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sammyd
Joined: 21 Jun 2004
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 Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject: No Hockey |
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Hey,
No hockey on TV. It's quarter-finals time, and all I can see at the time Canada are playing Russia is three channels playing short-track over and over. Is there any explanation for three channels playing the same thing?
Angry Canadian on behalf of Kiwi |
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whitebeagle
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Location: UK
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Because its a discipline that Koreans are good at and therefore have an interest in. During the summer Olympics they showed lots of (thrilling) women's archery. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, if you were cheering for Russia, I have some good news for you... |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| whitebeagle wrote: |
| Because its a discipline that Koreans are good at and therefore have an interest in. During the summer Olympics they showed lots of (thrilling) women's archery. |
Koreans win medals in women's archery, in fact, nearly ALL the medals every time, hence the coverage.
And Koreans have won medals in speed skating, hence that sport's coverage.
My students are left thinking that speedskating is a bigger Olympic sport that ice hockey or figure skating. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Forget about hockey; I want my curling! |
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yesnoyesyesno
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:09 am Post subject: Re: No Hockey |
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| sammyd wrote: |
Hey,
No hockey on TV. It's quarter-finals time, and all I can see at the time Canada are playing Russia is three channels playing short-track over and over. Is there any explanation for three channels playing the same thing?
Angry Canadian on behalf of Kiwi |
what's happening to team canada? for a while that whole gambling issue was all they were talking about on the TV's but honestly no one cares about it anymore. everybody here's embarassed with the men's hockey team but Canada's other athletes have been performing very well including the women's hockey team which won the gold again. overall people are pretty pleased with this olympics despite the men's hockey performance. I think their poor performance is actually making people forget about the gambling problem actually. |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:16 am Post subject: |
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There are some good players in this tournament. And those players are not on Canada. One of my adult students asked me who the best player in Canada is. I couldn't think who and told him that maybe the best player in the world is Jagr and the best goalie could be Hasek.
Canada could make a better team with an Mystery, Alaska type deal, but what can you? |
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Picotrain
Joined: 16 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| If you have SkyLife, then all the hockey quarter finals came on one of the 500 channels, 501 I believe. But I agree about the curling. In my province they've actually closed schools to watch the finals, since one of our own is going for the gold. |
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