Last night was probably the most shameful sporting broadcast i have ever seen.
Pendleton Vs Meares in the womens keirin second heat. The first direct face off between these two chapion athletes at the games. Phil liggett (who is an amazing commentator BTW) was hyping the contest very well. Super pumped for the race. The riders were positioning at the start line, and then what happens? We f**king cut back to the studio where the male model from f**king mudgee tells us that we "have" to go to a commercial break, and then upon return we will be having a special guest interview. WHAT THE f**k!!!! the live race was literrally starting and they just skipped it for a 5 minute comercial break. Upon return we were treated to a delightful interview from Airheaded Lela Mckinnon asking the most poxy arsed set of questions to these two stuffy toffs (Mckinnon's feigned laughter was the highlight), which was probably the most rehearsed and boring plug for the royal family i have ever seen. Then finally, after another 5 minute commercial break we return to the cycling velodrome to watch the race on delay (15 minutes after the race had been finished).
The contempt that channel 9 is showing to their viewers and sports fans in Australia has been shocking. I used to think that channel 7 were bad at olympic coverage, but channel 9 has sunk to new levels i previously could not even have imagined. If they have the next olympics, i am definatley going to buy foxtel.