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Anyone found a good website yet for live Olympic nordic ski broadcasts?
NBC doesn't count. Gene |
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Found one: http://www.atdhe.net/7407/watch-xxi-winter-olympics
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:14:41 -0700 wrote: Anyone found a good website yet for live Olympic nordic ski broadcasts? NBC doesn't count. Gene |
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On Feb 15, 10:48*am, wrote:
Found one:http://www.atdhe.net/7407/watch-xxi-winter-olympics On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:14:41 -0700 wrote: Anyone found a good website yet for live Olympic nordic ski broadcasts? NBC doesn't count. Gene- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - The link appears to be blocked. That said, I caught part of 15K Freestyle race just as Colanga entered the finish lanes on US NBC network broadcast. The even held of on commercials until the first 30 finished. What happened to Peter and the Norwegians and Kris and the Americans? Edgar |
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Edgar wrote:
That said, I caught part of 15K Freestyle race just as Colanga entered the finish lanes on US NBC network broadcast. The even held of on commercials until the first 30 finished. What happened to Peter and the Norwegians and Kris and the Americans? "Petter and the Norwegians" just had the worst Olympic xc race in Norwegian history. :-( Now we're all reduced to hoping it was a (fixable) ski waxing/tuning mistake. :-( That said, we had one very happy Norwegian yesterday: Fredrik Aukland is Dario's coach. Terje -- - Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching" |
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On Feb 15, 8:41*pm, Edgar wrote:
On Feb 15, 10:48*am, wrote: Found one:http://www.atdhe.net/7407/watch-xxi-winter-olympics On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:14:41 -0700 wrote: Anyone found a good website yet for live Olympic nordic ski broadcasts? NBC doesn't count. Gene- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - The link appears to be blocked. That said, I caught part of 15K Freestyle race just as Colanga entered the finish lanes on US NBC network broadcast. *The even held of on commercials until the first 30 finished. *What happened to Peter and the Norwegians and Kris and the Americans? Edgar Kris's report: http://blogs.fasterskier.com/krisfre...02/15/stunned/ Sounds like Kris just had a bad day. It also sounds like high ranked skiers, like Petter, back off and save themselves for the next race when it looks like a top ten finish is not in sight. Probably not a bad decision to back off and recover faster for the next race. Edgar PS If only my best day was as bad as Kris or Petter's worst race. |
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On Feb 16, 10:45*am, Terje Mathisen "terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"
wrote: "Petter and the Norwegians" just had the worst Olympic xc race in Norwegian history. :-( The headlines in Sweden we "Charlotte won Olympic gold" and (after Hellner didn't) "The worst Swede better than the best Norwegian":-) Now we're all reduced to hoping it was a (fixable) ski waxing/tuning mistake. :-( Skiers who are uncertain about their form tend to make poor ski choices. A skier who is "overprimed and overready" is likely to "underperform". I think you can relax: it was the sole race where the Norwegians were realistically expected to have a rather humdrum result - and it was the best day to have the bad day that will almost inevitably strike all teams at some point during a big event. Anders |
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Anders wrote:
I think you can relax: it was the sole race where the Norwegians were realistically expected to have a rather humdrum result - and it was the best day to have the bad day that will almost inevitably strike all teams at some point during a big event. I hope you're right. Yesterday NRK's commentators had pretty much taken the biathlon gold to Emil HS as a given, but then we had a day where Tora Berger skied close to the race of her life, starting from 33rd place to finish as #4 (which became #5 due to the starters having totally messed up the start procedure for a Swedish skier, letting her finally go about 15 seconds too late. Then to add insult to injury, and after replacing the starter who messed up, they did the same thing in the mens race, only this time they let a couple of skiers out too early! Bjørndalen made a great attempt, he was well into the medal contention on the 3rd shoot, but then his far-too-hard skiing caught up to him, leading to missed standing shots. :-( Terje -- - Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching" |
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On Feb 16, 11:03*pm, Anders wrote:
On Feb 16, 10:45*am, Terje Mathisen "terje.mathisen at tmsw.no" wrote: "Petter and the Norwegians" just had the worst Olympic xc race in Norwegian history. :-( The headlines in Sweden we "Charlotte won Olympic gold" and (after Hellner didn't) "The worst Swede better than the best Norwegian":-) Now we're all reduced to hoping it was a (fixable) ski waxing/tuning mistake. :-( Skiers who are uncertain about their form tend to make poor ski choices. A *skier who is "overprimed and overready" is likely to "underperform". *I think you can relax: it was the sole race where the Norwegians were realistically expected to have a rather humdrum result - and it was the best day to have the bad day that will almost inevitably strike all teams at some point during a big event. Anders Re Kris Freeman's poor ski choice. The recent report is that the ski service sent Kris out with the "wrong" skis and he didn't have enought time to test them himself. http://fasterskier.com/2010/02/skis-...-in-xc-opener/ Re the Norge skis. Also sounds like a ski service miss. http://skitrax.com/7653 We have an interesting sport where the best athletes are dependending on others to make the equipment decisions. Edgar |
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On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:47:15 -0800 (PST)
Edgar wrote: Re Kris Freeman's poor ski choice. The recent report is that the ski service sent Kris out with the "wrong" skis and he didn't have enought time to test them himself. http://fasterskier.com/2010/02/skis-...-in-xc-opener/ Re the Norge skis. Also sounds like a ski service miss. http://skitrax.com/7653 We have an interesting sport where the best athletes are dependending on others to make the equipment decisions. Comments on fasterskier are something else. Things like no time to test one's own skis happen and the skier has to depend on others. A hole in planning on the tech side. Puts in perspective the skis I've received that the shop said should be perfect, but didn't work for me. Gene |
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So, back to topic: anyone know a good broadcast? Link? For XC?
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