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TFA is not well-informed. Maybe the NBC people should have better marketing, but the Olympics coverage is not terrible. If you have a basic cable or satellite package, you can sign into this app:

https://channelstore.roku.com/search/nbc+sports

Presumably some of the lesser TV appliances also have a similar app. If you don't subscribe to a basic pay TV package, maybe you could do a trial subscription to Hulu or something and sign in with that. With this app, one can watch the entirety of live and recorded events. Many of the live feeds will have "down time" between matches, rounds, etc. There are ads, which are especially annoying for "one-at-a-time" individual events like whitewater canoe slalom. I suspect it would be possible to pi-hole the ads.

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In my view, if a tech-savvy person putting significant effort in still can't find a way to view the coverage, even if they have a subscription, NBC is doing a poor job.

Searching for an app that lots of people already have installed doesn't seem like "significant effort" to me. If people don't want help or advice with this I don't see the point of this thread.

It's not as simple as searching for an app. It's knowing which app to search for, and how to get access to it. When I looked this up over the weekend I came across multiple answers pointing me in the direction NBC, Peacock, Hulu, and YouTube TV. Google "where to watch the olympics", and I see three options just from NBC (NBC, Peacock, and NBC Olympics) followed by list of content farm articles. Even if you manage to get access, the app is organized poorly and makes it difficult to find the content you want.

Even if you manage to get access, the app is organized poorly and makes it difficult to find the content you want.

No argument with this. UI for short-lived events sucks, in general. Still, my elderly parents can use it. I'm not sure what people ITT want. I posted a simple solution for doing what TFA claims can't be done. For my trouble, I got downvoted to oblivion. I don't care about internet points, but if it hadn't been so downvoted there might have been a chance someone who genuinely wanted to watch Olympics might have seen it and been helped. I think maybe some other people just want to complain.

Indeed. I installed half a dozen apps on my Ipad to figure out which one actually was the correct one.

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