Did USA lost?
No you fool, but the top ten medal count is interesting thus far:
No you fool, but the top ten medal count is interesting thus far:
So the fighter who was better (the one who actually managed to land a touch) would have lost because of a coin flip? Does anyone else think that result sounds even worse than what happened?
quoted for epic fail :biggrin:
NBC is seriously fucking off the Olympics this year so badly. The little I've actually been able to watch is cut together trash constantly cutting to commercial. Can't even watch it online because I don't pay for TV, only an internet connection. Absolute garbage. How is an event that is supposed to be for everyone allowed to be so restricted? The Olympic Committee totally failed this, but what are you to expect when they're probably going to see tens(if not hundreds) of millions in kick backs. Garbage.
Yeah it's BS. I'm lucky my in-laws have a cable subscription and were willing to lend me their login information so I can stream events. What's especially frustrating is I can't even watch non-live events! It'd be nice to have live streaming for all, but at least let me watch non-live ones without having to pay.
Totally ridiculous. The coverage of the Beijing games was much more complete.
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NBC is seriously fucking off the Olympics this year so badly. The little I've actually been able to watch is cut together trash constantly cutting to commercial. Can't even watch it online because I don't pay for TV, only an internet connection. Absolute garbage. How is an event that is supposed to be for everyone allowed to be so restricted? The Olympic Committee totally failed this, but what are you to expect when they're probably going to see tens(if not hundreds) of millions in kick backs. Garbage.
is there something similar to expatshield for mac?
China is kicking USA's ass right now in gymnastics.
NBC has 7 or 8 channels covering this, they should be able to provide live coverage of everything. But time zones really mess things up for people like me, being on the West Coast of the USA. I work for a living, so I can't devote a midnight to 4 pm chunk of my day towards watching the Olympics, and by the time the nightly broadcast is starting, I already know all the results. It's kind of a lose-lose situation in this era of instant access. But the way NBC has been handling it so far is the worst of all things.
Even worse, you can miss out on the tape-delayed events because they won't show them live on TV, but that won't stop every other broadcast they're running live from telling you the results. Ummm, spoiler alert much NBC? You're the reason I'm not able to watch the men's swimming final as it happens, maybe you shouldn't have the people airing the water polo give it away. I mean, OK, yes, you can still get them streaming on your tablet or phone... hooray for technology. Now I don't have to be burdened with watching live sports on my puny 52" HDTV, I can stream them onto my 4.8" PHONE! Huzzah! Everyone's a winner! It wasn't worth pre-empting those Dora the Explorer reruns to air live coverage of your prime events, right?yup, you gotta avoid ATOT/Drudge/Evening News/EVERYTHING.
It's stupid because it's NBC NEWS spoiling it for us west coasters.
What's the Vegas o/u on how long it will take for Chinese swimmers to turn up positive for some sort of PED/doping/whatever? They keep the blood samples for eight years.
if i ever won an olympic medal, i would make sweet love to it (unless it's bronze).
weren't there medals from a previous games that looked like a donut? :awe:
NBC has 7 or 8 channels covering this, they should be able to provide live coverage of everything. But time zones really mess things up for people like me, being on the West Coast of the USA. I work for a living, so I can't devote a midnight to 4 pm chunk of my day towards watching the Olympics, and by the time the nightly broadcast is starting, I already know all the results. It's kind of a lose-lose situation in this era of instant access. But the way NBC has been handling it so far is the worst of all things.
Even worse, you can miss out on the tape-delayed events because they won't show them live on TV, but that won't stop every other broadcast they're running live from telling you the results. Ummm, spoiler alert much NBC? You're the reason I'm not able to watch the men's swimming final as it happens, maybe you shouldn't have the people airing the water polo give it away. I mean, OK, yes, you can still get them streaming on your tablet or phone... hooray for technology. Now I don't have to be burdened with watching live sports on my puny 52" HDTV, I can stream them onto my 4.8" PHONE! Huzzah! Everyone's a winner! It wasn't worth pre-empting those Dora the Explorer reruns to air live coverage of your prime events, right?
Fucking A....
So they run commercials just like any other tv show on a free network, non-hbo and such, and they had to pay a ton to be able to host it so why not get some of it back?
Granted you can get past it by using other online services but you get what you pay for in the case of using NBC to watch it for free.
it's the constant cutting to commercials in the middle of events simply because they aren't showing it live and have it recorded. it ruins the whole feeling of watching an event for the olympics. i'm not complaining about commercials so much NBCs use of them.
also, maybe i should just try and connect to our European VPN for work and maybe i can watch some from the bbc.