One of the coolest features (of many) on the 2012 London Olympics website is the sport-by-sport schedule, and specifically it’s “My time” feature.
This will tell you, for each day of the Olympics, what time the events begin by shifting the time scale at the top of the schedule. For swimming, it even gets as specific as race-by-race.
For those in the United States, prelims will begin each day at 5 AM Eastern Time (ouch), and finals kicking off at 2:30 PM Eastern Time (New York City). For those on the East Coast of Australia, prelims will start at 7 PM, and finals will start at 4:30 AM (ouch again) the next morning.
In the US, all of the swimming will be aired live online at NBCOlympics.com, and then finals taped-delay on NBC’s broadcast station at 7 PM Central Time (with different locales airing on differenct schedules – check here for local listings).
Finals action kicks off on Saturday, July 28th and runs through Saturday, August 4th (local time).
Check out the screenshot below for how to use the “My time” tool, and go here to try it out!
when will sychronized swimming be televised EST?
Philosophy I mean
When is Micheal Ohio’s going to swim what day. And time??? Need to know
Here is what I’m doing (I’ve been thinking about this for weeks):
1. I’m waking up at 4am (cdt) to watch the morning session live online through LIVE EXTRA (nbcolympics.com). It will be broadcast tape-delayed on NBC at about 10am, with the second half at 12:30pm (I am recording this on the DVR).
2. Then, back to the computer for live finals at 1:30pm. This will be broadcast tape-delayed in primetime with some of the men’s gymnastics qualifications and probably, like, road cycling or something. (How many hours of road cycling do I have recorded from past Olympics??)
3. Primetime is re-run super early in the morning (12:30pm-4:00am), so if you miss the packaged tape-delay at 7pm,… Read more »
I really can’t decide what to do :/
option a) what it live on the computer at 2:30.. not as exciting but i’ll be kept updated
option b) media blackout until NBC decides to show it in the evening
option c) SWIMSWAM
Why aren’t the replays of the swimming (and gymnastics) finals from SATURDAY, which is two final sessions ago, available on NBCOlympics.com? I can understand blacking it out until you air it on your nightly prime-time thing, but if I want to watch the replay of a race from 48 hours ago that I wasn’t able to watch because the live streaming app crashed during it, I’m just screwed?
I’m so glad I’m retired- I’ll be watching all the swimming events. Distantly related to one of the USA swimmers!
Does anyone know of sports bars in Chicago that show Olympic swimming?
I had the same problem with 2008 and missed most of it, so lucky that I live in Ireland and in the same time zone as London!!