I get what you mean, but i would think Lots of people get better in 2 years. Particularly from age 14-16.

An Aggie with Olympic ties:

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July 30, 2012
HHS graduate is working at Olympic Park

By Tori Brock Staff Reporter

HUNTSVILLE — As Walker County residents watch footage from Olympic Park in London during this year's summer games, they will be seeing the work of one of their own.

Heather Hilburn, a 1984 graduate of Huntsville High School, served as principle design adviser and as one of the project directors for parts of the Olympic park.

“I have a history of working on projects in the sports, arts and culture sector as a client representative,” Hilburn said.

“That's what led me to working on this particular project. One of the things I was responsible for was selecting the design consultants for the venues — in particular the stadium and aquatic center.”

The Olympic park is split into a northern and southern sector with venues and a public area. Hilburn served as the design adviser for the Southern part of the park and also helped design the public realm.

“I was great — fantastic,” she said, of working for the Olympics. “I'm going to the aquatic center in August to see one of the competitions on that day.”

Hilbern, the daughter of Huntsville residents Ottis and Bonnie Hilburn, moved to London in 1992 to work on her second degree after graduating from Texas A&M University.

“I ended up working and staying,” she said.

“Apparently there’s quite a few other Aggies who are Olympians, so that's great. I get involved in a lot of things about the development of London and regenerating parts of London that need to be regenerated. This is an Olympic project, but it’s also regeneration and the British are very proud that it's part of London.”

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Is there anyway to watch the main (NBC) broadcast online? I know they have a dozen streams of individual sports and then the simulcasts of MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and NBC-Sports Network...but they don't seem to have the primary available (or at least not obvious). Am I missing something?

Probably not since the main NBC broadcast is never live. I don't think they stream that.

I'm not necessarily requesting the LIVE events...just whatever it is they are showing on NBC at the moment....just like they have with MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and NBCSN.

I would guess they don't stream network NBC since it already free with an antenna and it is unlike the other channels which are primarily cable channels. Streaming the broadcast channel might not actually be allowed by the FCC and it would compete with the local affiliates which they tend to protect. If they streamed network NBC, it affects advertisements on local affiliates.

It's not free if I'm at work sitting at my computer! What am I supposed to do, bring up my TV from home and hook up some bunny ears?!? Stupid FCC. Who do they think they are?

It's like when they blackout the Rangers games online so I have to get a radio that can't tune into the channel because it's wedged in-between two mega stations...but if I pulled my car into the office on the second floor...then I could listen to it.

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Grevers should have been in the relay. Lochte should have been watching next to Lezak.

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"He didn't have much experience there," Troy said. "I just wish he could have swam a little bit smarter race."

The decision of who would swim for the Americans in the final was closely scrutinized and hotly debated. Troy and his staff went by the book in the preliminaries Sunday morning -- they swam the third-through-sixth-place finishers in the 100 free at the Olympic trials.

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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/olympics--usa-s-risky-men-s-freestyle-relay-plan-backfires-in-an-ironic-twist-.html

I know, the broadcast stuff is clear as mud. Think about it this way though. A lot of local affiliates are owned by a company other than NBC. I assume they pay NBC for content. NBC can't charge them for that coverage if they are giving it away for free online. With the cable channels, there is a way for NBC to verify you subscribe to them via your carrier. Broadcast NBC is a different beast.

Phelps was 5th in the 200 butterfly prelims. I was hoping that he could still dominate the butterfly ranks; essentially be the butterflying specialist this Olympics. Let's hope he was just trying to save energy.

I think Phelps semifinal swim will be telling. He said he was happy with the prelim swim.

His split on the 4x100 relay was outstanding. So he has speed. I would like to see him make a "statement" swim in the semis today and show the world he owns this event. Since Kitajima doesn't look good, this is Phelps' 2nd chance to be the first to three-peat.

Excerpt from an article on Julia's 100 back swim:

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Julia Wilkinson of Stratford, Ont., was considered a medal hopeful in the women’s 100-metre backstroke, but she too finished ninth in Sunday’s semifinal.

“I failed. It’s heartbreaking. Sorry,” the 25-year-old said as tears came. “You’ve got to believe you can win or else it’s impossible. It’s the scariest thing I’ve ever done in my life. I did everything I could. Ninth is horrible. It’s so close.”

She’ll race the 100 freestyle and a relay later in the Games, but Wilkinson mourned the lost opportunity in the backstroke.

“It might get worse before it gets better, once it kind of sinks in that it’s over and I don’t get to have the chance to be in the final and fight for that medal, but there’s a great song that I’ll go listen to and the chorus is ‘Keep on dreaming, even if it breaks your heart’ and that’s what I’m going to do,’” Wilkinson said.

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Obviously she was pretty heartbroken after the race, but she kept it together in the media room and is doing better today. I got a chance to go have lunch with her and we went and built-a-bear to help take her mind off things for a little bit.

I believe that the 100 freestyle sets up pretty well for her and while a medal is a long-ish shot (this is her first time swimming the event internationally since 2008), a finals appearance would be awesome.

Canada also has a decent shot in the 4x200 free & 4x100 medley relays.



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Julia is one of my all time Aggie heroes. Best of fortune for her in her remaining races!

Julia!

She missed the finals by .07 seconds.

***And I forgot, "OH-Seven", WHOOP!

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Lochte 4th in the 200 free.

Missy Franklin wins gold in the 100 backstroke about 20 minutes after she swam a semifinal race.

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Franklin wins gold in the 100m back

Grevers olympic record and gold in the mens 100 back. Thoman gets silver!

Golds are piling up now!

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Gold and silver for Grevers and Thoman in men 100m back. OR for Grevers

will breeja be after this medal ceremony?

breeja and alia and yes.

thanks

This streaming coverage is horrible. The volume for the commercials is extremely loud compared to the stream.

Please keep coming with updates for those of us who cannot access streaming video from work.

Seeing if Breeja false-started

larson with a false start technical difficulties
working on it

the gun went off before take your mark and larson jumped in. Looks like she won't be DQ'd though due to the gun going off.

Everyone is shaken up.

Everything ok. Starting gun malfunction

Soni with Silver. Atkinson 4th, Breeja 6th.

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Alia 4th..Breeja 6th

Alia 4th, Breeja 6th

crap

Breeja was 2nd at 50 but faded. Alia looked to have had a great race

Thought Alia was going to medal there for a second