Olympic "spoilers" - The official Olympic thread!

[kbroderick]

Originally Posted by kickglide

The network coverage amuses me as it is rather schmaltzy and bogus. It was already common knowledge that the Men's Downhill was won by a Frenchman and the American contenders were only also rans. Why can't they include that in their opening remarks instead of pumping the losers? They have the whole day to change the report.

Well, a lot of folks in the US have three choices with regard to Olympic coverage:
1. Get the results online and not be able to actually watch the competitions
2. Watch the tape-delayed competitions and pretend that they're live. Or at least not tape-delayed by quite as long as they are.
3. Watch the Eurosport webcast online

Option 2 requires steadfast avoidance of any mention of results prior to the airing of the event, and it's in NBC's best interest to encourage that option, so they'd be pretty stupid to drop results in ahead of the actual broadcast. Quite frankly, I'd rather have good live coverage that I could either watch or tape (so I'd be tape-delaying it at my discretion rather than NBC's). Since I'm stuck with a limited selection of US-based TV channels and I don't have my computer hooked up to a TV, I'm taking option 2. There is also a logistics aspect to it--by doing as much of the work as possible prior to the event, as if doing it live, they'd be able to do it during daytime rather than later at night.

So as annoyed as I am by NBC's coverage, covering events as if they haven't happened yet is not amongst my gripes.

[highpeaksdrifter]

Originally Posted by haines

I've got a ski date with Kari Traa!

I'm psyched!

Ahh yeah, I would be too. If you're not kidding give us the details.

I see here every year at the pro mogul stop at Whiteface. Besides being a great skier and beautiful she is a really nice person, talks to her fans and takes the time to take pictures with them. I wish she won the gold.

[highpeaksdrifter]

In Lake Placid you can get a Canadian channel for Olympic coverage. They show the alpine events live. They blow NBC away when it comes to sking and riding events.

[BeanoNYC]

Originally Posted by haines

I've got a ski date with Kari Traa!

I'm psyched!

As my wife's first name is Kari, we're certainly routing for her. The world needs a famous Kari. (Other than Kari BeanoNYC, that is.) It doesn't hurt that she's easy to look at either.

[LVNLARG]

Originally Posted by highpeaksdrifter

In Lake Placid you can get a Canadian channel for Olympic coverage. They show the alpine events live. They blow NBC away when it comes to sking and riding events.

For once everybody envies me I would also point out NBC has imported Canadians to commentate for them... Stevie Pod was narating the moguls on NBC (not sure why they got one of the top DH'ers of all time to narate moguls but...) I'd send y'all CBC if I could....Not sure why you don't get it since how NBC has been in the idiot box here since the beginning of time...

[LVNLARG]

This spoiler thing was already covered...guess I shoulda asked some to sticky this at the top. In other news....I've never seen so much figure skating in all my life

[LVNLARG]

OK...I'm currently watching some no-name fruit from no-where fall on his ass trying to ice skate when Finland is leading the US 3-1 in the second period ?!!!?! I dunno if I'm in agreement that our coverage is better anymore.....

[LVNLARG]

I think somebody at CBC must have been reading this... We're getting to see the third period and the US has come back hard....including 3 goals in just 2 minutes!

[Plowboy]

See! They got it!!!

[Zand]

Ligety got the gold!