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Live Coverage of Olympics (shooting) in USA????

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 10:59 am
by Guest1000
According to USAS web site, it looks like the only live (or otherwise) TV coverage might be Women's Air Rifle. The rest will be "streaming" via Internet, or midnight recaps on NBC.

Am I missing something, or is this it for coverage in the USA? I hope there is more that I was unable to find.

Thanks

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:28 am
by jhmartin
You can go to the downloads page and get the list of the NBC coverage:
http://www.usashooting.com/downloads.php
Shooting sports are hi-lited yellow

Looks also like the Men's Trap Final too. Should be interesting to watch the targets sail into the smog.

Amazing that of all the shooting sports, the most "action packed" (if you will), Double Trap and Skeet are not on the live broadcast

Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:59 pm
by pwh
I just checked out the ISSF T.V. Web site to see if they had a schedule for the Olympics. All I got what is enclosed with the attachment! Whats that all about?

~Phil

Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:20 pm
by jhmartin
Remember IOC does not equal ISSF ....
IOC controls ALL the rights to TV coverage and ISSF would have to bid to be able to show the events.

Money, Money, Money

Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:30 pm
by pwh
Ah yes....I had forgotten about the almighty dollar!
I guess I just assumed the the ISSF was going to have coverage of the shooting events. Damn...now I won't be able to see any of it and I was really looking forward to it. It sure as hell will not be covered on NBC and I don't have cable. Even then I doubt any of it will be covered on cable either.
Oh well........

~Phil

TV Coverage

Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:43 pm
by Quest1
According to the NBC Olympic Website the Women's Air Rifle Final will be broadcast on USA TV network between 1am-6am Mountain TimeQ on the 9th.

http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv_and_onlin ... index.html

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:06 pm
by pwh
So far I've been able to watch what shooting events have occurred so far here: http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/index.html

However, I seem to be having problems in watching the Mens air rifle final!
I can view everything else with no problem whatsoever but this one particular event refuses to download! Is anyone else having the same problem with this one event?

~Phil