dcsma
Orange Belt
Just wondering what medium will have the best Tae Kwon Do coverage for the London, England 2012 Olympic Games?? And from that medium what source you use??
Who will have the best Tae Kwon Do coverage for the Olympics
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andyjeffries
Senior Master
Being there live! :-D
I can't wait!
Andy "25 minutes train journey north of London" Jeffries
I can't wait!
Andy "25 minutes train journey north of London" Jeffries
ralphmcpherson
Senior Master
Awesome, was it hard to get tickets Andy? Any particular fighter you will be barracking for? Im hoping Aaron Cook does well, I like the way he fights.
Lucky you!! I've been seconded for six weeks over the Olympics to work with the Border Agency so it's Luton airport or Hull Docks for me lol! Probably the latter lol!
I will be trying not to watch the BBC coverage though it sucks in all the sports, it will be Eurosport if I can watch it.
andyjeffries
Senior Master
I would say I was lucky rather than it was hard. You put in for the tickets you want, they pull out winners like a lottery.
I got the morning of Aaron Cook's day (so I'll get to see all the fighters in his division fight) which is also the same day Sarah Stevenson fights. You only get 1/3 of a day for your ticket. Then one of my juniors got tickets for another session and he's given me one. Hoping to get some more on eBay/outside the ExCeL arena on the days.
Aaron and Sarah, Jade Jones from GB. Mark Lopez, Son Tae-Jin, Tazegul from other countries.
I'm going to watch the Europeans in 2 weeks too with my son (and hopefully meet up with RobinTKD at some point as well), so hopefully I'll find some other fighters I like there to watch out for. If I get any decent pics, I'll post a gallery link here...
Can't wait!!!
andyjeffries
Senior Master
If you're in Luton, give me a shout and I'll try to pop across to say hello/grab a bite to eat!
I wonder if Sky Sports will have any? They've covered other Taekwondo recently (British Open, etc).
http://www1.skysports.com/olympics/taekwondo/
ralphmcpherson
Senior Master
Cheers, definetly post some pics if you can.
Certainly will give you a shout! Sky and Eurosport seem to have a huge selection of sports on anyway so fingers crossed for good Olympic coverage of everything. My other half loves all the cricket coverage on Sky.
rlobrecht
Brown Belt
On the West side of the Atlantic, it's NBC again. http://www.nbcolympics.com/taekwondo/index.html They haven't yet posted their TV schedule, but I'm not hopeful. It was all web access four years ago. The good news this year is that they will have tablet and phone apps as well.
Rick
Rick
andyjeffries
Senior Master
This is a good point. Damn, I'd forgotten about that! I am looking forward to seeing TJ fight though (after asking who a player was in a SobreTaekwondo youtube video and being told on here it was him, I've since seen more of his highlights and he's an exciting, quick player).
Boy sad to say since coverage started the people pushing pots down the ice swishing with brooms has gotten better network coverage than TKD Olympics. I would seem USAT will have some type of streaming but possibly not live only delayed or the Olympic web site as suggested. I am sure later we may find social media posts
Lucky you. I am so jealous :-(
andyjeffries
Senior Master
Of course Son Tae-Jin's division isn't in the Olympics (and even if he went down to -58kg to fight, he's not in the Korean Olympic 2012 Team) - http://www.wtkmedia.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=211
At least the Tazegul is still in it... http://www.wtkmedia.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=12
