Dud3s Thread: The Olympic Sports You Will Watch

The Olympic Sports You Will Watch

liza — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:25:27

These Olympics are addictive. We were on vacation last week and watched the Olympics almost every night.

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peroty — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:14:43

Women's Gymnastics, Soccer highlights, whatever catches my eye online. Yes, I installed Silverlight on my Mac because I want pretty video when I want it.

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Scrivs — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:56:29

At least you guys get the message, I just get told I'm not good enough.

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Gnorb — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:12:17

@liza: It was a BS call that gave Holland the opportunity for that score. It wouldn't bother me so much except that now we have to win against Nigeria without Freddy Adu. Likely we'll be playing against a bunch of outcast Nigerian princes who need to deposit millions into our bank accounts and who'll cut us in a piece of the action once we help them get their funds.

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RightOn — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:51:00

Yeah fat chance I'm installing SilverLight to watch videos... that's what my DVR is for.

I wonder how much Microsoft paid NBC to force Silverlight on the public.

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Tyme — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:44:44

Yup, I get the same thing (to watch the live video):

To watch video using Firefox, please install Microsoft© Silverlight™

* Larger, higher definition video
* Watch 4 events at once
* Dynamic statistics and expert commentary
* Picture-in-picture
* And many more great features ...

Ironically IE gives me this:

For the best video experience, install Microsoft© Silverlight™

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Ozone42 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:33:26

It tells me to install SilverLight. Fat chance.

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Scrivs — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:17:58

Can any Mac users watch the games on NBColympics.com? Apparently I need Firefox 1,2,3 or Safari to view it and I only have FF 3.01.

Yeah you read that right.

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Mike — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:46:00

The final leg of the relay was unbelievable!! I can't believe he came back from being almost a length behind. The look on the French swimmers' faces was priceless. Who's smashed now!!

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RightOn — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:16:44

We woke the kids up yelling at the TV. That was INSANE!

5th place broke the world record and only 800ths of a second spread 2nd from 1st.

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Scrivs — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:03:29

Not sure who caught it on the East Coast, but if you had a chance to see the 4x100 Men's Freestyle swim then you no doubt saw the greatest relay race ever. Holy balls that was awesome. Jumped out off the couch and was cheering as loudly as they were in the arena.

Love me some Olympics.

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liza — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:35:18

Great men's soccer for U.S., but they blow the lead in extra time.

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liza — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:20:07

Michael Phelps was dominate last night, can't wait to see him try to win the rest of his races.
@Scrivs- The beach volley ball was also pretty good.

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RightOn — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:14:15

The US Women swept the medals in Fencing... it was cool to see all three US flags go up at the same time. First time in a LONG LONG time all three medalists were from one country in Indv. Fencing.

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JPhill — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:13:38

It's nice to see that we (the US) took a gold medal already.....in fencing, which I still have no idea how that works.

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JPhill — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:46:38

I must say the opening ceremony was beautiful. The amount of people involved was unbelievable.

Agreed. I was pretty impressed too.

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liza — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:02:23

I must say the opening ceremony was beautiful. The amount of people involved was unbelievable.

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Scrivs — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:06:28

Beautiful.

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RightOn — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:11:13

Scrivs... http://www.nbcolympics.com/

They have listings by sport and time.

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Scrivs — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:44:18

Thx Philly, now I just need a TV schedule and I'm set.

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RightOn — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:07:50

Does anyone else get a more "caveman doodle" feeling from their sport icons instead of a China feel?

These look like cave drawings to me... I expected something more oriental.

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JPhill — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:02:56

Here you go Scrivs. That should be a start.

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Scrivs — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:56:24

Today is opening ceremony right? Anyone have a link to the schedule of events along with a TV schedule?

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liza — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:05:12

I love to watch them all, but gymnastics, swimming, and track are my favorites.

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RightOn — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:45:29

I love the "silly" sports... like Curling in the winter and badminton in the summer.

I call them silly because HONESTLY, I would laugh out loud if I ever met a professional badminton player. The only people I've ever seen playing badminton were in their late 80's.

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JPhill — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:38:06

Is rhythmic gymnastics the ribbon dancer stuff?

Yes it is.

Scrivs, I definitely don't like the new scoring system at all.

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RightOn — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:04:20

Is rhythmic gymnastics the ribbon dancer stuff?

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pelf — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:56:19

I love to watch rhythmic gymnastics, synchronized swimming, diving.. But I hope I'd have time to watch the Olympics, and I hope my host has cable TV or whatever you guys call it in the US :D

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Scrivs — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:30:01

I just read about the new scoring system in gymnastics and I understand why the did it, but I don't like it. Waiting to see a perfect 10 is what made the sport exciting for me. Not a 16.4.

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shadowsun7 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:51:51

Gymnastics, certainly. I don't really understand the draw of track and field, though.

Oh, and Judo. =)

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Scrivs — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:29:36

Weaksauce.

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JPhill — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:57:45

JPhill you gotta show us some pics of you in gym tights.

How did I know that you would be the one to say something about that? And, no, my pics are tucked away lol.

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Gnorb — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:17:29

As many as I can. (Anywhere I can stream them for free online? I sort of don't really have a TV with reception.)

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Scrivs — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:42:16

JPhill you gotta show us some pics of you in gym tights.

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LorriM — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:40:12

I'll be watching track and field, and also gymnastics.

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joshawesome — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:21:53

I'll be watching the BMX this year and I usually just watch track and field and swimming.

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Scrivs — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:21:08

I forgot one...women's beach volleyball...for obvious reasons.

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JPhill — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:26:39

I'll definitely be watching gymnastics, since I was a gymnast in high school. And probably track and field. The diving competitions are usually pretty cool too.

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Ozone42 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:29:11

I'll probably be "watching" whatever is streaming over the web while I work, but not really paying attention to it.

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RightOn — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:27:57

I'm still not sure I want to support this Olympics but I usually love getting a kick out of the lesser known sports like Badminton, Trampoline etc. They're just hilarious!

If I do watch I'll more than likely watch Swimming and Gymnastics.

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Scrivs — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:14:34

Well damn you just named about 40 events in one.

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Tyme — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:20:05

Track and field. Gymnastics as a second but I get hyped on track and field.

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Scrivs — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:13:11

Olympic basketball doesn't do it for me. I'll follow the US, but watching a whole game just doesn't do it for me.

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jensized — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:05:19

Basketball and gymnastics for me.

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Scrivs — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:02:10

I've always loved the Olympics. No other sporting event allows me to sit down and soak up 24 hours of non-stop sports action with such a huge variety of sports. Here's the rundown of what I enjoy watching (I could just say everything to make it easier).

Table Tennis (only time I ever get to catch it on TV)
Sprints (track and field)
Sprints (swimming)
Gymnastics (probably the most tension filled)

What do you have to catch?