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delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on August 25, 2008, 09:37:15 pm ---Tell you what, speaking of suspicions and not showing significant people in athlete's lives, did I just miss something, or in all the coverage of Dara Torres and the repeated comments about her age and being the mother of a two-year-old child, was there ever any mention made of a father of her child or of a partner for Torres of either gender?
Granted, I'll gladly give even star athletes some privacy, but still, unless, as I said, I just missed it--repeatedly--I thought that was rather a strange omission.
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I think I remember the story they did of her. I want to say she has a husband who approved of her going back into swimming and helping out with childcare, etc.
LauraGigs:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on August 25, 2008, 02:40:46 am ---Here are the top nine comments made by NBC sports commentators so far
during the Summer Olympics that they would like to take back:
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Katie, where did you find these??
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on August 26, 2008, 08:14:19 am ---I think I remember the story they did of her. I want to say she has a husband who approved of her going back into swimming and helping out with childcare, etc.
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Thanks, Del. As I said, it's entirely possible I just missed that part of the story, but my memory is that every story I saw about her dwelt on her age and her being a mom, and I honestly don't remember any mention of a husband or partner. :-\
Shakesthecoffecan:
I got this in an email today:
Here are the top nine comments made by NBC sports commentators so far during the Summer Olympics that they would like to take back:
1. Weightlifting commentator: 'This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw
her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.'
2. Dressage commentator: 'This is really a lovely horse and I speak from
personal experience since I once mounted her mother.'
3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: 'I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother
and father.'
4. Boxing Analyst: 'Sure there have been injuries, and even some deaths
in boxing, but none of them really that serious.'
5. Softball announcer: 'If history repeats itself, I should think we can
expect the same thing again.'
6. Basketball analyst: 'He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't
like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces.'
7. At the rowing medal ceremony: 'Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the
IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew.'
8. Soccer commentator: 'Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've
got eleven Dicks on the field.'
9. Tennis commentator: 'One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is
that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses
them... Oh my God, what have I just said?'
iorhael:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on August 25, 2008, 07:39:02 pm ---I'm using Firefox, so when I click on the link, it gives me the website, Matt's grinning mug and a big button that says "Video". I click on it and I get "To play video on Firefox please install Silver something plug in". There are no other options. Maybe if I was in Explorer or Netscape...
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Delalluvia, I am using Firefox on the Mac...I had to download Microsoft Silverlight from the NBC site in order to view the video. I'm sorry I forgot to mention that before. If you don't want to do that (I think its slowed down my Mac a bit), I would go to You Tube....
Well after searching You Tube, I only found one video of the medals ceremony and has been removed due to a third party copyright violation (I am assuming NBC here >:(
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