{"id":12141,"date":"2016-06-21T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=12141"},"modified":"2016-07-11T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T17:00:03","slug":"camosun-chargers-charles-parkinson-joins-cbc-olympic-broadcast-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/06\/21\/camosun-chargers-charles-parkinson-joins-cbc-olympic-broadcast-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Chargers\u2019 Charles Parkinson joins CBC Olympic broadcast team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camosun Chargers men\u2019s volleyball coach Charles Parkinson will be part of the CBC\/Radio Canada broadcast team during the 2016 Olympic Games, which are being held in Rio. Parkinson will be commentating from the CBC office in Toronto during the Olympic volleyball events.<\/p>\n

Parkinson, who is a former captain of the Canadian men\u2019s volleyball team, says this is particularly exciting, as he has watched some of the players grow over the years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s terrific to see them accomplish their first goal, which is getting there\u2014which is so tough\u2014and then having the opportunity to compete,\u201d says Parkinson.<\/p>\n

\"Camosun<\/a>
Camosun Chargers’ Charles Parkinson (photo courtesy of CBC\/Radio Canada).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Parkinson says that the fact that\u00a0Canada is one of the teams that got in to the Olympics is incredible.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are two wild-card tournaments where the best unqualified teams in the world get sort of a last-chance qualifier,\u201d he says, \u201cand Canada snagged the final spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parkinson has been calling games on television since 1990, but for the first four Olympics, he was an analyst, not a commentator.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re a commentator, you can influence the energy in the show, the type of calls you want to make; the highs and the lows; the language,\u201d he says. \u201cYou have more control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Describing the \u201cwhat\u201d of commentary, says Parkinson, is more fulfilling than the \u201cwhy or the how\u201d of analysis because of the level of immediate participation and control.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a completely different role and I think it\u2019s way more fun,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

This is Parkinson\u2019s fifth time calling at the international level, but he says it is the first time he has ever called an Olympic men\u2019s indoor tournament with the Canadian team. Being a former player allows him to view the game through a more technical lens than \u201ca non-expert,\u201d says Parkinson, who was inducted into the Volleyball BC Hall Of Fame last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt allows me some insight that maybe a non-expert wouldn\u2019t have,\u201d he says. \u201cIf I see something happening and I\u2019m describing the play, I can lead my analysts into an aspect of it that maybe a normal commentator wouldn\u2019t be able to. I can lead him into some more technical ground that might be of interest to people at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2016 Olympic Games are being held from August 5 to 21.<\/p>\n

Correction: A previous version of this story said there are 220 federations in the world, which is not accurate. We apologize for the mistake.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Camosun Chargers men\u2019s volleyball coach Charles Parkinson will be part of the CBC\/Radio Canada broadcast team during the 2016 Olympic Games, which are being held in Rio. Parkinson will be commentating from the CBC office in Toronto during the Olympic volleyball events. Parkinson, who is a former captain of the Canadian men\u2019s volleyball team, says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12185,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141\/revisions\/12185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}