Beijing vs London Olympic Architecture

[Tom Kelly]

If the BBC had put USA vs Canada in the Women's football on BBC 1, 99% of Great Britain would have turned over to whatever was being shown on BBC 3. Women's football is very low on the list of sports that the British public want to watch.

If you wanted to watch the football, you could watch it on BBC 3. The Men's football has all been shown on BBC 3 rather than BBC 1 too, even the "Team GB" games.

The "anonymous cyclists" and "Team GB losers" are national heroes........We British don't half love a good loser. In pretty dire times when it comes to the national mood the British public want something to celebrate so the BBC gives it to them as it is paid to do.

[Tom Kelly]

If they tried to fill all of the 'downtime' they wouldn't be able to cover one single event properly, it would be cutting back and forth all the time, not good tele in my opinion. They have repeatedly made it very clear if you want to you can change channel to watch another sport. If the downtime annoys you press the red button or go online and watch something else.

The downtime also gives you chance to hear the opinions of the fantastic pundits and commentators the BBC has yet again. There are probably more gold medals in the studio than we will actually win out on the tracks. Steve Cram, Colin Jackson, Denise Lewis, Johnathan Edwards, Mark Foster and Chris Boardman etc have all been great as per usual. But I especially like our American friend Michael Johnson who gives some fantastic insight into the sprint races. I also thought Ian Thorpe was great during the swimming too. Two icons of sport that keep coming back to the BBC rather than their own US or Aussie channels and I seriously doubt the BBC pays them more. Why do they both keep coming back to the BBC?

[Sean_A]

Heavy sigh.  Talking to you lot is like bangin' me head against a wall.  I guess I am the only one with a tv license in the UK who actually wants to see sport rather than listen to the same old nonsense from people sitting in a booth - call me crazy.  Hell, the Beeb may as well have commercials to make money if there is going to be that much down time.  Imagine if the Beeb didn't show half a football game because of stupid chit chat - thats exactly how feel trying to watch the Os.  I really thought the main channels were going to better monitor what was happening elsewhere (on my behalf as its easy for them to do) and let then clue me in when good stuff was going down.  So far, that hasn't been the case.

I too applaud the use of the excellent cast of experts, but not at the expense of good sport.  

I have to say, the coverage is very choppy anyway - so not sure what the big deal is in cutting in to offer good sport for a while then push the viewer to another channel (by giving the exact channel rather than saying go to the red button - how hard is that?).  I just wish the Beeb utilized their array of coverage much better.

Ciao

[John Kavanaugh]

I was wrong. Digging the modern architecture of London. I just wish the track was faster.

[Kalen Braley]

The Olympic coverage on NBC has gotten so bad....

I tuned in this morning to watch a little before heading to work and they were actually doing a replay of a puff piece they did on gymnastics from last week.  You read that right, they were actually replaying a 15 minute long puff piece instead of showing action for today.

My gawd, can it get any worse!!