Two Kicks
Two things about this video are interesting — one is that Angel Matos (Cuba) decides that his disqualification is unjust (he had a minute to recover from an injury and the ref ended the gold medal match immediately as the minute ran out, even though he was clearly ready to go) and kicks the referee in the head! Not a very defensible approach to conflict resolution, eh?
The second thing that is interesting is that YouTube can’t host videos of this from NBC, but they can host the videos published by overseas media outlets. So, ironically, even though NBC is attempting to embargo all of their “exclusive” footage of the Olympics so that the only way you can see any of the events (after they have already ended) is to watch it on an NBC/Universal channel. How much do you want to bet that by 2012, it’ll be nigh impossible for any national media outlet to have control of its “product” like this? After all, if I can obtain the footage legally from a source outside of the USA, then there is really no advantage to having exclusive rights to the Olympics for NBC… unless, of course, they begin to sue YouTube and other video hosting sites to prevent them from making videos from other parts of the world available here in the land of the free and the home of the Internet.
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