An Olympic broadcast featured an unexpected guest: a cockroach.
The broadcast focused on the bug crawling on a ledge during an Olympic preliminary field hockey game.
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Viewers watching a preliminary round women's field hockey match at the Tokyo Olympics got an unusual shock this week when the broadcast chose to focus on a cockroach in the stadium during the final moments of the game.
The strange choice of camerawork came in the dying minutes of a pool Olympic women's field hockey match between Argentina and Spain on Monday.
With just over 5 minutes left in the game and Argentina holding a 1-0 lead, the camera cut to the creepy crawler scuttling across a ledge at the event. The roach's starring role can still be seen on NBC's recap of the event.
The decision left many fans on social media confused.
The Argentinan women's team would go on to win the match 3-0.
superdave70360 on August 3rd, 2021 at 12:31 UTC »
When the competition is so boring that a roach is more interesting
Buckwheat469 on August 3rd, 2021 at 05:48 UTC »
Wildlife cameraperson Joel Orenson, who recently came off of Blue Planet II production, is caught in his natural environment, filming a cockroach at the Olympics. See how the videography captures the struggle of a lone cockroach as it finds its next meal in a near-empty stadium due to the pandemic.
Derperlicious on August 3rd, 2021 at 05:42 UTC »
wouldnt the issue be the booth controlling what camera we see? They have a ton of cameras and cameramen. Surely they know what he is focused on before flipping us to a new camera. No way they are randomly picking views. not in 2021. (and yeah you dont expect to flip to a camera guy and have him filming a roach but also dont want to flip to him if he has a blocked view or bad view of the action at that moment)