Cycling in the 2012 Olympics (spoilers allowed)

[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.

[Catrin]

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.

NBC keeps going back and forth - but yeah - swimming is getting more time

[silversurfer]

You may also like to try: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video

There is live coverage of a number of events - pick your sport. Men's road race on now. The only thing is you'll get British commentators rooting for our team.

[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.

[Crankin]

Woke up here in Friday Harbor at 6 AM, after an 11 hr. travel day yesterday, putting the Gurus together, and drinking/eating with old friends. The cable signal for NBC was almost nil, so DH just spent an hr. fixing it. We could hear the men's road race, but not see it. Now the swimming is on.
What's wrong with these people at our inn? Don't they know everyone wants to wake up at 5 and watch cycling?

[pll]

Dear Rigoberto: You must learn to pay attention in the last kilometer of a road race.

What was Urán looking at? Good for Vino, though. Wish they had shown the medal ceremony instead of heat 1000 of the swimming competition. And a replay of an earlier heat. I hate NBC.

[colby]

Thank you for the BBC links! Much better!! I posted before I saw Chris Hoy, too, very cool.

The cycling coverage on NBC makes me yearn for the features of the TdF broadcasts. It would be so useful to have the overview of how far back the peloton is from the breakaways, how many breakaways there are, how many athletes are in each, how many miles there are to go, and the time, on the screen much more often.

The commentary isn't bad, though, and they've been mostly showing cycling for several hours now. Very cool! It's timely that the Olympics happen so close to the TdF so people are more interested in cycling.

I am having a bit of an issue with time-delayed coverage, I either have to watch the coverage OR read the news, can't do both unless I want the result spoiled. A lot of it is still worth watching, though.

[malkin]

We got the whole men's road race.
It looked like we had several channels to choose from showing long bits of stated sports rather than the old irritating cut away, cut away, cut away coverage.

***spoiler***



To hit the wall is heartbreaking. Haven't heard yet if it was bone breaking.

[pll]

To hit the wall is heartbreaking. Haven't heard yet if it was bone breaking.

Ditto. I did not see the crash (out on a ride), just the aftermath. Heartbreaking is appropriate.