Tomorrow the climbing events start, so tonight I check to see where it'll be broadcast (i.e. live TV, Red Button, or online).

After a bunch of frustrated hunting through useless shit BBC pages, I eventually uncover that the "extensive" coverage on the BBC means they are only showing selective events, based on what they consider to be "the two most exciting or important events", because capitalism.

That's shit, but what makes it worse is they are not saying in advance what sports they consider those to be.

They have one page with a badly written buggy crap schedule and a separate page stating when it's on what channel but no hints of what they'll actually be covering - except that athletics timings seems to be split into every heat of every round of every event, so it'll probably be that.

Apparently Discovery+/Eurosport are showing all events, but they're a paid subscription service, and require a minimum six months subscription. Fuck that!

I'd consider a single month subscription if I knew that was the only way to watch it, and there was sufficient other programmes worth watching, and I could verify it would work on my device.

*sigh*

I don't know if there's any point in getting up in the morning. :(

Generally or specifically?

Is there no way your friend Jim who is a bit of a lad can help?

The climbing started at 9am, so having a clear "you can go here and watch" would have been an incentive to be up significantly earlier than the times I have otherwise been up at.

Instead, I ended up going to sleep stupidly late, and crawled out of bed around ten past midday.

Still, turns out it is being covered by the BBC - hidden behind a beach volleyball thumbnail and title, there's a 915 minute long Olympics morning episode, and I was able to jump to the 9am mark and, after a really fucking stupid dog puppet thing, there seems to be the full coverage of men's qualifying bouldering.

Hopefully this means they'll be showing all of it, because I don't know if it's something James can help with.

FFS! Nope, they've got the first half only, then cut away before the higher seeded climbers come out - you know, the ones that might actually be worth watching. :@

Today they didn't even have half the women's bouldering on. :(

It was athletics on one channel and fucking horses on the other. :@

horse porn! on the bbc!

Well at least then you could be sure if the horse was enjoying itself...

Steeplechase on tonight. I wonder if it would be improved if a horse got to shotgun the athletes in the head should they fall over the hurdles.

the climbing on right NOW on bbc (not sure what it's called, slowly-ish making your way up a very big tall wall) is amazing! An earlier version (not-quite-as-slowly going up a smaller wall with more empty spaces?) was pretty good but this thing is nuts. The ones yesterday where they sort of levitate up a wall in about 5 seconds was also impressive but I think I prefer this one.

Mrs.D and I recently watched Meru, some climbing involved.

Yep, just caught up with the men's finals. :D Hopefully they'll also have the women's on tomorrow.

The big wall when you take the rope with you is Lead, the smaller walls without ropes is Bouldering.

Though half the bouldering was parkour-style, and not fully representative of what "proper" bouldering is, but is more common in competitions because it looks fancy, (and thus becoming more common with indoor centres because it's what people see).

I don't do lead because I don't find faffing around with ropes fun, but it was probably more enjoyable to watch because it was purer climbing, and because it was only one person on the wall at a time.

Women's Boulder and Lead finals earlier, close results and well worth watching. :)