The Sports activities Archives – 4 Info About The 2014 Winter Olympics!

My first reminiscence of the winter Olympics revolved round watching 15-year-old Tara Lipinski dazzle the judges and audiences in all places along with her flawless performances and radiant vitality in the course of the 1998 video games. I’ve been an ardent fan of the winter Olympics ever since. With sports activities starting from ice skating to bobsledding to cross nation snowboarding, the winter Olympics boasts a full roster of fascinating sports activities and provoking performances. Right here are some things to find out about this yr’s Olympics:

1.) The Olympics Are Much less Than 3 Weeks Away

The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics will begin on Friday, February 7 with an Opening Ceremony and finish on Sunday, February 23 with a closing ceremony. Through the intervening 17 days, there will likely be a whole bunch of athletics competing for his or her international locations.

2.) NBC Will Reside Stream All Occasions

Along with TV protection, NBC will reside stream the video games on-line. “Each occasion goes to be obtainable reside on-line for the primary time ever in a Winter Video games,” Mark Lazarus, Chairman for NBC Sports activities Group, said in a press launch. “We did this in London, and it was an amazing success for us, and for followers and viewers.”

The community can also be profiting from social media to advertise protection of the video games. They’ve partnered with Fb and Instagram promote social media protection of the video games. NBC will put up unique Olympic movies on Fb all through the video games. Moreover, followers who go to the NBC Sports activities Fb web page can ask Olympic gold medalist Sarah Hughes questions throughout NBC’s protection of determine skating. NBC additionally plans to have enjoyable details, trivia, polls, photograph galleries, and different content material associated to the winter video games. “Constructing off of our profitable collaboration for the London Olympics, we now have expanded our relationship to higher serve Olympic followers’ insatiable urge for food for Video games’ content material,” mentioned NBC Olympics President Gary Zenkel. “All with an eye fixed on driving viewership to our multi-platform protection, we’ll use our distinctive entry to all facets of the Sochi Video games to ignite the Olympic dialog and engagement on Fb.”

To see a schedule of NBC televised occasions in the course of the 2014 Sochi Olympics, go to NBCOlympics.com and enter your zip code and cable supplier. The web site will present an in depth, day-by-day schedule of Olympic occasions on NBC, plus its associates NBC Sports activities, USA, MSNBC and CNBC

 3.) NBC Has U.S. Rights to the Video games By 2020

NBC isn’t going to let factor go! In a $4.38 greenback deal, they obtained the U.S. broadcast rights for the Olympics by 2020. The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics is the primary within the contract. NBC will reside stream the occasions on NBC and NBC Sports activities’ web sites. As soon as once more, the primetime TV schedule gained’t embrace reside occasions due to the time distinction. Lazarus defined the choice by stating, “The time distinction doesn’t permit for us to be reside in primetime. We’ll package deal and curate it in a manner that makes it a spot that vast gatherings of household and associates wish to collect and get collectively in entrance of their TV. Between that and the 12 hours a day reside on NBC Sports activities Community, we’re in an excellent place to ship the very best occasions to essentially the most viewers.” This time round, there will likely be over 2,700 NBC workers masking the video games. And there’s going to be loads of great coverage from different sources, as effectively.

4.) There Are Already Some Nice Underdog Tales

There are few issues followers love greater than rooting for the underdog. As common, there are some nice underdog tales rising from this yr’s Olympics. For starters, Jamaica’s bobsled crew certified for the video games for the primary time in 12 years. Nevertheless, they couldn’t afford to compete within the video games with out elevating $80,000 to cowl tools and journey prices. After bobsled crew member Winston Watt arrange a PayPal account to lift cash for journey bills, a fervent on-line crowd-funding effort took off. The efforts have raised over $125,000 so far, guaranteeing that the crew will be capable to journey to the Olympics. No matter how they place, their inspiring story might be an amazing sequel to the 1993 hit “Cool Runnings,” which was based mostly on Jamaica’s first bobsled crew within the 1988 Olympics.

Ivy McDowell is a blogger who writes about style and leisure. Ice skating is her favourite Winter Olympic occasion, however she’s excited to see the entire protection!

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