This is an interesting webcast on Channel9 where Eric Schmidt provides a technical tour of the NBCOlympics.com site built with Silverlight. If you are like me and become frustrated with the limited options of events the stations choose to broadcast, then we are in luck. The video that the NBCOlympics.com site is providing is excellent and covers nearly all the sports. I have heard estimates of roughly 2,200 hours of video, live commentary, live events, and with the ability to choose what we prefer to view. For those events we miss, we can search and view them at our leisure.

I have been able to watch some events I have always wanted to see but the television stations do not televise. Popularity and advertising dollars demand that stations air the usual suspects, swimming, track and field, gymnastics, ect. I have been able to explore fencing, sailing, handball, archery, and weightlifting to name a few.

If interested, check it out. If you have not seen the U.S. Men’s 4×100 freestyle relay, check it out. What a race!

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