Hirano wins Olympic halfpipe gold as White bows out

Well done Japan, one more gold !!..

Yup, fantastic!!! But I couldn’t believe it when the screen went blank. I’d been waiting for this moment all morning.

Then a voice came on explaining how to change channels to see the very thing that they were rudely blocking off. I did get the very end of his run, and then countless slow-motion replays, but that sublime moment was totally messed up. And it’s not the first time they’ve done this. There’ll be backlash somewhere behind the scenes.

So, NHK! Un. Be. Lievable…

And yet, strangely par for the course, totally off the wall.

Very well done to Hirano and to all those brave souls putting their lives on the line out there in the half pipe.

NHK:sucks

Hiriano:Excellent

Shaun White:a legend.

I’m thinking some Japanese people may even start to complain about having to pay their NHK fees after this kind of debacle:

@kohakuebisu 1:04pm: “Zero marks to the idiot at NHK who dumped this winning run, which will probably be the Japanese highlight of this Olympics, onto a sub-channel five seconds after it started just so they could show the news.

"Hirano wins gold", something NHK couldn't be bothered to broadcast properly in real time.

Hirano was great, but some judges were awful. Hirano said, "I was not satisfied with the second score. I was able to express that anger well at the end." 

They should be permanently banned from this sport.

Well said. It was ridiculous, but then again, it’s NHK..

Yeah the flip the channel i was watching this with so much JOY. Im going to make sure they dont any Money from me NHK.

Zero marks to the idiot at NHK who dumped his winning run, which will probably be the Japanese highlight of this Olympics, onto a sub-channel five seconds after it started just so they could show the news. They had to put a big graphic up telling people which button to press on their remote controller. We missed half of the run, and I bet loads of people missed it altogether. The ironic thing is that the main news for the rest of today will be "Hirano wins gold", something NHK couldn't be bothered to broadcast properly in real time.

Well said. It was ridiculous, but then again, it’s NHK...

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Congratulations Ayumu. And a very emotional goodbye to the GOAT.

Atta boy!

Fantastic performance by him and great drama to do it with the final run of the contest.

Zero marks to the idiot at NHK who dumped his winning run, which will probably be the Japanese highlight of this Olympics, onto a sub-channel five seconds after it started just so they could show the news. They had to put a big graphic up telling people which button to press on their remote controller. We missed half of the run, and I bet loads of people missed it altogether. The ironic thing is that the main news for the rest of today will be "Hirano wins gold", something NHK couldn't be bothered to broadcast properly in real time.