okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Watching TV
I'm watching the Olympics on TV thinking, "it is a shame orienteering isn't in the Olympics." It'd be quite cool to be able to sit in front of the TV and watch orienteers racing around Vancouver.
I love Olympics games. Winter Olympic also and i watch olympics at home in my Dish TV . I gives me a feeling that i am watching game just in front of the real venue.
I used to think there was no way that Orienteering could be an Olympic spectator sport, but watching the XC skiing with interval starts made me realize that I was wrong! I have been completely captivated by the coverage of xc so far, and i think this could work for O as well. The coverage of xc has been similar to some of the world champ O events that have been webcast the last few years, but i think did a better job of drawing in viewers (perhaps by relying more on images than on announcers, good though the Onnouncers have been?).