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    epee Olympics bouts

    Hi Guys,
    During the Olympics there was almost no video coverage of the epee bouts on TV. Can any of you direct me if/where I can find the Olympics epee bouts (or at least some of them) on the internet. I am outside the US so NBC is blocked for me (and if I understand correctly there are only few bouts there also).
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    Knowing where you are located will help a lot. For example, if you're in France the BBC coverage won't be of much use.

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    Sigh...I clicked the link expecting to get rick rolled, but alas, it wasn't meant to be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JEC View Post
    Unfortunately, that might not help very much:

    Quote Originally Posted by amia View Post
    I am outside the US so NBC is blocked for me
    That said, if you can find a way to fool NBC into thinking that you're coming from the US there's a fair amount of all six weapons. Not sure what source was telling you there wasn't significant epee coverage in the online offerings.

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    only NBC?

    Is NBC the only place?

    I tried singing the American national anthem and waiving the US flag near my PC, but it wasn't fooled (probably my accent give it away)
    Do you know of another way I can fool it?

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    How do I hate NBC? Let me count the ways!

    They buy up the broadcast rights to everything and then show only a few select sports and athletes because their stat guys indicate that's what will rake in the most dough.

    If they want to show only the swimming and gymnastics events, fine with me, but they should at least let someone like ESPN buy rights for the other sports. Surely there are enough saps in who only want to watch the sob stories and Michael Phelps to keep the money coming in for NBC even if they don't have a complete monopoly on the olympics, right?

    Anyway, I appologize for ranting. I actualy have no information that could help you find the video online.
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