NBC’s broadcast of the Tokyo Olympic Games opening ceremony drew 16.7 million viewers, the smallest US television audience for the event in 33 years, according to preliminary data. Friday’s audience reflects a steep drop, despite difficult comparisons with previous opening ceremonies, when viewers had fewer...
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SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: It was a superb turnaround from the Lions after a miserable opening half
What a fantastic turnaround by the Lions. At half-time I was seriously worried, they hadn’t really fired a shot in the first 40 minutes and I have always thought that there could be no way back from a defeat in the first Test. They came back...
Team USA starts off summer Olympics with no medals on opening day for first time since 1972
Team USA is off to its worst Summer Olympic start in nearly 50 years, having not won a single medal on the first day of competition for the first time since 1972. Saturday marked a disappointing day for the American’s competing in archery, cycling, fencing,...
Disgust over ‘inappropriate’ opening ceremony broadcast
A Korean broadcast network has been forced to apologise after using “totally inappropriate” graphics during the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony. MBC copped criticism for images chosen to represent countries as athletes entered Tokyo‘s National Stadium on Friday evening for the Parade of Nations. When Ukraine...
Best of Day 0 at the Tokyo Olympics: Opening Ceremony kicks off the Summer Games | NBC Sports
Best of Day 0 at the Tokyo Olympics: Opening Ceremony kicks off the Summer Games | NBC Sports NBC Sports Naomi Osaka lights cauldron to open 2020 Tokyo Olympics Yahoo Sports Video game music Japan’s most iconic games opens the Tokyo Olympics The Washington Post Welcome to the...
Best of Day 0 at the Tokyo Olympics: Opening Ceremony kicks off the Summer Games | NBC Sports
Best of Day 0 at the Tokyo Olympics: Opening Ceremony kicks off the Summer Games | NBC Sports NBC Sports Naomi Osaka lights cauldron to open 2020 Tokyo Olympics Yahoo Sports Video game music Japan’s most iconic games opens the Tokyo Olympics The Washington Post Welcome to the...
Canadian commentator mistakes Australian Patty Mills for a WOMAN Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony
Canadian commentators have awkwardly mistaken Australian NBA star and Olympic flag bearer Patty Mills for a woman during the Tokyo Games opening ceremony. The broadcast, which has been shared on social media, shows the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation hosts describing the Australian team as they walk...
‘Stop the Olympics’: hundreds protest outside Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony – video
Hundreds of protesters carrying placards that read ‘Lives over Olympics’ gathered outside Japan’s National Stadium where the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics was being held. The Games, to be held largely without spectators and opposed by many in Japan, are going ahead a year...
Canadian broadcast mistakes Australia’s Patty Mills for a woman at Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony
That’s Patty short for Patrick not Patricia, mate. In one of the biggest TV bloopers of all-time, a Canadian broadcaster mistook one of Australia’s most famous male athletes for a woman at Friday night’s opening ceremony. The basketball veteran made history as he became Australia’s...
ROBERT HARDMAN: The Olympic opening ceremony was a real marathon to watch
We have seldom seen a more powerful illustration of the first law of entertainment: the show must go on. Just about everything that could go wrong had gone wrong in the run-up to last night’s benighted Tokyo Olympic opening ceremony – culminating in the sacking...