• DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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    2 hours ago

    The ice dancing has beautiful music that the participant spent hours agonizing over.

    The netowrks have some idiot babbling over the music.

    • helpImTrappedOnline
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      Yeah, wish they would just shut up and let the athletes do their thing, and don’t cut away to show the crowd!

  • zurohki@aussie.zone
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    4 hours ago

    Every sporting event should include one regular dude failing horribly, just to put things in perspective.

  • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    Meanwhile my out of shape half drunk uncle watching someone wobble after landing a quadruple backflip: “what a disgrace to their country”

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    5 hours ago

    I find figure skating commentary is usually the funniest.

    “Twizzles… Twizzles… Double axel… Very good… Twizzles…”

    • AeronMelonM
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      2 hours ago

      “And he ended it with a little dance, very nice. The judges will like that.”

  • MidsizedSedan
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    5 hours ago

    Every sports day I see the 100m track, and say “no way in hell I can finish that in under 10 seconds”