How's Peggy Fleming holding up against the East Germans?

then I'll go out on a limb and predict that she will hold up damn well against the East Germans

I decided I am not going to watch any of it..I have the same complaints..

Give it time to suck.

Unfortunately, because NBC paid so much for the rights, they
control what we're see, and 95% in NOT live.

Only MSNBC has live hockey coverage at 5am or 7am on weekends.

Otherwise it's chopped up edited garbage.

I watch CBC's coverage instead. .way better than NBC

CBC didn't broadcast the last 2 Olympics.

In these Olympics, our cable company has like 10 'on demand' CBC feeds (I'm in Canada)...I've already started watching the qualifying rounds. I can choose pretty much any sport. No commercials. Not much announcing either.

Almost like EuroSport.
Wait ... it's exactly like EuroSport.

That will never happen in the US as long as NBC controls the rights.

I've already seen the opening ceremonies, pretty much unedited. CBC rocks.

for an awfully long time now, at least as far back as 1988. Which is partly why I haven't bothered to watch any Olympic coverage since about then.

..various cable tv providers have an arrangement with NBC for their subscribers to watch live video of the events online for free. You can pretty much watch all of the events, except the Opening Ceremony, live.

http://stream.nbcolympics.com/live-extra/

I watched a lot of the 2012 Games in London that way; it worked very well. At least in that instance, the commentary during the events was pretty limited.

The Sochi - US Eastern time difference is 9 hours; that does affect what they can show live on television.

Etc.

are displeased with their Big Snow Show.

Commercials have just destroyed all tv programs. Ugh. It's just gotten unbearable to watch.

I hate the closeups on athletes before they compete. They are only interesting after they come up as attention worthy due to performance. Nadia was like this. We were curious about her because she got our attention.

And the ones they pick had some tragedy in their lives. Always the same story there.

But since NBC has them, you won't see them until 7:30pm EST.

Denmark is marching in now and here comes Dominica

I don't know why I am defending NBC but I am.

1. They MUST edit events because there are so many how would they broadcast them all? I mean they have to edit the events or it would be 200 hours of programming for every 24 hours in a day due to so many multiple events.

2. I imagine they have researched and tested which events garner more attention and ratings. Of course they are going to show those events. There's a reason baseball, football and basketball get more coverage than Polo or Lacrosse.

3. I don't see anything wrong with showing an American or two. Come on...we all want to see the American perform. I follow a lot of the athletes from the US in various manners and I like seeing their performances.

4. I agree about the up close stuff. That doesn't do anything for me but again, I bet they have researched it and there's an audience for it.

5. I cant stand Bob Costas. He's an ass.

6. Any network will have too many commercials. But please tell me about a program that doesn't. The rights fees to carry the Olympics is HUGE plus they need to make a profit. So of course they will air lots of commercials. I DVR the games and watch the next day. No commercials.

They edit the competition out of sequence to create drama.

Plus when they edit they don't show all the competitors.It's like watching
a baseball game and only showing you the innings when they score runs
and then showing you the innings out of sequence to make it appear that
there is pressure and tension where it doesn't exist.

I saw this when I was able to watch the Lillehammer games live on Eurosport.
They showed the women's figure skating final, all 24 competitors live!

When NBC showed it, they only showed the top 6 skaters out of sequence!!!
To create that drama.

So excuse me if I get on NBC, it's well deserved criticism.

The BBC doesn't have any commercials and show the olympics in real-time. IE I saw the opening ceremony at around 4 my time.

Forget commercials, it's the horrendous human rights records of Russia that prevents me from watching.

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-sochi-dark-side-20140207,0,1802689.story#ixzz2seUpzZRM

If you absolutely must watch, I think the BBC has some live feed. I'll miss watching some of the events, but I can't in good conscience add to the viewership.

#NBCFail trended for a solid 2 weeks.

More of the same I'm afraid.

since (per msnbc guy the ceremony started at 20:14 local time/11:14am EST) the Russians get to show off their history and culture is there anyway to see all of that ? I am curious to see what events they show. Or should I wait for youtube? After I posted this, I went checked google again, that led me to SB Nation who posted the only way to see the opening is to wait for NBC. I couldn't find a live stream.

Only on NBC in the US

If a live stream is available in the US, NBC has the IP
shutdown (i.e. filtered out) almost immediately.

they had the event, and all the races. period. i like that. we miss out on events and particular races and sports....

i like the old way.

now it is a damn pageantry instead of about the sport

in some Nordic skiing events, but cross-country doesn't get near the coverage that the downhill stuff does.