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A bad look for the IOC yet one more time.

Participation isn't a given, they're (Russia, Belarus) making themselves global pariahs but we have to remember the type of people that make up the executive staffs of IOC and their ilk.

Think the Swiss "bid" is like they're already here so the gifts and other things will be easy to deliver!

Not great. (It's the France24 live blog which has an emoji in the URL and won't let me post it.)

Those predictions are wild! But I also like that at the bottom there's a link to 2023 with the same predictions.

Yeah I can understand that, and even I would agree that some branding is essential to a good video experience. But I also will never pass up an opportunity to trash the committee.

New Norm = worse experience for for the public. I guess that's the least we can expect for a corrupt organization like these guys I guess. It doesn't make sense though, in modern times the Olympic games are not a mass in-person event. Why not save costs by not plastering every surface with branded banners and printed plastic sheeting (that will just be thrown out) and instead make a globally accessible good web presence and experience. It just shows the backward and stupid nature of the IOC. Save money by making it harder for the public to follow but keep spending on making sure that every IOC board member is put up in at least a 4-star hotel for months. I feel the IOC is very accessible and in touch with the public!

That's not a terrible experience on the schedule and results section but a real letdown compared to any recent games. I remember even the same host in 2008 had a good website.

So I've been checking the beijing2022 website on and off this week because usually a week out they throw the switch and light up the big fancy site that redirects to Olympics.com and has all the athlete profiles, schedules, medal counts and stuff. And it just hasn't changed at all, then I just noticed today they've added a medals and "media extranet" links on the top of their crappy organizing committee site, and I think this is it. And I don't know what to say it's pretty disappointing to see in an age when web developers are everywhere that this is what they going with. If this is a foretaste for this event I'm going to say get ready for something pretty garbagey. Although maybe they're just waiting for the opening ceremony (that would be atypical,) or maybe they spent all their time and resources on that spyware app they're making all the athletes download, either way this crappy site https://www.beijing2022.cn/en/ makes even the old ones like Salt Lake 2002 or Athens 2004 websites look like works of brilliance in comparison.

They want to simultaneously be royal rockstars, while being perceived as humble hard working organizers of amateur sporting spectacles (with their own law enforced lanes on the freeway,) and people finally wised up. It shouldn't be lost on anyone the number of members of the IOC that hold "royal" titles including majesty or highness, and expecting people like that to transform the Olympic enterprise to a true non-profit public good would be antithetical to them. The fake nobility aspect of the modern Olympics traces back to it's founding but the crass commercialization came a lot later and in my opinion is what has turned the most people off, remember it was just 12-13 years ago that the IOC was pestering the capital region of the state of Washington over their name (Olympia.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2022_Winter_Olympics_broadcasters#cite_note-list-10 I found it, it's a PDF link to what looks like a Word doc, from The Olympic Channel domain. It's comprehensive though.

I think it's because they have the maple leaf icon which you can really go ham on making it look cool. We could do stripes or a star, but they're not as singular as a maple leaf is as far as design goes.

Vancouver's Medal Ceremony Music has always stuck with me as among the best. Vancouver 2010 Medal Ceremony Track

Well Tokyo wasn't a disaster, and now we'll have this second pandemic time games. So they've shown they can host a games that doesn't implode on itself, but will they be any good, and will they demonstrate the type of feeling and joy the IOC really hopes they portray? I'm doubtful. So we got Tokyo which was ok, it wasn't a London, but it was fine. Now we'll have Beijing, will it be a Vancouver, probably not, but it might at least be better than a Sochi.

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/nbcuniversal-tokyo-olympics-make-goods-advertising-1235028563/ NBC will definitely be winning the week, but they're not living up to previous expectations. When you have to negotiate make-goods you know someone somewhere effed up. Looking past the bad time zone, I wonder if this is an indication that NBCU's Comcast driven cable prioritization plans have finally come to the end of the road. There aren't enough OTA/cable/satellite viewers to keep them breaking records. I'm curious how this will affect NBC's future strategy.