Channel Nine is showing the Olympics on free to air here, and the coverage has been pretty crap, from what little I have watched and what I have heard from others. Not only are they showing hardly anything, many of the commentators have been roped in from other unrelated sports (cycling and cricket!). Not to mention that until yesterday, we'd only won a single silver medal, and that guy's performance was repeated every 10 minutes or so. Now thankfully our Anointed Golden Girl has won a gold, so they will proceed to repeat that every 5 minutes along with lots of footage of her smiling and looking attractive.

And the main host Eddie Mcguire tried to get several people to say "we wuz robbed" after our silver medal. That was pathetic, and our medalist was sensible enough to say that the winner had performed better. It's funny but sad when our commentators rave and drool about performances by our athletes, who then proceed to get crap scores. Half the time the commentators don't seem to have any idea what they are talking about either.

Not unexpected and rather sad, really.