Abhinav Bindra olympics gold medal video
Congratulations Abhinav Bindra !!
Finally from a population of India's 1 billion people plus, Abhinav Bindra got first ever gold medal for India in the Olympics since 1928. Bindra’s gold medal came form men's 10m air rifle event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
You tube video of Abhinav Bindra's medal ceremony
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Finally from a population of India's 1 billion people plus, Abhinav Bindra got first ever gold medal for India in the Olympics since 1928. Bindra’s gold medal came form men's 10m air rifle event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
You tube video of Abhinav Bindra's medal ceremony
Labels: 2008 Summer Olympics, Abhinav Bindra, Asia, Beijing, Gold medal, India, Olympic Games, Olympics
written by Kalyan @ 10:31 AM,
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Olympics 2008 live streaming sites - US, UK, India, Canada
Live streaming sites:
Here are few options for those who want to watch summer Olympics 2008 on their PCs. NBAOlympics has a video section on their site for all US visitors to watch the games live or on demand. YouTube "Olympics" channel is available to more than 60 countries including India.
List of all streaming options:
US:
NBC
itsgametime.tv
Watch Olympics
TVTonic
http://www.cctvolympics.com/
COX
77 territories, including South Korea, India and Nigeria
YOUTUBE
UK:
BBC
Australia:
Yahoo
Canada:
CBC
P2P streaming info :
SopCast
Sopcast download Download this sopcast , Install and log in as anonymous and you will find atleast one channel streaming the game on game day.Have patience the buffering takes a while.
If you are using Mozilla FireFox (sopcast doesn't work in Firefox), use Internet Explorer browser to view the match
If you can't see sopcast player in the site, then you need to download and install sopcast.
AFTER STARTING SOPCAST PLAYER, WAIT TILL THE BUFFERING IS DONE.
TVU Player
Click me for TVU player download
After downloading and installing TVU player browse through the channels and you will sure find one channel that has 'Olympics'.
Labels: 2008 Summer Olympics, events, Internet Explorer, live, Mozilla FireFox, Olympic Games, Olympics, sopcast, Sports, streaming, US, watch online
written by Kalyan @ 1:11 AM,
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TV Channels showing 2008 Olympics Beijing -- USA, UK, Canada, India
Image via WikipediaUSA -- NBC TV Channel numbers with dates and times: For 17-day sporting event, NBC is spending $894 million to get exclusive broadcasting rights to the Beijing 2008 Olympic games. The timngs are a big concern for US viewers as most games start at night and continue to the early mornings.
MSNBC (Soccer & Basketball) , CNBC (Boxing, Softball) , USA (Basketball, Soccer, Baseball Gold medal game) are the channels where these games can be watched if you live in US. Comcast, Direct TV and Dish Network channel line up is required for their respective channel numbers.
| Comcast | DirectTV | Dish Network | |
| MSNBC | 60 | 356 | 209 |
| CNBC | 58 | 355 | 208 |
| Telemundo | 18 | 407 | 836 |
| USA | 42 | 242 | 105 |
| Oxygen | 73 | 251 | 127 |
Here is the program guide ( the below one is for US central time -- change it to your local zip code to get the times and the events dateails for your place)
UK -- BBC TV Channel numbers with dates and times:
In the UK, the BBC bought the TV rights to telecast 2008 Olympics.
BBC ONE and BBC TWO will bring you 300 hours of extensive coverage from the Games.
We will be broadcasting from approximately 0200 to 1800 BST each day (some events such as the equestrian start earlier than 0200) and we will screen live coverage of the day's best sport.
Canada -- CBC and TSN Television Schedule:
Wiki's list of all Summer Olympics 2008 international broadcasters:
Wiki article covered all international broadcasters list here though finding the schedule for each broadcaster is not made easy.
Here is the table form Wiki .. I'll try to edit the channel link to point them to their individual channel schedule page.
Labels: 2008 Summer Olympics, BBC ONE, Beijing, Beijing 2008 Olympic, Olympic Games, Olympics, Sports, Summer Olympic Games
written by Kalyan @ 5:30 PM,
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Olympics 2008 Basketball schedule match start times
Image via WikipediaUS team with star players like Kobe Bryant enters Beijing with splendid welcome by winning their diamond ball Olympic similar match against Aussies whose ace player Bogut did not play in warm up match.Lisa Leslie & Candace Parker led the US Women's basketball team against Australia's warm up match.Tatiana Shchegoleva and Becky Hammon gets ready to play their part for Russia. China is betting on Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian for gold medal.
Favorite teams in my opinion are United states, Australia , Russia and China.
Interesting competition awaits and here are the start times for all basketball fans.
| Match Time | Teams playing | Match starts in another |
| August-2008-8 9:00 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 1 (Belarus vs Australia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-8 11:15 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 1 (Mali vs New Zealand) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-9 2:30 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 2 (Spain vs China) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-9 4:45 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 2 (Brazil vs South Korea) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-9 8:00 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 3 (USA vs Czech Republic) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-9 10:15 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 3 (Russia vs Latvia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-9 9:00 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 1 (Russia vs Iran) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-9 11:15 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 1 (Germany vs Angola) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-10 2:30 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 2 (Spain vs Greece) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-10 4:45 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 2 (Lithuania vs Argentina) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-10 8:00 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 3 (Australia vs Croatia ) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-10 10:15 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 3 (USA vs China) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-10 9:00 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 4 (New Zealand vs Spain) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-10 11:15 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 5 (Czech Republic vs Mali) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-11 2:30 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 4 (South Korea vs Russia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-11 4:45 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 5 (Latvia vs Belarus ) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-11 8:00 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 6 (China vs USA) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-11 10:15 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 6 (Australia vs Brazil) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-11 9:00 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 4 (Iran vs Lithuania) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-11 11:15 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 5 (Croatia vs Russia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-12 2:30 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 4 (Greece vs Germany) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-12 4:45 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 5 (China vs Spain) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-12 8:00 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 6 (Angola vs USA) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-12 10:15 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 6 (Argentina vs Australia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-12 9:00 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 7 (Belarus vs Russia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-12 11:15 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 7 (Spain vs Czech Republic) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-13 2:30 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 8 (Brazil vs Latvia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-13 4:45 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 8 (New Zealand vs China) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-13 8:00 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 9 (Australia vs South Korea) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-13 10:15 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 9 (Mali vs USA) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-13 9:00 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 7 (Germany vs Spain) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-13 11:15 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 7 (Australia vs Iran) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-14 2:30 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 8 (Angola vs China) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-14 4:45 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 8 (Lithuania vs Russia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-14 8:00 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 9 (USA vs Greece) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-14 10:15 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 9 (Argentina vs Croatia ) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-14 9:00 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 10 (Czech Republic vs New Zealand) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-14 11:15 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 10 (Latvia vs Australia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-15 2:30 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 11 (Russia vs Brazil) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-15 4:45 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 11 (China vs Mali) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-15 8:00 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 12 (USA vs Spain) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-15 10:15 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 12 (South Korea vs Belarus ) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-15 9:00 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 10 (Greece vs Angola) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-15 11:15 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 10 (Russia vs Australia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-16 2:30 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 11 (Croatia vs Lithuania) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-16 4:45 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 12 (Iran vs Argentina) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-16 8:00 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 11 (China vs Germany) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-16 10:15 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 12 (Spain vs USA) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-16 9:00 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 13 (Spain vs Mali) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-16 11:15 PM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 13 (Australia vs Russia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-17 2:30 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 14 (Latvia vs South Korea) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-17 4:45 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 15 (Brazil vs Belarus ) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-17 8:00 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 14 (Czech Republic vs China) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-17 10:15 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 15 (New Zealand vs USA) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-17 9:00 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 13 (Iran vs Croatia ) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-17 11:15 PM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 14 (Australia vs Lithuania) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-18 2:30 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 13 (Greece vs China) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-18 4:45 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 14 (Angola vs Spain) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-18 8:00 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group B game 15 (USA vs Germany) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-18 10:15 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Preliminary round Group A game 15 (Argentina vs Russia) | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-19 2:30 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Quarterfinal game 1 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-19 4:45 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Quarterfinal game 2 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-19 8:00 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Quarterfinal game 3 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-19 10:15 AM ET | Women's Basketball - Quarterfinal game 4 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-20 2:30 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Quarterfinal game 1 | Match Starts in -- |
| August-2008-20 4:45 AM ET | Men's Basketball - Quarterf |