London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT|
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Diprosalic
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But they want/need that sponsor money
Devilgunman
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Men's Lightweight boxing starts in hour. So fucking hype!
Battersea Power Station
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Fencing: Men's Sabre Individual, round of 16
Two Americans still in, which might be a first for this event!
Piste 1
Aron Szilagyi HUNGARY vs Zhong Man CHINA
on deck:
Max Hartung GERMANY vs Gu Bongil KOREA (Gu is my pick for the gold medal)
Piste 2
Nicolas Limbach GERMANY vs Benedikt Wagner GERMANY (Limbach is one of the favorites to win the tournament)
on deck:
Nikolay Kovalev RUSSIA vs Won Woo Young KOREA (any of the Korean team are crazy explosive, fast, and aggressive in this event)
Piste 3
Aldo Montano ITALY vs Diego Occhiuzzi ITALY (Montano is the 2004 Olympic Champion and one of the best known fencers in the world; bouts against teammates are always dicey, though.)
on deck:
Dmitri Lapkes BELARUS vs Tim Morehouse USA (both can be kinda scrappy; I gotta root for my teammate Tim, who had an amazing performance to get to this round)
Piste 4
Rares Dumitrescu ROMANIA vs Aliaksandr Buikevich BELARUS (should be an interesting bout -- the former is an extremely powerful, physical fencer and the latter almost exclusively relies on timing and guile)
on deck:
Daryl Homer USA vs Alexey Yakimenko RUSSIA (Daryl is probably the best American sabre fencer at the moment and performed strongly to get to this round; Yakimenko is a heavy favorite to win the tournament -- should be a tough fight)
Two Americans still in, which might be a first for this event!
Piste 1
Aron Szilagyi HUNGARY vs Zhong Man CHINA
on deck:
Max Hartung GERMANY vs Gu Bongil KOREA (Gu is my pick for the gold medal)
Piste 2
Nicolas Limbach GERMANY vs Benedikt Wagner GERMANY (Limbach is one of the favorites to win the tournament)
on deck:
Nikolay Kovalev RUSSIA vs Won Woo Young KOREA (any of the Korean team are crazy explosive, fast, and aggressive in this event)
Piste 3
Aldo Montano ITALY vs Diego Occhiuzzi ITALY (Montano is the 2004 Olympic Champion and one of the best known fencers in the world; bouts against teammates are always dicey, though.)
on deck:
Dmitri Lapkes BELARUS vs Tim Morehouse USA (both can be kinda scrappy; I gotta root for my teammate Tim, who had an amazing performance to get to this round)
Piste 4
Rares Dumitrescu ROMANIA vs Aliaksandr Buikevich BELARUS (should be an interesting bout -- the former is an extremely powerful, physical fencer and the latter almost exclusively relies on timing and guile)
on deck:
Daryl Homer USA vs Alexey Yakimenko RUSSIA (Daryl is probably the best American sabre fencer at the moment and performed strongly to get to this round; Yakimenko is a heavy favorite to win the tournament -- should be a tough fight)
Napoleonthechimp
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They already have it and the sponsors never gave the tickets away or haven't bothered to turn up themselves. If they don't turn up a certain time before the event then the tickets should be given away on a first come first served basis.
Just to repeat: It's CANOE O' CLOCK. CANOE SLALOM.
From the event list, only the ones in red are broadcast live- click those. Ones in blue are not
Mecha_Infantry
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It's evident looking at the sports and the times, that these sponsors ticket recipients are just fat champagne drinking pricks who won't turn up
Ah, I see. All blue for me right now so no wonder nothing worked. Thanks a lot for explaining.
Kinky John
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Offt! Crash/pile-up in the Cycling.
Edit: Replay shows it wasn't that bad, thankfully.
Edit: Replay shows it wasn't that bad, thankfully.
I didn't know until I read through the souvenir programme (which has what appears to be a full list of music if anyone needs to know a specific track) that the music director is actually Rick Smith! That explains the fact that the ceremony was Underworld-heavy more than just 'it was Danny Boyle'
Edit: As an aside, the opening ceremony programme has a design that was on the first batch of tickets, too, and, well, there was a massive spoiler there that no-one noticed:
UnblessedSoul
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Lol the womens cycling is pretty fun to watch
friskykillface
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Ah forgot the USA mens basketball game is less then an hour away
Bleh I need Mike Breen commentating, I think it's Marv Albert?
"YESS!" lol
Bleh I need Mike Breen commentating, I think it's Marv Albert?
"YESS!" lol
What country are you from?
With a UK IP it tells me to go to http://www.olympic.org/content/broadcaster-home/ to watch live. The most popular choice is http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/s
With a US IP it tells you to go to www.nbcolympics.com
So you must be in some country where you can watch it live on youtube.com itself
Nomad Blue
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Women's road race seems a little less organised than the men's. Not sure whether that's because of smaller teams, or they just don't ride together as much as the men.
I notice the women don't take as many 'natural breaks' as the men in the cycling, unless the broadcasters just don't show them running off behind the bushes!
I notice the women don't take as many 'natural breaks' as the men in the cycling, unless the broadcasters just don't show them running off behind the bushes!
I'm in US, tells me to go to nbcolympics.com, don't have a cable subscription though in one of our cost-cutting moves for the year... darnit. Thanks for the help.
NekoFever
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The same design's on the booklet with the soundtrack, although that did only come out after the event. It's not really a spoiler when it's impossible to tell what it is without context, though.
Sickboy007
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Great breakdown, battersea!
Spoilers that are only spoilers when someone points out they are spoilers are the best type of spoilers. Spoilers.
Perhaps I should have said a clue, I acknowledge that there was no way you could have known it in advance!
Well, there's a way around that in this thread. But it's been used by people who have a NBC sub but would rather watch it on BBC.
I don't know what the mods would think about telling someone how to watch the BBC stream without a NBC sub, but, the posts in this thread are saved.
killer_clank
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I wonder if the cauldron has been moved yet - or even where it's going in the stadium?
During the golden score he turtled the whole time.
A lot of rain is coming in.
I think it was the right decision in the end, but still, he looked so sad, he thought he won.
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