Can I watch the Olympics?!

I used a cable network login to get it set up on my Roku TV and the men's pre and final on the "replay" were both chopping off the lead portion - not sure if it was a time or memory limitation on the roku or just what NBC was including in the replay. It was also causing my Roku to spontaneously reboot if I tried to get fancy with rewinding or fast forwarding too much or even sometimes just loading a different clip from a highlight. Anyway, I got fed up with this and eventually just pulled up NBC sports olympics in Chrome and found I could stream it from there. There is a 30min time limit BUT you can jump around (the time bar is a bit annoying and would sometimes lock up, particularly going in and out of full screen mode) and if you use Chrome in incognito mode it'll let you come back for another 30 min session, which if you jump past the BS downtime can get you through most of the interesting bits. That said, I only used that tactic for the lead portions since those were totally failing on my TV. 

Best of luck in your efforts. I agree though, it's aggravating trying to view and the commentary is laughable, if enthusiastic. 

Harry Kwrote:

Seriously… the way the Olympics coverage is structured, it’s like they don’t want anyone to watch it.

But dudes, I feel your pain, I too found it impossible to find any decent replays or coverage so I gave up. Apparently some Spanish dude I have literally never heard of won?

Gines-Lopez is a top top talent, especially on lead.  He's young so while you've maybe never heard of him, you likely will if he keeps on improving (he's only 18).  

That said, he got insanely lucky.  He won speed by a couple of flukes:

• Bassa was injured; he was a nearly-certain winner of speed had that not happened
• Colin Duffy false-started in his head-to-head with Gines-Lopez, giving the latter a default victory in the first round; Colin is a local here and trains at my gym, so perhaps I'm biased, but in my view Colin would have smoked him if not for the false start (by the way: it looks like Colin did NOT false start because he left the timing pad before the bell... but that's not the rule.  The rule is you cannot leave the timing pad within 0.1 secs of the bell because human reaction time is lower than that*)
• Gines-Lopez won the final against Tomoa Narasaki only because Tomoa fell off; Tomoa is a sub-6 speed climber despite not being a speed specialist

Being first in speed was a HUGE boost for Gines-Lopez.  Although he's a very good boulder/lead climber, he didn't perform that well in the final rounds on either one yet the win in speed was enough to get him the gold.

Nathaniel was amazing.  Nathaniel is amazing.

Ondra and Narasaki out of the medals is a shock; I had predicted Narasaki would win gold and Ondra silver... wow.  

Colin Duffy made several mistakes, especially on speed  but also on the lead wall; he was very capable of winning the whole thing if not for a false start on speed and a slip on the lead.  He'll be back, though.  He's 17 years old and still getting stronger.

*I may have the time gap wrong; it may be less than 0.1 secs, but there is some time that must elapse before you leave the ground or else you are deemed to have "guessed the bell" instead of hearing and reacting. 

John RBwrote:

*I may have the time gap wrong; it may be less than 0.1 secs, but there is some time that must elapse before you leave the ground or else you are deemed to have "guessed the bell" instead of hearing and reacting. 

I've been so confused by this! There are countdown beeps to the starting signal, and as far as I can tell, the countdown beeps are always on the same rhythm. If the goal is not to have athletes "guess the bell," why is there a countdown to it? I understand the 0.1 second rule in a sport like sprinting, where the gun is random, but it makes no sense for the system they use in speed climbing.

Chris Stockingwrote:

I've been so confused by this! There are countdown beeps to the starting signal, and as far as I can tell, the countdown beeps are always on the same rhythm. If the goal is not to have athletes "guess the bell," why is there a countdown to it? I understand the 0.1 second rule in a sport like sprinting, where the gun is random, but it makes no sense for the system they use in speed climbing.

I was wondering the same thing! Some of the climbers noticeably swing their momentum before starting off; maybe that is technically illegal but hard to enforce? Either way it seems dumb to draw an arbitrary time after the pressure switch, which can already tell if they've left the ground before the bell..

A V wrote:

Why the fuck is it so hard to watch. Nobody pays for cable, that shit is dead. Why do I have to get a vpn to watch it for free on cbc? Why can’t this be as simple as streaming the damn thing? What the hell is wrong with this country 

I feel your pain dude!

I tried the YouTube/NBC thing and it still says I don’t have privileges… total shit

Mitch Lwrote:

Yeah its annoying, but I just use a vpn (hola chrome extension is free) then CBC.ca for the Canadian stream.  They have live and video replays of the full event after the fact.  Thanks Canada!

This seems to be working for me. 33mins in to the men's qualifier. Many many hours to go :)

Thanks

Alan Raderwrote:

I use NordVPN and connected to a canada server, get an error 26 when trying to play using FF, Chrome, Edge.  :(

I use Express VPN and I'm currently on a Toronto server and downloading the finals from CBC via Firefox with zero issues.

On a different note, is anyone aware of a curated/edited version of the finals? Something maybe 90 minutes long that basically shows the most interesting climbers? The full finals videos from CBC are each about 5 hrs long.

https://youtu.be/9LXySxPDZx0

Full stream