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Olympic Equestrian Events begin
Definitely check out NBC’s online coverage of the equestrian events. I watched the eventing dressage riders this evening and the coverage was fantastic: my feed was great, clear picture of decent size (don’t bother with the “enhanced” view, because it’s grainy and not worth the increase in size). While watching live, I noticed they had someone typing in comments on the tests; the replacement for voice-over commentary, I assume.
I like eventing dressage. I watch the riders go and think, “Hey, I could do that!“ Not right this moment, perhaps, but it doesn’t look quite so unattainable as the regular dressage tests.
Unfortunately, the schedule of events on NBC’s site was designed by a programmer, for other programmers. I know, because it has all the hallmarks of “clever tool that isn’t user friendly” that marks so many programmer creations. If anyone can figure out how to get it to display events for any day besides today, please let me know. I would like to know (for example) what is going on tomorrow and when it starts. Eventing stadium? Eventing cross country?
Eh… whatever. They’re archiving the events, so even if I miss them live, I can catch them later.
And for that, I can forgive NBC quite a lot—I can even forgive them the useless schedule. Whee!
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You are my new hero!
On Aug 8, 2008, Jackie said:
I watched almost the whole thing online, and it was good coverage. I was thinking exactly like you - it was nice to watch the eventing dressage horses and think that I could actually do something like that.
I know what you mean; NBC really does have incredibly coverage, but it is so poorly put together (coming from and internet marketer and usability specialist). I took the time to figure it out and posted the schedules Iwith event type) for the TV coverage and the online coverage, both eastern time. Here are the links:
TV Schedule
Online schedule
Hope that helps!