In Australia, then the United Kingdom and Canada, governments announced their refusal to send officials to the Winter Games being held Feb. The move against China started in the United States on Monday. The sting will also be felt by the International Olympic Committee, whose leaders have a keen sense of its potential place in world politics even while touting the neutrality it is bound to by the Olympic Charter.
IOC leaders like to burnish the Olympic brand by saying their sports event is the only one to bring more than national teams together in peace and friendship as an example to the world.
For the IOC, political neutrality should mean not calling out an Olympic host nation for its policies and conduct outside of sports or not connected to staging the games. The IOC still carries emotional scars from the peak period of more than countries combined staging full boycotts of three straight Summer Games from to The Montreal Olympics was hit mostly by African countries protesting New Zealand taking part after its rugby team toured Apartheid-era South Africa.
The Moscow Olympics went ahead without the United States and dozens of other teams protesting the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Thousands of athletes missed competing at an Olympic Games four decades ago.
None should miss the Beijing Winter Games because of a diplomatic boycott. Mann has a 1. Beyond goaltenders, Quinn said he is familiar with many of the players on the new list from their time at the NCAA level. As far as trying to convince current college players to go to the Olympics, he's ready for that challenge, as well, even if it won't be easy.
We just got to make sure we go through the right channels and go through the right process to make sure that we get the right people and put the right team together. Skip to content. Beijing Winter Olympics. Download our local news and weather app for iOS or Android — and choose the alerts you want. NBC's swimming team is part of what makes their coverage so great. Hicks, typically a golf announcer, always ratchets up the excitement, and Gaines is the perfect television analyst for a sport that everyone only watches every four years.
He kind of knows it too, not getting too insider-y, but always teaching you something. Andrea Kremer must know way too much about Michael Phelps by now. I'm sure other people think he's good at his job, but I can never get past homer-ish, amateurish moments like this:. Tim Daggett and Elfi Schlegel are perfect in the sort of Scott Hamilton role of pumping excitement into a sport that tends to be a little on the low-key side.
And thank sweet Jesus and all the cosmos and planets and stars, Bela Karolyi will not return to doing a great impression of a human being as a studio analyst.
Those two will be joined by Chastain and Avant in London, while everyone else you see here will be calling matches off a monitor. Robinson and McEnroe will only call the final, as Robinson's busy calling diving, and McEnroe is busy doing whatever the hell he pleases, I guess. He's just that awesome. All indications are that everyone on this list will be on site, no lousy monitors for you, tennis! I'll admit, the last time I've heard any of these people was when Flanagan had her weird "studio host" role on the Madden games, and Robinson was doing play-by-play for the Mets like forever ago.
I've never really understood diving as a sport in general. I always feel like if the diver doesn't break their entire body hitting that massive platform, they should get a perfect score. Beach volleyball is one of those sports that always gets the short shift in the lead-up to the Olympics, but for some reason is hugely popular once everything gets going.
Can't possibly fathom why. Wong is a former Olympian and first-time analyst. Rulon Gardner is always a good example of the type of analyst you should choose for a fairly obscure Olympic sport, because he just looks like the embodiment of wrestling when it doesn't involve funny costumes.
I really hope so. Also, Wolf Wigo has to be better than any other name on this list. I have no idea if he'll be a good analyst, but I definitely want to know what someone named Wolf has to say.
About anything. Julie Swail was the color analyst for water polo at the Olympics in Athens, then skipped Now she's back doing water polo color commentary and triathlon color commentary in London. I'd skip every four years to go learn a new sport, compete in it at the next Olympics, and eventually be able to call every event for the entire two weeks.
Make this happen, Julie Swail! Boxing always gets shunted off to its own little corner of the Olympics i.
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