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Olympic Triathlon Broadcast Schedule

Posted by Jesse@Active Aug 15, 2008

Early-morning start times for triathlons finally pays off. Due to the time difference between the States and China, West Coast tri fans will be able to catch the Olympic women's race starting at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, streaming online on NBCOlympics.com. The men's race will start at the same time on Monday night.

East Coast fans will obviously have to tune in at 10 p.m.

Television coverage for the women will be on NBC Sunday night and early Monday morning. Men's race television coverage will appear on MSNBC sometime on Tuesday morning/early-afternoon.

The full broadcast schedule and links to online video can be found here.

Here's a slideshow of the American athletes at the Opening Ceremonies and in training.

Both races will take place at the Ming Tomb Reservoir. It features a one-lap swim leg, six-lap bike leg and is rounded out with four laps of the run course.

Tags: 2008_olympic_games, 2008_beijing_olympics, triathlon

Aug 18, 2008 4:48 AM

Joe_H1

what time did they come on. I stayed up till at least 10:30EST and not even a mention of Triathlon.

Aug 18, 2008 9:25 AM

rustyspoon in response to: Joe_H1

Go here: http://www.nbcolympics.com/triathlon/index.html

Right now there is a recap of Snowsill's race in the center of the page. Directly to the right of the main picture in the center of the page there is a link for the recap of the women's race. Tonight that women's recap will move down and there will be a new link saying something about watching the men's race live. This link does not show up until the exact scheduled time. Yeah, that bites.

I watched most of the women's race. I missed the start of the race because the link does not show until the race starts and I had to wait for the player to load. There were lots of commercials and buffering problems. But I did get to see most of it. And most importantly I saw the transitions and finish.