Beijing Olympic Games 2008

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Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but the EBU have a page up with all their 12 streams that they are providing to broadcasters. You can also watch the feeds from different EBU members on the site as well:

http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/olympics/

The BBC are not showing, however I don't know if they remove the host of the country that you are in.

So the Athletics starts and everything else is pushed out of the coverage, even though Athletics is nowhere near as important to Britain's Olympic interests as it was a few years ago.

This is why during these peak times, especially this weekend, that coverage is needed both on BBC1 and BBC2 so events like the swimming and cycling aren't sidelined for the athletics.


Also this has to be one of the worst presentation teams the BBC has sent to the Olympics. Rishi Persaud is awful, while it's too much too soon for Jake Humprey. He's still CBBC in my eyes. Adrian Chiles is generally great, but seems a bit out of place at the Olympics, while John Inverdale is criminally underused.

Hazel Irvine is by far the best presenter out there, which only highlights it's about time Sue Barker stepped aside.

I think presenter line up is brilliant!! Hazel and Adrian at breakfast and Gaby Logan in the evening!! Great line up!! Plus you have Sue Barker during the day!! Absulately great team!! Also I'm a big fan of Clare Balding so....

Some quite questionable scheduling today with The Games Today especially being a shortened 45-minutes on a day where it was always evident it would provide a medal haul for Britain. Especially questionable when later in the evening after Match of the Day they join "BBC News" for just 20 minutes before live Olympic coverage begins.


Praise for sticking with the cycling rather than switching to the athletics on BBC1, but disgraceful that as soon as Chris Hoy won on BBCi it was just cut off in favour of MotoGP.

I think the BBC is lacking a strong male all round Sports presenter though.

John Inverdale. I could see him introducing football easily enough, tennis, snooker... I reckon given the chance he'd edge out Ray Stubbs easily, who has never seemed at ease with snooker or darts.

They've got the best sports presenter around, it's just John Inverdale is criminally underused. He should be heading up this coverage, but apart from the rowing he's shunted out to Five Live, meaning we have to put up with Jake Humphreys.

I do like Adrian Chiles but I think for him to make an impact as something other than a football presenter he needs to be doing more than just a couple of hours in the morning.

Two votes for Invers. I feel a petition coming on...

On a slightly different note, I wonder how much the delectable Amy McDonald is getting for letting Auntie use clean versions of This Is The Life and Mr Rock N Roll as their intro / coming up beds on Olympic Breakfast and the like?

Sorry for double posting, but in a tremendously pathetic piece of spin, NBC are stacking their Olympic medal table by total medals won, as opposed to the correct IOC method of total Golds counting first.... the result of this being that the USA are top of the NBC-version of the medal table ....and Britain are down, below France who have won less gold medals that we have today

That is bad scheduling, but it's obviously so they can show Last Choir Standing before The X Factor starts

It's pointless Adrian Chiles even being there, he must appear for about 15 mins maximum on Olympic Breakfast, the only part of the coverage that has more than one presenter

Anyone else finding the lack of a weekly 'Grandstand' is showing through with these games? The precision of switching between sports that Grandstand was so expert at seems to be lacking in my opinion.