FORMULA 1 2016 Mexico.. Or that piece of land beyond the Wall

[JEMC]

Angelus said:

JEMC said:

That happens in every country. Fellow contrymen are always better/deserve to win more than the others.

It's sad, but it's a common thing.

Well no....it doesn't happen in every country. Certainly not to the same extent. That's why I find it particularly frustrating here. I grew up mostly in the US, and the way they cover sports over there is just so much more professional, frankly. Now you can make the argument to me that most of the major sports we watch over there are "All American," which is true to a degree, but there's still many international players competing in them (more every year really), and the media there always props them up. You never get the sense they're just talking about them for a minute, cus they have to, but would much rather be talking about the next best American doing the same thing. The only things that matter are performance, and character. 

Now obviously it's different when it comes to the Olympics, because that's literally all about country, but outside of that, I assure you sports coverage in the US is vastly different from at least what it is here in Germany. I don't know what it's like in other countries, as I have no reference there.

 

 

And watching F1 over there was like the greatest thing ever, because even though they briefly had Scott Speed in there (who even they didn't give a shit about), they had absolutely no horses in that race so to speak lol. All you got was raw reporting and coverage from people that were clearly into the sport. 

Here all I get is Vettel this, Vettel that, Rosberg won again...that's nice....too bad he's not Vettel though. Oh look it's the first lap of the race, let's do some championship calculations for our Germans if the positions hold like this. Who cares if we're just getting started. Oh look a non German screwed up! Ha! What a loser! Oh shit Vettel made a mistake.....I mean...no....not a mistake...he uhm....was just trying everything he could do make the car go faster and it failed him. Fucking car. 

I mean seriously. The coverage could not be more shit here

From what I've heard (I haven't lived in the US, so I don't have first hands experience), in the US most sports are seen as an entertainment, and treat them more "lightly".

From your words, in Germany it's like here in Spain, "journalists" mostly focus on the competition part and they only care about the country teams/athletes and about winning the rest.