The Olympics, and where to watch the Events

[Crazed Rabbit]

Or, I HATE NBC. Instead of showing Michael Phelps first gold winning race, they have some bull**** local programming on. I can't believe it.

Luckily, my proximity to Canada meant I could watch Phelps on CBC.

But I'm looking for internet sources to watch live and other videos of olympic events.

All help is appreciated.

CR

[Marshal Murat]

Online NBC?

Phelps vs. Lochte

[CountArach]

Why would you want to watch swimming anyway?

[Marshal Murat]

Because we want to see our swimmers beat you Aussies!

(Unfortunately your females seem to be part-fish)

[CountArach]

Because we want to see our swimmers beat you Aussies!

(Unfortunately your females seem to be part-fish)

Yeah it makes certain things... awkward...

[Craterus]

(Unfortunately your females seem to be part-fish)

And all-ugly!

[Marshal Murat]

And all-ugly!

Agreed.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Why would you want to watch swimming anyway?

Because Phelps is the man.

Anyways, NBC is just now - some four hours or so after the race happened, showing the first Phelps final, and they have the unbelievable gall to have a little logo saying it's live.

I wish I had a remote that I could use to electrocute network executives when I disliked their programming choices.

And more of the appallingly boring bios/featurettes on certain athletes on the same channel. Why, oh why?!

CR

[CountArach]

And all-ugly!

Our former Miss Universe would beg to differ (as well as most of our population...). If you mean just the swimmers though, then I absolutey agree with you...

[Craterus]

Of course I mean just the swimmers...

To say all of Australia is a bold claim and it's clearly untrue. Just look at Neighbours and whatever else it is you're famous for. :P

[seireikhaan]

CR, I saw it live. I don't know what was up with your local stuff, but nothing wrong here.

[Marshal Murat]

To say all of Australia is a bold claim and it's clearly untrue

That's why you were sent 'Down Under'.

You were all, clearly, criminally beautiful, and must be sent off.

If it weren't for you Aussies, US might be leading the gold medal count.

[CountArach]

If it weren't for you Aussies, US might be leading the gold medal count.

We are the Ralph Nader of the Olympics.

[Marshal Murat]

I was thinking Al Smith

[Hosakawa Tito]

I watched it live on the East coast. Apparently they are broadcasting the events up to 3 hours later on the West coast. Seems the Peacock Network wants to emulate the low ratings for the 2000 Sydney games.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Buncha morons

[Caius]

Ralph Nader

Who is him? Isn't him Rafa Nadal?

[Crazed Rabbit]

The US channel now isn't showing the US v China mens b-ball. Gah!!

CR

[Marshal Murat]

Don't worry, we won. However, you need to get onto those punks at your location station. Why don't you go to a hotel and watch cable for a week or something?

[TevashSzat]

Really? I saw the game live here on the East Coast.

China did very well in the first half; tied first quarter I think and behind by not alot the end of the second

Second half though, the US utterly obliterated them. Still, it was expected.

I heard somewhere that that game was the most watched basketball game of all time. Something like 450 million people are watching it from China alone

[Csargo]

The US won by a pretty large margin. I watched it on NBC this morning. Watching rowing now.

this was a while ago, got distracted.

[seireikhaan]

I'm a bit surprised that the US beat China by so much. I figured we'd win, but by a slim margin.

[KukriKhan]

I thought I'd read that Google and Yahoo were gonna do live streaming, but checking their sites, I just see after-the-fact reportage and highlights clips.

I agree, it's disappointing. Gotta be some copywrite thingee. NBC TV coverage here (So.Calif, US) is significantly delayed also. And their human-interest stuff just suxorz IMHO.

[Marshal Murat]

On some events, I'd like to know the rules, before the game starts. While it may be just because I haven't seen that many Olympics or what, but I don't know what volleyball players have to go to, or how many laps someone has to swim. Some information beforehand would be nice.

[CountArach]

Who is him? Isn't him Rafa Nadal?

Wiki explains

[Marshal Murat]

In the Olympic Spirit: Drink it up France

Jason Lezak charged home in the anchor leg of the 4x100m freestyle relay to outtouch Alain Bernard of France.

[GeneralHankerchief]

That was incredible, especially the look on the French guy's face afterwards.

[Motep]

Yes, the relay was an awesome moment, but NBC gave too much air time for Phelps. They should have focused on umm...the last guy (bad with names...), who really pulled the victory out of his ass.

And I have to agree, the french relayers sulikng was absolutely priceless.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Thank God for Canada !

Because of them, I got to watch Phelps&co win the relay live over the French, instead of waiting for another half hour to watch it on NBC. Curse you, nbc!

And wow, what a finish. And over the smack-talking French, no less. Huzzah!

CR

[Marshal Murat]

Well, men's gymnastics is over with now, and the U.S. took bronze.

To be honest, I'm kinda disappointed with them, but I'm also happy that they placed without the previous Olympians leading the way.

[TevashSzat]

Well, men's gymnastics is over with now, and the U.S. took bronze.

To be honest, I'm kinda disappointed with them, but I'm also happy that they placed without the previous Olympians leading the way.

Well, that is very good for them. All of the members were first time olympians; Paul Hamm, the all around gold medalist from Athens didn't even go for the team and his brother, Morgan Hamm, had to pull out because of injuries.

So essentially, the US team was using 2 alternates. I think bronze was the expectation, with silver if they did very well. Indeed, it looked like they were going to get silver even half way through rotations, but Japan managed to catch up.

Also, did anyone see the basketball game China vs Spain this morning. Very very very sad for the Chinese team. We were up by like 15 end of first half, 7 3rd quarter, and then tied it end of fourth. In overtime, Yao Ming got fouled out and then we lost by like 6 or something like that. It looked like the Chinese would've been able to pull a huge upset basically through most of the game, but they failed at a critical moment