i’m watching the grand prix special in dressage — this is a musical performance with the music set to compliment the horse and rider’s movements through the test. the first section was awesome — NO announcer, just the music selection and the horse and rider dancing for the judges.
unfortunately, the second segment, the two mouthy announcers were back and insisted on giving THEIR opinions over the music and riders — totally killing the beauty of the musical kur!
what are these egomaniacs thinking! people watching the olympics wanted to hear them describe “nice punching through behind on those changes” or to actually SEE the horse in tempe!
nbc screwed the pony on this one — the poor rider, hans peter minderhoud, had his entire performance overshadowed by the blithering comments on how the sun makes this blah blah blah — quite warmer days --— blah blah blah — and how “stephen peters was very first in the ring….”
PLEASE dog, make them SHUT UP!!! i hate to turn OFF the music during a musical kur but since i’m not hearing it, that may be the only way to watch!
i guess i should be happy that they evidently missed the opening hour. we were truly blessed by the music -— and their silence.