Viewing the Olympic Road Race on TV?
 

I know NBC will screw up the coverage of the Olympic road race (and the other cycling events, too). So is there a way to get this online like cycling.tv or another source? I just hate the way NBC will cut in and out of a long event like this.

And who's going to win? Seems like Spain's year, so maybe Valverde?

i think it's on late friday night here...live on CBC. If you live close enough you can get CBC or its french network, Radio Canada. Their coverage is going to be live and then repeated in teh afternoon on tape.

And here they are, starting!!!!! ... let's see how the lawn dart competition is going...


...AND LOOK! SOMEONE IS FINISHING FIRST!!!!!!

I can't wait for the lengthy indepth background pieces on the wives of the riders :rolleyes:

and all those stories about widows and orphans with sappy music in the background....

I'll be riding.

I bet they find a way to work figure skating into the coverage. The ladies love figure skating.

Like Randi Zabriskie? :love:

Cyclingfans.com has a bunch of alternate video and audio streams listed for soccer matches today. I assume they'll have even more for the cycling coverage. Hopefully we can avoid all those pesty commercals, and hour long rider profiles that way. (g)

http://cyclingfans.com/

Valverde seems like a good pick to me, though I'd love to see an American win of course.

Sally

NBC is webcasting it live EARLY Saturday morning, like 2 am. They show 3 segments of the road race on Saturday's 10 am - 6 pm telecast (Eastern time). Check http://www.nbcolympics.com/cycling/index.html

Just d/l the Euro coverage.

So if I turn on NBC at 10am tomorrow morning, I'll get the whole Road Race coverage?

Maybe NBC online, not on TV.

men's road race just started on CBC, live...hopefully i'll be able to catch the end live.

grr....says unavailable in my area....perhaps the one time in my life i wished I lived in Canada

Not only is it live online, but it's live on CBC television in high definition! Let's hope they stay with the race the whole way, otherwise we have the online feed as a backup.

here's another link

http://www.steephill.tv/olympics-road-race/

95 degrees (F) and 63% humidity - ugh!

Fog or smog - take your pick.

+1 ... I'm watching it now.

Good coverage on the Canadian and Australian cyclists. That's nice. So often cycling coverage is about every other country but ...

I have live coverage going on through the NBColympics.com but there is no commentary... which some of you guys might like you gotta d/l a easy plug in to view the video but the picture is nice.

they say there is commentary on Bicycling.com or something but i couldnt find it :P

Is there any audio commentary anywhere? It's just road noise on NBC!

CBC channel 3 is covering swimming right now instead. :notamused: (nothing against swimming, just not when the race is live right now)

Looks like CBC TV will be covering the race periodically, but cut away for brief features on other sports. cbcsports.ca has a live stream (without commentary) all the time online.

Yes, they've switched to swimming. But keep in mind that it is a 245 km race ... it'll take them a while. I'll likely be sound asleep by the time they finally finish.