Clueless Olympic Announcer Quotes

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20 mins in to womens slope finals...

*grabs safety on rail* - "a little heavy on the toepiece on that down rail!"

*forward 360* - "a nice 540!"

"any trick landing backwards must be tricky!"
 
The non British(?) guy is the best. He was like 97% on calling tricks and I loved hearing things like swag and sliming around.
 
13893405:ParryWithAnA said:
The non British(?) guy is the best. He was like 97% on calling tricks and I loved hearing things like swag and sliming around.
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I think the other dude is aussie but idk.

But yeah the one guy is pretty good. And I agree. When he said slimin around I was like word.

There's always one guy in the booth that's killing it, and the other guy in there fucking it all up.
 
13893730:soup said:
anyone in canada watching on cbc? dude didnt know what a nose butter was. wheres tj?
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my favorite was "oh hey! that was dope!" when he did like a nosebutter off of the mustache feat
 
Not sure but i think canada's said that was a nice double 1080-idk what rider it was but he sent it in switch and landed straight. Fuck me
 
Snowboard pipe- “they call it a method because it’s a method you use to make yourself look like your going higher then you actually are”
 
13893405:ParryWithAnA said:
The non British(?) guy is the best. He was like 97% on calling tricks and I loved hearing things like swag and sliming around.
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Its Dylan Ferguson, he's doing the NBC stream for pipe, slope and aerials, they needed someone who could do all three and they picked him.
 
13894160:eheath said:
Its Dylan Ferguson, he's doing the NBC stream for pipe, slope and aerials, they needed someone who could do all three and they picked him.
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ha, i didn't know that. park city has lost some street cred lol.
 
13894218:scratchskier321 said:
ha, i didn't know that. park city has lost some street cred lol.
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Announcing is hard, it's his first time, don't act like you could do it better bud.
 
13894243:eheath said:
Announcing is hard, it's his first time, don't act like you could do it better bud.
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Truth, I thought Dylan killed it for it being his first time. He wasn’t as enthusiastic as legends like Luke Van Valen or however you spell it but at least he called shit accurately and gave some good insight on the runs for the general public to understand
 
13894259:ryan_mcelmon said:
Truth, I thought Dylan killed it for it being his first time. He wasn’t as enthusiastic as legends like Luke Van Valen or however you spell it but at least he called shit accurately and gave some good insight on the runs for the general public to understand
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I think the main issue is that people on NS/in the ski community think its sounds awful, but they're told to say things and present the event to a much broader audience, the commentating isn't made for us.
 
When the announcer guy started talking about how Nick Gaper needs to get his upper and lower body back in sync and how his lower body and legs have a "mind of their own" I lost it. The dude clearly had no idea what the fuck he was talking about. Announcer dude was like "his rails arnt good because his legs arnt cooperating with his upper body" blah blah blah.

Then my boy Nick goes on to lace his next run and the announcer said nothing afterwards lmao. Like why is that something you would randomly say when you clearly have no idea what the concept of even hitting rails is.
 
13894300:Jesse_ said:
When the announcer guy started talking about how Nick Gaper needs to get his upper and lower body back in sync and how his lower body and legs have a "mind of their own" I lost it. The dude clearly had no idea what the fuck he was talking about. Announcer dude was like "his rails arnt good because his legs arnt cooperating with his upper body" blah blah blah.

Then my boy Nick goes on to lace his next run and the announcer said nothing afterwards lmao. Like why is that something you would randomly say when you clearly have no idea what the concept of even hitting rails is.
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Yeah what the hell the man keep saying that EVERYTIME nick did a pretzel like does he not understand the concept changing your momentum lmao what an idiot
 
D Ferg during Elizabeth Swanzy's atrocious strait air run: "shes really showing the judges she can ski down a halfpipe"

trying so hard to say something remotely positive lmao
 
Big fan of the pipe announcer today at the games themselves (not broadcast). "She did a 900, first done by Tony Hawk, who is a skateboarder".

It's been a week of announcers, let me tell you.
 
13894156:jordini said:
Snowboard pipe- “they call it a method because it’s a method you use to make yourself look like your going higher then you actually are”
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I've actually heard that this is true from skateboarding.
 
13893772:SuckMySkis said:
Not sure but i think canada's said that was a nice double 1080-idk what rider it was but he sent it in switch and landed straight. Fuck me
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Overall I thought the dude on cbc did pretty good. Screwed up on a few calls, but way better than most announcers. Definitely better than the dude calling 250's onto the rails at Sochi
 
after he explained what corks are (which is alright because most people watching dont actually know what a cork is), he said something like "ladies and gentlemen you're about to see some corks" me and my friends lost our shit.
 
I loved when Dylan Ferguson would just tune the other guy out so hard when he was just spewing nonsense

The other guy was just like "how hard is it spinning on and off rails?" in a way where it sounded like he wasn't asking so the general public could understand, but so he himself could understand

He just goes "Very hard, here is x dropping, hes been having a pretty good day general"
 
13894556:J_Christoph said:
"His lower body's thinking on its own. Great if you're on the dance floor but not so great if you're on the rails."
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EXACTLY, that was the quote I was referring to earlier. Made no fucking sense at all.

They need someone announcing who actually knows what the fuck counter rotation is.
 
“the rails are so slippery, if you jump on abit unbalanced you will slide right off”. or “ a lot of the guys where mittens because they say they can grab better”
 
When the announcer messed up the rotation name twice before getting it right and saying "man I really need to practice getting better at these rotations, we gotta bring out the calculators for this stuff" during women's halfpipe finals.

It was during the 15 y/o chinese girls run...she was doing 540s.
 
Kevin rolland, a serious competitor but is he a serious ______, something else about being serious, then the other guy said he was serious.

4 seriouses in like 5 seconds. I was dying.
 
Oh man I was watching the olympics in russian with russian commentators and I heard some quality quotes. The most interesting parts was that the commentators kept referring to past scores in past competitions, completely ignoring that it is a subjective sport, and judging is different. Like they would say "Here comes Gus Kenworthy, the highest score he got this year was a (some random number), let's see if he can improve on that". Also when (I forget who) did a double superman frontflip in qualis, the women flipped out, called it a "double frontflip spiderman" and then proceeded to say "wow he is out there trying to intimidate the other contestants with big tricks like these". But my favorite was when they were announcing Jesper Tjader and for some reason said "he is nothing special, just an average competitor he only scored 60 points in the olympics in sochi" as he crushes an insane rail run.
 
Not announcing but on the Swiss national news they explained dub cork 10 like: a trick with 3 full rotations with a double/720 twist... wut??
 
topic:funkmaster said:
20 mins in to womens slope finals...

*grabs safety on rail* - "a little heavy on the toepiece on that down rail!"
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Those both seem like perfectly legitimate ways to describe someone skiing in my opinion...
 
It's going to be pretty hard to top this.

[video]https://youtu.be/R9GmKoA_Ia4[/video]

That is not a cameraman. That is a referee.
 
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