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Post by lynette on Feb 8, 2018 18:06:08 GMT
I'm looking at the schedule for the Winter Olympics and I don’t seem to be able to find a tv schedule showing what will be showing when on the telly. I don’t have Eurosport - can I get it? So I’m dependent on the good ole BBC. They tend to edit too much for my liking. But can anyone direct me a timetable for the telly? Ta in advance.
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Post by The Matthew on Feb 8, 2018 18:26:23 GMT
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Feb 8, 2018 18:39:49 GMT
What day are Torville and Dean on?
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Post by martin1965 on Feb 8, 2018 21:59:03 GMT
I'm looking at the schedule for the Winter Olympics and I don’t seem to be able to find a tv schedule showing what will be showing when on the telly. I don’t have Eurosport - can I get it? So I’m dependent on the good ole BBC. They tend to edit too much for my liking. But can anyone direct me a timetable for the telly? Ta in advance. The new Radio Times has big supplement. Not sure if Eurosports has the Olympics anyway. |
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Post by lynette on Feb 8, 2018 22:00:07 GMT
Ok, thanks. I’ll be found in front of the telly and an expert in all things snowy by the end of the week!
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Post by The Matthew on Feb 8, 2018 22:07:21 GMT
What day are Torville and Dean on? They were on today. |
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Post by stefy69 on Feb 9, 2018 6:53:10 GMT
Ok, thanks. I’ll be found in front of the telly and an expert in all things snowy by the end of the week! Oh me too love the winter Olympics  |
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Post by stefy69 on Feb 9, 2018 8:33:04 GMT
Meant to say I will be rooting so much for Elise Christie in the short track speed skating after the terrible luck she suffered in Sochi 4 years ago.
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Post by Polly1 on Feb 9, 2018 9:45:34 GMT
Meant to say I will be rooting so much for Elise Christie in the short track speed skating after the terrible luck she suffered in Sochi 4 years ago. But given that her main opponents are Korean and it's being held in Korea, do you really think that 'luck' will change?! |
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Post by stefy69 on Feb 9, 2018 9:52:04 GMT
Meant to say I will be rooting so much for Elise Christie in the short track speed skating after the terrible luck she suffered in Sochi 4 years ago. But given that her main opponents are Korean and it's being held in Korea, do you really think that 'luck' will change?! Hmm hadn't thought of that !  |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Feb 10, 2018 12:05:17 GMT
Didn't think I'd bother with the Winter Olympics, but one day in I am an expert all over again in the Curling and now also the short track speed skating
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Post by viserys on Feb 10, 2018 12:11:59 GMT
Gold for our Lauraaaa!
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Post by lynette on Feb 10, 2018 14:38:37 GMT
Pause for Six Nations...
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Post by The Matthew on Feb 10, 2018 16:15:52 GMT
The BBC have just sent a skier with a camera down one of the courses. That was a little vertigo-inducing up close to the screen.
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Post by viserys on Feb 10, 2018 16:29:07 GMT
And another gold medal, this time for my personal favorite, Andi Wellinger. I might have cried a bit, too, when he started bawling. Loving these Olympics already.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Feb 10, 2018 17:33:32 GMT
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Post by The Matthew on Feb 11, 2018 19:35:10 GMT
Who'd have thought that watching people trudging through the snow for an hour could be so exciting? Cross country skiing is great.
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 12, 2018 20:40:52 GMT
Having completely missed the first 3 days of the Olympics due to excessive theatregoing I am now looking at what is being broadcast & I am deeply disappointed. For the last 2 Olympics the BBC had multiple red button channels & showed all the skating in full, each session lasting up to 4 hours. This time there seems to be just one red button channel & skating is getting at most 2 hours of coverage, frequently less. Why is the coverage so much worse at this Olypics than at the last two?
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Post by The Matthew on Feb 12, 2018 22:07:06 GMT
It is rather disappointing compared with the usual coverage. Perhaps the BBC's thinking is that with few chances of British medals there's not much point in going all out. It's not quite as bad as a few years ago when if you were a fan of a sport with no British hopeful in it then in most cases you could forget about your sport even being mentioned, but it's still not as good as I'd hoped.
On the other hand it does make the choice of which channel to watch somewhat easier, given that for most of the day it's a choice of one.
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Post by lynette on Feb 13, 2018 14:57:10 GMT
Every time I switch on the telly is it is ice hockey or curling. Where is the ice dancing and the bloomin ski jumping? Saw a bit of ice dancing yesterday but they don’t show it all so how can we judge the up and coming when they only show the champs? V disappointing.
I did love the commentator say about the shooting down ice tunnel on tin tray event, that the Brits can never get any further because they don’t have the kit and they are not funded!!! Surely anyone who is allowed to represent the nation who wears the British Lycra, is entitled to funding for the right blades/ wheels whatever. For goodness sake, the money we waste on other stuff ( BBC salaries anyone) and we can’t send our guys out with the best kit?
And where are the Scottish middle aged housewives whom we followed in the early hours when we found out what curling was?? When was that? Did they not train their daughters?
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Post by lynette on Feb 13, 2018 15:01:22 GMT
O, excellent the Rona, one of the wonderful Scottish curling team, has appeared in the commentary. No Brit team she says because we finished 8th and Korea went in as auto so we were edged out of qualification. Whaaaat????bonkers.
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Post by stefy69 on Feb 13, 2018 15:06:24 GMT
O, excellent the Rona, one of the wonderful Scottish curing team, has appeared in the commentary. No Brit team she says because we finished 8th and Korea went in as auto so we were edged out of qualification. Whaaaat????bonkers. Think that's just the mixed doubles lynette, we have qualified in both the " proper " mens and ladies events |
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Post by lynette on Feb 13, 2018 15:07:08 GMT
O good. 😁
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 13, 2018 15:14:05 GMT
Every time I switch on the telly is it is ice hockey or curling. Where is the ice dancing and the bloomin ski jumping? Saw a bit of ice dancing yesterday but they don’t show it all so how can we judge the up and coming when they only show the champs? V disappointing. I thought it was just me who couldn't find anything other than stuff where commentators shout. (That's how I judge which sport I watch - if they yell I turn it off!) I did see some ski jumping lynette and it was awful - they start sitting on a bar, wearing gold teflon and slide down what look like 2 plastic channels. Nothing like how it used to be in the olden days grump grump..... If anyone finds out when the skating is on do tell! |
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Post by The Matthew on Feb 13, 2018 16:56:16 GMT
Surely anyone who is allowed to represent the nation who wears the British Lycra, is entitled to funding for the right blades/ wheels whatever. They were talking about funding in depth at one point and someone pointed out that there's a Catch 22 situation here: the funding goes to the sports that are successful in getting medals, so in order for a sport to get funding they first need to find someone so exceptional that they can get to the top on a shoestring, after which they'll start getting money to help promote and develop other talent in the sport. I'm sure the people who allocate the money have their reasons, but it seems strange to me. I'd have thought it would be better to spend the bulk of the money on seeking out sports that would see a substantial benefit from a comparatively modest injection of cash than to pour millions into, say, cycling so we can take home 100% of those medals instead of 90%. |
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Post by lynette on Feb 13, 2018 18:05:33 GMT
At the Olympics it becomes about national prestige and not about bringing up a healthy and fulfilled generation. Balance needs adjusting for sure
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Post by ruby on Feb 13, 2018 22:03:56 GMT
The BBC might show more figure skating this week when the individual events start. Last week was the country team events.
I've paid for access to Eurosport Player through the Amazon Prime Video app (£4.99 a month but you get a £5 Prime Video credit) because I prefer their commentary on the figure skating.
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Post by The Matthew on Feb 16, 2018 20:02:26 GMT
Some people are complaining that the suits worn by the British skeleton competitors are giving them an unfair advantage. Rubbish. Rocket boots are a traditional part of British dress. Stop oppressing our culture, you ethnocentric bastards.
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Post by The Matthew on Feb 25, 2018 21:58:05 GMT
OK, so that's over. I can go back to not caring about sports for a while, at least until the Paralympics. The BBC keep going on about inspiring people, and it's inspired me to excel at my apathy. If I'm going to be bad at sport then I'm going to be as bad as it's possible for any human to be.
Gutted that Evgenia Medvedeva didn't get the gold in the figure skating. The general consensus seems to be that the gold should have been hers but she was defeated by idiosyncrasies of the scoring.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Feb 26, 2018 19:49:05 GMT
Don’t forget, the Commonwealth Games start on April 4th. Australia, so late nights and early mornings again.
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