"The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play." –Olympic Charter
Events 98 events in 15 winter sport disciplines will be held throughout the Games. A number of new competitions will be held during the Games, including biathlon mixed relay, women's ski jumping, mixed-team figure skating, mixed-team luge, half-pipe skiing, ski and snowboard slopestyle, and snowboard parallel slalom.
Please use this thread to talk about anything related to this years Winter Olympics, but if you want to talk about the Hockey Tournament specifically please use QuanticHawk's awesome 2014 Olympic Ice Hockey Tournament of Manly Men thread.
On February 07 2014 10:33 LuckyFool wrote: Slopestyle...yet another X-games feeling sport in the Olympics. I'm not really complaining though, it's fun to watch.
Snowboard cross and half pipe are still better snowboard events though.
Done! I'll add more as they come along. Not sure if the NBC one will work for those not in the US.
I like slope style! Helps that we have some great chances to medal in the event as well. Sucks that Mark Mcmorris is hurt, hope he can man up and medal through the pain.
For you US viewers: the NBC stream works ONLY if you also have a cable subscription. If you are a cord-cutter residing in the US like me, you are out of luck. NBC paid 4+ billion to lock you into their content.
Unless you are crafty. For those so inclined, you can use a VPN to mask your country then go watch the British coverage on BBC or Canadian coverage on CBC.
I'm using an app called TunnelBear to VPN to Canada to watch the CBC. It is much less biased coverage anyways.
I actually got cable subscription just for this. Does anyone know for the nbc online streams whether you will be able to skip through the videos? I was looking at the ones for today and it seems like you can't move around and have to watch it straight through.