Originally Posted By DAR AHhhhh edit: Jesus, Maria y Jose was that the Flash running that 100 meter dash.
Originally Posted By ecdc So...somebody help me out. I'm watching NBC's coverage and there's a giant "LIVE" sign by the NBC peacock logo in the top right hand. I'm watching the Men's Swimming Relay RIGHT NOW. Too bad about 45 minutes ago I got a text message from CNN breaking news telling me that the U.S. won. What's the deal? NBC's "live" coverage doesn't seem very live to me.
Originally Posted By Mr X You're forgetting about the time difference. We're in the future, you see. So, just like lunar communication, you gotta wait a while. See? Here in the future, it was indeed a very exciting LIVE event.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>You're forgetting about the time difference. We're in the future, you see.<< I see how it is. So you piled into Doc Brown's Delorean without me. Nice. So China's 14 hours ahead of Salt Lake (IIRC). That would make it shortly after noon there. I wonder if you know what I have for lunch tomorrow. Or if I call out sick to work Can you guys find out and let me know? (If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, keep that to yourself though.)
Originally Posted By Mr X ***If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, keep that to yourself though.*** Check. (saves me the trouble of explaining lunch, anyway)
Originally Posted By Mr X Oh, and no you won't be calling sick to work tomorrow. Not exactly, anyway. ;p
Originally Posted By hopemax >What's the deal? NBC's "live" coverage doesn't seem very live to me. < It's live in Eastern and Central. But NBC's "surveys" told them that those of us that live in Mountain don't want to see things at 6 PM, we want things to start at 7 PM, so we get an hour delay. The west-coasters don't want to see things at 5PM, so they get held too.
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS Yeah Phelps!!! (And yes, logging in to my email and seeing the headlines has kind of ruined my Olympics watching experience!
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey I refuse to look at any media sites until 11:00 pm local time - that way I don't find out if something happened before I get to see it. Although last night I got bamboozled - I happened to go on Hotmail and there was a huge headline about Bolt winning the 100M dash and Tyson Gay not even making it to the final, which I saw two hours before it was broadcast - curses! YAY PHELPS - what an amazing achievement!
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Yeah, I got my butt chewed out for texting and emailing my mom and sister about the Olympics from Georgia to California. I thought Live was Live for all of us. LOL
Originally Posted By Dabob2 My only problem with the Olympics coverage so far is that the time delay has allowed NBC to pick and choose which events they want to present in prime time, and more often than not, it's the events they already know the US has won. It's becoming a little bit numbing in its regularity, and a bit of an anti-climax. There WERE some live events on the east coast here, so the suspense was there for those, (including most of the Phelps wins) and that was great. But if you don't see the little "live" super, you can just about call it... Even if you haven't read the advance results (and I never do), you can just about predict that if it's shown at a showcase time and not live, the US is going to win. I've taken to checking out the sister stations and finding events where Americans aren't competing. These also tend to be the sports Americans are less familiar with and some of them really are eye-popping.
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey The female Romanian marathoner's finish yesterday was fantastic. She was over a minute ahead of the rest of the field when she finished. I stood up and clapped for that one. I can't imagine how she felt running into the Bird's Nest with no one near her - to hear all of those people cheering and clapping for you and you alone must be mind-numbingly surreal.
Originally Posted By Elderp I just found out about the Williams sisters getting gold. They were so fun to watch. By all means they are both veterans in their field, but they were both so excited to have won that gold.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 I enjoyed watching them also. Seemed very genuine. Ok is Jim Lampley just weird or what?
