News:

No Ice?  Try these fitness workouts to stay in shape for skating! http://skatingforums.com/index.php?topic=8519.0

Main Menu

Olympics Mens Short Program ***SPOILERS****

Started by AgnesNitt, February 13, 2014, 12:31:06 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Isk8NYC

I'm watching it instead of the NBC computer feed because it's not stalling and I like the announcers better.  ;-)

Can't resist the "Bob's your uncle," "Cracking!" and other colloquialisms.  Reminds me of Harry Potter a bit.  sigh.
-- Isk8NYC --
"I like to skate on the other side of the ice." - Comedian Steven Wright

sarahspins

Quote from: Isk8NYC on February 14, 2014, 11:12:45 AM
This is really interesting: I'm streaming the Men's LP via my computer and the camera angle/announcers match NBC.  Over my iPad via the NBC Live app, it's a different angle and a set of UK-sounding announcers.

Weird, I streamed mine with the web version from nbcolympics.com (well I air played it to the Apple TV in another room) and got the Eurosport announcers for the men's long. I think the only time I ended up with anyone else was the pairs short which had Johnny and Tara and IMO was almost unwatchable for how annoying they were.

FigureSpins

I've decided that I'm going to see if I can get the German TV stream for the Ladies final. I'd love to listen to Katerina in German.   If I can't get rid of the announcers, I've decided to go for variety!
"If you still look good after skating practice, you didn't work hard enough."

Year-Round Skating Discussions for Figure Skaters - www.skatingforums.com

ONskater74

TV people in the UK need to remove the word "Brilliant" from their vocabulary!

nicklaszlo

Quote from: FigureSpins on February 14, 2014, 07:13:38 PM
I've decided that I'm going to see if I can get the German TV stream for the Ladies final. I'd love to listen to Katerina in German.   If I can't get rid of the announcers, I've decided to go for variety!

My favorite is the Russian coverage, because I can't understand them and they usually shut up during the programs.  The worst I ever saw was an Italian commentator.  She kept saying "Plushenko" over and over during the program I was watching, and Plushenko wasn't even in the competition.

icedancer

Where can I find the judges protocol sheets? Curious to see how this men's event was scored.

icedancer

I found it here - took a little tiny bit of digging on this site - the protocols are in the area where they list the skaters with what look like their mug shots.

http://www.usfsa.org/shell2.asp?sid=49844

FigureSpins

"If you still look good after skating practice, you didn't work hard enough."

Year-Round Skating Discussions for Figure Skaters - www.skatingforums.com

Lola


Schmeck

So I'm the only one who was not surprised Plushenko quit? I figured he'd withdraw from the singles before the Olympics even started - no way he was going to be on the podium, and no way he'd compete if he thought he wouldn't win.

I didn't think Brown would have a chance either. He has to skate 2 perfect programs to be close. A quad combo may beat him every time, no matter how much they gift him on the Program Components Score. He's got to work on those under-rotated jumps on the international level.