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1. on July 30, 2012 at 2:11 pm | Reply spellbound84

   #NBCFail: Network’s Olympic disaster earns global social media mockery; NBC exec Schiller disses “whining”

   NBC has united the world…in scorn, contempt, and mockery of its gaffe-plagued, stone-age Olympics coverage. Cutting the tribute to the 7/7 London Islamic terror victims from the network’s opening ceremonies coverage was just the tip of the iceberg. Yesterday, the #NBCFail hashtag erupted worldwide and showed no signs of let-up. Ridiculous tape delays, news/programming spoilers, arrogant tweets from former NPR executive-turned-NBC chief digital officer Vivian Schiller, geographic errors, and streaming woes have earned the peacock network global social media mockery

   http://twitchy.com/2012/07/29/nbcfail-networks-olympic-disaster-earns-global-social-media-mockery/

   
   
   • on July 30, 2012 at 2:24 pm | Reply muse1876

     Just another left wing operation that tries to hide the truth and can’t get its act together. This show is a disaster.

     
     
2. on July 30, 2012 at 2:13 pm | Reply spellbound84

   Olympic Viewers Have a New Reason to Complain, and the Means to Do It

   NBC might have believed that streaming all the sports live from the London Games would have inoculated it from criticism of its Olympic broadcasting policy.

   he past animosity rested on tape-delaying certain marquee sports into prime time. But now Twitter has turned into a fiery digital soapbox against NBC, as its users have merged their resentment over tape delay with problems viewing the live streams.

   The outrage has been distilled, simply, into #nbcfail. It is difficult for now to determine if #nbcfail represents a tiny minority or is a sampling of a widespread problem.

   NBC believes it is the former.

   
   
   • on July 30, 2012 at 2:29 pm | Reply muse1876

     NBC should change their name. LameBC.

     
     
3. on July 30, 2012 at 2:51 pm | Reply spellbound84

   I just watched the mens gymnastics online. It is like Communism.
   NBC will not let anyone else have the Olympics, they will outbid them.
   everything is online, I placed all the links up
   they are picking a choosing what they want us to view. 😦

   
   
   • on July 30, 2012 at 5:05 pm | Reply muse1876

     I hope that NBC loses a ton of money.

     
     
4. on July 30, 2012 at 2:53 pm | Reply spellbound84

   Athletes’ parents turned away in chaos over London 2012 Olympics tickets

   A FRESH ticketing row has enveloped London 2012 Olympic organisers as angry parents of athletes are turned away at Games venues.

   Parents and friends of Swedish and Singaporean swimmers as well as a host of other countries have been refused access into the aquatics centre over the past two nights, missing seeing their loved ones compete, while other parents have had hours of angst trying to sort tickets at the last minute.

   Adding to their woes were the pictures of empty seats in prime positions.

   The issue hasn’t been confined to the aquatics centre. Parents have missed tennis matches at Wimbledon and only been able to get into Eton Dorney for the rowing and Excel for the boxing after fraught negotiations.

   http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/olympics-2012/other-news/athletes-parents-turned-away-in-chaos-over-london-2012-olympics-tickets-3185525.html

   
   
5. on July 30, 2012 at 2:58 pm | Reply spellbound84

   Brazilian judoka breaks Olympic medal in shower

   A Brazilian judoka accidentally broke his Olympic bronze medal when he brought it into the shower. Now he’s fighting to have it replaced.

   Felipe Kitadai said he was carrying the medal everywhere. He took it with him to the shower as a joke, then dropped it while trying to keep it from getting wet.

   Kitadai told Brazil’s GloboEsporte.com that the part holding the medal’s string broke, and now he can’t wear it around his neck. He said there’s also a small dent on it.

   Kitadai won the bronze in the men’s 60-kilogram division Saturday.

   http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/london/story/2012-07-30/How-did-Brazilian-break-bronze-medal/56587586/1

   
   
   • on July 30, 2012 at 5:06 pm | Reply muse1876

     Maybe he could buy another one. I wouldn’t have thought that they would break that easy.

     
     
6. on July 30, 2012 at 9:32 pm | Reply spellbound84

   Olympics: France’s Yannick Agnel wins 200 free; Ryan Lochte places fourth

   Yannick Agnel of France beat a stellar field to win the 200-meter freestyle at the London Olympics on Monday.

   Having pulled France ahead of the United States in the last leg of the 4×100 freestyle relay a day earlier, Agnel led from start to finish and clocked 1 minute, 43.14 seconds.

   http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2012/07/30/sports/doc5016d9831485e981688539.txt

   
   

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