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<p>I am looking forward to taekwondo the most, as well. I will be cheering for most of the US team, although I do not honestly believe Diana Lopez deserves to be there at all.</p>
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<p>I am looking forward to taekwondo the most, as well. I will be cheering for most of the US team, although I do not honestly believe Diana Lopez deserves to be there at all.</p>
<p>I’ll bet the CC posting drops a ton Friday evening…</p>
<p>Sorry, I used to be a big Olympics fan, but no longer. Too commercialized. I don’t mind some politics but the Olympic leaders are frauds, complicit with governments so that they can enrich themselves.</p>
<p>I agree that the TV coverage is subpar too. Remember all the drama of Basketball, Volleyball and swimming in the 1970s. It’s all gone now. Replaced by all the corporate sponsor TV ads.</p>
<p>I am disgusted that our athletes (especially concerned for my sport, running) are going to suffer through the smog and dangerous air quality and conditions.
I will be following every running event and much of the rest. GO WEBB (oh, wait- he didn’t make the team…)</p>
<p>MofWC, I’m disgusted, too! Just look at the picture which was taken today - it is scary!
[Olympics</a> | The Seattle Times](<a href=“http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/olympics/index.html#30891]Olympics”>http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/olympics/index.html#30891)</p>
<p>And what’s up with our officials? They make the cyclists apologize for wearing their officially-issued masks? And Tara did not make the team on “technicality issues”? WTH???</p>
<p>Imagine the pain and disappointment of someone who is interested in the results of the sailing events. Even in a good Olympic games yachting might get 10 minutes of coverage every other day. Oh well…</p>
<p>Can’t believe it about Tara! We saw her on What Not to Wear and were so sad that she didn’t make the team.</p>
<p>The pollution level has gotten worse today.</p>
<p>One of the bonuses of living in southeast Michigan is being able to get CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corp.) coverage of sports events. Lots of coverage and much less fluff (and in the winter games, you get to see lots of Olympic curling!)</p>
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<p>We get Canadian coverage here, too. The good is that there is more sports, with less breathless commentary. The bad is that they are just about as bad as the American networks at focusing on athletes from their own country. In the 2006 games you would sometimes have to sit through 10 minutes of excited background on a Canadian who had just won a Bronze medal and at the end the announcer would say, “some American won Gold, and some European or maybe someone else won Silver.” Overall, though, I watched a lot more winter Olympics coverage on CBC because they DID follow curling, my secret winter television habit. (You mean you don’t know what the Scotties Tournament of Hearts is? Or who Jennifer Jones or Kevin Martin are? Shame on you!)</p>
<p>My family is excited about the Olympics largely because son#2 has been living in China for the past 1 1/2 years. He is hosting an Olympics party (think Super Bowl party) for friends from work as many do not have tvs. He also purchased tickets on ebay for some track and field events.</p>
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<p>If you speak Spanish, try watching some of mexican TV - the coverage is what it used to be here many moons ago…</p>
<p>Oh, we have lots of Spanish language stations. My Spanish isn’t great, but I don’t need a lot of commentary.</p>
<p>One of my main objections to the broadcast is when they air the opening and closing ceremonies hours and hours after they happened. I love to watch opening ceremonies live! It’s anti-climatic when it’s done and over, and while you’re watching it, some of the competitions have already started. I understand that you won’t get the audience at 7AM as you will at 8PM, but air it live and rerun at 8PM.</p>
<p>Here in San Diego we get Mexican stations, and their coverage is much better than the US. Like Missypie, I don’t need to know the Spanish to understand what’s happening in a foot race, and they have far fewer of those lachrymose “Up Close and Personals.” </p>
<p>I’ve never understood why the US networks seem to believe that it’s better to show file footage of some athlete’s dog or hometown than it is to show the actual competition. So often the broadcast of the Olympic event we tuned in for is truncated in order to make room for these “human interest” puff pieces.</p>
<p>teri, if you can get CBC, they will be showing it live (and again in prime time). Their coverage starts at about 6 a.m. and continues all day, and pretty much all day every day for the entire Olympics.</p>
<p>I got my local paper today, and I was delighted to see a whole section on Olympics with TV schedules! Yay! We have LOTS of local Olympians! They represent not just the US, but also Canada, Estonia, Russia, Zimbabwe, Australia! Wow. Lots of swimmers and rowers!</p>
<p>I can’t wait to watch swimming. One of my close friends almost qualified for Greece, but they lacked funding or she didn’t make enough cuts or something so she didn’t get to go, but I still want to see if Michael Phelps gets 8 golds. Ryan Lochte isn’t going to give them up that easy, I don’t think, so it should be fun to watch!</p>
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<p>LOL, you should definitely come and live in England, where they will happily show every single second of anything to do with a boat (rowing and sailing being the main medal sports for team GB) for days on end, without a single ad break ever. </p>
<p>I think I have 5 channels devoted to the Olympics all night (if it’s live at 3am, it’s live at 3am and that’s it, though there are highlight programmes every evening) but people who have cable have several more (I am a poor student so I don’t have stuff like this). All the heats of every sport to the bitter end, even though most of it is in the middle of the night here and half the events are not even entered by GB.</p>
<p>Don’t miss the opening ceremonies, my friends. The show is spectacular!</p>