As expected, the Olympics are unique.
The nightly coverage of the Paris Olympics makes me reaffirm that all sports fans feel the same way.
Moreover, this time, the dramatic victories of the Japanese athletes have been continuing night after night, so it's even more so.
There must be many viewers who are losing sleep.
Last night, I had decided that staying up any later than this would be bad for my health.
Nagase won the gold medal in the 81kg judo category.
I was watching the Japan vs France basketball game at the same time.
I was watching it, thinking that Japan wouldn't win last night because of their recent defeat by Germany.
However, last night's Japan was different from the Germany match.
There was an atmosphere that wouldn't let France win.
They were pretty close behind.
Still, I had decided to go to bed by 1:30 am last night, so I left it on record and went to bed.
This morning, for the first time in a long time, I watched a morning TV program.
As a result of listening to the broadcast last night, I came across a commercial TV show.
Horigome was appearing live on the show.
"Commercial TV is no good; the roots are rotten."
I switched to NHK and was surprised.
To my surprise, Japan had a four-point lead until the end of the basketball mentioned above.
Just before the end, a French player made a three-point shot.
At this point, Kawamura was called for a foul, and one extra free throw was awarded.
After overtime, Japan lost.
Needless to say, I was astonished, but Japan was a completely different team from the one we saw against Germany last night. The team was united and focused.
They would have won easily if that three-pointer had been a little more accurate.
When I opened my PC to start working on this column, the leading news section was entire of angry comments on social networking sites, such as "The basketball call was terrible, Kawamura didn't touch it, what was the foul?
"Worst basketball call in history," 'I think the referees wanted France to win,' etc.
I decided to check it out on video.
However, the recording had ended just before the moment.
So, I checked it out on YouTube.
It was terrible. Kawamura hadn't even committed a foul!
My good friend said, "I can understand this in Korea, but what kind of shamelessness is it for France to do something like this?"
"What's the foul in this..." Japan's basketball win over Korea: 10-second evidence photo makes overseas media say 'impossible' (msn.com)
The questionable call that hit Japan in basketball, even the long-established magazine in the US, the home of basketball, pointed out that "it was a very suspicious whistle." Even the ejection of Hachimura was "favorable to the host country" (THE ANSWER) - Yahoo! News
2024/7/30 in Onomichi
