London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

Blisterman

I really have to wonder what the point of B finals are. I'm sure the athletes would rather go home than compete in an almost entirely meaningless contest.

Guy:Incognito

Canoeing, Teakwondo, sailing and Hocky. Its a struggle finding something I want to actually watch at this stage of the games in th eearly session


Mens open water swimming. "here we come in to the feeding station" to the sight of a top down view of swimmer being offered treats on a long stick. Its like looking at a fish farm.

kfallon

Can't blame the Brits/BBC for being overjoyed by their performances in these games, they've played a blinder so fair play!

And any major sporting event benefits from the hosts doing well, creates more of a buzz!

garv123

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Canoeing, Teakwondo, sailing and Hocky. Its a struggle finding something I want to actually watch at this stage of the games in th eearly session


Mens open water swimming. "here we come in to the feeding station" to the sight of a top down view of swimmer being offered treats on a long stick. Its like looking at a fish farm.

RTE had BMX'n on there. Always worth a watch in hope of someone head butting the jumps.

Kerrydude1981

LOL

https://p.twimg.com/Az7tN8bCIAAk5jm.jpg

steve9859

Anyone wrote: »

I dont agree with BBC's coverage being as good as people have said. For example, they miss at least 60-70% of the field events because they interview every single British track athlete. So I have watched track and field mostly on RTE.

That is what the red button is for...they don't do interviews on that...just show the sport

Guy:Incognito

garv123 wrote: »

RTE had BMX'n on there. Always worth a watch in hope of someone head butting the jumps.

Thats yesterdays though isnt it? Watched it when it was on.

No live BMX till 3.

Anyone

steve9859 wrote: »

That is what the red button is for...they don't do interviews on that...just show the sport

And changing to RTE2 works as well,and its quicker, and I dont have to cycle through the menu, whats the big deal? Lol. I've enjoyed RTE's coverage of the Track and Field better than BBC's.

steve9859

Anyone wrote: »

And if you don't have the Red Button? Look its just a personal preference, I have watched track and field mostly on RTE. I don't want to see an interview with the British Athlete who came 6th in their heat and wants to say how good the crowd is, lol....especially when there are other events I can watch!

Everyone has the red button.....unless you are watching BBC from outside the UK of course...

Guy:Incognito

Anyone wrote: »

And changing to RTE2 works as well,and its quicker, and I dont have to cycle through the menu, whats the big deal? Lol. I've enjoyed RTE's coverage of the Track and Field better than BBC's.

RTE dont show half the events is the point.

steve9859 wrote: »

Everyone has the red button.....unless you are watching BBC from outside the UK of course...

even at that its only the people on UPC that dont have it. well apart for the peopel left on analogue, but that will be gone in October.

garv123

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Thats yesterdays though isnt it? Watched it when it was on.

No live BMX till 3.

yeah it was the first heats.
Missed it myself so twas a handy catch up.
Bit of a mad sport.

Guy:Incognito

garv123 wrote: »

yeah it was the first heats.
Missed it myself so twas a handy catch up.
Bit of a mad sport.

One of the heats had a massive crash and one bloke just ended up cruising around on his own while the othe r7 tried to untangle themsleves and get back going.:)

Guy:Incognito

All the poles being waved in front of the swimmers with bottles and the Japanese have a clear plastic cup that looked like it got dunked a couple of times

Anyone

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

RTE dont show half the events is the point.



even at that its only the people on UPC that dont have it. well apart for the peopel left on analogue, but that will be gone in October.

And BBC miss most of the field events, that's been MY experience. So I swap to watch track and field on RTE.

For what its worth, I have SKY, I have the red button, I've used it for other events. For track and field, I prefer RTE.

Anyone

steve9859 wrote: »

Everyone has the red button.....unless you are watching BBC from outside the UK of course...

Well, lets see, I am posting on an Irish website and talking about watching track and field RTE. Would you assume I am watching in the UK?

Guy:Incognito

Anyone wrote: »

And BBC miss most of the field events, that's been MY experience. .

But YOUR experience is not reality. They have every event. When they clash they have 2 or 3 seperate channels dedicated to single events. Last night the had the standard olympics show covering all the events with Colin Jackson, Michael Johnson etc on BBC1 then on the red button there was one channel showing the track stuff, one for the triple jump i think and one for one of the womens events. (cant remember which , I didnt change away from the track stuff.

Was there any field events outside of the mens Decathlon Javelin yesterday (which the BBC showed)?

All the while, from what I could see, RTE were still talkign about boxing.

Thats not even taking in to account the bloody ads. My god the ****ing ads.

Anyone

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

But YOUR experience is not reality. They have every event. When they clash they have 2 or 3 seperate channels dedicated to single events. Last night the had the standard olympics show covering all the events with Colin Jackson, Michael Johnson etc on BBC1 then on the red button there was one channel showing the track stuff, one for the triple jump i think and one for one of the womens events. (cant remember which , I didnt change away from the track stuff.

Was there any field events outside of the mens Decathlon Javelin yesterday (which the BBC showed)?

All the while, from what I could see, RTE were still talkign about boxing.

Right, BBC missed the qualifying for most of the field events, because as soon as a race was done, they interviewed any British athlete they could find. My options are...red button,navigate to sport I want and watch(which takes about 30secs-1min) or hit 102(instant), so I missed very little. When RTE take breaks, I pop to BBC.

The red button has been good for the other events, boxing,cycling,archery. That's when I have used it

Last night they were talking about boxing, wonder why, did something major happen in the boxing? I enjoyed most of that by the way, I could only watch Katie's fight in work, and had no sound, so it was good to hear the analysis of it all. Plus I have enjoyed RTE's boxing analysts.

Edit-You seem to only be talking about last night, I am talking about the track and field coverage since last Friday.

grey_so_what

I am slowly going mad.

So far I've missed the stuff I want to see and end up seeing the events I don't.

AAAHHHHHHHHH......Madness of the highest order.

I did see Katie , although last night I did call her Talie Kaytor.

It's called drink.:)

Guy:Incognito

Anyone wrote: »

Right, BBC missed the qualifying for most of the field events, because as soon as a race was done, they interviewed any British athlete they could find. My options are...red button,navigate to sport I want and watch(which takes about 30secs-1min) or hit 102(instant), so I missed very little. When RTE take breaks, I pop to BBC.
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They do the interviews on the main BBC 1/2 general show. If you stick on the red button on the athletics you get total uninterrupted coverage of the events without having to change anything. Some of the channels dont even do commentary, so if you go to the event specific channel syou can watch your event without anything other than crowd and athlete noise.:)

Anyone wrote: »

Edit-You seem to only be talking about last night, I am talking about the track and field coverage since last Friday.

When track and field is on I've watched nothing else. Havent missd a heat.
On monday I think it was RTE had a lenghty boxing discussion while T&F events were on and the boxers werent even fighting that day.

Anyone wrote: »

Last night they were talking about boxing, wonder why, did something major happen in the boxing? I enjoyed most of that by the way, I could only watch Katie's fight in work, and had no sound, so it was good to hear the analysis of it all. Plus I have enjoyed RTE's boxing analysts.
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You cant have sn the athletics that was on at the same time then.

They were waffling on about general boxing stuff. Nothing that couldnt wait till after the other stuff was over and it was all exact same stuff they talked about earlier. I was in my ncles for the boxingheput on RTE after the fight. Bernard Dunne was on and when I flicked to RTE last night he was back on saying the exactsame stuff.
Hardly breaking news that needed airing while other stuff was on.

blueser

steve9859 wrote: »

Everyone has the red button.....unless you are watching BBC from outside the UK of course...

Eh? What are you watching BBC on?

Almaviva

The Fighting Irish and their fast horses. Dont you just love national stereotypes.
If only there was a drinking event.

Guy:Incognito

blueser wrote: »

Eh? What are you watching BBC on?

Everyone in the UK has the red button AFAIK. A sizeable proportion of people in Ireland will have either Sky or Freesat I'd imagine.

nacho libre

http://www.rte.ie/sport/olympics/player/332882/?autoplay=1

Anyone

Paddy Barnes up soon.

kfallon

Is the boxing on BBC at 1.30? We are on an English server in work so can't watch the RTE version unless I use the eurovisionsports alternative but that has no commentary!

mike65

No fecking wind!

blueser

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Everyone in the UK has the red button AFAIK. A sizeable proportion of people in Ireland will have either Sky or Freesat I'd imagine.

That's why I asked him (her?). Unless they're watching via analogue, or via UPC. Just about everybody else has the red button. Fantastic service. Pity RTE couldn't offer something similar (maybe via some sort of arrangement with the Beeb?).

Guy:Incognito

kfallon wrote: »

Is the boxing on BBC at 1.30? We are on an English server in work so can't watch the RTE version unless I use the eurovisionsports alternative but that has no commentary!

Red button feed starts in 5 mins. Presumably online is the same?

K-9

kfallon wrote: »

Is the boxing on BBC at 1.30? We are on an English server in work so can't watch the RTE version unless I use the eurovisionsports alternative but that has no commentary!

Barnes up first, seems to have his work cut out for him. Nevin after that. Conlan fights tonight. Hopefully we'll get 1 of them into a final.

Guy:Incognito

Strangly enough I've been watching this 10km swim the last hour or so. It's oddly enthraling.

The 2 commentators have been slagging each other over their strokes (ones a breaststoke guy the other freestyle. The freestyle guy was saying the breaststroke isnt a real stroke )

My name is URL

kfallon wrote: »

Is the boxing on BBC at 1.30? We are on an English server in work so can't watch the RTE version unless I use the eurovisionsports alternative but that has no commentary!

Can you watch it here? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live-video

It's blocked for Irish IPs so I've no idea if you can or not

patmac

Here we go again c'mon Paddy!
What are we going to do next week?

johnmcdnl

C'mon Paddy - do us proud

Pudsy33

Hon Paddy!

Planemo

Are bbc not showing it? Can't find live stream on website.

My name is URL

Barnes is up against it here

Aidric

High scoring round. Chinese boxer leads 8-5

steve9859

Anyone wrote: »

Well, lets see, I am posting on an Irish website and talking about watching track and field RTE. Would you assume I am watching in the UK?

My point was too subtle obviously....it was more that you can't really complain about BBC when you're watching it from outside the UK. Like me watching rte from here in London instead of bbc and moaning that it has rubbish coverage! The red button solves all the disruptive interviews and 'Go Team GB' studio chat

Lapin

He's Fcked

Teyla Emmagan

I dunno, I mean he's not the one running away, or is the other guy trying to tire him out?

My name is URL

Final round. Only 3 points in it.. so not out of it yet.

Max_Charger

Cant say he's not trying!

Dempsey

Incredible round by Barnes

Lapin

Fair fúcks to him, he gave it his best in the last round.

johnmcdnl

Very close - will it be enough... Barnes dis himself proud though regardless of the result

leahyl

Come on BARNES!!!!

Teyla Emmagan

I thought he was great.

johnmcdnl

**** IT

leahyl

Ah ****e - wasnt enough unfortunately. Still fought some fight!!

Hammer Archer

15-0 in Beijing.
15-15 in London.
Fair f*cks to him.