Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Sorry, it's Wednesday night here and I believe Sunday was the last time I wrote. Been a little busy I guess you could say. The women's race was Monday and the Men's race Tuesday (yesterday). So I will go back a bit in time... Monday I was to be picked up at 6:30am by NBC. I just assumed I was going to the race venue and helping from a broadcast box but it turned out I went down into the city to the "International Broadcast Center" or IBC. This place is HUGE and is where all Broadcast companies from all over the world are staged out of. NBC had about 1/3 of this building that will be used as a convention center when the Games are over. It was AWESOME!!! So I'm waiting for my ride and they do not come. I call and 7 and the intern setting things up for me says she has made a mistake and can I take a taxi down. I had no idea where I was going but fortunately one of the athlete's husband was commentated for BBC. He's an Aussie who finished 4th in Athens. His wife ended up 4th here. Anyways, Greg and I shared a cab which worked great because he had been down the day before to check it all out so he knew exactly where to go to pick up our quest passes. So the intern, Janique they shows me around the NBC area. We pass Bob Costas and Chris Collinsworth... probably many others I did not recognize. She took me to the cafeteria that has free coffee and an awesome spread of food- anything you want. MMMMMMMMM... coffee... it was free Starbucks, just like a store only you didn't give them your money. So I sat next to the producer who was coordinating 30 miles away from the triathlon venue, which cameras should be on which athletes and who was who and how long it would take for this lap of the bike and that lap of the swim. It was pretty amazing. I attached a little video from my time there Tuesday... having technical difficulties, will try tomorrow.

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