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Exactly scooter!
Also, NBC has this nice graphics technology, showing nation flags and WR moving splits, but 90% of the time no info is on screen except a simple timer. Since some races can take many minutes, I'd really like a small graphic telling me the event and heat#.
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FWIW guys, the BBC website is fucking awesome.
Pity I don't want to watch anything.
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If there's one guy I expected not to get caught up in the magic of the Olympics, it would be you Krill 
Glad you don't disappoint!
And yes the BBC is awesome, ~24 channels to watch olympic sports and the website is amazing if you are away from the TV
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sunrise089 Wrote:Exactly scooter!
Also, NBC has this nice graphics technology, showing nation flags and WR moving splits, but 90% of the time no info is on screen except a simple timer. Since some races can take many minutes, I'd really like a small graphic telling me the event and heat#.
They (NBC) seem to have responded to some of the criticism of 2008 - instead of stringing along the audience interminably - they seem to at least be sticking with logical breaks in the action.
So - they've resorted to completely clouding the schedule in order to keep you tuned in to their BS.
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I defense of my ole' high-school buddy Lochte Bob, he did dominate recent international competition.
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Good god, NBC has Seacrest doing interviews? Thank goodness for the BBC. BBC website is awesome. No stupid interviews and all the sports NBC won't ever air. I recommend expatshield for all your IP-forwarding needs...
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sunrise089 Wrote:I defense of my ole' high-school buddy Lochte Bob, he did dominate recent international competition.
If only we were watching that
Btw, I'll type in defense of NBC. I haven't seen much at all of Seacrest & most of their commentators are pretty good. Bob Costas is excellent. Their website has live coverage of like every event, occasionally unreliable but it's not really terrible or anything. My biggest complaint is that in gymnastics they're pretty bad about showing scores for foreign routines.
Oh also, holy crap China. This has been a thrilling competition so far- much better than Athens was (Beijing won't be surpassed in my mind for a long time) 
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(another very US-centric post coming)
Lochte was overhyped a bit and that's not completely his fault, but he did talk pretty big going into all this so that's what happens. He was great in the 400IM though. Speaking of which, this has been sufficiently beaten to death, but I really do wish Phelps had skipped the 400IM as he originally planned. Just seems that at this point in his career he'd be wise to save his energy for his better events. Sunrise - how well did you know Lochte? That's pretty cool.
Didn't take long for someone to fire doping allegations at Chinese swimmers. Though China doesn't exactly have a sparkling reputation for fair play, so while it struck me as very much sour grapes, it's kind of understandable.
My complaints about NBC is more the little things. They've had 4 years to prepare for this and they've always covered the Olympics, but it feels like they've never done this before or something. Like yesterday, I had some time before the 8PM coverage, so I popped onto their streaming website to see if I could watch some highlights/replays of the minor events I haven't gotten a chance to really watch. I was greeted with spoilers ALL over their website. I mean, really? NBC goes to such lengths to preserve the tape-delay, but surely they of all people could help us out on the spoilers front right? I wasn't particularly shocked that I got spoiled on a thing or two, but I figured it'd be Facebook and not NBC. Not a huge deal as I quickly browsed away, but I just don't understand how that happens really. Stuff like this is just comical:
http://deadspin.com/5930359/nbc-runs-tod...out-to-air
But yeah, I don't really mind the tape delay and the coverage is generally a bit better than you would believe by seeing all the complaints, but stuff like the above is just bizarre.
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