RIP Commonwealth Games

Radio 5 commentating on this = most embarrassing, condescending, smug, narrow-minded, cutely nationalistic shit I have ever heard - it's like an event designed to give the home nations a sporting chance in as many events as possible

ban the commonwealth games

also ban incessant lyrical descriptions of how someone bravely prevailed in a fucking hurdles race - they were winning and they won, so what - play >1 hour of competitive sport then come back to me

An hour of running hurdles would be fucking brutal, that's for sure.

yeah and I would like to see it

seriously there is nothing more infuriating and pathetic than national radio going batshit for home-grown athletes in a prissy little commonwealth tournament while trying to pretend it's a massive deal

you're embarrassing yourselves and your corporation

Man, was there some cricket on the radio today then?

bwahaha

Joeks, I pretty much agree with you on this fwiw.

like, I don't disagree with the tournament's right to exist but christ almighty if you're going to cover it, cover it for what it is and give every participating country a fair hearing, don't treat it like fucking christmas for mediocre british athletes

they're all mediocre british athletes tho? commonwealth's a distinction i dont fully get tbh

Watching the athletics I notice that the phrase "fastest losers" has been replaced by the snappy "fastest non-automatic qualifiers".

I'm a non-automatic qualifier baby, so why don't you kill me

Bill Burr is working on a bit about it as we speak