Worlds strongest man competition - Spoiler alert
Discussion
Halb said:
the 'Tv commissioners' thing might be reasonable if the event was televised live or even within a week, but when it's a year down the line, that argument loses weight.
I'm still ambivalent on it though.
Hah the way that works is:I'm still ambivalent on it though.
American TV pay for it, choose the date and countries bid for where it's hosted, Africa bid the most twice in a row.
American TV get the finalised TV footage first so it's aired quite early there.
Every other country "bids" for when they can televise it. Not sure if pay more for earlier or anything like that but the athletes can't announce they're the winner (or shouldn't do) until the last aired date which I believe is the UK.
CaptainSensib1e said:
I can see where Colin is coming from, but in every heat so far the last person starting the stones has been the winner. So you can confidently predict before the event who will win, which spoils it for me.
I think the key is to stop thinking of it as the last event. Look at it as a bonus event which gives the 3rd (and even 4th) placed guy a slim chance of snatching 2nd place.smiffy180 said:
Hah the way that works is:
American TV pay for it, choose the date and countries bid for where it's hosted, Africa bid the most twice in a row.
American TV get the finalised TV footage first so it's aired quite early there.
Every other country "bids" for when they can televise it. Not sure if pay more for earlier or anything like that but the athletes can't announce they're the winner (or shouldn't do) until the last aired date which I believe is the UK.
Rather sad how lowly the UK looks on this sport. Team sports leave me cold, they're good for playing yourself, but a bit silly to take any real interest in people you don't know being paid for it. Something like strongman is the epitome of athletic endeavour for me, one human versus another human one on one, or at least individually.American TV pay for it, choose the date and countries bid for where it's hosted, Africa bid the most twice in a row.
American TV get the finalised TV footage first so it's aired quite early there.
Every other country "bids" for when they can televise it. Not sure if pay more for earlier or anything like that but the athletes can't announce they're the winner (or shouldn't do) until the last aired date which I believe is the UK.
I wish the BBC would pull it's thumb out of it's arse and buy it early. Maybe with the fourth UK winner it may help interest further up the food chain.
Halb said:
Rather sad how lowly the UK looks on this sport. Team sports leave me cold, they're good for playing yourself, but a bit silly to take any real interest in people you don't know being paid for it. Something like strongman is the epitome of athletic endeavour for me, one human versus another human one on one, or at least individually.
I wish the BBC would pull it's thumb out of it's arse and buy it early. Maybe with the fourth UK winner it may help interest further up the food chain.
I'm not sure if they've just stuck to Christmas as it's like a tradition now? But seems silly to have world's so early on in comparison, especially with social media. I wish the BBC would pull it's thumb out of it's arse and buy it early. Maybe with the fourth UK winner it may help interest further up the food chain.
An interesting video of Eddie's thoughts on The Mountain and his rep complaint. He doesn't hold back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfwNyC-_x3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfwNyC-_x3A
Great TV - watched it every year from when I was a kid. Not sure why I like it so much as I normally hate watching sport of any kind. I think it's the appeal of the simplicity of finding the strongest bloke with no weight or, presumably drug test , restrictions.
Not sure why Thor was so upset about his rep being disallowed. It seemed fairly obvious that Eddie could have smashed out another one or two if he'd really needed to, so the results weren't changed.
Not sure why Thor was so upset about his rep being disallowed. It seemed fairly obvious that Eddie could have smashed out another one or two if he'd really needed to, so the results weren't changed.
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