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Agreed - just log into app via cable provider and voila, Olympic paradise.

And if you don't have cable?

This is the problem I'm experiencing. The best I've found is fuboTV and it's not great. I don't have cable in my house. I'd be willing to pay NBC $100 for access to all of their live and on-demand olympic coverage (what's available through the website, etc.), but that's not even an option.

I ended up adding the 'Live TV' option to my existing Hulu subscription, and now have access to all the replays as well as the primetime coverage. It's working very well. It's ~$65/mo extra, so I'll just cancel that add-on after the games end.

I'd prefer to have native internet streaming coverage. IIRC the 2016 or '18 games had fantastic free coverage on streaming boxes, with a nice app that had an easy way to watch live for any sport. not sure why we are regressing so badly. Probably money.

Can you not login to the nbc olympics site/app using your fuboTV login and get access to exactly what you're looking for? [0]

They also list youtube TV and Sling TV as login options.

[0] - Literally asking, as I can see they're available as sign-in TV Providers, but can't test it without a sub.

It appears to specifically be "Sign in with your Cable Provider." They list the providers and fuboTV is not one of them.

EDIT: I was wrong! I used "search all providers" and indeed, fuboTV was listed there, so I signed in with the credentials and it seems to work. Thanks for the nudge!

Glad it worked out!

VPN to the UK and watch BBC coverage?

I'll admit that I don't know if that works or not, I'm in the UK so I'm spoiled by wall-to-wall BBC coverage.

Those that I trust say that most of the content providers have gotten good at blocking known vpn hosts.

I use my antenna and use Plex as a DVR.

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