deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
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I'm a Unionist and I reckon I deserve a lot more than we're getting.
Track racing, Rio 2016 **spoilers**
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Guru
Hopefully.
Really? For a minority sport it gets pretty good coverage, I'd have thought.
Granted, that the channel changing is irritating if you're not on the BBCOlympic channel.
sleaver
Veteran
Its a 3D representation of Rio's Olympics logo and is the shapes of three people linked together by their arms. They are trying to promote sustainability rather than given out something like flowers which are just thrown away.
Ok, I did Google it
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
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I can't get the Olympic channel and the coverage has been so bad I've watched most from the live streams. And, let's face it, cycling is not a minority medal sport.
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Guru
The poor coverage did allow me to discover the joy of Murder, She Wrote
HF2300
Insanity Prawn Boy
Rather ironic considering deforestation in the Amazon, most of which is in Brazil.
Good grief...
mjr
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Sounds like a poor COCKtail. You got the idea after hearing about Cav cocking his leg? I guess a lot of road riders can pee on the move so it's good that Cav's road skills are useful on the track.
brommers
Years beyond my wisdom
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I thought everyone can get the red button coverage? - uninterrupted coverage. What's the 'Olympic Channel'? 
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Red button is a heap of dung way of changing channels without BBC risking their sheeple looking at another broadcaster's channels. It is easier to just change channels normally. There are channels called BBC Olympics 1..8 and 1..8 HD, but not all are visible at all times and some aren't visible in all areas. The commentators are sometimes on Olympics and sometimes on BBC 1 or 2 or 4. I don't know why they can't put them on both.I thought everyone can get the red button coverage? - uninterrupted coverage. What's the 'Olympic Channel'?
Oh and red button has some short pages of slow text, but it's no Ceefax.
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
As one who's never watched a track event until tonight, I have to say I was amazed that Cavendish could do what he did without any kind of sanction. It seemed, at best, astonishingly careless/clumsy, felled three opponents, and put one of them in hospital. You can do that and 'get away with it'? Scot free, like nothing ever happened? Really? It was noticeably absent from the post-race discussions too - couldn't help feeling that if one of 'them' had done it to our chap, we'd have heard a lot more about it...
(In other news, the way Laura Trott powered away on the final lap may be the single most impressive thing I've seen at these games. That was just jaw-dropping.)
(In other news, the way Laura Trott powered away on the final lap may be the single most impressive thing I've seen at these games. That was just jaw-dropping.)
