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February 15, 2010,

I actually did read your commentary about the 2010 Olympics and found this amusing:

"Iceland has never won a gold medal in the winter Olympics. That's because adding consonants to your name is not a sport."

Was that your quote or a commentator?

--Leif

The first part was from Bob Costas, Leif, but the consonants quip was 100 percent Rockwoodcomic snarkery! But just in case you're curious, you can check out some Icelandic names here!

 
February 15, 2010,

I love your Olympic coverage, I would have to admit that NBC (who's a falling network) is doing a better job then they did in the past.

The 'How to Train Your Dragon' promos is an ad, despite they segue in to it. It would be fluff if they did a graphic before the fluff like the Chevy Moments of past Olympics. But its not a seconds worth of graphic with Bob or someone saying, "this fluff has been brought to you by..." Its a complete tape time waster, but they have to pay the bills somehow.

Side note: I have noticed that the Winter has 15 events compared to Summer's horde of events and yet NBC has only shown one medal ceremony. I'm wonder if they'll show Alexandre Bilodeau medal Ceremony tonight (Monday) and award ceremony is only delayed by a day for testing and venue change.

--Lore

Lore, our guess is that Bilodeau will get his medal on Monday night just like you said (note: we wrote this before watching Monday night's coverage, which included Bilodeau getting his medal). Starting with the Salt Lake City games in 2002, the local Olympic committees seemed to think it would be more interesting to make the medal presentations an event, so they moved them off of the event site to a special medal presentation venue.

In our judgement, this is a mistake. Team Rockwood has been to both a Summer Games (Atlanta) and a Winter Games (Salt Lake) and from experience we can tell you that it's much cooler to see the medals awarded immediately. The fans who show up at the events themselves are usually fans of that event and truly appreciate what the winning athlete has accomplished. Also, they are the ones who are supporting that event. And although they made plans to be at that one location, they might be unable to make plans to see the medal presentations. It seems counter-intuitive to us to actively alienate your strongest supporters, and that's what a policy like this does.

On the other hand, if you move the medal presentation to another location, you can have your music provided by Creed. We'll leave it to you to decide whether that's a good thing or not.