India National Thread

[nitinsanker 202]

2 hours ago, Prashanth said:

We get in official website itself the local timing.

I meant it gives India local time ( IST )  for each event...The official site gives rio time 

[Prashanth 175]

9 minutes ago, nitinsanker said:

I meant it gives India local time ( IST )  for each event...The official site gives rio time 

No it gives IST timing...I am getting AST for me...

[nitinsanker 202]

not sure prashant the time against each event is coming as local time though there is a clock whereas the google option gives me the IAST gainst each event for example in google pop up the time is coming as 5:00 PM IST fro mens ranking whereas the mens ranking in archery is showing as 9 AM on the site ...I hope I am looking at the right link for the offiical schedule ( this is the one I am a looking at ) 

 https://www.rio2016.com/en/schedule-and-results-day 

[nitinsanker 202]

Sad to see there seems to be no preperation by the star sports for the olympics I am not seeing any change / Link in the website so I am not happy 

Yesterday ...Did a check on trying live stream videos for the Olympics as the womens football matches were on ( this was test for me as I am not planning to use TV at all and only use live streams )

 

Results 

 

1. Live TV - Does not need any DNS /VPN options .../gave a lot of links with different languages and quality is OK but not fantastic ......Try this link out ....this seems to be a good default option for live streaming for Rio ..was able to see the live stream from NBC which had  good english commentary , they do not have any specific arrangements for rio so at times you will have to search your event 

 

http://livetv.sx/en/allupcoming/

 

2.  CBC - Canadian broadcasting corporation - This is a truly excellent free to air channel was able to see the game / the video takes some time to load and video quality was good ...you would need a geoblocking software like hola ...I did it using hola and quality was good. what I loved was they seem to be having a lot of video of older events which can be watched - which is not available on other sites 

 

http://olympics.cbc.ca/

 

3. Cricfree - This site has live streaming video of all major streams ...only slight issue was some cluttering ads and did seem to call in some popups ...but if you maniacially clear all ads before they start playing it seems to work you can pick and chose the channel , I did not find a clear resize button so the video was showing in a small screen and could not resize it ...but the advantage seems to be you can really pick and choose the channels and they also seem to have seperate button specifically to for Rio ( but the button is not working now maybe will work from today ?)

 

http://www.cricfree.tv/

 

4. BBC - Open to air ... very good quality of video and great commentary in english ...probably may become my default site ..you need a VPN or DNS option to watch ..I use hola and got good results . also has a great sub portal just for the olympics 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport

 

5. Sky TV - NZ -  seems to require a seperate password so could not get through. I presume this channel is not free to air   ( by the way if someone really wants to get the NZ point of view - cricfree seems to have the 

 

6. Seven ( aus ) - official Australian free to air , could not get through live streaming but could see old videos 

 

7. NBC - requires a password but possibly you can watch a slightly poor mans version on cricfree 

 

some surprises -      did not find anything on youtube which was really sad ..............did not find anything on sportstream ( not sure why )  and also on batman stream may be I was missing out something 

 

 

guys if you have any more suggestions please add ( By the way i did not look at non english options - so I am sure there are many of them ) 

[Bhaw 13]

4 hours ago, nitinsanker said:

not sure prashant the time against each event is coming as local time though there is a clock whereas the google option gives me the IAST gainst each event 

Just click on the clock icon besides the date and you can choose your time zone.

[Bhaw 13]

Boxing draws are out. Shiva faces Cuban boxer in the first round, Vikas to face American.

[Kiruphagaran 1]

http://www.news18.com/news/olympics/nita-ambani-becomes-first-indian-woman-member-of-international-olympic-committee-1277755.html

Nita Ambani Becomes First Indian Woman Member Of International Olympic Committee

[Joseph 0]

That Cuban was a gold medallist in London

[Joseph 0]

British media was correct.This is sheer fixing.I am afraid Shiva is our best bet but AIBA sucks.
Manoj faces a bronze medallist from London.

Edited August 4, 2016 by Joseph

[shrikant 3]

Boxing results doesn't really matter...even if shiva is clear winner he will be declared as a loser