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- May 17, 2017
I know not many people are interested in junior competitions, but just wanted to give a shoutout to whoever is in charge if the ISU Junior YouTube channel.
Live streams, videos of each skater attending the Grand Prix competitions, videos of medal ceremonies, videos of full events, interviews, you name it, you can find almost anything junior-related posted on their youtube channel (oh, and a schedule of the upcoming events posted right on the front banner for morons like me). It's especially good compared to the Skating ISU YouTube channel that only features some competitions and some skaters + a few highlights. Makes following the junior events so much easier.
I know most of the senior competitions videos are blocked on Youtube because of TV rights and so on, but still, they could at least post them with 2-3 months delays (or even more). I'm only actively watching skating for a year now, but it feels ridiculous that we're in 2018 and you can't rewatch most of the Olympic programs, or even things like Zagitova's performance at the 2018 European Championship.
It's bad enough skating has a small fanbase. Blocking YouTube videos will 100% not help increase the number of fans. I, for example, wouldn't attend figure skating competitions/watch most of the GP events right now if I didn't see a random YouTube video of Medvedeva one year ago.
Live streams, videos of each skater attending the Grand Prix competitions, videos of medal ceremonies, videos of full events, interviews, you name it, you can find almost anything junior-related posted on their youtube channel (oh, and a schedule of the upcoming events posted right on the front banner for morons like me). It's especially good compared to the Skating ISU YouTube channel that only features some competitions and some skaters + a few highlights. Makes following the junior events so much easier.
I know most of the senior competitions videos are blocked on Youtube because of TV rights and so on, but still, they could at least post them with 2-3 months delays (or even more). I'm only actively watching skating for a year now, but it feels ridiculous that we're in 2018 and you can't rewatch most of the Olympic programs, or even things like Zagitova's performance at the 2018 European Championship.
It's bad enough skating has a small fanbase. Blocking YouTube videos will 100% not help increase the number of fans. I, for example, wouldn't attend figure skating competitions/watch most of the GP events right now if I didn't see a random YouTube video of Medvedeva one year ago.