What if male olympians were shot the way women's volleyball was?
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« on: August 17, 2012, 09:52:27 AM »
http://www.metro.us/philadelphia/international/article/1148979

Hilarious.
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« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2012, 12:43:24 PM »
Then women's volleyball would get less airtime in the US and more here.
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« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2012, 12:48:08 PM »
Around here it would be quite popular.
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« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2012, 01:00:13 PM »
I was of course thinking of volleyball, not beach volleyball. Also, this is how the Spiegel decorates an article about the weekend's expected heatwave.
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« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2012, 12:59:05 AM »
*beach volleyball. Women's court volleyball is shot pretty reasonably.
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« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2012, 03:53:27 AM »
Quote from: Nathan on August 18, 2012, 12:59:05 AM
*beach volleyball. Women's court volleyball is shot pretty reasonably.
the thing is, when (court) volleyball decreed that women had to compete half-naked from now on (seriously, they regulate the size of those panties they have to wear) in an openly sexist ploy for more airtime, it backfired over here and it gets hardly shown anymore.
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« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2012, 04:00:54 PM »
« Edited: August 18, 2012, 04:10:24 PM by Nathan »
Quote from: Minion of Midas on August 18, 2012, 03:53:27 AM
Quote from: Nathan on August 18, 2012, 12:59:05 AM
*beach volleyball. Women's court volleyball is shot pretty reasonably.
the thing is, when (court) volleyball decreed that women had to compete half-naked from now on (seriously, they regulate the size of those panties they have to wear) in an openly sexist ploy for more airtime, it backfired over here and it gets hardly shown anymore.

US coverage seems to make primary use of things like broad tracking shots from above. The outfits are ridiculous but what I saw during these Olympics wasn't produced nearly as salaciously as coverage of beach volleyball.

I may however have seen an exceptional match, since I don't watch volleyball all that much.
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« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2012, 05:50:29 PM »
I think volleyball is shown more often in the United States than any other women's team sport, with the exception of basketball and perhaps soccer.
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