Cycling in the 2012 Olympics (spoilers allowed)

[malkin]

Yesterday Mitt said he wasn't sure that London had it all together for the games. Cameron was brilliant, saying that it would be might be easier to stage the Games "in the middle of nowhere" (i.e. Utah) than in one of the busiest cities on the planet.

Some other numpty in the Romney team told the English press that Romney had a better understanding of our common Anglo Saxon heritage than Obama.

I heard a report about where protests and political statements will and will not be allowed in London.

Please let the sport be a diversion from the politics!

[Catrin]

Thanks for the summary, i've been too busy to pay much attention. Let the politics step aside for a few weeks!

[shootingstar]

Thanks for the summary, i've been too busy to pay much attention. Let the politics step aside for a few weeks!

+1
Sorry, it's pretty presumptuous of a political candidate who has not been elected in office, to assume a position to even comment on another country's events while they are visiting on foreign soil. It's tasteless and lacks common sense diplomacy.

[malkin]

Back to our regularly scheduled thread...
Barely turned on NBC and I'm tired of the production values already.

[pll]

Back to our regularly scheduled thread...
Barely turned on NBC and I'm tired of the production values already.

+1

So boring...

[ny biker]

OMFG. I'm setting the DVR, and the on-screen cable guide has "Olympics" from 5 am to SIX PM tomorrow. My choices are to record THIRTEEN HOURS or none at all. There's no way to end the recording at 11:00 or noon.

Same for Sunday, when they'll show the women's road race.

Idiots.

UPDATE: A MIRACLE HAS OCCURRED. I called Comcast to ask how I could record just a portion of the 13-hour program that was listed in the on-screen guide, and the customer service person actually was able to tell me how to do it.

I am speechless. A positive experience with the cable company.

[Koronin]

My dish isn't quite that bad it's got Olympics from 5am until 8am and then from 8am until 6pm. I'm also not taping all that. I'm taking the F1 and GP2 stuff and will just watch whatever I can of the Olympics which won't be a good chunck of tomorrow afternoon since I just picked up a theater trailer check for tomorrow and will be at the movies watching trailers most of the afternoon (not movies, just the previews). At least the pay will be decent.

[colby]

Back to our regularly scheduled thread...
Barely turned on NBC and I'm tired of the production values already.

I'm watching the West Coast feed now, and during the parade of athletes the commentary is so frequently focused on who will or won't win what quantity of medals. It kind of seems anti-Olympic spirit, at least at this point in the games, where we're celebrating the coming together of athletes. It feels like an hour of sizing up the competition and patting those who don't have a chance on the head for being so cute.

Yay for Simon Whitfield, Canadian triathlete, for being the flag bearer!

The commentary through all the music numbers was inane. Some of it is interesting (what each bit is supposed to symbolize or who developed different pieces) but after that, just go away and let us watch.

They also cut this segment: http://t.co/1o4ucLKK

Also... so many commercials! My dad called it the commercialympics opening ceremonies. So thankful for DVRs.

(Maybe watching the opening ceremonies late on a Friday night after I only got 4 hours of sleep is a bad idea )

[hebe]

I'm sorry that your coverage was so heavily edited and commented. I am hoping that the BBC will put some of the Opening Ceremony onto i-player, it was some of the most amazing television that I have ever watched and I think deserves watching in its original commercial-free form. Cycling was well represented I thought, with Bradley Wiggins opening the Ceremony and Sir Chris Hoy leading the British team out. The sequence with winged cyclists looked pretty amazing too, though that was after my bedtime. And how brilliant that the cauldron was lit by seven young athletes.

So brilliant though - The Queen taking a cameo role with James Bond, Rowan Atkinson playing with the London Symphony Orchestra, a superb segment on the NHS performed with staff and patients from Great Ormond St childrens' hospital, incredibly poignant moments with the dance routine remembering the victims of the terrorist attack the day after we were celebrating getting the Olympics. That's very sad indeed that that piece was cut from your feed, Colby.

[pll]

Morning despair. I wake up early to watch the men's road race... they had it on for a few minutes and then cut to swimming, preliminary heats and women warming up for heat 1. NBC is just terrible.

Update: thanks to ny_biker, I am watching online now. Thanks. Crisis averted.

[silversurfer]

I'm sorry that your coverage was so heavily edited and commented. I am hoping that the BBC will put some of the Opening Ceremony onto i-player, it was some of the most amazing television that I have ever watched and I think deserves watching in its original commercial-free form. Cycling was well represented I thought, with Bradley Wiggins opening the Ceremony and Sir Chris Hoy leading the British team out. The sequence with winged cyclists looked pretty amazing too, though that was after my bedtime. And how brilliant that the cauldron was lit by seven young athletes.

So brilliant though - The Queen taking a cameo role with James Bond, Rowan Atkinson playing with the London Symphony Orchestra, a superb segment on the NHS performed with staff and patients from Great Ormond St childrens' hospital, incredibly poignant moments with the dance routine remembering the victims of the terrorist attack the day after we were celebrating getting the Olympics. That's very sad indeed that that piece was cut from your feed, Colby.

Like hebe I was really impressed with the opening ceremony. BBC Iplayer link if you want to watch it here http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ny_audio_desc/ I think there is a version with commentary and also one without.