Sakura 1,472 Posted February 10, 2018 A thread to discuss the Winter Olympics. If I were back at home in the UK I could watch live any sport in the competition thanks to the BBC. As it is, I'm in the USA and I have to put up with NBC. I watched curling for 30 minutes before they cut me off because I do not have a cable subscription. NBC hasn't even shown the opening ceremony yet on mainstream TV. I wish I had a VPN to access the BBC stream. Anyway, should NBC consent to show me any sport I'm looking forward to the Skiing, Speed Skating and the Bobsled the most. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
orandashoho 720 Posted February 10, 2018 NHK is going to show a lot of speed skating, thanks to the top performances of the Japanese women. Dutch TV shows it too, but I can't watch it from here -- the next two weeks I can't watch the news either because it contains blocked Olympic content. Crazy! The papers then, I can still get the news from the papers. But that is a lot less fun. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fukurou 534 Posted February 10, 2018 2 hours ago, Sakura said: A thread to discuss the Winter Olympics. If I were back at home in the UK I could watch live any sport in the competition thanks to the BBC. As it is, I'm in the USA and I have to put up with NBC. I watched curling for 30 minutes before they cut me off because I do not have a cable subscription. NBC hasn't even shown the opening ceremony yet on mainstream TV. I wish I had a VPN to access the BBC stream. Anyway, should NBC consent to show me any sport I'm looking forward to the Skiing, Speed Skating and the Bobsled the most. Check out the NBC Sports App. I watched the opening ceremony Live this morning (time difference stinks - it's like trying to watch a basho!) Anyway you have to have an account (free), and IIRC you have to have cable or satellite and the provider on their list to create one. Anyway, NBC-Universal has the rights, so the broadcasts are not just on NBC. You should also check NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), CNBC, USA Network and the Olympic Channel. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gurowake 3,923 Posted February 10, 2018 I watched curling online last time too for a bit until they realized I didn't have a cable subscription. I think they intentionally do that (let you watch for a bit) in order to get people used to watching it so they'll resubscribe to their cable service. Not going to happen here though; we don't watch TV at all. I guess if we had cable again we might watch slightly more than the none we do now, but it wouldn't be much. (We don't even have Netflix, and our Amazon Prime subscription is barely used. We just don't consume one-way media.) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sakura 1,472 Posted February 10, 2018 2 hours ago, Fukurou said: Check out the NBC Sports App. I watched the opening ceremony Live this morning (time difference stinks - it's like trying to watch a basho!) Anyway you have to have an account (free), and IIRC you have to have cable or satellite and the provider on their list to create one. Anyway, NBC-Universal has the rights, so the broadcasts are not just on NBC. You should also check NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), CNBC, USA Network and the Olympic Channel. The problem being is that I don't have any cable at all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bumpkin 438 Posted February 10, 2018 Me too. (Not the #Me Too movement.) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fukurou 534 Posted February 10, 2018 11 hours ago, Gurowake said: I watched curling online last time too for a bit until they realized I didn't have a cable subscription. I've done that too and don't recall logging in for it but maybe I did. Don't remember if it was an NBC site or an IOC site. Everything is so picky about where you are watching from so the various rights holders don't lose out on their money. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sakura 1,472 Posted February 10, 2018 My favourite moment from Day 1 - The South Korean women's 3000m short track speed skating relay team coming back from a fall to win their semi-final with an Olympic Record. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
orandashoho 720 Posted February 10, 2018 Sadly I haven't been able to watch the 3000m long track speed skating at all -- and it was a Dutch triple whammy as well. I'm sure that Canadian Ted-Jan Bloemen will spoil the chances of the men doing the same in the 5000m... which I won't be able to watch either... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gaijingai 1,527 Posted February 11, 2018 On 2/9/2018 at 19:45, Sakura said: A thread to discuss the Winter Olympics. If I were back at home in the UK I could watch live any sport in the competition thanks to the BBC. As it is, I'm in the USA and I have to put up with NBC. I watched curling for 30 minutes before they cut me off because I do not have a cable subscription. NBC hasn't even shown the opening ceremony yet on mainstream TV. I wish I had a VPN to access the BBC stream. Anyway, should NBC consent to show me any sport I'm looking forward to the Skiing, Speed Skating and the Bobsled the most. Not sure if I can recommend anything here, but I'm not selling anything anyway. I'm simply saying that if you want a VPN that is good yet inexpensive, go here: https://store.idropnews.com/deals/software#70-security I have 5 from them. I use Pure VPN. In 20 minutes you can have your Olympics. :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fukurou 534 Posted February 19, 2018 I've really enjoyed following BBC's Olympics live blog. It's almost as Team GB-centric as the US media is about that team. Seriously though, I do like that blog - they have a sense of humo(u)r there. And I can go to sleep and catch up later. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Yatagarasu 352 Posted February 19, 2018 I love the ski jumping, luge and bobsled. The curling is weirdly hypnotic too, but I have been completely enchanted by the figure skating so far. The top deck has been stellar and the mens' individual medallists seemed to display genuine warm sportsmanship to one another (not least because they are training partners), which is always nice to see. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fukurou 534 Posted February 19, 2018 I like Curling too, but cannot figure out why. It's basically shuffleboard on ice with heavier pucks Cannot believe the first announced doping case involves Curling, though. Really? 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
torquato 1,075 Posted February 19, 2018 Curling is a bit like Snooker on ice. I like both.^^ My moments so far: - The first Pan-Korean Ladies Ice Hockey goal ever - The guy from Tonga for not beeing the last in his competition - 2 shared gold medals in the bob sleigh I think in a sports world full of doping an corruption such stories from the 'second' row weigh much more than ever… Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
torquato 1,075 Posted February 20, 2018 22 hours ago, torquato said: My moments so far: Great. After Eddy the Eagle, we finally have Lizzy the Swan. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Churaumi 728 Posted February 27, 2018 Were any my fellow Americans sick of seeing the same five commercials over and over? NBC even put them on the screen in a small window between heats. Was it that bad elsewhere? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bumpkin 438 Posted February 27, 2018 38 minutes ago, Churaumi said: Were any my fellow Americans sick of seeing the same five commercials over and over? NBC even put them on the screen in a small window between heats. Was it that bad elsewhere? Even worse, for those of us in Wisconsin, were the constant mud-slinging negative ads for the US Senate race in November. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Churaumi 728 Posted February 27, 2018 1 hour ago, Bumpkin said: Even worse, for those of us in Wisconsin, were the constant mud-slinging negative ads for the US Senate race in November. That hasn’t started in Oklahoma yet, but our races aren’t really competitive. Might have liked some though, just for the difference. While you were watching mudslinging, I was hearing “I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier” again. Sometimes they’d play it twice in the same break. It actually made me miss uStream sumo. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sakura 1,472 Posted February 27, 2018 Congratulations to Norway for that fantastic record-breaking medal haul. To honour that achievement I have to post this... The best moustache at the Olympics. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rocks 1,807 Posted February 28, 2018 (edited) This is why i don't watch the Olympics. Pool is supposed to be a summer sport. Edited February 28, 2018 by Rocks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yorikiried by fate 1,989 Posted March 3, 2018 On 27.2.2018 at 23:21, Sakura said: Congratulations to Norway for that fantastic record-breaking medal haul. And to consider that basically the whole team consists of asthmatics... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Benihana 1,901 Posted March 4, 2018 16 hours ago, yorikiried by fate said: And to consider that basically the whole team consists of asthmatics... Yes, it's a medical miracle. Hockey was fascinating. Before the Olympics i was not pleased that the NHL didn't play along, but in the end it was a good decision. And as expected the "olympic atheletes from Russia" delivered. This is irony at it's best. The majority of the team get's banned even before the olympics started and then they get caught for doping at curling, chapeau. What really pissed me off were the empty, soon to be abandoned arenas. It was foreseeable and it will happen again in the future, but as long as the IOC consists of a bunch of greedy, corrupt ********, this practice will never change. What's next? 2030 Winter Olympics in Saudi Arabia? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
