oldandslow wrote:
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Same here. When I first tuned in to the figure skating, I asked my wife why PeeWee Herman was a commentator and why he was dressed like that. As I have watched the skating, I've grown to enjoy his comments. He is, of course, very knowledgeable and this helps explain a lot of the competition to someone like me who watches mainly because my wife does.
x2, as long as I don't watch him, he's fine.
I'm going to go further and say that the figure skating trio last night for the women's figure skating free performance was the best commentatary I've "heard" in ages. In addition to the former skaters (Weir and Lipinski), Terry Gannon was very knowledgable.
What I loved was that during the majority of the performances, the three announcers were silent. They kept their taking to a minimum -- even resisting the urge to point out wobbles and faults. When one did comment during the program, the other two generally had the discipline to avoid commenting on the comment. Such a nice departure from the non-stop inane banter during all other sports. I watched more continuous sports coverage last night than I had in a long, long time.
I'm kind of partial to Gannon as he was a couple years ahead of me in college. He had been working his way through the minor leagues in sports commentary for many years. Glad to see him on the big stage.
The two Russian girls were amazing.
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It doesn't really matter what Phil is saying, the music of his voice is the appropriate soundtrack for a bicycle race. HTupolev