2004 Summer Olympics - Athens, Greece

[ragingfish]

Who's planning to watch the Olympics this year? Opening ceremonies are tomorrow night (Friday, 11/13/2004) at 8PM EST on NBC. I personally am looking forward to only a few events: Beach VolleyballGymnasticsField HockeySoccerHow about everyone else?

[Sputnik]

I'm going to watch, but not NBC. I'll watch CBC until I can't take Brian Williams and his endless commentary about who knows what. I've already sent one complaint to CBC about him (during the last Olympics) - I have no qualms about doing it again.

[joatmon]

I'm sure i'll watch some. I remember one year, the games were is a radically different time zone, but the network still narrated and cut up the coverage as if it was all live during prime time eastern time. "While we wait for the judges scores to come up, here is a brief word from out sponsors ..." C'mon, the judges scores came up 8 hours ago!

[redlava]

Definately will be watching soccer. Probably the swimming events as well. Mostly tune in and watch whatever is on when I have time.USA! USA! USA!

[rasermon]

Watching the opening ceremonies right now. It's great to see that most of the world is involved with the Olympics.

[Jahntassa]

If you have DISH network, you'll enjoy the Olympics even more.Go to channel 100, (Dish Home, or hit the "Dish" button on your remote), then "Olympics". They have a six-channel picture-in-picture feed of NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, USA, Bravo, and Telemundo, so you can watch ALL the events being broadcast at once, and even switch audio feeds or watch one event full-screen, and switch back to the PiP!I haven't watched the Olympics for a while, but I gotta say, that's a really neat idea! Now if only I had HDtv...mmm...HiDef...

[Mavrik]

I watched the opening ceremony at work yesterday afternoon, the replay of it was last night I guess. Thats some torch they got wow...As for events, if something interesting happens to be on while I'm flipping through the channels I'll watch.GO CANADA!

[Kari]

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »I'm sure i'll watch some. I remember one year, the games were is a radically different time zone, but the network still narrated and cut up the coverage as if it was all live during prime time eastern time. "While we wait for the judges scores to come up, here is a brief word from out sponsors ..." C'mon, the judges scores came up 8 hours ago!NBC was doing that last night during the opening ceremonies... "And these five countries came in while we were away." And you're thinking, come on, I know you're not holding the opening ceremonies at 5 a.m.

[rasermon]

Quote, originally posted by Jahntassa »If you have DISH network, you'll enjoy the Olympics even more.Thanks for the info. What a great feature!

[joatmon]

google is olympics aware, noticed this image on the main google page instead of the normal google logo

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[joatmon]

here's another

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[joatmon]

we're not very talkative about the olympics.in the meantime, here's another

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[joatmon]

http://www.cbc.ca/story/olympi....htmlThis noble Canadian man was able to contribute to the Greeks winning their first gold medal of the games

[Mavrik]

Well we canadians managed to get one bronze medal... (removed) is with that? come on guys!

[Sputnik]

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »http://www.cbc.ca/story/olympi....htmlThis noble Canadian man was able to contribute to the Greeks winning their first gold medal of the games I would love to see this on TV, but haven't seen any footage of it. Has anyone?

[joatmon]

from http://www.theglobeandmail.com...Front/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/...ndard

[Stang2Vibe]

I'm catching the replay of some of the gymnastics right now. One of the poor Chinese girls did a face plant on her landing from the uneven bars. Man, that's gotta hurt.I'll try to catch some of the soccer, too. Can't miss Mia Hamm! The swimming is pretty exciting too.So what's the big beef with NBC???

[Stang2Vibe]

Nah, you're not likely to see any serious security measures like that outside the US. Most of the rest of the world is too worried about "offending" someone. Except Americans, of course.

[joatmon]

well, at least all he snuck through security was a tutu. Imagine training your whole life for the olympics, your ultimate goal, you finally make it and are doing great, then some bozo pulls a publicity stunt for some lame web site and makes you blow it. Maybe we need to get tutu'd divers with genvibe.com written on their chests over to athens

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[Mavrik]

Quote, originally posted by joatmon » Maybe we need to get tutu'd divers with genvibe.com written on their chests over to athens HAHAHA that would be pretty entertaining.

[Mavrik]

I heard $450CAD on the news this morning, ah well. maybe that was $450 USD which is $3000 CAD?

[Mavrik]

I was trying to joke around about the exhange rate.

[ArcsVibe]

I am wondering how much http://www.goldenpalace.com paid him to pull off that stunt

[Sputnik]

He's done other stunts at sports events for Golden Palace, but Golden Palace "claims" they didn't ask him to do this one... yeah... right.

[joatmon]

mens gymnastics todayQuote »Paul Hamm suddenly needed to be about as close to perfect as he's ever been. This at the end of a bizarre night when absolutely every gymnast in Olympic Indoor Hall had looked highly imperfect, like novices, not the world's best all-arounders. maybe we'll see some serious goofs

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[AKLGT]

well since i've been home a lot the last week, i've been trying to watch the olympics when i can. and i gotta say... hooray to our US athletes! you're kicking (removed)!!!!

[AKLGT]

was watching women's beach volleyball semi finals tonight and it sucks that both US teams had to play each other. now we can't get a 1-2 finish. the best we can hope for is 1-3, which isn't bad, but still not gold and silver. i love watching the olympics! makes me proud of our athletes! and that canuck from calgary who won gold in the floor exercise... he did an awesome job! didn't see one goof up at all! hopefully that will bring some more pressure on men's gymnastics for canada. you know, i have to have my little US and Canada flags goingto cheer them on

[Sputnik]

Brutal for Canada - did anyone catch the women's 100m hurdles?? Ugh!

[drunkenmaxx]

Quote, originally posted by trdvibe »was watching women's beach volleyballya know, for some odd reason, i watch that too the mens basketball team is an emberassment! yugoslavia???

[AKLGT]

that's because we put all the super stars on one team and they don't like to share the ball! but look at our women's team! lisa leslie rocks! they are kicking (removed) and taking names! too bad the men's team can't figure out that ball hogging doesn't get them anywhere.

[drunkenmaxx]

actually, a majority of the good players wouldnt come this year for fear of terrorists. previously, the dream teams were undefeated.

[Mr. Poopypants]

I would rather watch a rabid dog hump my leg than watch women's basketball. You can only watch so many layups.Actually, I would rather watch that same dog hump my leg rather than watch men's basketball.

[AKLGT]

Quote, originally posted by Mr. Poopypants »I would rather watch a rabid dog hump my leg than watch women's basketball. You can only watch so many layups.Actually, I would rather watch that same dog hump my leg rather than watch men's basketball.in other words, you don't like basketball. LOL

[Mr. Poopypants]

That would be the simple way to say it.

[Kari]

IMHO, a lot of the problem with the basketball team is the fact that they're using NBA players. They make such a big deal about the other people having to be amateurs, so why not make the Olympics an honor for the best players in the tournament, and have the two coaches from the champion and runner-up coach the team? Those NBA guys have their millions, and most of them seem to just play more for the money than the love of the game. They can buy a gold medal, so what do they care? The NBA seems to be changing...the people who play for the love are getting fewer and farther between. The WNBA isn't huge like the NBA, and they do play for the love of the game...you can tell by the way they play. But men's basketball needs a major adjustment. College guys would play their hearts out, and it would be an honor to be on the Olympic team, instead of just another chore like a lot of the NBA players seemed to treat it.

[ebslopp]

Does the Canadian coverage of the Olympics suck as much as the US coverage? NBC has a monopoly and I can't watch anything other than gymnastics, swimming, and the occasional beach volleyball. I bet most people in the US don't even realize that there are other sports in the Olympics. Personally, I would much rather watch the whole event than have some gymnast's life story interrupting everything, and then watch him lose. C'mon NBC! More sports, less fake drama!

[Kari]

Turn it to MSNBC...they show more of the other events. NBC just shows what they think the majority want to see. MSNBC and CNBC show the other stuff.

[AKLGT]

unfortunately i don't have cable so i'm stuck w/ the lame drama that nbc brings. but they've been showing the track and field events as of late. when i was in the hospital last wk i got to watch some of the other sports like cycling, kayaking, rowing, etc. but yes, i agree, the lame biographies on a 15 yr old's life is way over done. let's just watch the competition and leave it alone at that.

[ebslopp]

I'm in the same position, I just have basic cable. So I'm stuck with only NBC. However, I went home during my lunch hour and turned on the TV and found them broadcasting indoor track cycling! It was very fun to watch and there were no stupid biographies.

[ragingfish]

Poking through my TiVo, I found they had interestingly enough planted a mini olympics preview on there for me to watch. Granted, a preview now that the games are practically over seems pointless, but I watched it, and it's pretty cool. Plus, there's a hint of chevy influence...Check it out yourself:http://www.ragingfish.com/movi...h.wmvRIGHT CLICK SAVE AS.DON'T STEAL BANDWIDTH PLEASE!

[AKLGT]

well i'll just add that i've been able to catch a little here and there and the US teams and athletes are just doing a great job! gotta love the olympics. nothing brings out national pride then great sporting events like this! whee!!

[Stang2Vibe]

I enjoyed watching the segment on The O'Reilly Factor on FOX News last week about Bill O'Reilly's theory on why the US is so dominant in the Olympics.But anyway, I say hooray for the USA! The only nation in the world this Olympiad to earn more than 100 total medals, and to earn the most gold and silver medals. Only Russia had more bronze medals. Way to go atheletes! Just another irrational reason for the rest of the world to despise us.