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In today's tour of state-sponsored media: Chinese media combat drug doping rumors, North Korea's Olympic coverage gets meta and Hong Kong parents have a bone to pick with Beijing.
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So many people streamed the London Olympics on their tablets that the next time NBC broadcasts the Olympics, a scant two years away, there's going to be a lot more streaming on the proverbial broadcast menu.
In today's tour of state-sponsored media: Chinese media combat drug doping rumors, North Korea's Olympic coverage gets meta and Hong Kong parents have a bone to pick with Beijing.
This image of Palestinian runner Woroud Sawalha has exploded on Tumblr as a feminist symbol, with Sawalha hailed for easily winning in a sporty abaya while the other runners wither despite conforming to fascist beauty standards at the 2012 London Olympics. The problem is this photo isn't from the Olympics—and Sawalha isn't winning, she's getting lapped.
The Americans and the Chinese continue to rack up medals, but who got the most today? Click here for all the latest news and updates.
NBC is dropping its paywall and allowing people to stream the 200 meter men's individual medley race featuring rival teammates Ryan Lotche and Michael Phelps, according to All Things D, which is sort of an interesting concession to the many who aren't super happy the network is keeping the best races for primetime
This is a story worth getting to the bottom of, and nobody's there yet, but even the suggestion is outrageous: Eater brings word of a receipt posted on Reddit by a user claiming to have gotten it from a friend who works at a London restaurant where 15 Olympics "bosses" (in the Redditor's words) ran up a £44,660 lunch bill.
Nathan Adrian, 23, the U.S. swimmer who won the 100-meter freestyle Wednesday and set a world record, is the team's breakout star. We think he should get more attention.
Though there were plenty of impressive feats witnessed during the men's gymnastics individual all-around last night — yay Danell! — there was one particularly eye-popping skill that was completely absent: Why have we not seen anyone do the rings during these Olympics?
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ISP technology provider Procera Networks reports that Netflix streaming was down a quarter from normal levels in the U.S. Sunday, even though overall streaming video traffic was way up. Of course, last week, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said there'd be days like this.
There are four women with a good chance of winning the all-around in gymnastics Thursday night: Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Viktoria Komova, and Aliya Mustafina.
Now that NBC has performed an incredible feat and not lost $200 million on the Olympics, let's focus on the future. What comes after these games have come to their glorious end?
Great Britain hoped that Wednesday would be a big day for medal collecting as the Summer Olympic Games continue. How did they do? Click here for the latest news and results.
While criticizing the "complicated and burdensome mess" that is our tax code, Marco Rubio proposed an exemption on the taxes Olympic medalists pay on their prize winnings Wednesday.
NBC's ratings for the 2012 Olympics have been great, in spite of the complaints about its delayed coverage, and on Wednesday the network announced perhaps its biggest triumph yet: It's going to break even broadcasting it.
Amid all the joy of the US women's gymnastics team winning team gold last night, for us there was truly one standout: Isn't that coach Jenny Zhang (sometimes she's called Jenny Liang) just the greatest?
Two things that might not go together like peas and carrots: Marriage and the Olympics.
One certainly sympathizes with the increasingly annoyed Olympic badminton crowd, which booed the women's doubles teams on Tuesday when they simply refused to play, a move that got eight players disqualified from the games.
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If you watched NBC's prime time coverage of the women's gymnastics team final, you were deceived -- the U.S.'s crushing defeat of Russia was even more brutal than the network's packaged show.
Michael Phelps just competed for his 18th Olympic medal. Check here to see if he got it!
Everyone is complaining about Olympics spoilers. But are they really that bad? We discuss.
And just like that, he's back: Guy Adams, the Independent reporter Twitter suspended for a supposed privacy violation after he harshly criticized NBC's Olympics coverage, has had his account reinstated, critical tweets and all.
The Japanese men's gymnastics team—and its star, Kohei Uchimura, who dominates the individual competition—didn't win a medal in the team competition Monday. Except, then they did.
By all media accounts, gold medalist swimmer Missy Franklin is a sweetheart. So why did Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins say a "a mean girl took possession of her" in the pool? Because she won.
Of all the strange things that happened at the men's team gymnastic finals last night, perhaps the strangest was the sight of a Japanese coach approaching the judges while holding a stack of cash (American $100 bills) while arguing they had gotten a decisive call wrong.
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The saga of Guy Adams, the Independent journalist suspended from Twitter after a series of tweets critical of NBC, took an insidious turn on Tuesday as NBC claimed it filed its complaint about Adams at Twitter's behest.
Jon Stewart looked at Americans abroad last night on The Daily Show, particularly, Mitt Romney's critique of how ready London was for the Olympics.
It's the first full weekday of Olympic competition (with 12 medal events) and we're here to keep you posted with news and results. The men's gymnastics final is under way now.
Jordyn Wieber was hyped as the all-but-certain gold medalist in the individual all-around gymnastics competition, but on Sunday night, she didn't even make it out of prelims.
Twitter suspended the account of a journalist who was one of the loudest voices criticizing NBC's Olympics coverage, after NBC complained he'd inappropriately shared the personal information of one of its executives.
Whenever there is anything good in this world, there are those who disagree vehemently that it is good. Never is this more true than on the Internet, and never is this more true than with the Olympics.
Are Rowdy Gaines and Dan Hicks in love? This is the biggest question I have about NBC's trusty swimming commentators.
Twitter is a great way to keep up with your favorite Olympic athletes as they give insight into their sports and life in the Olympic Village, and occasionally spray racist vitriol, as Swiss soccer player Michel Morganella did on Monday, getting himself expelled.
The IOC and Twitter have worked closely in recent weeks to promote the microblog service as a means to engage with athletes, competitions and London 2012. But mobile social media users are proving so voluminous at some Olympic venues that they are now interfering with mobile networks on which the games themselves depend, the IOC says.
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The Olympics are off to a great start. There's already been high profile match-ups, down-to-the-wire competition, and athletes taking things too personally. The only problem is the huge amount of empty seats left by the organizers and sponsors in the stadiums. They're kind of a bummer.
Michael Phelps failed to medal for the first time in over a decade; Hope Solo went on a Twitter rampage after one of her teammates was criticized by commentator and former Olympic gold medal winner Brandi Chastain
Apparently NBC's controversial tape-delay strategy is working. The Olympics opening ceremony drew the largest audience ever for an opening ceremony that didn't take place in the U.S., NBC announced on Saturday.
The Olympics have a Pete Rose scandal on their hands. An Irish athlete's been accused of placing bets on an opponent in an event they were also competing in. To make matters weirder, their longshot bet came through.
Oh sure those big fancy opening ceremonies at Beijing in 2008 were impressive -- they had double the budget of this year's performance -- but it seemed like the British had a reply four years later: we invented all that stuff China is just now figuring out.
So much for Save the Surprise: Now that they're letting people into Olympic Stadium, the first photos of the set for Danny Boyle's £27 million opening ceremony are starting to trickle out and it looks... Well, it looks like a meadow.
Hey, New Yorkers, cheer up: Imagine if instead of going to your usual local bar after work tonight, you were planning to fight your way through packed subways to get to a billion-dollar stadium on the West Side of Manhattan for the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 New York Olympics!
You can't fully appreciate how mad British newspapers are at Mitt Romney without seeing their headlines in context.
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It took a couple of days but Mitt Romney is finally ready to admit that, ok, London is ready to host the Olympics. Anyway, that's what he told Matt Lauer on The Today Show Friday.
As if every inch of the London Olympics weren't already awash in corporate advertising, a British chain of opticians has found a new marketing opportunity: London Olympics gaffes.
Rumors have been plaguing Usain Bolt since he's turned in lackluster performances leading up to the Olympics, but upon arriving in the Olympic village on Thursday he assured everyone he's ready to defend his 100 meter world record.
The Olympic preliminaries continue today as the men's soccer tournament gets underway. Click here for live updates.
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