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I don’t want to seem too old-fashioned, although it happened easily, but what is the point of opening the Olympic competitions two days before the opening of the Games? Incomprehensible. Destroys the whole thing.
In any case, André Pops thought it was great when SVT’s first Olympic broadcast started last Wednesday evening with studio talk and mixed curling.
He was like a calf in a green pasture, seemed genuinely happy, and the fact is his energy was contagious. Well, of course not on the two butter cakes Björn Ferry and Mathias Fredriksson, but he definitely made many of us viewers friendly and in a good mood. Ferry and Fredriksson, of course, have other good sides and a lot of other knowledge to pass on, and you really like that they have just the right amount of difficult flirting.
But as I said, it’s been a long time since Pops have been seen and heard so seriously on the accelerator.
It was a strong start.
Yes, apart from the old one The usual blue and yellow flag waving that SVT can never get enough of. Of course they started with old gold brackets from the past, quite a few, and some were shown, like three times, for example the women’s curling gold from the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.
Look ahead, thank you. Any of us can search for archive photo nostalgia online any day of the year. Have we ever seen Nicklas Lidström’s gold medal at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin? Yes, we have that. Five thousand times. Grazie, that’s it.
As you know, SVT shares the Olympics with TV4 – and if you want to stream everything, HBO Max also broadcasts the whole program. SVT has slightly more branches and is also slightly better. The cross-country skis, for example. And that’s probably what most Swedish viewers are most hungry for. Along with hockey.
If you are interested in Nordic combination, raise your hand…?
The Swedish women’s national ski team is one of the best Swedish national teams of all time in all categories. Probably rivals the National Table Tennis team of the late ’80s, the Bengan Boys in their heyday, and some of Tre Kronor’s best sets throughout history.
I don’t know how you feel before the new discipline of ski alpinism, for example, or snowboarding, slopestyle, halfpipe, big air – but it will probably take some time before they really work their way into our winter DNA.
But the strangest thing is probably not all these new and semi-new disciplines, on the contrary, the strangest thing is that such an anachronism as Nordic combined still has Olympic status well into the 21st century. The combination of cross-country skiing and ski jumping doesn’t have many competitive athletes in Sweden or the world (I desperately looked for numbers – it turned out to be hopelessly difficult). If you are interested in Nordic combination, raise your hand…?
It is TV4 that has had the great pleasure of hyping Nordic combination and making it the cause of all of Sweden. You probably have to exclaim: Good luck!
Just in time for the opening of the Olympic Games The first doping case also landed: The Italian biathlete Rebecca Passler had the banned substance letrozole in her blood – a substance that can be used, among other things, to disguise the use of anabolic steroids.
Björn Ferry exclaimed in the Olympic studio: “It hit like a bomb.” Yes, really? Is anyone else surprised? Now, you’re surprised that someone is so stupid that he or she gets exposed even though it seems so damn easy to hide, but surprised that someone does drugs? I suspect like many others, but if you follow experts like German doping hunter Hajo Seppelt, for example, you won’t be the least bit surprised.
And especially not when we learned in black and white just a few weeks ago that Swedish doping controls, for example, were becoming increasingly rare due to a lack of money. What about the rest of Europe and the rest of the world?
In fact, all international sports federations avoid doping scandals like the plague, it could mean the end of their entire business – so it’s almost best not to know, right?
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