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):

More results from Saturday and Sunday

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:42:48 -0800

20Km W's Cross-country Skiiing

Estonia's Kristina Smigun opened the medal count for the former-Soviet, Baltic countries with a Gold in 15km pursuit Cross-Country (the race in which Canada's Beckie Scott finished 6th). Katerina Neumannova from Czech Republic took Silver finishing about a second behind while Russia's Evgenia Medvedeva-Abruzova scored the Bronze medal. Beside Beckie's 6th, Canada's Sara Renner of Canmore, AB., finished 16th in a discipline which saw numerous competetitors already suspended for 5 days for high blood hempglobin levels or something.

Vancouver 2010 Olympics Coverage Daily - cross-country skiing

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

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More results from Saturday and Sunday