this is the best thing that i have seen by far:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmBDeswu2dI

can NBC make bob costas shut the hell up???

i dont care about his little human interest vingettes!?1?!

...just shut the hell up.... and show the events.

SHUT THE HELL UP. AND SHOW THE EVENTS


american television sucks to ****ing bad

i mean really, they spent ten ****ing minutes on walsh's missing wedding ring. what the **** is wrong with these people?!?!?!

watch cbc

i dont have dish...i just have cable.

believe me... i would watch telemundo coverage hosted by dancing midgets if i could not have to watch one more second of clown ass costas

At least there is another Mary Carillo segment on now.

god, i wish they could go on chatting with each other forever.

throw in oprah winfrey and regis....


who needs events?????!!!!

just give me mindless morons blathering to each other!!!!

Loved how they spent so much time on the Italian swimmer who stole the boyfriend of the French swimmer. Only to have the French swimmer finish dead last. The Italian was out of the medals also.

That said, the other networks have been pretty free of human interest stories. Or maybe I'm just lucky enough to have missed them.

Considering that you can watch pretty much any event you want on the different networks or on the internet (announcer free) I don't see what the big problem is.

Before I wanted them to stop with the feature stuff and just show the event. But that was when it was on only one channel. Now it's all over the place and I can just change the station or turn on the computer or whatever.

So they still do feature stories like that while ALSO giving you the option to just watch the games without all that stuff. Not bad.

I guess your options are more limited if you are super into the swimming and gymnastics which I assume they are keeping only on the main NBC and not letting you watch as much of without having to sit through the features. But it still is way better coverage than anything we ever had before.

I remember in 96 or 92 I wanted to watch the gold medal soccer match. But they were only showing it in brief snippets and then cutting over to some other ping-pong match. Since the U.S. wasn't involved and they had a ton of stuff going on still they weren't about to show a soccer match between two countries they felt nobody really cared about. They'll just show little bits of action and then get you there for the final score. When it was only one network THAT was really freaking common and incredibly annoying.

I'm satisfied to let them do their little feature pieces now that I get to see all these different games all over the place. Could still be improved. But it's currently about 1000x better than anything we ever had before.

I haven't managed to see much of the human interest crap with all the channels available.. coverage seems fine to me.

On what innanet site can we watch every event without announcers?

you can watch a bunch of it at nbcolympics.com. it has condensed replays of the primetime broadcasts but also streaming live stuff without announcing.

This coverage is amazing.

No reason to complain.

CBC,. FTW

The Bela Karolyi interview/Q&A was awesome. I couldn't understand a ****ing word he said.

THE UMBRELLA OF PROTECTION, THE PROTECTIVE UMBRELLA!

I AM LUGASH!

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I remember in the '92 Barcelona games (I think it was the '92 games) when they had the Red, White and Blue PPV channels.

And, if I remember correctly, they were the only other stations broadcasting olympic events other than NBC in the US.

The coverage has been awesome for these games and way, way better than those days.

There is plenty of reason to complain: