You would think the NBC site would know not to spoil events you can’t watch live or online. Much like the 400 IM. But no, they have it RIGHT there who won both 400 IMs. Really, I wanted to avoid it since I can’t watch it until tonight.
I’ll be watching a lot of swimming, unless they spoiler everything. I’ll probably watch some of the track and field as well.
And now congratulations to NBC news for just telling us the results. Really, you’re going to be the ones to show the damn races tonight, now I don’t want to watch. :mad:
I set the alarm for 4:00 this morning and started off with women’s shooting. Flipped around all day–watched badminton, cycling, volleyball (indoor and beach), swimming, fencing, archery, and dressage.
No interest in boxing or Olympic basketball. No real interest in soccer.
That’s my plan for tomorrow as well. Flip channels and watch anything not basketball or boxing.
I think i watched a little bit of everything today. Soccer, swimming, tennis, fencing, table tennis, badminton, basketball, volleyball, beach volleyball, and the road race. I try to watch as much as I can. I absolutely love handball though so I need to see some of that.
I watched the archery today, and some of the US vs. Colombia women’s soccer match. (USA! USA!)
I plan to catch more women’s soccer, some team handball, and probably a lot of the swimming and gymnastics. Also track and field. I didn’t get up early enough to watch the cycling this morning and am kind of kicking myself over it.
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m under the impression that–at least for preliminary/pool play like this–the seats are sold for the entire day’s worth of activities. I believe that was one of the first matches of the day and there was probably 10-12 hours of competition. So there will be people who haven’t come in yet, or only really want to show up for their country, or maybe people they’ve heard of.
There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle about that. In events that have easily sold out the public allocation (gymnastics and swimming) it looks like the sponsors haven’t been using their allocated seats, to much discontented muttering. Lord Coe has been threatening to name and shame the companies involved, and perhaps coincidentally a whole new batch of tickets for various popular events went on sale…
Judo, because nothing says brotherhood and comradery like grabbing someone and throwing him into the ground.
Seriously though judo because A:It’s different and B:The rules generally make it obvious when one guy wins.(Throw your opponent flat on his back and you win.)
I’ve spent this morning watching some of the women’s cycling, about half of the women’s skeet (the American was freaking amazing), a little women’s table tennis, the first half of the US-France men’s basketball game, some women’s swimming, and I’m currently watching the men’s gymnastics in 3D.
Watched the end if the Women’s road race (cycling) earlier. Quite tense with the British rider in the breakaway of 3. With such a small group up front they had to do a lot of work each, I wasn’t sure if the peloton was going to catch them. (Road cycling is very tactical, it’s all about sliptreaming. The riders in the middle of the group can be doing 40% of the work compared to the one up front.) They kept it going, and certainly deserved their medals. Armistead’s silver gives us our first medal of the games, and makes up for the disappointment of the men’s race yesterday.
I’ve watched a lot of soccer so far, plus a bit of swimming and random stuff (table tennis, archery, fencing, etc) in between. I’ll watch some track events (100m, 200m, 400m, 1600m, decathlon, and marathon), USA basketball, and hopefully mtn biking. No doubt I’ll tune in for lots of other stuff, too.
