Olympic Cycling on TV?

[pk]

Has anyone figured out when the road and MTB events will be on TV? I'd like to set my video machine.

pk

[ArmOnFire]

NBC stinks, but .....

http://www.nbcolympics.com/cycling/index.html

Better listing....

http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/olympics04/?id=stages

[tmorash]

Not sure, but I am curious about NBC's CYCYLING results. Oops, typo midpage.

[C.P.]

WHDH Channel 7 Boston
I emailed them a few days ago for the same info.
Their event scheduleing combines coverage for a bunch of sports into time blocks - here's a basic list taken from their reply. If anyone wants the entire email lemme know. These are the cycling events I found in the email, the time blocks include coverage for other events - you'll burn a ton of VCR tape to get the events for sure...

SAT 14th 8PM-12AM Cycling * Mens Road Race

WED 18th 12:30PM-4PM Cycling * Women's Time Trial

SAT 21 11AM -6PM Cycling * Track

SUN 22 (actually Mon EARLY AM) 12:35AM-2AM Cycling * Track Gold Medal Finals

WED 25 8PM-12AM Cycling * Track Gold Medal Finals

FRI 27 (actually Sat Early AM) 12:35AM-2AM Cycling * Womens Mountain Biking

SAT 28 (actually Sun Early am) 12:35AM-2AM Cycling * Mens Mountain Biking

Doesn't look like as much coverage as there are races. It remains to be seen - not to mention there will be a few real LATE nights to view these events.

CP

[MrsCouch]

Looks like the TV coverage line up is missing one of the hotly contested events - men's TT. Guess we'll have to read about that one. Strange since Sports Illustrated has already predicted the outcome, and Tyler is in their medal count......

[C.P.]

Yeah, it's possible WHDH will cover the mens time trial on the 18th too - since it's the same day. Hopefully...

[TrailBate]

of course, they will only show 5 minutes of these events, then switch to something else, then switch to something else, then switch to watching sportcasters blabber about something for a half hour, then switch to something else, then show a 10 minute biography of some athlete, etc,etc,...
Why can't each network get rights to televise the olympics? have each event up for bidding by all the networks, each event goes to the highest bidder...ya know?
but, I digress.....