**The Winter Olympics**

I love me some curling. The womens british team has this hot 19 year old.

white is the balls

josevolution wrote:

Shaun White deserves hi's own thread that was unfucking real how much better he is than hi's competition ..

he is awesome!


...but it also helps that you have your own personal half pipe in the side of a mountain...

i
need
sleep.



must
not
watch
olympics
tonight.

ZiggyStar wrote:

Woo hoo!! Gold for the Aussies in women's halfpipe!

... and she's quite the looker too ... :thumbup:




... too bad she's a Mormon ... I guess throwing a mctwist in her halfpipe before marriage is out of the question.

GREAT article about how bad NBC's coverage is...

http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-bl ... ics-2010-2
Questions For NBC, The Network That Prevents You From Watching The Olympics
Henry Blodget | Feb. 16, 2010, 9:32 AM

Ah, the dawn of a fresh new day, with lots of exciting Olympics events that we and other Americans won't be able to watch LIVE because NBC controls the rights and NBC is the network that prevents us from watching the Olympics.

Instead of ranting again about this, however, we'll just direct some questions to NBC.

As a preface, we should make clear that these are real questions. We don't know the answers. We can't understand why NBC would damage its brand and infuriate sports fans from coast to coast by doing this, so we're really curious about the logic here. We would also be happy to publish the responses.

1. Why do you delay events that are much more exciting to watch live? Presumably the answer here is "money," but please explain that answer in detail. Please don't say, "to appeal to a wider audience," because no one is arguing that you should be prohibited from putting on your big general interest highlight-reel evening shows. We just want to watch the events live, too.

2. Is the evening audience much bigger than it would be if you showed the events live during the day? How much bigger? Wouldn't you be able to make up the difference by showing the event live on one of your other networks during the day and then showing highlights on NBC at night? Wouldn't you be able to show more targeted advertising (and charge higher CPMs) to audiences for specific events?

3. How much money would you lose (or do you think you would lose) if you showed the events live on a subsidiary network and then showed highlights again in your prime time broadcast? To us, this seems like the best solution. If you did this, sports fans could get their fix, and the "general audience" you're obviously trying to appeal to in prime time with segments on polar bears can watch the "Olympics Show" you put on every night without wanting to throw their remote controls through the TV.

4. Do you expect people to avoid the news all day until you show the events in primetime, or do you not care that everyone knows who won? Is it really realistic/fair to think that, in the era of Twitter, omnimedia, and email alerts that people will be able to go into media blackouts for 8 hours?

5. Is the decision to show events on tape-delay a relic of the days when the Big Three networks ruled the world? Is there some acknowledgment internally that the world has changed a bit since 1976? Does Dick Ebersol watch the Olympics on 8-hour tape-delayed highlight reels?

6. Do you care that sports fans from coast to coast are furious at you? How do you factor this into your long-term brand-value calculations? We, personally, hate you for this. It's possible that we're alone, but based on the feedback we've received, we doubt it. That can't be good for the value of the company, can it? Especially when you make no effort to explain to people like us why you're doing this.

As an additional question, we doubt that there's unanimity within NBC on this decision. We imagine, in fact, that there are hundreds of employees who are appalled by NBC's decision to wreck the Olympics for millions of sports fans, along with its refusal to directly explain to Americans why they may be the only country on earth forced to watch the Olympics on tape delay. If so, we would love to hear from some of the dissenters, as well as from those who can explain the real logic here (because whatever NBC says publicly almost certainly won't). Thanks in advance. <!-- e --><a href="mailto:hblodget@businessinsider.com">hblodget@businessinsider.com</a><!-- e -->.

Man i can't believe it is almost halfway over. I love the olympics.

I guess the australian girl who won the halfpipe last night had a nice surprise when her parents were in the audience. Eveidently the girl thought they would not have enough cash or something for two trips to NA and she wanted them to be at her wedding coming up, but the parents flew in any way and did not tell her they would be there. They revealed themselves after her second run.

That is a pretty sweet story.

polaris_x wrote:

intodeep wrote:

Great day for the US yesterday outside of the curling meltdown

Shaun White is a bad ass.

Yahoo sports had a great line today:
If Canada wants to “Own the Podium,” it might need to buy it from the United States



We own that shit this year

i predicted the US would have a good olympics ... they are essentially on home soil without the pressure ...

it's pretty clear now that a lot of canadians are buckling under the pressure put forth by our overzealous bureaucrats ... and to see them backtrack now is laughable ...

The US always has a good olympics....

polaris_x wrote:

Rygar wrote:

The US always has a good olympics....

it's all relative to expectations ... all their favourites have come through for the most part with a lot of fringe athletes having personal bests ...

True, although I expected the US to do as well as they always do.