Kicks off today at 17.00 with the first round of the women's football matches.
Link to the daily schedule on the BBC site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/rio-2016/schedule
Link to BBC list of GB & NI team:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/34813797
(If a name is in bold text, that's a link to a page about them).
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Baz posted:El Loro posted:I'm not sure how many of us will watch the opening ceremonies live - on BBC1 starting time 23.40 on Friday, finishing at 4 am
It is being repeated on BBC2 on Saturday morning from 9.15 to 12.00, presumably in a somewhat edited version.
Think I'll give that a miss
Me too 
Moonie posted:Baz posted:El Loro posted:I'm not sure how many of us will watch the opening ceremonies live - on BBC1 starting time 23.40 on Friday, finishing at 4 am
It is being repeated on BBC2 on Saturday morning from 9.15 to 12.00, presumably in a somewhat edited version.
Think I'll give that a miss
Me too
Given all the teams it always tends to go on , and on, and on .....
Baz posted:Moonie posted:Baz posted:El Loro posted:I'm not sure how many of us will watch the opening ceremonies live - on BBC1 starting time 23.40 on Friday, finishing at 4 am
It is being repeated on BBC2 on Saturday morning from 9.15 to 12.00, presumably in a somewhat edited version.
Think I'll give that a miss
Me too
Like the Never Ending Story
Moonie posted:Baz posted:Moonie posted:Baz posted:El Loro posted:I'm not sure how many of us will watch the opening ceremonies live - on BBC1 starting time 23.40 on Friday, finishing at 4 am
It is being repeated on BBC2 on Saturday morning from 9.15 to 12.00, presumably in a somewhat edited version.
Think I'll give that a miss
Me too
Like the Never Ending Story
Mind you , might be ok for the insomnia
Baz posted:Moonie posted:Baz posted:Moonie posted:Baz posted:El Loro posted:I'm not sure how many of us will watch the opening ceremonies live - on BBC1 starting time 23.40 on Friday, finishing at 4 am
It is being repeated on BBC2 on Saturday morning from 9.15 to 12.00, presumably in a somewhat edited version.
Think I'll give that a miss
Me too
Like the Never Ending Story
Yep, that's a thought
Given the time difference, this will be one Olympic year that will pass me by.
Hopefully Team GB will do well and I will mostly catch the results on the BBC website.
I agree with EC. Unless they show some of the cycling at a reasonable time it will be another Beijing for me.
The football season starts tomorrow too!
El Loro posted:EC, the Olympics are on daily from about 13.00 to 4 in the morning, so quite a lot are at watchable times.
Not for me I'm afraid El. I'm up at 5 in the morning, work till 5.30 and get home about 6.30-7.00.
BBC's list of their top 12 competitors with chances of gold for GB:
Adam Peaty (100m breaststroke)
Helen Glover and Heather Stanning (women's pair rowing)Alistair Brownlee (triathlon)
Nicola Adams (flyweight)
Mo Farah (5000m and 10000m)
Jessica Ennis-Hill (heptathlon)
David Florence (canoe single)
Laura Trott (team pursuit and omnium)
Sir Bradley Wiggins (team pursuit)
Charlotte Dujardin (dressage)
Andy Murray (tennis)
Jade Jones (57kg taekwondo)
Full article with details of each and estimated times of finals:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/36973874
Garage Joe posted:I agree with EC. Unless they show some of the cycling at a reasonable time it will be another Beijing for me.
The football season starts tomorrow too!
I seem to have got my days mixed up!
Details of BBC's 360-degree coverage of the Olympics:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/36974416
I never watched the London Olympics opening or closing ceremonies and won't be watching this one either shake
I think this whole Olympics is a farce anyway as they have let a lot of the banned competitors back in at the last minute. How will clean competitors feel if they are beaten by someone who was a proven drug cheat in the past?
Moonie posted:I never watched the London Olympics opening or closing ceremonies and won't be watching this one either shake
I think this whole Olympics is a farce anyway as they have let a lot of the banned competitors back in at the last minute. How will clean competitors feel if they are beaten by someone who was a proven drug cheat in the past?
Exactly Moonie. Also, its hard not to be cynical about even apparently "clean" competitors now. How many of them will be exposed, later down the road... 
Roger the Alien posted:Moonie posted:I never watched the London Olympics opening or closing ceremonies and won't be watching this one either shake
I think this whole Olympics is a farce anyway as they have let a lot of the banned competitors back in at the last minute. How will clean competitors feel if they are beaten by someone who was a proven drug cheat in the past?
Exactly Moonie. Also, its hard not to be cynical about even apparently "clean" competitors now. How many of them will be exposed, later down the road...
Agreed Rog 
Moonie posted:Roger the Alien posted:Moonie posted:I never watched the London Olympics opening or closing ceremonies and won't be watching this one either shake
I think this whole Olympics is a farce anyway as they have let a lot of the banned competitors back in at the last minute. How will clean competitors feel if they are beaten by someone who was a proven drug cheat in the past?
Exactly Moonie. Also, its hard not to be cynical about even apparently "clean" competitors now. How many of them will be exposed, later down the road...
Agreed Rog
Awful isn't it Moonie
The IOC are a shambles. They could not organise a p**s up in a brewery.
They should have taken this doping scandal by the scruff of the neck and dealt with it instead of palming off the responsibility.
It's completely ineffective management and in any other business that manager would be under a capability or given the boot.
It makes you wonder how many Olympic medals won over the course of the Olympic games have been won unfairly?
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
The IOC are a shambles. They could not organise a p**s up in a brewery.
They should have taken this doping scandal by the scruff of the neck and dealt with it instead of palming off the responsibility.
It's completely ineffective management and in any other business that manager would be under a capability or given the boot.
It makes you wonder how many Olympic medals won over the course of the Olympic games have been won unfairly?
My thoughts exactly EC
Moonie posted:I am actually "getting into" the Olympics after all I have said about it
PMSL!!
I'm finding I'm missing stuff I want to watch due to me not knowing which channel/time they're on. Frinstance I missed Adam Peaty in the swimming this afternoon 
Moonie posted:Sprout posted:I'm finding I'm missing stuff I want to watch due to me not knowing which channel/time they're on. Frinstance I missed Adam Peaty in the swimming this afternoon
There are 8 dedicated channels on Virgin
I'm not watching through Cable and prolly I don't have them all any more anyway 
I'm on the lowest package now
Moonie posted:Peaty came 5th didn't he?
No!
Baz posted:Sprout posted:I'm finding I'm missing stuff I want to watch due to me not knowing which channel/time they're on. Frinstance I missed Adam Peaty in the swimming this afternoon
Have you tried checking the timetable El loaded up there ^^^^
Oops! That might help 
Sprout posted:Moonie posted:Sprout posted:I'm finding I'm missing stuff I want to watch due to me not knowing which channel/time they're on. Frinstance I missed Adam Peaty in the swimming this afternoon
There are 8 dedicated channels on Virgin
I'm not watching through Cable
I've just been watching on BBC1 and BBC 4
Baz posted:Sprout posted:Moonie posted:Sprout posted:I'm finding I'm missing stuff I want to watch due to me not knowing which channel/time they're on. Frinstance I missed Adam Peaty in the swimming this afternoon
There are 8 dedicated channels on Virgin
I'm not watching through Cable
I've just been watching on BBC1 and BBC 4
Me too
