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[threeplusfire]

Ahh the Olympics. How I love them. I watch sports I would never think about, like badminton. Apparently Olympic level badminton is some seriously fast stuff. One of the first things on the coverage was the women's saber. There was some incredible intensity there, with a number of crazy long seconds of anticipation. The bouts were very close. Right now I'm watching a Russia vs Italy volleyball set.

Despite being outside for a less than ten total minutes yesterday, I have mosquito bites. TWO on my ribs and one on my thigh. WTF?

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[brienze.livejournal.com]

I remember watching a lot of the horsey stuff from Athens... USA network promised dressage this morning, but it's been a whole lot of womens' soccer instead.

Are NBC and USA the only channels to check programming on, do you know? TiVo's guide is surprisingly unhelpful in this circumstance.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

MSNBC is also running coverage of stuff that isn't just US teams. I saw some dressage at about 4am.

[brienze.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Added that one to the list.

Most of the time I don't even care what countries are playing, it's just a matter of how neat the sport is (or in cases like curling, how neat the commentating is).

[brienze.livejournal.com]

I just did a category search because I wasn't finding any equestrian stuff, and if dressage had already started I really should've been able to find it.

Turns out Oxygen network has the equestrian, some gymnastics, and synchronized swimming on at 5-7pm periodically. So that's one more channel to check out if you like the frou-frou girly sports.

[kevinblanchard.livejournal.com]

I guess Austin is rubbing off on me. I am currently silently protesting the Olympics in China because of the human and most recently animal rights issues.