What a great couple of weeks of sport over here in the UK - at least my kind of sport anyway.
First, two truly fine Test Matches between England and Australia. For those American’s reading this who are not cricket fans, a Test Match is an international cricket match typically lasting 5 days with so many nuances and fine points that I couldn’t begin to explain (but check this link out). Suffice it to say that the matches were amazing and the entire country has been so enthralled by the games that we hardly noticed the start of football season (U.S. translation = soccer) last weekend.
Then we had the World Championship of Athletics in Helsinki. Last weekend we had full coverage of both the Men’s (Saturday) and the Women’s (Sunday) marathons on the BBC. That was start to finish coverage of both races with no advertising. That would never happen in America, over 2 hours each day of people running through the streets! Not even ESPN 7 or 8 or whatever number they are up to now would have found time for that.
The really sad thing is that I bet no one in the US even knew that the Athletics World Championships were taking place. What a shame.
5 comments:
Hi Steve,
As I said to you on the phone, that last test match in the Ashes series has gotten me completely hooked! Fantastic suspense. And I think I almost understand the rules!
You're right. The World Championships probably weren't being covered at all in the US. That's one thing I love about the BBC -- and the independent networks -- LOTS of prime-time sports coverage...the really good kind! Too bad that Sky covers so much of the football. I'd watch more if it wasn't on satellite/cable.
Hope things continue to go well there!
Janet
(www.lordcelery.blogspot.com)
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