Olympic GDT - 28 July

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Wow just caught the highlights of the Russia/Canada basketball. How typical we choke a 12 point lead in the 4th quarter and getting schooled by a Russian named Becky Hammond. haha

That "Russian"is an American who was given Russian citizenship to play on the basketball team. I heard about it long ago and when I just saw the highlights I thought "of course"

[Barnet Flame]

There seems to be quite a few of us here in London.

A Flames game at The Albion in Blackfriars (Sleemans on tap) could be called for.

Back on topic, that had to be painful for the ladies in the basketball. I just had an awful feeling that would happen, the nerves were kicking in - evident from the missing of so many free throws with the opportunity to put the Russians 12-13 points behind.

[icarus]

Overall a pretty disappointing day for Canada, it seems:

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/story/201...-saturday.html

[icarus]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

There seems to be quite a few of us here in London.

A Flames game at The Albion in Blackfriars (Sleemans on tap) could be called for.

Sounds good to me!

[trackercowe]

Originally Posted by icarus

Overall a pretty disappointing day for Canada, it seems:

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/story/201...-saturday.html

Yeah looking pretty ugly after day one, but it Canada always seems to put up poor results in the first few days. Once they win a medal or two then things usually get rolling.

[carom]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

There seems to be quite a few of us here in London.

A Flames game at The Albion in Blackfriars (Sleemans on tap) could be called for.

Back on topic, that had to be painful for the ladies in the basketball. I just had an awful feeling that would happen, the nerves were kicking in - evident fromda the missing of so many free throws with the opportunity to put the Russians 12-13 points behind.

Yeah I'm in for a flames game.

I'm not too worried about the Canadian team after the first (official) day. We seem to be an Olympic team that could be classified as a grower after the last few Olympics.

So is it true that Canada house is the official Canada Olympic house? So far I'm too scared to head down to city centre the last week.

[cmyden]

If anyone wants to watch the Olympics via the BBC website ...

1. http://unblock-us.com/

No software or downloads required. Just need to follow the instructions to change the DNS on your computer and reboot.

2. Watch anything you want from the BBC Olympic coverage, live or in the past. The BBC's Olympic website is great.

The streaming quality is excellent, even on a large screen the picture is pretty good.

Bonus: no commercials.

And another bonus: The seek bar is categorized, so you can easily find where you want to jump to in the broadcast.
ie: 100m finals, 200m finals, etc.

[troutman]

The 47 kg Asian women are sure good at the lifting of the weights!

[Displaced Flames fan]

Swimming was just awesome today. 16 year old Ye Shiwen won the 400 M Individual Medley and shattered the world record. If you watched the race you saw her incredible final 100 M. Her freestyle lap was unbelievable.

First time I've ever really watched the swimming events with more than a passing interest.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Swimming was just awesome today. 16 year old Ye Shiwen won the 400 M Individual Medley and shattered the world record. If you watched the race you saw her incredible final 100 M. Her freestyle lap was unbelievable.

First time I've ever really watched the swimming events with more than a passing interest.

They said that her 100m freestyle time was the same as LOCHTE'S!
Although Lochte probably eased up a bit since he had a big lead.. that's still insane.

[Lobotroth]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Swimming was just awesome today. 16 year old Ye Shiwen won the 400 M Individual Medley and shattered the world record. If you watched the race you saw her incredible final 100 M. Her freestyle lap was unbelievable.

First time I've ever really watched the swimming events with more than a passing interest.

Yeah that was pretty cool, it was like she saved it all for that last 100m. I love sports.

[seattleflamer]

Originally Posted by trackercowe

It's still crazy to me how NBC does not have much Live coverage in its programming. How can the Canadian networks always have the best live coverage when a network like NBC has next to nothing?

I guess Americans don't really care about the Olympics in general, but you'd figure by 2012 they would have better coverage. They haven't even shown the Serena Williams match yet.

Actually the coverage has been very extensive and CBC like. It is all on the secondary channels owned by NBC like Bravo, CNBC, MSNBC, telemundo.

I've been watching the games seamlessly on NBC's website which you can only access only if you subscribe to MSNBC and CNBC at least for Comcast customers.

Nothing beat's NBC's coverage if you want prime time highlights of the day with an American bias and flair for dramatic.

[icarus]

Originally Posted by carom

So is it true that Canada house is the official Canada Olympic house? So far I'm too scared to head down to city centre the last week.

I think Canada House is reserved for family, sponsors etc. You need a pass to get in. I could be wrong but I thought I read this a few weeks ago.

Originally Posted by troutman

The 47 kg Asian women are sure good at the lifting of the weights!

My fiancee went to it yesterday, I watched online. Some of those girls (not just the Asians) are tiny teenagers but the weights they lift are quite impressive.