Happy Olympics!

If you can watch it that is.

If you are reading this anywhere outside the US, you probably have some sort of an online broadcast. I know that my home country's public TV (TRT) has their feeds ready to go. So does the BBC. Most African countries will receive their broadcasts on IOC's official Youtube channel. In fact, here is a complete list of broadcasters.

Unfortunately, in the US we are limited by the NBC network, home of the Olympics. They do have online video, but only if you have a cable subscription. That is the only way to get it. I do understand that NBC paid a lot of money for the rights and they have to make money, but not selling live video subscriptions is just... weird. Anyway. I could rant about this for quite a while. So, let's just hope that this is the last Olympics where cable companies hold any power and in 4 years there will be live video for all.

The option of watching the games on NBC's prime time coverage still exists of course, but live on tape-delay is just not the same (anybody remember Dan's rant about this on Sports Night? (season 2 episode 16)).

Track and Field doesn't start until next week, but there will be a lot of other sports to keep us occupied until then.