Lindsey and I all but did synchronized cartwheels last night, after watching the U.S. men out-relay the trash-talking and heavily favored Frenchies. Anchor Jason Lezak’s full-body split was incredible — just one of the many reasons I love the Olympics.
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August 11th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Video no longer available … One of the things I hate about the Olympics is the stupid over-protection of their video. NBC has done a horrible job with online video and basic availability. I hope this is the last Olympics where locking the video up remains a viable option.
August 11th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
And the NBCOlympics.com site requires a Microsoft Silverlight download. So stupid.
August 11th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Janica and I were freaking out last night as well. Nothing like beating the trashing talking Frenchies.
DirecTV has an awesome package for the Olympics. At no extra cost to me, I literally have 8 or 9 channels to watch including one dedicated to Soccer and one dedicated to Basketball. It has allowed me to catch a lot of games/events that I’m interested in but would not be normally televised.
August 11th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
@Tim
apparently they used to have tug-o-war
August 12th, 2008 at 10:47 am
@ Russ
….and without DIRECTV important sports like that do not get the coverage they deserve.