olympic Mad?

timmeh · 15 Aug 2016 at 15:53

People on my Facebook have been boasting that they haven't watched any of it. Is it cool not to care about the Olympics?

Yaayuh! · 15 Aug 2016 at 15:54

I don't think they've gone Olympics mad. They've just got the coverage, it's the biggest sporting event at the moment and a lot goes on in the Olympics.

I can't see it being anything else, certainly not thread-worthy :confused:

Pawnless Endgame · 15 Aug 2016 at 15:57

P.S. is there any way of stopping the "breaking" feature of the BBC news site? It can crop up to 3-4 times during a session, it's always of the same "breaking" story. So why need it 3-4 times? When I click to dismiss it, it takes me back to the top of the article that I was reading, meaning that I lose my place on the page.

dacads · 15 Aug 2016 at 16:04

Dj_Jestar said:
Two weeks every 4 years. Get over it.

*under

Thekwango · 15 Aug 2016 at 16:06

D.P. said:
Do you have any idea what the Olympics is?

of course. I was having a joke, but seeing as your panties have obviously got a little knotted why don't you explain to me what the Olympics is?

Chris1712 · 15 Aug 2016 at 16:30

D.P. said:
The single biggest and most sporting event in the world, something which only happens every 4 years, it is hard not to have a lot of focus on the Olympics.

It's not even nearly. Pretty sure the World Cup, Euros, Tour de France, Superbowl and probably the UEFA CL / Premier League are all much 'bigger' in terms of involvement / viewers. I'm enjoying it though, great to see us doing so well. I wish some of the anti-doping faff would go away though, they're all on something so just allow it!

LeeUK · 15 Aug 2016 at 16:35

Love watching the Olympics and all for freee! Only folk who moan about it are those caught in the Sky Sports money trap paying £££ a month and only get boring stuff like football football and football.

jonneymendoza · 15 Aug 2016 at 16:40

Vern1961 said:
As per title, is it just me or have the BBC gone totally overboard with their coverage of this? Even the news and their website is dominated by the event, there was kind of a brief summary 12 minutes in on BBC Breakfast this morning. They spent more time on some local Brazilian woman's hen night than the main news. Obviously it's an important event and good to see Team GB doing well, but not at the expense of national and international "normal" news.

About the only upside is their reporters and anchors aren't voicing that irritating "so called" prefix every time they mention ISIS.

I could just about understand it 4 years ago when we hosted the last event but this one is half way round the world!

Would you rather everyone chat about ISIS and brexit? About time we have some positive stuff to talk about

Cern · 15 Aug 2016 at 16:45

Chris1712 said:
It's not even nearly. Pretty sure the World Cup, Euros, Tour de France, Superbowl and probably the UEFA CL / Premier League are all much 'bigger' in terms of involvement / viewers. I'm enjoying it though, great to see us doing so well. I wish some of the anti-doping faff would go away though, they're all on something so just allow it!

It's closer than you think between the Olympics and World Cup for viewers. They are definitely the big two out ahead of the rest by some margin.

FIFA World Cup 2014 had an estimated 3.2 billion viewers across the tournament, with an estimated 1 billion watching the final.

London 2012 Olympics had an estimated 3.6 billion viewers across the whole event, with an estimated 900 million watching the opening ceremony.

Figures for Rio 2016 are likely to be down on 2012 due to the doping scandals etc, but still easily in second place behind the World Cup.

mmj_uk · 15 Aug 2016 at 16:47

I think they've been trying to generate their own drama to be honest, all of that rubbish about Rebecca Adlington touching the male presenters leg and apparently Steve Redgrave had an argument on air and walked off at one point.

Hades · 15 Aug 2016 at 16:50

Chris1712 said:
It's not even nearly. Pretty sure the World Cup, Euros, Tour de France, Superbowl and probably the UEFA CL / Premier League are all much 'bigger' in terms of involvement / viewers. I'm enjoying it though, great to see us doing so well. I wish some of the anti-doping faff would go away though, they're all on something so just allow it!

Olympics is the biggest, followed closely by the world cup. The others are regional events.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/30326825

I'm not really that into sport but appreciate many people want to watch the Olympics. So I'm fine with massive BBC coverage.

jonneymendoza · 15 Aug 2016 at 16:55

Hades said:
Olympics is the biggest, followed closely by the world cup. The others are regional events.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/30326825

I'm not really that into sport but appreciate many people want to watch the Olympics. So I'm fine with massive BBC coverage.

well said

loftie · 15 Aug 2016 at 16:56

The BBC seem to do it about anything these days. Something hits headlines and the front page is covered in articles about it. Today's lunchtime news talked about one of the athletes because they got gold, then came the regional lunchtime news which talked about the same athlete again.

I get it if it's worthy to be front page news, but why do we need to bang on about it multiple times or put up 'similar' articles on the home page, e.g. TV gold: Viewers stay up late to watch Bolt. They've literally put up a reaction video on their home page because it's associated with the Olympics :rolleyes:

jonneymendoza · 15 Aug 2016 at 16:58

loftie said:
The BBC seem to do it about anything these days. Something hits headlines and the front page is covered in articles about it. Today's lunchtime news talked about one of the athletes because they got gold, then came the regional lunchtime news which talked about the same athlete again.

I get it if it's worthy to be front page news, but why do we need to bang on about it multiple times or put up 'similar' articles on the home page, e.g. TV gold: Viewers stay up late to watch Bolt. They've literally put up a reaction video on their home page because it's associated with the Olympics

come on mate chill

scrivz69 · 15 Aug 2016 at 16:58

I have to admit that I have not seen any of it due to work and stuff, they should include moto gp lol we would get hammered.

Tom0 · 15 Aug 2016 at 17:05

I'd rather it be on the BBC than Sky. Like everything else.

All I have to say.

Sagalout · 15 Aug 2016 at 17:21

The time differences are killing me! Stayed up to watch Farrah, Ennis and Rutherford on Sunday am, then last night the Tennis with Murray was awesome. Plus all the Track Cycling, but at least that's on at sensible UK times! Knackered at work today

413x · 15 Aug 2016 at 17:42

Rossi~ said:
I don't think they've gone Olympics mad. They've just got the coverage, it's the biggest sporting event at the moment and a lot goes on in the Olympics.

I can't see it being anything else, certainly not thread-worthy

Agree, I don't watch it but it's only a few weeks. And it's summer so plenty to do.
In some ways it's nice as don't hear about random acts of violence in the world.

Far less annoying than continual football

Tefal · 15 Aug 2016 at 18:20

d_brennen said:
Wonder how much of this is down to the increased scrutiny of drugs leveling the playing field a bit more?

Or just weeding out the less well developed doping schemes

Eddie · 15 Aug 2016 at 18:29

I have no problem with the Olympics and the beeb's coverage of it but I don't like how on the website they show sporting headlines on the main news page.

Imo, sport of any kind should not be confused with main news. One is reality and the other is just entertainment. I guess they deliberately want to blur the line between the two, for whatever reason.

The way they use the Breaking News banners is poor too, by all means use the sport breaking news banners on the sport section but don't use it on the main news section.