Much like the Olympic sports themselves, mastering the art of great commentary is not as simple as it seems.
It was a brain explosion that got you into this mess, of course. There you were, watching the Olympic qualifiers, when you saw that trick featuring the edge of a concrete ledge and the side of Australian skateboarder Chloe Covell’s deck, and decided it didn’t actually look that hard. Hell, you practically invented a similar thing in the 1980s.
Weird appointments, celebrity appearances, awkward interviews … heavens to Bruce McAvaney, when will it end? The problem, which you may or may not recognise when the concussion finally lifts, is that much like the Olympic sports themselves, mastering the art of great commentary is not as simple as it seems.
Do it well and you’re Liz Chetkovich, the Australian gymnastics commentary supremo. Do it poorly, and you’re the triathlon champion turned talking head who said the leading male athlete was so far in front he was “like literally on fire!” He wasn’t, thankfully, but he did burn out just before the finish line to snatch silver from the jaws of gold.“You know women are like, hanging around, doing their makeup,” the 64-year-old self-described “massive women’s sports advocate” said.
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