Good luck to the British team :-) - Lets see some Gold!

Post by **SteveM** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 11:50 pm

You know you can do it

mwilk · Post by **mwilk** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:25 pm

Pick yourselves up a copy of Radio Times. It has a good section covering all the programming for terrestrial, Freeview [3 BBC interactive channels] and Sat/cable [5 or 6 BBC interactive channels]. There appears to 100% coverage and it even appears to have distinguished between 'canoe slalom' and 'canoeing' [latter is presumably flat water].
In my experience, Eurosport listings are unreliable and BBC won't have ads to ruin your videotape.

Seedy Paddler · Post by **Seedy Paddler** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:30 am

Well Done David Florence
Qualifies for semi in 3rd place having posted the fastest qualifying C1 time. Another couple of runs to match that second qualifying run and we could be looking at Gold!

jim croft · Post by **jim croft** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:49 am

:;): Well done David and Campbell look forward to tomorrow you can both do it
Jim

Seedy Paddler · Post by **Seedy Paddler** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:01 pm

Campbell through in 9th

All the best to both David & Campbell for the morn!

hhzoombird · Post by **hhzoombird** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:44 pm

Kayak slalom - couldn't find it on the telly, but the whole thing was on the bbc site on the watch live pages.

This year's commentary infinitely, infinitely better than the previous olympics (when they had that nice pretty lad off the travel show explaining oars to us, and worrying if the competitors "went a bit backwards, oh dear") - this time they have Helen Reeves doing the talking, hooray.
The other comentator doesn't seem to be a paddler, or know much about paddling, and just mainly reads out statistics about each paddler, or their recorded philosophy soundbite, but he seems mostly harmless.

Great stuff K1M and C1 both through to the next round.

djberriman · Post by **djberriman** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 2:47 pm

Was on Digital TV. Must admit I couldn't find it either nor in any schedule as I was expecting it on at 8.30 but I stayed tuned in and up it popped although it did seem to miss the first C1 runs.

Wish the commentator would let Helen speak, he kept interrupting her with stuff that wasn't very relevant but overall the coverage was pretty good (although they both missed a 50 being awarded to the Chinese competitor and only picked up on it later - half head I think).

Not sure why the local coverage editor thought that the most interesting thing to replay was the paddler splashing water on their face at the start each time though. Some nice action replays though.

Well done team GB, and good luck!

Anne · Post by **Anne** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:19 pm

It was all on BBC interactive from just after 8am!

TOG · Post by **TOG** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:43 pm

In addition to commentary, camera positioning and shots also much better than in some previous years -really gave a good(!) idea of the water and the flow of the course - design/layout helped with this. Very impressive coverage - and results for David and Campbell - so far.

Richie · Post by **Richie** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:34 pm

I hope I'm not going to get people up earlier than they need to be, but I'm pretty sure the racing starts at 8:00am and not 8:40am on Tuesday morning. If you want to double check, below is the link to the official start list (Beijing is 7hrs ahead of us):

http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM....M210201

djberriman · Post by **djberriman** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:21 pm

The RYA are sending me details of whats happening each day in sailing with links to all the results, news etc on their olympic web site.

Any similar service available from the BCU?

Seedy Paddler · Post by **Seedy Paddler** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:53 am

:;):

Well Done Dave, through in 4th (unofficial). Second fastest in semi behind Martikan but picked up a touch. Only 1.5 secs behind Martikan in Gold position for the semi!

Post by **SteveM** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:08 am

Ooops, bugger

Bad luck Campbell! I've seen the results but not the run - anyone tell me what went wrong?

Steve

TOG · Post by **TOG** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:20 am

Fantastic second run by David for medal. Only God (aka Martikan) could better.