swimming

[erilyn]

My family has a question they'd like me to ask any Americans I know:

Has there been much(/any) coverage of or news about, the World Swimming Championships (on at the moment in Melbourne) in the US? The US team has done well, especially Michael Phelps (he's just...wow - 6 gold medals and counting, it was a shame about the relay, plus multiple world records), and they're just interested in how the sport gets covered there vs how it's covered here.

Thanks for indulging their curiousity :)

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[shannenb.livejournal.com]

There's been *some* coverage, not much. Two networks have been covering it--one is World Championship Sports (wcsn.com) which unfortunately only a small segment of the country gets (although you could order a $5 subscription and watch the event streamed live on their website) and the other is Fox Sports Network (FSN). Fox has their regional FSN networks (so FSN showing something where I live might not be showing something to say California, because the regional stations set their own programming) and then their Fox College Sports Networks. Basically, they were showing a compressed two hour version of the meet each day, which was basically the finals of the big events, semis where it looked like it might be interesting, and some of the finals.

Duel in the Pool will be shown here on NBC, but they show that because of Phelps.

Or at least the coverage that I've been made aware of . I closed my swimming website earlier in the year, so I'm kind of out of the fandom.

I do know that this morning, all the coverage is "OMG, Ian Crocker cost Michel Phelps a chance at 8 golds by DQing the relay" which is just too bad....for Ian. He had to put up with all the press harping on how he cost Phelps 8 golds in Athens because he was sick, and now he's got to listen to it again. The poor guy doesn't deserve that.