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[gwydion]

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* So I do the multiple hour fast forward to get to the Skating coverage, and discover the Canadians had pre-emped Team Men's figure Skating in favour of curling, so they only showed Patrick Chan. Fine, I thought. It's early enough to catch the American rebroadcast. which cuts in in the middle of Ice dancing and skips ahead to midway through the Japanese single sake. Fucksake! I have access to coverage from two whole countries, neither of whom bothered to actually broadcast men's figure skating properly. Seriously, WTF!?! There is literally one thing I care about in the Winter Olympics and that's figure skating. Single skating is the most popular part of figure skating, and while I am very pleased I got to see the excellent women's performances, I am furious I didn't get to see what happened with the men. They are refusing to broadcast nearly half of the bit I am here to watch for no obvious reason.

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[tibicina]

They added a new Curling format - mixed doubles. Teams of one man, one woman, 8 ends. (instead of the usual 4-person teams either all men or all women and 10 ends. There are a couple other minor rule changes.) So it and the skating 'team' competition got pushed out to start ahead of opening ceremonies. I happen to love watching curling, though. (plus, as others have pointed out, it's one of the few not so lethal or likely to injure anyone games at the Winter Olympics.) Basically I think the extra formats for both skating and curling have pushed them into airtime contention. (Which would be a sadness if I did not have allllll the channels and a DVR of much space, because they're my two favorite things at the Winter Olympics. I also tend to enjoy the skiing and snowboarding things which involve trick jumps. I have to be in the right mood for more racing type things.)

[gwydion]

I don't understand curling, but I generally watch some of it because it's weirdly...emotionally satisfying? I just resent them pre-empting all of the men's skating except Patrick Chan after doing the skate intro. It seemed a weird choice. Here are our commentators introducing the team event finals. Commercials. Surprise Curling that goes so long they don't have time to show the event they just introed.

They had team in Sochi also, and I do wish the sheduling were more sensible.

I do general watch some of the snow boarding and skiing finals with the trick jumps. It's just that Figure skating I follow every year and I care quite passionately about the single skaters. (I generally root for everyone to have the best skate ever, but I have favorites and there is 40+ years of history for me watching the sport going back to Dorothy Hamill in '76 which is the first Olympics I remember clearly. (I used to follow pairs skating, but lost interest at some point in the early oughts).

For me there is a difference between watching an 1/2 to an hour each of something every four years that I don't mind missing as was the case four years ago, and a thing I specifically look forward to watching and have opinions most of the people involved.

which is not how everyone watches the Olympics I know, but I shouldn't have to piece the competition together out of three different broadcasts.