coverage of the shooting sports in the 2012 Olympics

[trap]

looks like the only sports they give much attention for coverage are basketball, swimming, and gymnastics. do they ever feature any of the shooting sports?

qualifying event for men's trap was supposed to be at 4:00 AM today so i woke up 10 minutes earlier at 3:50 hoping to watch it before i go to work. but they never even mentioned it. all i saw was basketball between Lithuania and France and gymnastics.

 

[tailboardtech]

Come on don't you know guns are bad and even the thought of having them on tv in a good manner is a nono

 

[Mooseman]

I am surprised there are shooting events. After all they are being held in London. Maybe there is no coverage because they don't want their subjects to know how much fun shooting can be.

 

[TyFromMD]

There was coverage of women's skeet a few days ago. NBC sucks. I think they only show events that the US has a decent chance of medalling in.

 

[trap]

There was coverage of women's skeet a few days ago. NBC sucks. I think they only show events that the US has a decent chance of medalling in.

Vince Hancock also got a Gold in men's skeet but they never showed how he got it. NBC really sucks.

 

[WeaponsCollector]

On the local NBC news about an hour ago one of the anchors complained about how they never show archery.
I would definitely watch the Olympics more if I could see some shooting and archery.

 

[JCB003]

I saw the medal ceremony on TV for mens skeet but not the actual event.

I'm surprised archery is not getting more attention with the Hunger Games connection.

 

[Mildot]

If nbc didn't aire Ameican Kim Rhodes new olympic record and world record tying 99/100 in skeet shooting then little hope they aire any other shooting events. Disappointing to say the least.

i did download the nbc olympic apps for my ipad and ave been watching the shooting events there. You can check the online schedule and watch most of the shooting events live but they are on during the workday like most of the olympics in GMT. I think 50m rifle is online at 0655 and rapid fire pistol at 0925. They are all recorded so you can watch them anytime online.

 

[ichibang]

I saw the medal ceremony on TV for mens skeet but not the actual event.

I'm surprised archery is not getting more attention with the Hunger Games connection.

Saw tonight on nbc's national news that archery was getting huge ratings for their daytime coverage supposedly due to hunger games.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.c...tv-audience-could-hunger-games-be-the-reason/

 

[circleshooter]

I watched the entire final round (25 targets) of Kim Rhode's gold medal victory. It was on last Sunday at 0900 on MSNBC. I was surprised as hell it was on.

I didn't see any of the men's final. Just Sgt. Hancock on the medal stand.

They probably didn't show any men's trap because neither of the Americans qualified for the final.

Corey Cogdell and Kim Rhode are shooting in the women's trap qualification on Saturday. They may show something of that as Rhode has already won a medal.

 

[BlueHeeler]

I watched 6 straight hours of coverage because women’s skeet was scheduled. I cheated by looking at the internet and knew Kimberly Rhode was going to shoot a 99 and I wanted to see it. After watching 6 hours of Equestrian Dressage, ping pong, badminton, and hula hoop they failed to show the shooting.

NBC did interview Rhode prior to the event and it was humorous the commentator was very careful to not mention guns. He kept saying, ‘You have the opportunity to win gold in your sport’. ‘You may be the only American athlete ever to win medals for an individual event in five consecutive Olympics… in your sport.’

If Olympic tradition cannot legitimize a sport and NBC would like to pretend recreational shooting does not exist, that just plays more into their biased agenda.

There was a definitely a flair of condescendence by NBC, which should have been insulting to an American gold medalist. She took it well.

 

[Samuel]

It baffles me that we don't clean-sweep the shooting sports. With guns as such an integral part of our national heritage you'd think we'd be a dominant force in the Olympic shooting games compared to most of the rest of the world living under strict gun control. .

 

[Mike OTDP]

It baffles me that we don't clean-sweep the shooting sports. With guns as such an integral part of our national heritage you'd think we'd be a dominant force in the Olympic shooting games compared to most of the rest of the world living under strict gun control. .

Their teams have money. We don't.

 

[hvymax]

It baffles me that we don't clean-sweep the shooting sports. With guns as such an integral part of our national heritage you'd think we'd be a dominant force in the Olympic shooting games compared to most of the rest of the world living under strict gun control. .

Their teams have money. We don't.

The few that are allowed have almost unlimited resources.

 

[TyFromMD]

Shooting sports are on right now on ABC.

 

[slimj0e]

Didn't a Korean win the gold for 50 meter with pistols

 

[SOMDSHOOT]

I didn't know they had shooting sports in the Olympics. I'm not into sports of any kind to be honest, but, I figured it couldn't be more than BB guns / air rifles. What else is available ?

 

[jtb81100]

10m air pistol, 10m air rifle, 25m pistol, 50m pistol, 50m 3 position rifle, 50m rifle prone, trap, double trap, and skeet.