The London 2012 Olympic Games...

[abaez]

🙁

 

[NikolaeVarius]

So fucked up.

Even the JUDGES agreed that time had run out. But they still gave Germany the win.

 

[KLin]

She had to stay up there while the appeal went on apparently. Now that sucks.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

Poor girl =[

 

[bfdd]

NBC is seriously fucking off the Olympics this year so badly. The little I've actually been able to watch is cut together trash constantly cutting to commercial. Can't even watch it online because I don't pay for TV, only an internet connection. Absolute garbage. How is an event that is supposed to be for everyone allowed to be so restricted? The Olympic Committee totally failed this, but what are you to expect when they're probably going to see tens(if not hundreds) of millions in kick backs. Garbage.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Did USA lost?

😛

No you fool, but the top ten medal count is interesting thus far:

 

[sdifox]

No you fool, but the top ten medal count is interesting thus far:

quoted for epic fail :biggrin:

bastard ninja edited! He tried to link to a file on his hdd.


original message. The wonders of the back arrow on your browser :biggrin:

No you fool, but the top ten medal count is interesting thus far:

 

[AstroManLuca]

So the fighter who was better (the one who actually managed to land a touch) would have lost because of a coin flip? Does anyone else think that result sounds even worse than what happened?

Yeah this has me confused as well. I feel like it should never come down to a coin flip, ever, and if it had it would be more tainted than the current situation of running the clock too long.

Honestly, if a coin flip has even the slightest chance of being the determining factor, the rules should be revised. Give them unlimited overtime instead of limiting it to 60 seconds. If they had been given unlimited overtime, then the contender who was handed the win would have won anyway.

I don't know much about fencing so maybe I have something wrong. But as far as I can tell, she was eliminated through actual competition due to a timing error, and had the timing error not occurred, her only chance to win would have been winning a coin toss. IMO it sucks to be her but she doesn't deserve to win based on a coin toss.

 

[Zim Hosein]

quoted for epic fail :biggrin:

Can't seem to C & P anything into a browser!?! 😵

 

[AstroManLuca]

NBC is seriously fucking off the Olympics this year so badly. The little I've actually been able to watch is cut together trash constantly cutting to commercial. Can't even watch it online because I don't pay for TV, only an internet connection. Absolute garbage. How is an event that is supposed to be for everyone allowed to be so restricted? The Olympic Committee totally failed this, but what are you to expect when they're probably going to see tens(if not hundreds) of millions in kick backs. Garbage.

Yeah it's BS. I'm lucky my in-laws have a cable subscription and were willing to lend me their login information so I can stream events. What's especially frustrating is I can't even watch non-live events! It'd be nice to have live streaming for all, but at least let me watch non-live ones without having to pay.

Totally ridiculous. The coverage of the Beijing games was much more complete.

 

[sdifox]

Yeah it's BS. I'm lucky my in-laws have a cable subscription and were willing to lend me their login information so I can stream events. What's especially frustrating is I can't even watch non-live events! It'd be nice to have live streaming for all, but at least let me watch non-live ones without having to pay.

Totally ridiculous. The coverage of the Beijing games was much more complete.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=33758155&postcount=540

I have asked zim to include this info in the op

 

[HybridSquirrel]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=33758155&postcount=540

I have asked zim to include this info in the op

use this. the NBC streams have been decenty reliable for me but expat/bbc works better

 

[Printer Bandit]

is there something similar to expatshield for mac?

 

[Printer Bandit]

dp

 

[Newbian]

NBC is seriously fucking off the Olympics this year so badly. The little I've actually been able to watch is cut together trash constantly cutting to commercial. Can't even watch it online because I don't pay for TV, only an internet connection. Absolute garbage. How is an event that is supposed to be for everyone allowed to be so restricted? The Olympic Committee totally failed this, but what are you to expect when they're probably going to see tens(if not hundreds) of millions in kick backs. Garbage.

So they run commercials just like any other tv show on a free network, non-hbo and such, and they had to pay a ton to be able to host it so why not get some of it back?

Granted you can get past it by using other online services but you get what you pay for in the case of using NBC to watch it for free. 😉

 

[mnewsham]

is there something similar to expatshield for mac?

http://tunlr.net/

warning, I have heard that there DNS servers are somewhat crowded at the moment with the olympics and such so it my or may not work at any given time.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

NBC has 7 or 8 channels covering this, they should be able to provide live coverage of everything. But time zones really mess things up for people like me, being on the West Coast of the USA. I work for a living, so I can't devote a midnight to 4 pm chunk of my day towards watching the Olympics, and by the time the nightly broadcast is starting, I already know all the results. It's kind of a lose-lose situation in this era of instant access. But the way NBC has been handling it so far is the worst of all things.

 

[SheHateMe]

China is kicking USA's ass right now in gymnastics.

Not in Women's Gymnastics.

 

[Ns1]

NBC has 7 or 8 channels covering this, they should be able to provide live coverage of everything. But time zones really mess things up for people like me, being on the West Coast of the USA. I work for a living, so I can't devote a midnight to 4 pm chunk of my day towards watching the Olympics, and by the time the nightly broadcast is starting, I already know all the results. It's kind of a lose-lose situation in this era of instant access. But the way NBC has been handling it so far is the worst of all things.

yup, you gotta avoid ATOT/Drudge/Evening News/EVERYTHING.

It's stupid because it's NBC NEWS spoiling it for us west coasters.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

yup, you gotta avoid ATOT/Drudge/Evening News/EVERYTHING.

It's stupid because it's NBC NEWS spoiling it for us west coasters.

Even worse, you can miss out on the tape-delayed events because they won't show them live on TV, but that won't stop every other broadcast they're running live from telling you the results. Ummm, spoiler alert much NBC? You're the reason I'm not able to watch the men's swimming final as it happens, maybe you shouldn't have the people airing the water polo give it away. I mean, OK, yes, you can still get them streaming on your tablet or phone... hooray for technology. Now I don't have to be burdened with watching live sports on my puny 52" HDTV, I can stream them onto my 4.8" PHONE! Huzzah! Everyone's a winner! It wasn't worth pre-empting those Dora the Explorer reruns to air live coverage of your prime events, right?

Fucking A....

 

[Dominato3r]

What's the Vegas o/u on how long it will take for Chinese swimmers to turn up positive for some sort of PED/doping/whatever? They keep the blood samples for eight years.

Good god, just saw it. She even beat Lochte

if i ever won an olympic medal, i would make sweet love to it (unless it's bronze).

weren't there medals from a previous games that looked like a donut? :awe:

2006 Winter Olympics

 

[waggy]

NBC has 7 or 8 channels covering this, they should be able to provide live coverage of everything. But time zones really mess things up for people like me, being on the West Coast of the USA. I work for a living, so I can't devote a midnight to 4 pm chunk of my day towards watching the Olympics, and by the time the nightly broadcast is starting, I already know all the results. It's kind of a lose-lose situation in this era of instant access. But the way NBC has been handling it so far is the worst of all things.

yeah its bullshit. i hate NBC"s coverage

 

[Ns1]

Even worse, you can miss out on the tape-delayed events because they won't show them live on TV, but that won't stop every other broadcast they're running live from telling you the results. Ummm, spoiler alert much NBC? You're the reason I'm not able to watch the men's swimming final as it happens, maybe you shouldn't have the people airing the water polo give it away. I mean, OK, yes, you can still get them streaming on your tablet or phone... hooray for technology. Now I don't have to be burdened with watching live sports on my puny 52" HDTV, I can stream them onto my 4.8" PHONE! Huzzah! Everyone's a winner! It wasn't worth pre-empting those Dora the Explorer reruns to air live coverage of your prime events, right?

Fucking A....

Yup, he even had the balls to say something like "We know some of you like to watch these events as they happen" before spoiling last night's results.

 

[bfdd]

So they run commercials just like any other tv show on a free network, non-hbo and such, and they had to pay a ton to be able to host it so why not get some of it back?

Granted you can get past it by using other online services but you get what you pay for in the case of using NBC to watch it for free. 😉

it's the constant cutting to commercials in the middle of events simply because they aren't showing it live and have it recorded. it ruins the whole feeling of watching an event for the olympics. i'm not complaining about commercials so much NBCs use of them.

also, maybe i should just try and connect to our European VPN for work and maybe i can watch some from the bbc.

 

[waggy]

it's the constant cutting to commercials in the middle of events simply because they aren't showing it live and have it recorded. it ruins the whole feeling of watching an event for the olympics. i'm not complaining about commercials so much NBCs use of them.

also, maybe i should just try and connect to our European VPN for work and maybe i can watch some from the bbc.

this! oh god this.

they will cut to a commercial. then jump to another event then back to the 1st (with 5 commecial breaks in between) there is no rhyme or reason to wtf they are doing.