2012 Olympics Event Discussion Thread - Page 8

On July 27 2012 08:09 BoZiffer wrote:
Will do. I understand the difficulty you suffer. As a non-obese American, it can be hard to live under the world-view...

This coming Friday the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympics will be streamed for free in more than one hundred countries, but not in the United States. In the U.S., Olympic live streams will only be available to those who have a paid cable subscription, which excludes millions of people. This restricted access is a hotbed for piracy, but NBC and the IOC are fully prepared to act against Olympic pirates to protect their commercial interests.

Interestingly enough, free and legal online streams are available in pretty much all parts of the world except the United States. YouTube, for example, is streaming all events in 64 countries across Asia and Africa including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Angola, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia and Zambia.

In the UK the BBC is offering a free online stream, and many other countries have their own alternatives.

While paid, all 2012 events will now be streamed online. In addition, people without a subscription will be able to buy a temporary pass which will provide access to a four-hour streaming block.

On July 27 2012 14:26 DannyJ wrote:
They should just show the Beijing Opening Ceremony again instead. Sorry UK but communism and it's 10s of thousands of unpaid drones can put on one hell of a show.

On July 27 2012 23:51 Kurr wrote:
I wonder if every country is as ashamed of the opening ceremony when it happens as I was in 2010.

I guess China kicked ass, but overall it's usually pretty cheesy and cringe worthy no matter the country doing it.

On July 27 2012 09:59 Khul Sadukar wrote:
I'm tempted to watch the opening ceremony but i'm convinced with the amount of symbolism going on something shady is happening behind the scenes.

Just look at these damn mascots. Sinister looking 1 eyed creatures? This one eye symbolism is as old as it gets. Just look it up.

I feel for those ppl attending the ceremony. Its gonna be one to remember for sure..

On July 28 2012 00:33 Mafe wrote:
Hey guys what do you think about the knock-out-mode in a lot of those events. I imagine it can be quite hard for somebody who trained 4 years for the olympics and than gets drawn against the world champion first round in sports like say judo, teakwondo, fencing, badminton etc. At worst your olympic tournament consisted of getting knocked out (or equivalent) after 5 seconds and no one will notice you even took part.
Or maybe I'm just not too much into those sports and the athletes accept this as being part of their sports as all of their tournaments work this way? How is the correlation between "being better" and "winning a fight" in wrestling or such?
I just read that in one of the fencing tournaments the finalists of Peking meet again in the first round, To me this sound really retarded, I don't see why there could not be some round robin matches to give everyone more than one chance. I mean, Michael Phelps gets to compete in like 8 or 10 competition where the best swimmers tend to win or at least get a medal anyway, and in apparently more random sports it's one-and-done.