I will admit to being a huge cynic before the London games started, and was determined not to get involved or even watch much of it.......How wrong I was
The last 17 days has been incredible and I have watched sports I have hardly heard of, spent hours in front of the TV cheering Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt and all of team GB (+others I'f never heard of before last week), and getting thoroughly transfixed by the efforts of the worlds top athletes in a huge variety of different sports.
I'm now an instant armchair expert in diving, judo, Dressage, rowing, cycling and handball to name just a few!
I never thought we could match Beijing, but the closing ceremony/celebrations last night were simply spectacularly brilliant.....and now it is over
All I can say is a big WELL DONE to all involved, athletes, organisers and volunteers alike.
What am I going to do now!! I've got withdrawal symptoms already and it's only Monday afternoon!!
"All I can say is a big WELL DONE to all involved, athletes, organisers and volunteers alike. What am I going to do now!! I've got withdrawal symptoms already and it's only Monday afternoon!!"
+1. Our family was just talking about this today. We are sad to see it over as well and its time to switch to something different than my beloved union jack belt buckle.
Am wearing a plastic poncho as I enter Olympic withdrawal and detox. I share Trojan's sentiments about the London Olympics. I thought it was going to be a let down after Beijing but the Brits blew this one through the roof. Well done, GB. Bad show, NBC. I NEED MY OLYMPICS FIX.
Did anyone else in the US find it incredibly odd that NBC cut off the ending ceremonies?
I think the closing celebration did overrun by over 40 minutes, but still no excuse not to show all of it surely? I think you would only have missed a small little known Brit pop group called The Who though
Actually I've just heard that NC actually edited the closing ceremony, so you missed Muse and Ray Davies from the Kinks rather than just the end of the evening
I saw horses dance around while wearing little hats... They called it a "sport" but I don't know if it should be called a sport when you and the animal you're riding are in formal attire.
There's still about a weeks worth of recordings on the DVR to get through. I've enjoyed the wide array of sports that were covered even though very little of it was correctly labeled in my tv menu. We would record women's volley ball and instead it would be men's water polo, and so on.
As for NBC......they get a big, fat F......again. After every Olympics it's the same wish....someone elses' chance next time, please?
You need to get a feed from BBC online. They even had a separate digital TV channel for every single sport and for every athletic event during the games. If you wanted to watch every minute of the high jump final for instance there was a dedicated channel just for that. No commentary on these channels but you got to see the event in full HD. BBC sports coverage can somtimes be less than other broadcasters, but on the Olympics they were superb.
You need to get a feed from BBC online. They even had a separate digital TV channel for every single sport and for every athletic event during the games. If you wanted to watch every minute of the high jump final for instance there was a dedicated channel just for that. No commentary on these channels but you got to see the event in full HD. BBC sports coverage can somtimes be less than other broadcasters, but on the Olympics they were superb.
The NBC iPad app had all the events live, as you described. No announcers, just live video feed with ambient sound. I watched a lot of the archery, air rifle, badminton, and table tennis events this way.
