Yeah, it's pretty pathetic how the press deals with it and several of the coaches and a press guy of the dutch football team were clearly not amused about it. I mean, when the men's hockey team played 2-2 to Australia the first question the coach had to answer was "Just escaped?" to which he justly replied that it wasn't a narrow escape - his team had played a great match but so had the Australians. "You seem to think that if we don't win with a 6 points difference we've played a bad match but that is certainly not the case!"
But it has its funny moments too. Not all sports are prominently covered on tv so now commentators have to report on "unusal" sports because suddenly there are Dutch athletes popping up in waterpolo or synchronized swimming. One commentator was corrected by a coach because he was using football terms when talking about waterpolo - which was pretty funny. *g*
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Date: 2008-08-20 07:16 am (UTC)But it has its funny moments too. Not all sports are prominently covered on tv so now commentators have to report on "unusal" sports because suddenly there are Dutch athletes popping up in waterpolo or synchronized swimming. One commentator was corrected by a coach because he was using football terms when talking about waterpolo - which was pretty funny. *g*