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Watching the Olympics here

 
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TexasPete



Joined: 24 May 2006
Location: Koreatown

PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:44 pm    Post subject: Watching the Olympics here Reply with quote

Anybody know where i can find Olympics videos to watch? I'd really like to check out some video or Phelps in the 400 m relay which i hear is a spectacular race, but youtube is removing any Olympic video almost instantly* and all the English sports websites i go to won't play anything because I'm in the "wrong territory". So, what's an ESL Teacher have to do to check out this stuff?

*i suppose if i paid 900 million for exclusive rights, i'd be pissed if people were posting that stuff too...still, i'd really like to see something with decent commentary!
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citizen erased



Joined: 06 Apr 2008

PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i just downloaded a torrent of that 400 M race

there is a girl in my class who has a pretty good video mp3 player, its get tv stations so we watched some on that too.


i want to get one of these mp3 players but i am afraid that all the channels will be in korean.


id almost rather not watch at all if its not in a language i dont understand but i cant stand to miss any more of it.
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MrRogers



Joined: 29 Jun 2008

PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I also was experiencing the same problem...and I was totally shocked yesterday when KBS Prime actually showed Phelps run instead of the normal zillion runs of Park...it was the first time in three days that I had seen it Rolling Eyes

However, yesterday I was able to access Phelps swim on this site:

http://kr.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CDCDF905C8BC01E9

but today I see they won't let me though other medleys are avaialbe. NBC is just controlling things...unbelievably...scary....
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TexasPete



Joined: 24 May 2006
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, the crappiest thing about NBC is that it wouldn't tell me the video is unavailable in my region until AFTER i downloaded their player Twisted Evil
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MrRogers



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://kr.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CDCDF905C8BC01E9

I see that it is available further down the page....

I would like to see the one that happened today? 200 m?
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