Sport Update: If You Aren’t Watching The Olympics, Here’s What You Missed.

NBC is further expanding its coverage of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games with an Internet-delivered catch-up TV service powered by TVTonic on Windows Media Center on PCs running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate! With NBC Olympics On The Go and Windows Media Center, you will be able to create a customized channel lineup of your favorite events for automatic download to your PC. Download NBC coverage of the Games overnight, and take them with you to watch online or offline in up to HD quality. 1

NBC will bring 2200 hours of Beijing Olympics streaming video to the web, starting today. But Americans will miss some of the best parts. Because NBC, which has exclusive rights to the games in the United States, still makes a whole lot more serving up TV ads than Web ads. 2

Olympic athletes and environmentalists alike have criticized China for its massive pollution problems. China’s rapid industrialization and lax standards have resulted in toxic, algae-choked rivers and soot-filled air in Beijing and other cities. China exports 33% of its industrial production - and it’s largely to companies like Wal-Mart. Despite these facts, Wal-Mart insists that it is “greening” its supply chain and improving its notoriously poor environmental standards. 3

Meanwhile, there’s already plenty of “unofficial” Olympics video on YouTube that you can watch here. Like this illegally uploaded ESPN clip of yesterday’s Team USA victory over Russia, which has been watched more than 50,000 times. As part of YouTube’s new deal, it will “conscientiously” filter out Olympics content, removing even cellphone video uploaded by spectators. 4

You may wonder what an Olympic Heptathlon entails and whether or not you have the skills to compete in one. A heptathlon consists of 7 events and is open to women only. Read on to learn about the individual events that make up a heptathlon. 5