Re: Eurosport showing the November tournament

[Martin Ward <martin@ward-hull.demon.co.uk>]

In article <36683E35.30DEA7DC@ibm.net>, berman <berman6@ibm.net> writes
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>mikael sundström wrote:
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>> Secondly, I must say I am appalled by the poor quality of the new
>> commentator they have digged up. The usual one is (to Amateur me at
>> least) knowledgeable and keeps throwing out interesting tidbits about
>> the sport, the setting and the rikishi. This one has seemingly learned 3
>> or four terms ("tsuppari" keeps coming up for instance), but cannot even
>> pronounce the names of the rikishi. Extremely disappointing!
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>Hi Sumoans,
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>It is a S.O.S. call, a most desperate one, to Sid Hoare:
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>For God's sake, please come back!! Don't leave us alone with this guy!
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>Speaking in the name of all Eurosport (in English) viewers,
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>Kirishiman

These were much my feelings too.  I have managed to track down an email 
address for Eurosport, it is

thursfield@eurosport.co.uk

Can I suggest that all the Eurosport dependent English speaking members 
of this list send them a message?  As well as asking for a commentator 
who knows something about the sport, we could ask for a daily digest 
*during* the bashos.  Non-English speaking audiences could benefit from 
this too.  I guess they will say that this would be too expensive for 
the likely audience, but it does no harm to ask.

When I got fed up with the English commentator I switched to German, 
which sounded much better - but my grasp of the language is such that it 
was taking all my attention trying to figure out what he was saying!  
There is a sound channel with the ambient sound and no commentary, and 
that was much better than the wretched commentator, so I settled for 
that.

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Best wishes

Martin Ward

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