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Bode has some decent insight, but his excitement level wasn't there. It's almost like he wasn't that interested in watching someone else in the ski races he used to be in. NBC had announced Ligety would be there a couple of weeks ago, glad he's on board. Curious to see if Porino is in Stamford or Beijing. Either way, he's the most consistent thing in NBC's alpine coverage all these years. No idea what the story with Singer is. They used him in 2002, but haven't had him on there since. Not that I mind Leigh Diffey. And yes, incredible to still have John Morgan. I think this will be his 11th Olympics for American television. He's been around so long, he did 2 Games for ABC. "SPEEEEED!"

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Good to hear. Would hate for a country like Australia to have qualified for a team sport and not have them be able to compter

Correct. Both networks saw it as a win. CBS got the windfall from the Super Bowl a year earlier than they were supposed to, plus it helped the advertising market for the NCAA Tournament and the Final Four (which was on CBS last year, but not this year). And they wouldn't have to compete against NBC's Olympics coverage. And because the date of the game only got changed in the last year, NBC got the ISU folks to change the figure skating schedule so they'd get the free dance the night of the Super Bowl

The Super Bowl would have originally been a week earlier except the NFL chose this year to extend the regular season. So the Olympics and Super Bowl would have clashed anyway. I'll have 3 screens (plus my computer) going, 1 less than the Summer Olympics. So I should be covered. Big event that night is figure skating, plus the 4th run of the women's monobob will hit right around when the game is ending.

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Epic match. Glad it went long enough to see the finish when I woke up this morning. Vamos Rafa! 21 slams!!

Wow, I was actually at the Millrose Games today! That's disappointing about Crouser, thought we saw a piece of history there

Sources: U.S. Olympic bobsled team dealing with COVID-19 'nightmare' Affects the skeleton team as well. Multiple positives involved. Which makes it very fortunate the bobsleigh competition doesn't start until the 2nd half of the games

What an age we live in that Canadians are talking about getting a VPN to watch American coverage rather than the other way around! Worth noting that cable-authenticated users will be able to get coverage through the NBC Sports App and through nbcolympics.com as they have in the past. The addition of Peacock is a major game-changer for cord-cutters, especially after the mess they made of Tokyo. And to @NearPup's point.. I subscribed as of a couple of weeks ago and have been watching a lot of biathlon. We'll see if I keep it after the Paralympics. @Triplecast My best guess is that anything airing on cable in the US will be the NBC announcers and the rest (think all the curling and hockey not on TV) will be the OBS feed, but likely with announcers. I have my spreadsheet (linked in my signature) to keep track. Stay connected either here or on Twitter to help me stay updated

Team USA en route to Beijing..

Given all the COVID restrictions, probably not a smart idea for a large mass of people to gather together, Last thing China needs is to knock a bunch of athletes out of commission because if 1 person with COVID shows up without a strong enough mask, it could infect many other athletes

Just trying to bump up that team size!

Seen plenty of football stadiums for them like that as well. That's why it's next to impossible to build a suitable large scale athletics venue in the United States. None of these billion dollar NFL stadiums would every leave that much room between the stands and the playing field

U.S. gets another Olympic ski jumping spot Most notably, they're up to 4 men's jumpers, so they'll get to compete in the men's team event

Hockey has a much larger footprint than many sports including basketball and volleyball. Yes, most arenas in North America are versatile enough that they work for both hockey and basketball. And then in the rare instances they need more floor space, such as for a concert, they can make that work too

The problem with Barclays was that it was too small to fit a hockey rink, so it never worked there. This is the opposite problem.. too much space. That's tough to get when we're talking about a hockey ice surface. And you're right, this looks extremely ugly

What the Fukuoka?

And I'm sure Brittany Bowe knew that when she gave her spot after the trials to Erin Jackson knowing there would be a good chance the US would get a 3rd skater entered. Looking forward to that final. It'll be the morning of the Super Bowl here and a very reasonable 9am ET.

Did someone turn down a quota to get a 3rd USA spot in the women's 500m? That obviously would have changed the landscape of the trials when Erin Jackson finished 3rd and Brittany Bowe give up her spot for Jackson to be 1 of the 2 skaters

That was the most insane weekend of playoff football I can remember. Saved the best for last with Bills-Chiefs. That was a new level of insane

They stream everything and now they're making it all available on Peacock, as opposed to what they've done the past few Olympics where you can only access streaming if you're a cable or satellite subscriber. NBC cut way back on hockey as opposed to last time where every men's game and nearly every women's game was televised live. Not the case here, although the good thing about that is that there are a lot more events from other sports being shown, especially gold medal finals. Which is great to see

And both #1 seeds have now been eliminated as the 2nd game of the night ends in the same fashion as the first.. 49ers with a field goal to win it. Perhaps we've seen the last of Aaron Rodgers as a Green Bay Packer

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