Olympics Over, World Cup in 100 Days

[kssthesky]

I am having Olympic withdraws. I've liked watching the olympics since 1984 LA. I prefer the winter over the summer. Not sure why, but I do. It could be the skating, but I also like watching the other stuff too. I can't stress enough how much I hated NBC's broadcast. I saw what kind of coverage Canada and the UK got and was instantly jealous. They

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[cebastiankraine]

I actually stopped watching all but my most favorite events the last week of the competition because of the way NBC was airing everything. They failed to show a lot of the skaters that I like, but for whatever reason they didn't feel were important.

The interruptions.... Whoamg, they would show a couple people from one sport and then switch. NBC has enough cable channels that they could have shown a sport on each. And the interruptions were often not even event related i.e. they showed a bunch of fluff pieces on athletes not even in the events I was watching. Oh, and they didn't show things live when they said they were. It said "LIVE" on the screen, but online I could see that most of the event was already over.

I should have done what you did and found an alternate way of watching them.

[kssthesky]

Yes I heard that even with skating, they skipped a lot even though that draws a big audience. And then to keep flip flopping back and forth between different events...it's like, you already tape delayed it, just show it in one piece, will you? And I don't need to see a 10th interview of Lindsay Vonn. I already knew who she was because they whored her out enough

[cebastiankraine]

Carolina Kostner was a hot mess! From what I remember of the NBC announcers, she simply refuses to put in the work that it takes. They said she rarely will run through her entire programs before going to a competition

[kssthesky]

I was very happy with the skating results for all 4 events. Probably the first time that's ever happened for me (to be satisfied with all the standings

[cebastiankraine]

I didn't think Evan was going win, either. Plushenko's routine was very choppy and he front loaded all of his jumps. His comments about Evan just "shaking hit butt" and such on the ice were hypocritical, considering Plushenko pretty much filled the last half of his program with shitty choreography that had breaks for his own ass shaking. Plushenko is just a sore loser. If he cannot even update his haircut, why are we to expect him to update the way he does his programs?

Patrick... Totally adore him, but he definitely should not have been scored about Weir. I think Belbin and Agosto just got too comfy being the top US team and let their training slip. It just seemed completely off, imo.

Rachel Flatt...erf. Not a fan. Mirai rocks, though!

Shen and Zhao put in the work and skated so great... They definitely deserved to win. No doubt.

So, NBC's Website Still Sucks Even Though Olympics are Over

[kssthesky]

I didn't post the pairs short because they only had 5 of them (weird), but I'll post the links for the ones where they have almost all of the programs. Just click on the video camera image to the right of the results:

Pairs Long

Men's Short

Men's Long

Ice Dancing Original

Ice Dancing Free

Women's Short

Women's Long

Re: So, NBC's Website Still Sucks Even Though Olympics are Over

[cebastiankraine]

Coolies! Thanks for these. Will be checking them out asap.

::hugs::

email address?

[kssthesky]

What is your email address? I want to send some info to you on the place where I watch stuff occasionally because I don't have TV access, but I don't want to post it here because it is a public post (even though the website itself isn't too much of a secret and had been posted a few times in the soccer communities here)

Re: email address?

[cebastiankraine]

I totally understand. My email is: cebastiank@gmail.com

Thanks!