Winter Olympics on TV

tunguska · 06-02-2010 1:07pm #1

Hi
Just wondering if anybody knows if the winter olympics will be shown on terestrial television? I know RTE wont so forget about that, but what about the BBC? Even a highlights show at night? Love the winter Olympics but I dont have digital TV so I fear I may miss out, got a bad feeling its all gonna be on eurosport.
Thanks

sineadgalway · 06-02-2010 8:46pm

BBC are saying they'll have full coverage but best bet will probably be eurosport. Checked the RTE website and it doesn't mention any vancouver coverage...

Fattes · 06-02-2010 8:51pm

RTE and Eurosport are showoing everything! All the main Alpine events will be on between 6-9 Irish time which is awsome!

Bobsled and Freestyle Events will be on allot later as they are on at approx 9 Canada Time.

RTE Have the rights to show it and they did some coverage of Turin so we can live in hope

Mr Ed · 07-02-2010 1:27pm

Thats great if RTE are showing them, b

Like the OP I'm in the same boat but I signed up to Europsports online service. It'll set you back €4.90 for a month and its 24/7 coverage!

sineadgalway · 07-02-2010 6:32pm

Good news on RTE coverage, was considering upgrading upc so I have eurosport on the digibox for late night events but might stick with rte and bbc now....

tunguska · 08-02-2010 7:17pm

Wow!! I am absolutley stunned RTE are showing any of the winter olympics. Truly shocking stuff. I suppose the fact that we have a few athletes competing has made RTE take a little notice. Im so looking forward to this, I become a complete winter olympics nut job though, staying up til all hours, even watching feckin' curling.

sineadgalway · 08-02-2010 8:16pm

its amazing what you end up watching....i've become strangely addicted to Biathlon

tunguska · 08-02-2010 8:51pm

sineadgalway wrote: »

its amazing what you end up watching....i've become strangely addicted to Biathlon

Yeah the Biathlon is mesmirizing stuff alright. Although whoever came up with the idea of combining cross country skiing and shooting is either a complete genius or a certified lunatic.
My peronal favoutrite event is cross country skiing. Apparently cross country skiers are the fittest athletes in the world. Well it'd be more accurate to say that they have the highest Vo2max values.

Fattes · 08-02-2010 11:03pm

staying up til all hours, even watching feckin' curling.

Was skiing for a month in Canda last year while the Tum Hortons Briar was on in Calgary. Was hooked on the Curling and have no idea why even found myself shouting at the TV when they where brushing the stones

robinph · 09-02-2010 1:30am

Here is a listing of search results for what the Beeb will be showing, it only searches two'ish weeks in advance though so it's not quite complete for the duration:
Radiotimes Search

kmart6 · 09-02-2010 1:34am

tunguska wrote: »

Wow!! I am absolutley stunned RTE are showing any of the winter olympics. Truly shocking stuff. I suppose the fact that we have a few athletes competing has made RTE take a little notice. Im so looking forward to this, I become a complete winter olympics nut job though, staying up til all hours, even watching feckin' curling.

More to do with the fact that rights to Olympics are bought in bundles I'd say!

tunguska · 09-02-2010 7:27pm

Anybody catch Michael Johnson's piece on ski jumpers last night on the bbc? Was great stuff. Those lads are brave as hell, also a bit crazy.

robinph · 09-02-2010 7:30pm

Damn it, I forgot that it was on.

tunguska · 09-02-2010 8:03pm

robinph wrote: »

Damn it, I forgot that it was on.

Hate to rub it in, but it was top stuff. Absolutely fascinating characters, worthy of a pyschological study all by themselves. Well worth trying to get your hands on that documentary.

hk797 · 09-02-2010 8:28pm

If you enjoy the Winter Olympics checkout a recently released movie on iTunes called Truth in Motion. It follows the US ski teams buildup to Vancouver. Runtime is 43 mins with a regular (628mb) and HD (1.38gb) download for free.

robinph · 09-02-2010 9:36pm

tunguska wrote: »

Hate to rub it in, but it was top stuff. Absolutely fascinating characters, worthy of a pyschological study all by themselves. Well worth trying to get your hands on that documentary.

My usual source for getting the UK TV programs I've missed doesn't seem to have this up, iPlayer doesn't have it either for some reason if I were able to get that, but it does look like they will be showing it again nest Saturday at 1pm:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qtrjv

I'll be out racing at that time though.

robinph · 10-02-2010 2:18am

Just found this schedule on the Irish Olympic Council web page which give the Vancouver times and dates for when the various Irish competitors should be in action:

Irish Teams Schedule

Those times are 8(?) hours behing GMT.

BoardsRanger · 10-02-2010 11:33am

hk797 wrote: »

If you enjoy the Winter Olympics checkout a recently released movie on iTunes called Truth in Motion. It follows the US ski teams buildup to Vancouver. Runtime is 43 mins with a regular (628mb) and HD (1.38gb) download for free.

How did you get that to work? I cant seem to download movies from my itunes.

robinph · 10-02-2010 12:51pm

tunguska wrote: »

Hate to rub it in, but it was top stuff. Absolutely fascinating characters, worthy of a pyschological study all by themselves. Well worth trying to get your hands on that documentary.

Just managed to find a copy of this and it is definately worth a watch. Was thinking it may be good viewing for people who answered "no" in the helmet threads, but there was a few too many helmets popping off in the crashes they showed.

It's on BBC 1 again on Saturday at 1pm. Shame we didn't get to see Michael Johnson actually skiing in it though, maybe he just crashed himself but he did look terrified at the top of the run that Bell brought him to.

hk797 · 10-02-2010 1:52pm

BoardsRanger wrote: »

How did you get that to work? I cant seem to download movies from my itunes.

Downloaded it without a problem while skiing in US. Trailer and clips on YouTube here.

BoardsRanger · 10-02-2010 3:29pm

hk797 wrote: »

Downloaded it without a problem while skiing in US. Trailer and clips on YouTube here.

ah ok- itunes is restricted in Ireland. Will keep looking to see if i can get it.

tunguska · 10-02-2010 5:38pm

robinph wrote: »

Just found this schedule on the Irish Olympic Council web page which give the Vancouver times and dates for when the various Irish competitors should be in action:

Irish Teams Schedule

Those times are 8(?) hours behing GMT.

Great stuff Robin. So are they 8 hrs behind or ahead of us? Sorry Im not great at deciphering the old time zones. So if somebody is going at 18:00 does this mean they'll be on at 2am or 10am our time?

robinph · 10-02-2010 5:48pm

tunguska wrote: »

Great stuff Robin. So are they 8 hrs behind or ahead of us? Sorry Im not great at deciphering the old time zones. So if somebody is going at 18:00 does this mean they'll be on at 2am or 10am our time?

They are behind us, but add 8 hours to those times to get the time to tune in over here. For 18:00 on a Friday you'll need to tune in at 2am on the Saturday.

tunguska · 10-02-2010 7:00pm

robinph wrote: »

They are behind us, but add 8 hours to those times to get the time to tune in over here. For 18:00 on a Friday you'll need to tune in at 2am on the Saturday.

Perfect. It may be strange but I prefer watching big events like the olympics in the middle of the night. This probably comes from the time when I was 9yrs old and being allowed stay up to watch John Treacy win a silver medal at the 1984 summer olympics. Amazing night.

robinph · 10-02-2010 7:23pm

I think I've got this list right with changing to GMT for the times that we'd need to tune in to watch.

13/2
01:45 - Opening Ceremony
15/2
20:30 - PJ Cross Country
19/2
02:30 - Pat Skeleton 1st
03:45 - Pat Skeleton 2nd
20/2
02:20 - Pat Skeleton
03:30 - Pat Skeleton
18:00 - Kirsty Super G
24/20
01:00 - Aofie & Claire Bob 1st
02:00 - Aofie & Claire Bob 2nd*
18:00 - Kirsty GS 1st
21:15 - Kirsty GS 2nd
25/2
01:00 - Aofie & Claire Bob 3rd*
02:00 - Aofie & Claire Bob 4th
26/2
18:00 - Kirsty Slalom 1st
21:15 - Kirsty Slalom 2nd
27/2
18:00 - Shane Slalom 1st
21:45 - Shane Slalom 2nd
1/3
??:?? - Closing Ceremony **

* Not the same times as on the OCI page, but I think they got the spreadsheet out of order.
** Cannot find the actual program time for this yet, but will be very AM I suspect.

As far ahead as I can look in the BBC schedules they will be having a "live" program on during the evening when a lot of the 1st runs of some events are taking place, some days they may not still be on during the 2nd runs though. Their Red buttons will more than likely cover those times. Eurosport will no doubt be covering stuff all the time, but no telling what they will have on. I cannot find anything in the RTE schedules about their coverage.

All the bob and skeleton runs will almost certainly be covered live on the BBC as they have competitive entrants in all(?) of those events, just if they keep the coverage running long enough to see the Irish teams as well as they may switch to things like the skating instead which I think are on around the same times.

tunguska · 10-02-2010 7:40pm

robinph wrote: »

I think I've got this list right with changing to GMT for the times that we'd need to tune in to watch.

13/2
01:45 - Opening Ceremony
15/2
20:30 - PJ Cross Country
19/2
02:30 - Pat Skeleton 1st
03:45 - Pat Skeleton 2nd
20/2
02:20 - Pat Skeleton
03:30 - Pat Skeleton
18:00 - Kirsty Super G
24/20
01:00 - Aofie & Claire Bob 1st
02:00 - Aofie & Claire Bob 2nd*
18:00 - Kirsty GS 1st
21:15 - Kirsty GS 2nd
25/2
01:00 - Aofie & Claire Bob 3rd*
02:00 - Aofie & Claire Bob 4th
26/2
18:00 - Kirsty Slalom 1st
21:15 - Kirsty Slalom 2nd
27/2
18:00 - Shane Slalom 1st
21:45 - Shane Slalom 2nd
1/3
??:?? - Closing Ceremony **

* Not the same times as on the OCI page, but I think they got the spreadsheet out of order.
** Cannot find the actual program time for this yet, but will be very AM I suspect.

As far ahead as I can look in the BBC schedules they will be having a "live" program on during the evening when a lot of the 1st runs of some events are taking place, some days they may not still be on during the 2nd runs though. Their Red buttons will more than likely cover those times. Eurosport will no doubt be covering stuff all the time, but no telling what they will have on. I cannot find anything in the RTE schedules about their coverage.

All the bob and skeleton runs will almost certainly be covered live on the BBC as they have competitive entrants in all(?) of those events, just if they keep the coverage running long enough to see the Irish teams as well as they may switch to things like the skating instead which I think are on around the same times.

Wow! Cheers Robin, that'll make things a lot handier. Yeah I couldnt find anything on RTEs schedules either. To be honest, Id rather watch it on the BBC, classier outfit.

citytillidie · 11-02-2010 1:45pm

Here is the BBC interactive schedule if you can get it

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sol/shared/bsp/hi/winter_olympics_2010/epg/html/epg.stm

Block G Raptor · 11-02-2010 10:16pm

I Don't see any listings on my sky box for RTE it just has Euronews through the night for the whole of next week is it deffo on RTE? I've only got a set of ears in the TV upstairs so was hoping to watch it in bed (the missus would sleep through an earthquake so its happy days )

tunguska · 12-02-2010 12:01pm

Block G Raptor wrote: »

I Don't see any listings on my sky box for RTE it just has Euronews through the night for the whole of next week is it deffo on RTE? I've only got a set of ears in the TV upstairs so was hoping to watch it in bed (the missus would sleep through an earthquake so its happy days )

Yeah I didnt see any listings for RTE either. Im afraid you'll have to watch it downstairs Raptor.
Cant wait, opening ceremony tonight. Get in there!!!! And then the rugger tomorrow. And the FA cup. My God this is what its all about, a glorious orgy of sport to fill the weekend.

robinph · 12-02-2010 6:54pm

The unfeasibly skinng and young looking chaps are about to throw themselves off the normal hill in the ski jump qualifying. Eurosport and BBC2 red button.

fergalmejergal · 12-02-2010 7:36pm

Anybody got any links to watch this online ?

LenaClaire · 12-02-2010 9:57pm

This is how I have been watching so far... http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/olympics/

Mint Sauce · 13-02-2010 1:06am

opps, just seen this, mods you can merge my new thread with this if you wish

was going to say http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/olympics/ as well

robinph · 13-02-2010 3:44am

Fair play to Georgia for turing up for the opening ceremony there.

Also just remembered that the entire Columbia winter team, of one, was hanging out in Queesntown when I was there during the summer/ winter.

tunguska · 13-02-2010 11:02am

robinph wrote: »

Fair play to Georgia for turing up for the opening ceremony there.

+1. Fair play to them.

Im not one for opening ceremonies but that was pretty spectacular. The whole stadium was lit up amazinlgy. And you could just feel the atmosphere, could only imagine what it was like to have been there.

mel.b · 13-02-2010 11:36am

Does anyone know with Eurosports online if you can watch the events at a later time or if you have to watch them live. Would really love to watch the aerial skiing and ice skating but don't really want to stay up till all hours.

Cheers.

robinph · 13-02-2010 11:36am

I was pretty impressed with the floor and the way they did the display onto it, and then all sorts of thing coming up out of the stage as well.

sineadgalway · 13-02-2010 1:52pm

The Irish team jackets were really nice, anyone know if replicas are available anywhere?

Forgot what a good singer KD Lang was....loved the killer whale bit too!

robinph · 13-02-2010 6:28pm

sineadgalway wrote: »

....loved the killer whale bit too!

Yeah, the killer whale thing was cool, and when they had the ice bergs breacking up and the people jumping between them. I'm easily impressed at that hour in the morning.

civis_liberalis · 13-02-2010 9:48pm

tunguska wrote: »

I suppose the fact that we have a few athletes competing has made RTE take a little notice.

We have the League of Ireland going on every year and they had to be blackmailed into showing it by the FAI.

Glad it's being shown, I don't have Eurosport, but I used to watch winter sports all the time years ago when I did.

robinph · 14-02-2010 12:18pm

Watch the short track speedskating if you get the chance. Great sport to watch, lots of pushing and falling over on a very short, and very busy track. As for the team realy on the short track that adds in another level of confusion with twelve(?) skaters on the track at a time and intentional pushing between teammates for the hand over. No idea what was going on, but looked good.

robinph · 14-02-2010 2:32pm

In one of the Beeb "guide to..." segment they said that Luge was the fastest of the sliding events. How is the Skeleton not quicker than Luge though as a running start should surely be faster than pushing off a bar and some spiked gloves?

robinph · 15-02-2010 11:33am

Cant say that I'm overly keen on any of the judged events, although the ski jumping and moguls and pipe type things do look very impressive they don't quite fit the Citius, Altius, Fortius.

Was good watching the Mens Moguls yesterday though, and was much more impressive than the Womens event. Couldn't get my head round some of the scoring in the womens event, the US woman who won did look the best to me, but the Canadian in Silver didn't even seem to be the best Canadian, but it's a judged event so no telling how they figure these things out.

Delighted that Canada got their first Gold on home soil though and that guy did look to have the best run to me, and was glad that Dale Begg Smith didn't win after I read a bit on where he made his millions out of dodgy internet dealings...allegedly.

Canada Post are quick off the mark with a new stamp being issued today to commemorate their Gold medal:
http://www.ctvolympics.ca/freestyle-skiing/news/newsid=42077.html

kmart6 · 15-02-2010 12:46pm

The Moguls last night was unreal....had never really watched it before, and couldn't get over the pace and movement in it!!!

robinph · 15-02-2010 1:15pm

There was a very fine line between them putting in loads of very quick turns and just straightlining it and falling over. Apart from in the slo mo's I'd not really have been able to tell the difference, but the BBC commentator seemed to just say that everyone was putting in great turns regardless of how they were actually doing.

robinph · 15-02-2010 1:33pm

robinph wrote: »

13/2
01:45 - Opening Ceremony
15/2
20:30 - PJ Cross Country
19/2
02:30 - Pat Skeleton 1st
03:45 - Pat Skeleton 2nd
20/2
02:20 - Pat Skeleton
03:30 - Pat Skeleton
18:00 - Kirsty Super G
24/20
01:00 - Aofie & Claire Bob 1st
02:00 - Aofie & Claire Bob 2nd*
18:00 - Kirsty GS 1st
21:15 - Kirsty GS 2nd
25/2
01:00 - Aofie & Claire Bob 3rd*
02:00 - Aofie & Claire Bob 4th
26/2
18:00 - Kirsty Slalom 1st
21:15 - Kirsty Slalom 2nd
27/2
18:00 - Shane Slalom 1st
21:45 - Shane Slalom 2nd
1/3
??:?? - Closing Ceremony **

* Not the same times as on the OCI page, but I think they got the spreadsheet out of order.
** Cannot find the actual program time for this yet, but will be very AM I suspect.

15/2
20:30 - PJ Cross Country

No programs look to be on BBC2 during this, although they may well have it if you have the RED button. BBC3 will be showing Snowboard Cross at the time.

Eurosport is the channel you'll want this evening:

Radiotimes wrote:

Live Winter Olympic Cross-Country Skiing

Monday 15 February
8:30pm - 10:00pm
Eurosport

Coverage from the 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver, featuring action from the 15km individual event.

tunguska · 15-02-2010 6:21pm

Loving it so far. The mens Luge was great stuff altogether. A bit of a downer at the start though due to that poor Georgian lad losing his life. But bit by bit I got into it. Theyre absolute lunatics, brave as hell. Was a great competition. That guy loch is a beast, only 20 years old and he comes away with a gold medal in a sport where experience is usually the deciding factor. Takes years to learn how to read the ice apparently but this guy has been sliding since he was 3!

The womens mogul was brilliant entertainment, felt really sorry for that Canadian girl who was pipped at the post by the american.

The highlight of the weekend had to be the womens 3000m relay speed skating. Now when it comes to sports Im most defintely a purist and I get pissed off when female friends of mine only watch rugby to look at the lads. Absolute disgrace. Anyway I sat down to watch the womens relay with the purist of intentions, to watch a sporting spectacle and nothing more. However Im afraid all that changed on saturday night/sunday morning. The first thing I noticed was that there were a few real lookers in the bunch. Then I noticed the skin tight lycra. Then to seal the deal, they started touching each others butts. Obviously it was a bloke who came up with this particular spin on the sport.........This should come with a fire warning becasue the womens relay speed skating is hot stuff!! A cheap thrill on a saturday night.

Really enjoying the whole thing so far and the downhill stuff hasnt even started yet. Ice hockey tomorrow night which by all accounts will be something to see.
Absolutley knackered, staying up to 5:00am every night........worth it though.

robinph · 16-02-2010 12:25am

+1 on the womens relay speed skating. Didn't have a clue what was going on, but that hardly matters.

Just seen the Snowboard Cross finals which was pretty good races, people falling over all over the shop and ballings things up on the last jumps makes for exciting viewing.

darragh16 · 16-02-2010 12:42am

The snowboarding was great. The canadian lad was unlucky in the final. Still doesnt compare to the womens final in Turin, Lindsey Jacobilis snottin herself at the last jump.... classic.

robinph · 16-02-2010 1:05am

Just watching the replay of it now on Beeb2 and that woman they got to join Ed Leigh in the commentary is starting to annoy me now. She's just going "ooo", "ahh" and "eek" a lot.

The Canadian was unlucky alright, Jacobillis was just showing off. As this course shows, it's not over until you crosS the line.

Do the skiers and women go on the same course or did they have enough spare snow and bales of hay to make other courses?

Mint Sauce · 16-02-2010 1:12am

robinph wrote: »

Just watching the replay of it now on Beeb2 and that woman they got to join Ed Leigh in the commentary is starting to annoy me now. She's just going "ooo", "ahh" and "eek" a lot.

The Canadian was unlucky alright, Jacobillis was just showing off. As this course shows, it's not over until you crosS the line.

Do the skiers and women go on the same course or did they have enough spare snow and bales of hay to make other courses?

i think they do go over the same course, was watching it on line and one of the offical olympic graphics came up discribing it as 'ski and snowboard cross stadium'

was great to watch, although may have to start rationing my viewing as its not good for my download limit

Winter Olympics on TV

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