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I think all the events need better coverage. I've seen more footage of Ryan Seacrest drinking caipirinhas than that of the sports I'd enjoy watching.

Is it too much to ask in 2016 for a single web page that lets me filter down to each event and see all the heats leading up to the final? Or how about a single page with all the events happening live so I can put the one I actually want to watch?

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I think this is the real complaint. Women's gymnastics hasn't been any less well covered than things like weightlifting, it's just been crappy coverage from top to bottom.

Presumably The New Yorker recognized that "women's gymnastics is getting shortchanged" is a better human-interest story than "the US Olympic coverage is terrible", but the second option has more substance.

You mean this?

http://www.nbcolympics.com/live-stream-schedule

or do you mean this?

http://www.nbcolympics.com/full-schedule

Thanks! I think that might be what I'm looking for but, try as it might, my browser won't load any of the streams. Not sure if it's plugin related or if the site is simply being hugged to death.

By any chance do you use the HTTPS Everywhere browser extension? If so, try disabling it. A friend of mine just figured out (after a few days not understanding the strange errors) that the extension is incompatible with nbcolympics.com.

Just realized that that's why I couldn't get any of the videos to load. Thanks!

Nope that's not it. Getting the same hanging in both Chrome and Firefox so must be something else. Page loads fine, it's just the video streams that never load.

If I got all my information about the Olympics from watching NBC, I'd believe that only a few events are taking place, and that only Americans (and a handful of people from other countries) are competing.

"Look! The American took 3th place! Let's interview her and show a little mini-biography of her life and not even show or mention the Australian and Chinese competitors who took gold and silver!"

I watch weightlifting pretty closely, and most of the globe's networks seem to stream the BBC feed. It's one of the better broadcasts out there -- really knowledgeable commentators, completely neutral, just there for the joy of the sport and competition.

The BBC feed is great. When the Olympics are current I rent a linode in the UK so I can stream it. There's probably another way, but it only costs a few bucks.

My first thought seeing this article was "Since when? NBC streamed gymnastic coverage in place of showing weightlifting".

The BBC feed for weightlifting has been excellent (and it's a sport that needs it, with more 'meta' strategy than many things), while NBC's coverage has been US-obsessed and tepid-to-awful for pretty much every competition.

All of the globe's networks are actually using one stream from the Olympic Broadcasting Services http://www.obs.tv/

I found the making of videos they have on that page interesting. Basically the OBS are the ones doing the actual filming and broadcasting of all the Olympic events , and then all the broadcasters of the world rebroadcast that. They also provide all the onscreen graphics.

So NBC could send down a tech crew and an uplink truck and we would still get full coverage of the Olympics minus all the color commentary.

Oh awesome, thanks for the info. I'm watching a CBC stream and it's CBC branded -- but I know NBC and BBC show the same footage, and at least BBC the same commentators.

Please don't assume it is much better outside the US. If you watch the winter games while visiting Japan you would think that the entire Olympics was just a few minor events that served as bookends for the ski jumping competition. In the UK I get good options from the BBC but event then for major sports the coverage focuses on the athletes that the audience cares about, which is basically team GB plus any major names in the sport or expected winners. It is better for the lesser-known sports where you just about everyone is unknown; at least I did get to see all of the rowing and fencing qualifications and medal rounds (no joke, my daughters are into both events and so we spent a lot of time watching.)

If it really bothers you I think that a decent proxy and the BBC iPlayer can get you good all-around event coverage...or so people have told me...

Although it's quite buggy (particularly with Chromecast), doesn't NBC Sports allow you to do that? I've watched most all the prelims I was hoping to watch. Of course you need a TV provider to login.

I think they have that. [0] lets you filter by sport (or athelete) to see all the results, and move ahead and back day by day. And I think this[1] is basically what your second query is looking for

[0] - http://results.nbcolympics.com/schedules/ [1] - https://www.nbcolympics.com/live-stream-schedule

In Germany we have something like 6 live streams from the TV stations.[1] It is pretty great, you can watch an entire event, and potentially understand what they are doing. By contrast the TV coverage is half of the time some guy in a studio talking, and then they will show a single attempt by some German athlete, which is over before I have identified which sport they are showing.

[1] (No idea if these only work in Germany... )

http://rio.zdf.de/live/

http://rio.sportschau.de/rio2016/live/Alle-Livestreams-von-O...

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