Just watching the Commonwealth Games 20:48 - Jul 30 with 1324 views | Cheltenham_Blue | Can anyone tell me how the hell Tennis, Golf and Basketball are Olympic sports but netball isn’t? | |
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Just watching the Commonwealth Games on 20:59 - Jul 30 with 1277 views | BarcaBlue | I'd guess like cricket it's more commonwealth centred rather than global like tennis and golf. I'm watching on the BBC tonight and it's a bit England-centric. Do the other home nations have their own.pundits, presenters and commentators? | | | |
Just watching the Commonwealth Games on 21:20 - Jul 30 with 1249 views | Swansea_Blue |
Just watching the Commonwealth Games on 20:59 - Jul 30 by BarcaBlue | I'd guess like cricket it's more commonwealth centred rather than global like tennis and golf. I'm watching on the BBC tonight and it's a bit England-centric. Do the other home nations have their own.pundits, presenters and commentators? |
Don’t think so. We’ve got English coverage. It’s normal, the Beeb are alway English centred. | |
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Just watching the Commonwealth Games on 21:30 - Jul 30 with 1234 views | BarcaBlue |
Just watching the Commonwealth Games on 21:20 - Jul 30 by Swansea_Blue | Don’t think so. We’ve got English coverage. It’s normal, the Beeb are alway English centred. |
To be fair they've just shown a Northern Ireland boxer and a Scottish swimmer getting a medal but in the cycling a couple of Welsh competitors were all but ignored. Generally though the English seem to be bigged up a lot more. | | | |
Just watching the Commonwealth Games on 22:17 - Jul 30 with 1182 views | cvillageblue | To be an Olympic sport these days you have to have parity between males and females. Netball governing body refuses to allow males to play - hence not in olympics. Or at least that’s what I was told recently! | |
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Just watching the Commonwealth Games on 03:45 - Jul 31 with 1081 views | Perublue | I didn't realise that point regarding men and the netball thing as a possible reason.Aside from that it's I presume a little like Rugby League which is apart from Northern monkeys and Convictralians playing/following it on the whole limited in interest Globally. Rugby Union and Cricket with the sevens and T20 format have made them both more Global and appealing to this era....union has made it in (Olympics) and I would not be surprised to see cricket there before long. Re. the English coverage ... They are hosts after all....not South Africa,Scotland or Sark | |
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Just watching the Commonwealth Games on 22:12 - Jul 31 with 923 views | factual_blue | Netball was created because a woman misunderstood the rules of basketball. | |
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Just watching the Commonwealth Games on 23:04 - Jul 31 with 870 views | bournemouthblue |
Just watching the Commonwealth Games on 21:20 - Jul 30 by Swansea_Blue | Don’t think so. We’ve got English coverage. It’s normal, the Beeb are alway English centred. |
So nothing to with the fact England have simply won a lot more medals than the Scots , Northern Irish and the Welsh? https://www.birmingham2022.com/medals The presenters are of all British nationalities, we have Chris Hoy in the studio, is it really that biased? | |
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