I've only seen the first day, but I loved Kanako Murakami's performance. She is so fun!
If you get Universal Sports (aka, the NBC Sports channel) on cable, they are showing most of the events several times over the next few days.
Unfair! Universal Sports streamed the Olympics video over the Internet for free, for the most part. Why does the Grand Prix cost money?
You can see a lot of the Grand Prix at
http://YouTube.com for free if you search for
"grand prix" 2010 skating
Not everything on Youtube is legit. The quality is spotty too.
If you are in the U.S. and have a local NBC TV station, Universal Sports is probably broadcast in the same band as the main NBC channel. I think U.S. cable TV companies have to provide all local broadcast stations, but they often provide some as Clear QAM channels, which many TVs, VCRs, DVD recorders and DVRs can't receive. For example, we have NBC on cable box channel 4. I have a DVD recorder with a clear QAM tuner. If I bypass the cable box, or split the signal before the box, and send the direct signal to the DVD recorder, I can receive NBC on analog channel 4, and on clear QAM channel 4-1. 4-2 is NBC weather. 4-3 is Universal sports. (Most clear QAM channels are HD. My DVDR only produces old-style standard resolution, but it still looks cleaner than the analog signal.)
I think if you receive an NBC station through an antenna, and you have an ATSC (digital) tuner, and you get the extra channel #'s (like 4-1, 4-2, 4-3), you can receive it that way too. But some new fangled TVs don't get those extra channel #'s (or they get 4-1, but not 4-2, 4-3, etc.), just as some can't tune the clear QAM channels from cable.
As it so happens, I can also get Universal Sports on channel 207 of the cable box. But by splitting the signal as described, I can record one channel on the DVD recorder while I watch or record another from the cable box.