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

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:04:32 -0800

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 ~~pursuit~~sprint (Chandra's CBC web forum):

(Somewhat Lame) Poll Results

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:58:24 -0800

The latest Poll idea was cool, but i forgot to include Snowboarding so (i ssume) that most votes counted in "something else" were for the omitted sport - ooops.

Beyond that, Short-track Speedskating was the popular pick with 25% of the 61 votes, followed by Ski Jumping (my vote) with 20% (12 votes), then "Something Else" (likely Snowboarding) 16% rounded out the top 3 picks.

Freestyle Skiing and the Sliding Sports (luge, bob, skeleton) tied for a strong fourth with 13% each while Longtrack Speedskating (11%) and Cross Country Skiiing (2%) rounded out the poll.

Any new sports you think should be added to future Winter Olympics?

Vancouver 2010 Olympics Coverage Daily - crosscountry skiing

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

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(Somewhat Lame) Poll Results