I got to watch the final. It was a fantastic game between two really good sides, and needless to say I enjoyed the result very much.
As for the coverage here...well, it's been the usual pathetic fare from our "Olympic broadcaster" (as they like to refer to themselves). There's a blink-and-you-miss-it screen occasionally to tell the viewer what's on and on what channel, but unless you happen to be watching at the right moment you're reduced to channel surfing. The parochialism is (as usual) off the charts, the commentators are pathetic (one especially cringeworthy example from the aforementioned rugby sevens: "These girls can really tackle!!"
), and it's very much a case of occasional bits of sport momentarily interrupting a tsunami of adverts for their range of idiotic "reality" shows and assorted other crap they'll be screening "after the Olympics". Perhaps the most pathetic bit is that between 5pm and 7pm on our east coast, there's no Olympic coverage whatsoever. So around the time of day people are getting home from work and might want to catch up on what's happened, there's...nothing.I didn't expect much from the mob concerned and they've certainly lived down to my expectations.
