You can see the medal count anywhere, but where else can you get running total hours recorded on my Tivo? Starting with the Opening ceremony through midnight Saturday--37 hours so far.
- Late night coverage included women's weightlifting. My comment--who's the Hee Haw refugee doing the play by play? That would be Shane Hamman.
- Much of the video you are seeing is not directly from NBC--there's an international feed that all countries can use, and NBC takes full advantage of it. This is more obvious if you watch the online feeds, especially for early qualification rounds.
- What's with "everyone gets a hug" after every point in volleyball? I'm sure it's part of the regimen, but it really seems forced.
- The online site seems to suffer from Hulu disease--symptoms:
- Showing the same four commercials over and over
- Low quality video, badly encoded video, or video not designed for online use
- Showing commercials WAY too often, especially since this is live coverage so you miss events
- Bad (or no) commercial timing--sometimes occurring in the middle of a routine
- The poor weather in London gave us a strange sight--women competing in beach volleyball wearing bikinis while everyone else had overcoats on
- When you watch the diving competition, look for the 80's robot at the bottom of the pool--just saying
- Women's gymnastics has begun--bring on the superlatives from Tim Daggett! "That was a mindblowing vault!" "That was ginormous!" "That is just obscene!"
More to come.