Winter Olympics 2018

[Kermit power]

The jiffle king said:

loved the snowboard cross yesterday. chaos and carnage on lots of the runs.
heard that one of them broke his neck but carried on to the finish in the quarter finals... nuts!!

Definitely the event of the games for me.

[Wobbegong]

Riley Blue said:

Just looked at the BBC News web site - I see Britain has 'won' a bronze...

Fantastic achievement considering the lack of winter sport facilities in the U.K.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/feb/16/dom-...

[silobass]

Gotta feel for Elise Christie, hopefully she's OK and will fair better in her last event.

[nicanary]

silobass said:

Gotta feel for Elise Christie, hopefully she's OK and will fair better in her last event.

She p*ssed all over the competition in her heat. I thought maybe this was her "time", but looking at the semi incident, I'm thinking it was her own fault. Maybe trying too hard?

[Pericoloso]

Austrian girl flocked that up ,gold n bronze for Team GB in Skeleton.

[snotrag]

Gold and Bronze in the skeleton! Lizzy absolutely mullered them in the last run, 0.45up!

[Yiliterate]

Brilliant performance by both ladies!

[MiniMan64]

The ladies are smashing it today.

Unless they're wearing skates...

[XJSJohn]

Glad you guys are all enjoying the broadcasts

Me and my team have spent the last 9 months building the transmission network for all the Rights Holding Broadcasters to get the broadcasts from Pyeongchang to 78 countries!!

Currently have a team of 18 people in Pyeongchang right now running the operational support of the network!

Feel quite chuffed seeing the games broadcast on the telly all over the world and know that it was my project and my team that did that !!

[KP328]

XJSJohn said:

Feel quite chuffed seeing the games broadcast on the telly all over the world and know that it was my project and my team that did that !!

Nice one John, I have been enjoying the Olympics. The good thing with it going throughout the night is it keeps me company when i cant sleep.

[Pericoloso]

Curling should send you to sleep.

I just can't get enthusiastic about it.

[Super Slo Mo]

XJSJohn said:

Glad you guys are all enjoying the broadcasts

Me and my team have spent the last 9 months building the transmission network for all the Rights Holding Broadcasters to get the broadcasts from Pyeongchang to 78 countries!!

Currently have a team of 18 people in Pyeongchang right now running the operational support of the network!

Feel quite chuffed seeing the games broadcast on the telly all over the world and know that it was my project and my team that did that !!

I’m working for Host on this.

[SPR2]

XJSJohn said:

Glad you guys are all enjoying the broadcasts

Me and my team have spent the last 9 months building the transmission network for all the Rights Holding Broadcasters to get the broadcasts from Pyeongchang to 78 countries!!

Currently have a team of 18 people in Pyeongchang right now running the operational support of the network!

Feel quite chuffed seeing the games broadcast on the telly all over the world and know that it was my project and my team that did that !!

Hi John
You certainly have done a great job.

Oh, and congratulations on the new addition to your family.! Hope all is well with you.

[Lotus Notes]

silobass said:

Gotta feel for Elise Christie, hopefully she's OK and will fair better in her last event.

I'm sorry, but I can't figure out Elise.. She got disqualified in all three events at Sochi, suffered psychologically and opened up about this to the world press. Her openness seems just a veneer as she's learn't absolutely nothing from the experience. Crashing out in the 1500m was highly predictable and no surprise when it happened..

This might seem harsh, but the tears and brave face makes me want to switch off.

[Murph7355]

Lotus Notes said:

silobass said:

Gotta feel for Elise Christie, hopefully she's OK and will fair better in her last event.

I'm sorry, but I can't figure out Elise.. She got disqualified in all three events at Sochi, suffered psychologically and opened up about this to the world press. Her openness seems just a veneer as she's learn't absolutely nothing from the experience. Crashing out in the 1500m was highly predictable and no surprise when it happened..

This might seem harsh, but the tears and brave face makes me want to switch off.

I have to say I felt exactly the same watching it today...

Great work by the women skeleton riders though.

[XJSJohn]

SPR2 said:

Oh, and congratulations on the new addition to your family.! Hope all is well with you.

Cheers !!!! Yea she decided to arrive at exactly teh same time, adding a bit of stress and keeping me grounded (and warm fortunately!!!)

[Super Slo Mo]

XJSJohn said:

Cheers !!!! Yea she decided to arrive at exactly teh same time, adding a bit of stress and keeping me grounded (and warm fortunately!!!)

Congratulations.

Out of interest, are you based at IBC? I was watching some 4K stuff in NBC’s control room yesterday, the level of detail is very impressive.

[XJSJohn]

Super Slo Mo said:

XJSJohn said:

Cheers !!!! Yea she decided to arrive at exactly teh same time, adding a bit of stress and keeping me grounded (and warm fortunately!!!)

Congratulations.

Out of interest, are you based at IBC? I was watching some 4K stuff in NBC’s control room yesterday, the level of detail is very impressive.

I am not, was supposed to be but birth of daughter put paid to that .... was out in Nov and Jan.

My whole crew are in the NOC at IBC, Tier 2, 3 and restoration engineers. (we are the Australian mob that is managing the offnet and onnet circuits from IBC to POP's for everyone

[XJSJohn]

Super Slo Mo said:

was watching some 4K stuff in NBC’s control room yesterday, the level of detail is very impressive.

we have basically built a fully protected (worker and protected) global 200GB network to transmit all that stuff .....

IBC to 2 POP's in Seoul, then on to LA, NYC, London, Frankfurt and Singapore

Think NBC have 2 x STM16's

edit - Pistonheads, always a small world ....

[Super Slo Mo]

XJSJohn said:

Super Slo Mo said:

was watching some 4K stuff in NBC’s control room yesterday, the level of detail is very impressive.

we have basically built a fully protected (worker and protected) global 200GB network to transmit all that stuff .....

IBC to 2 POP's in Seoul, then on to LA, NYC, London, Frankfurt and Singapore

Think NBC have 2 x STM16's

edit - Pistonheads, always a small world ....

Indeed it is. I'm single venue based this time, usually I have a handful of venues to look after but things are different here. We deal with the specialty camera stuff for the Host and the Americans, so remote/robotic and RF cams. There's quite a lot of us here across the sites.

Your stuff sounds interesting though, do you work on many of the major sporting events?