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Where the **** can I watch live judo from Beijing 2008 on TV/online??

  • 09-08-2008 10:48PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32


    Hopefully this topic title will help people who are googling that exact sentence.

    Today there was equestrian dressage on BBC. How is that even a sport? Why does no channel show judo?
    I tried to find live online broadcasts and just ended up on these weird live tv spam sites that never seem to work.
    Apparently NBC is covering EVERY event live, for the first time ever, but I think this is available for US residents only.

    I can't find any other info about this.. please if anyone knows any website or stream, post a link here!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,995 ✭✭✭Tim_Murphy


    Well first of all, dressage is a very technical and skillful sport (that's right, I say it! :eek: ), if you knew anything about it you would know that.
    Second of all, BBC were showing Judo earlier today, presumably they'll be showing more of it as well.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,394 ✭✭✭mike2084


    Every Olympic event is live on this site - you will need broadband though.

    http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/olympics/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭Fozzy


    RTE are showing everything on their website I thought


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32 phalaris


    RTE are not showing everything, just some things.
    And Tim, you're right, I don't know anything about equestrian dressage.
    Every Olympic event is live on this site - you will need broadband though.

    http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/olympics/

    Finally, something that Just Works. Thank you!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    BBC 1 on Sky Interactive are showing Judo every morning at 5am and again at 11am.

    I only just got this from Andy Ryan (so thanks Andy).


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭JohnMc1


    Are there any Irish Judokas in the Olympics by any chance?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    JohnMc1 wrote: »
    Are there any Irish Judokas in the Olympics by any chance?

    Nope, I couldn't make it this time - work commitments, ya know how it is :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    Mairt wrote: »
    Nope, I couldn't make it this time - work commitments, ya know how it is :D

    Mairt, even though your comment was tongue in cheek you seem to know a lot about Judo from reading your posts. Why is it that Ireland produces no Olympic Judoka? I would have thought Judo would be one of the strongest martial arts we compete at internationally. Is it a lack of central funding? Do we field teams for world championships?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Mairt, even though your comment was tongue in cheek you seem to know a lot about Judo from reading your posts. Why is it that Ireland produces no Olympic Judoka? I would have thought Judo would be one of the strongest martial arts we compete at internationally. Is it a lack of central funding? Do we field teams for world championships?

    Honestly, the best man here to ask that question is Judomad.

    Sorry if that comes across as a bit short, but my knowledge of Judo is tiny compared to Gary's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    Thats ok, maybe he will post in here and answer my questions. I know that in Kenpo (what I do) we kick ass worldwide. I even finished third in a world championships:)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    http://www.rte.ie/sport/olympics2008/player.html
    The Judo finals are on live in 35 minutes on RTE.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,441 ✭✭✭Killme00


    Mairt, even though your comment was tongue in cheek you seem to know a lot about Judo from reading your posts. Why is it that Ireland produces no Olympic Judoka? I would have thought Judo would be one of the strongest martial arts we compete at internationally. Is it a lack of central funding? Do we field teams for world championships?

    It probably has more to do with political problems within the two rival associations rather than a lack of qualified judoka. Funding is difficult to come by and is unlikely until the associations get their respective houses in order. Also the qualifying olympic standards is higher for Irish athletes than for the rest of the world because the Irish Olmpic commitee set them higher so that we only send the very best to the games and dont waste money sending 100's of people who barely make the grade.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    Killme00 wrote: »
    It probably has more to do with political problems within the two rival associations rather than a lack of qualified judoka. Funding is difficult to come by and is unlikely until the associations get their respective houses in order. Also the qualifying olympic standards is higher for Irish athletes than for the rest of the world because the Irish Olmpic commitee set them higher so that we only send the very best to the games and dont waste money sending 100's of people who barely make the grade.

    I am pretty sure you or I would'nt see it as a waste of money to send an athlete who attains the international standard but not the Irish one as on any given day in a tournament anyone can win. 3 or 4 flash ippons would see anyone medal. If your not in you cant win, and no-one is in for us, which is ridiculous IMO. As for politics, it seems to be a general trend in all Irish martial arts, we like to destroy ourselves over ridiculous petty squabbles, Ill say no more as I know nothing of the situation except that there are 2 organisations, one official the other isnt.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,441 ✭✭✭Killme00


    I am pretty sure you or I would'nt see it as a waste of money to send an athlete who attains the international standard but not the Irish one as on any given day in a tournament anyone can win. 3 or 4 flash ippons would see anyone medal. If your not in you cant win, and no-one is in for us, which is ridiculous IMO. As for politics, it seems to be a general trend in all Irish martial arts, we like to destroy ourselves over ridiculous petty squabbles, Ill say no more as I know nothing of the situation except that there are 2 organisations, one official the other isnt.

    I agree on both counts. I dont see it as a waste of money but the Irish Olympic comittee do which is why we send so few athletes. Recently it was stated on one of the pre Olympic shows that Ireland will be concentrating on sports in which we have dont well in the past except in exceptional circumstances, so expect to see lots more boxers, equestrian people, rowers and kayakers and less swimmers and track and field athletes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    Killme00 wrote: »
    I agree on both counts. I dont see it as a waste of money but the Irish Olympic comittee do which is why we send so few athletes. Recently it was stated on one of the pre Olympic shows that Ireland will be concentrating on sports in which we have dont well in the past except in exceptional circumstances, so expect to see lots more boxers, equestrian people, rowers and kayakers and less swimmers and track and field athletes.

    That is ridiculous, minority sports such as Judo and Tae Kwon Do would be a great potential growth area for Irish olympic medals. Although there is political bickering across the martial arts spectrum there are high participation numbers and high quality participants that would have a great chance of medalling. We are called the fighting Irish and we love participating in combat sports/martial arts. It is not only boxing we excel in and judo and TKD have both genders competing so they have double the potential medals of boxing, if only we would field a team.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Judomad


    http://www.rte.ie/sport/olympics2008/player.html

    LIVE JUDO GIRLS-57KG MEN -73KG


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Nothingcompares


    Firstly I don't think the so called rivalry between the IJA and JI makes one bit of difference. None at all.

    The reasons why there are no irish judoka in the olympics is because no one was able to qualify. There aren't many irish entrants to these games in general. From time to time we produce world class althetes but in general I think that's just flukey. I don't know if there is any sport in ireland that can say it's extremely well set up, funded and operating to a high standard. perhaps rugby or amateur boxing would be the best. you can argue that Ireland already punch above their weight in terms of athletes per unit population but comparing ireland to places like finland, estonia and Denmark (other small population eu countries) you can see were aren't really doing well at all.

    at the end of the day imo sport is just seen as a hobby by the irish government etc. and if you want to achieve great things you need to get yourself to anothr country and fund yourself. of course, from time to time a sonia o'sullian will come out of the blue but as I said before, it's just look. put enough monkies in a room with a type writer and you'll eventually find a shakespeare.

    but having said that I agree that sports like judo are the types of sports that ireland has the potential to do well in. we can find our best athletes easy enough and then it's a matter of grooming them from an early age in high performance sports environment to try and get them to that super high level that is olympic level.

    there aren't many guys that train harder than the guys in the judo squad but there is only so much you can do when you work 40 hours a week, live you life and try to improve your judo to the highest standard.


  • Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ireland doesn't produce enough quality training partners to consistently push the elite competitors. Funding could ameliorate this to some extent by allowing them to train abroad and compete in A tournaments more frequently.

    Even with funding, there simply isn't enough people doing the sport to produce a constant stream of judokas who could be competitive on the international level. From all accounts I've heard, there were more Judokas 30 years ago than there is now. This is compounded by the fact that Judo really struggles to hang onto kids as the become teenagers. Attitudes towards this have been overly fatalistic. Blaming computer games and saying kids are "softer" these days won't solve anything.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,448 ✭✭✭Roper


    Sonia O'Sullivan went to the US on an athletics scholarship. You'll find that most track and field athletes who have represented Ireland in the last 30 years have done that too. I don't think the monkey in the room thing applies here. If an Irish athlete has talent and really wants to be a success, for many years their only option was to move abroad to receive the kind of coaching they required.

    I think that there is a real danger in judging the success of Irish sport by how many medals we win at major games. Participation and qualification is a far more realistic goal and measure of success for a nation our size. It would be fantastic to see a big team representing us on the track.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    bbc interactive now. Loads on.

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    Anybody see the bronze medal match for the mens under 73kg? A Brazillian lad chucked an Iranian lad as if he was a ragdoll.


  • Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yeah, beauty of a throw.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭TKD SC


    Some good judo on live there now on rte website...

    I can't quite figure out how the scoring works? Mairt?

    Seems to score 1, 10, or 100 on the scoreboard?

    It's good stuff though!

    Would this differ much from club judo? They seem to get them up off the ground pretty quick if it goes there - what's the ruling for that, and is that the same in clubs also? Basically what's the main difference between the olympic fights versus club sparring / randoori?

    Thanks

    Simon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭Sitric


    Oh good christ, RTE.ie just cut off their coverage of the judo with twenty seconds left in the bronze fight. The Ukranian was up by a yuko, what was the result?

    They have just shown all the repechage fights and cut it off before the male and female gold fights!

    Where else can I catch the finals?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 492 ✭✭Burnt


    http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/olympics/

    live 03

    btw ukrainian won, he came verey close to disqualification for stalling in the last 10s


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32 phalaris


    OMG RTE are retards, they just cut it off right before the final.. I can't watch the eurovision one from work... what a great channel.. ****ing mongs..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 492 ✭✭Burnt


    Ippon is full score for a powerfull throw onto the flat of the back, 25s pin, tap out or unconsciousness. 1000 refreree holds hand straight up in the air.

    Wazarai, is a half score, for a throw on back lacking power/contol, 20s pin.
    100 referee hold arm out to side level with shoulder. 2 wazarai = 1 ippon

    Yuko, 5 points, throw onto side 15s pin. 010 referee holds arm out to side
    and at a downward angle. no amount of yuko = wazarai/ippon

    Koka, 3 points, stumble/small fall eg on to ass. 10s pin. 001 referee holds arm like a traffic cop getting you to stop. no amount of kokas = yuko.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭Sitric


    Thanks very much, nearly had a heart attack!

    Did you see the big uchi mata the japanese girl won with? And nice strangle from the brazilian.

    The eurosport site is fantastic. Couldn't connect yesterday for some reason. And beach volleyball on Ch 7 I see for the rest of the day! Just sayin... ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 753 ✭✭✭ryoishin


    I can get the eurosport site up but the video box just stays black.

    I have to download something for the RTE site.

    But in work and dont want to mess with it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32 phalaris


    ryoishin wrote: »
    I can get the eurosport site up but the video box just stays black.

    I have to download something for the RTE site.

    But in work and dont want to mess with it.

    Download realplayer from real.com and restart your browser. You should be able to view it in the browrser window.

    If you're using linux, download RealPlayer11GOLD.bin from real.com/linux, and:

    chmod a+x RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
    sudo ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
    killall gnome-panel

    then restart your browser, download the .smil files and open with Real Player

    Still can't believe RTE cut it off.. :(
    Guess I'm not going to work tomorrow then..


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