I was looking for the best ways to find Olympic events on the internet yesterday. I didn't want to download the Silverlight program to use NBC's streams. I found this post along with a post on cracking YouTube vids.

EARLIER: The Beijing Olympics have been up and running for a couple of days, but now they're going full speed, and there's a full slate of events tonight starting at 9 p.m. Eastern, and stretching through Saturday morning: Archery, Badminton, Women's Basketball, Beach Volleyball, Boxing, Cycling, Fencing, Gymnastics, Handball, Judo...you get the picture (for a full schedule, check out this handy schedule from the NYT).

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NOS (Dutch) -- On the front page of this site are a list of events and times, all in Dutch, under the "livenkanalen" section. If you click on the orange links, you'll be directed to a video player; you may have to download Microsoft's Silverlight. Once you do, you'll get the video player. This was working for us earlier Friday, but it stopped cooperating later in the evening.
wwiTV -- We were able to see games via the stream from China's CCTV (click here).
OnlineTVChannels -- Click on the first link, Alriyadiah saudi Sport TV (click here). This is the most consistent link we've found. Video quality isn't great, and you can't choose your event. But it has allowed us to watch live coverage of the swimming events NBC won't put on the Web.
Beeline.TV -- We got coverage from Russia's Eurosport Channel earlier (scroll down and click on the "Media" link next to the name), but as of 11:40 est they were showing an extreme sports show.
MyP2P.eu -- An aggregator with a huge number of links that gets updated daily; click on the TV icon at the far right or the Olympics entry to get today's links. Hit or miss, but we have gotten some hits. Each stream may require a different piece of software to play; there are links to download all of them here.

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/8/where-to-watch-beijing-olympics-live-on-the-web-gymnastics-boxing-beach-volleyball

How to crack YouTube's Olympics channel

http://valleywag.com/5034896/how-to-crack-youtubes-olympics-channel