Dear channel 7 commentary team

[stephbg]

If an international dressage horse "looks like Pepe Le Peu" during an extended trot, that's a *bad thing*.



And it didn't, it was a nice extended trot. Nor did it look "like a kangaroo" at any point. Nor is there any point in watching the rider's hands - if you can see them doing anything , that's a *bad thing*.

And to the sailing fans out there, I've gone through hours and hours of footage and have not seen a single hint of sail, sorry. Lots of hockey, swimming, and basketball, medium amounts of gymnastics, and rather a lot of weightlifting. I quite like the weightlifting; it has many concentrated moments of drama. Not good to watch just before going to sleep, however. Must remember to stretch first or I'll pull something.

Comments

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

A few days back one of the horses got very sprightly during it's routine and I commented that it probably needed to take a shit - it didn't.

However, tonight's horse did. No wonder he was acting up a bit, I would too in that situation.

[liadebeaumont.livejournal.com]

horses can run and poo!

yes extended trot should be long, and upward moving not bouncey.. i think he was talking bout the passage but was a bit late and transitions had already occured.

i hate that i am up till 11:56pm to watch one test though... so tired!!!!

[firvulag.livejournal.com]

re sailing: I managed to catch a 5 minute segment where they raced through about 5 classes telling us where we were in each of the different categories. Apparently we're doing pretty well, being in the top 5 in about 6 categories. At least that was a day or 2 ago...

I believe that was on SBS's superior coverage of all things non swimming