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I just have to think back to last weekend (February 14th) and the incredibly long and cruel start of the women’s relay. SVT broadcast the season. Unfortunately.
Anyone who has ever seen a relay knows what can happen – and also knows that it always happens.
Someone completely runs away on the first stretch, hits the famous wall and ends up two minutes behind. Someone else breaks a stick or drops a ski. Someone steps over your leg and you lose both your footing and your balance.
Some fall off, roll onto a hill, roll into another driver. On another hill.
A bond goes to hell.
Anyone who has seen a baton So be aware that something unexpected always happens. Everyone knows it – except the experts in the SVT studio. Everyone except Pops, Kalla, Fredriksson. All except Jacob Hård and Anders Blomquist.
Not only were they cross-proof, they were bombproof: nothing in the world could prevent a Swedish Olympic gold. There wasn’t a single wardrobe here. Nothing can go wrong!!
The rest of us, knowing next to nothing, still knew that unpleasant things could happen on the difficult, muddy runs.
We had seen this before at the Olympics. We had a favorite like Jessie Diggins who stood on his ears and was blown away by a “bombproof” medal.
Poor Ebba Andersson. Not because she fell, which can happen to anyone, but because as a professional athlete she was forced to be publicly judged for such collective stupidity.
Five stupid hats for SVT’s relay studio. Size: The largest size available on the market. To Pops, to Kalla, Fredriksson, Hård and Blomquist. They certainly could have kept some of them for the rest of the Olympics. Nobody mentioned it, nobody forgot it.
So it wasn’t Ebba Andersson who ruined this Olympic Saturday. They were the “experts” from SVT. Blazing hot, embarrassing.
By the way, where did you get it? By the way, where is the traditional OS magazine, the one in the evening? Nothing on SVT, nothing on TV4. The evening magazine in which you get a summary of the whole day and all the competitions in brief. Very strange. Is it too much “old media”?
It’s possible, but is it good or bad television?
Canadian ice hockey team (mediocre game) was just a stone’s throw away from elimination against a (as usual) tactically poor Czech Republic. Thanks to a late equalizer and some luck in the 3-on-3 game, they progressed.
What the ice hockey experts from TV4 and SVT have in common is that they are on alert as soon as someone is reading from a Canadian phone book. They love Canada and the NHL, they love these stars, they lie flat on the floor and enthusiastically clap the superheroes’ skates. Best in class is Jonas Andersson, SVT. Mention any American biases to him and he’ll immediately go into violent contractions.
It’s almost comical. It’s weird.
Sweden had the lead Until the quarterfinals against the USA, they hadn’t had a single really good phase during the entire ice hockey Olympics, although they were in the conversation most of the time. Chris Härenstam had goosebumps after just two correct passes: “Wonderful,” he kept shouting. It wasn’t a very good time against the USA either. And exodus.
Did these NHL professionals really show a particularly high level?
There was a small public outcry – and I say that at the risk of antagonizing Per Bjurman. Will we see the world’s best hockey player in the semifinals? So far they’ve been hiding pretty well. The NHL is work, the Olympics are vacation. Cozy with the women and children in the stands.
By the way, Håkan Loob will come with a collection of aphorisms after the Olympics. Publisher: Unknown.
However, I have a few samples: “It’s the individual performances that decide”, “We can’t allow ourselves to be sent off unnecessarily”, “The first goal can be so important”, “In ice hockey there are small gaps” (the best of the best!!), “Now it’s time to grab it, draw energy and go onto the pitch.” Yes.
Johan Esk: First the Stig Helmer throw – then Ebba Andersson impressed
