I want the raw and the cooked including ads and I am willing to pay for it

If you watch TV coverage of the Olympics, you see coaches, fans and friends taking videos and photographs of the Olympics. Yet next to none of that is on the web, aargh.

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Like Arieanna and Boris, I want the raw and the cooked and I am willing to pay for it.

I want the established media's Q&A, high gloss stuff.

I want the raw video, text, photos, audio from the fans, coaches and friends of the athletes.

In other words, I want the everything there is available for the Olympic events I am really interested in.

For example, I am a cross country skier. So for Chandra Crawford's win in cross country pursuitsprint (Chandra's CBC web forum):

I want videos of the entire race; I want the coaches, I want the established media's.

I want her friend's videos, I want the fans, basically whoever is willing to put it up in public.

I want podcasts of her interviews.

I want videos of the technicians waxing her skis! It's critical to see this because that may have won the race for her.

I want to know what gear she uses; heck I'd love to have an RSS feed full of ads for the gear she uses.

This falls in line with my 2010 made in Vancouver blogging vision.

And this doesn't conflict with the IOC, their branding and their business model. In fact it complements it.

Because I'd be willing to pay. Say $CAN 50-100 for this coverage for all the sports in the Winter Olympics.

And using technology you could put an 1 or 2 hour embargo on this stuff (heck the stuff could and probably should be on an IOC endorsed web site) to allow the established media to get their scoop.