2010 Winter Olympics: Olympic TV Schedules and Printable Schedules

Really, a printable Olympics TV schedule is so 2008! Serious viewers of the 2010 Olympics will have one eye on the TV and one eye on their computer or other mobile device when the Winter Olympics heat up this year. Read on to find out how you can keep up with all the 2010 Olympics has to offer.

Printable Schedules for the 2010 Olympics

Looking for a printable schedule for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver? Some of us still appreciate a piece of paper to hold in our hands or to post by the TV for easy reference. We're only a week or so out from the beginning of the 2010 Winter Olympics and it appears that, this year, printable schedules are hard to come by. If you'd like a Vancouver 2010 Printable Schedule you can find the best one here in pdf format. If you have a printer that will handle anything larger than a 8.5" x 11" piece of paper then you'll probably enjoy this printable schedule for the Olympics much more if you can print it on larger width paper - just so it is a little easier on the eyes.

Only interested in Olympic Hockey schedules? Then use this handy pdf format printable Olympic hockey schedule.

2010 Olympics TV Schedules

NBCOlympics.com has the corner on the best TV schedules for viewing the 2010 Winter Olympics. Use the 2010 Olympics TV Listing page to select your local viewing options. NBC has gotten quite sophisticated with the options for determining your optimum Olympic TV schedule. First select your zip code, then your provider (such as cable, satellite, or antenna) and then verify your preferred TV station for Olympic viewing and you are ready to go!

Once you are set up, all Olympics schedules are available to you - right from your computer - complete with the correct start time (no translating for Eastern Standard Time if you're in California!) and the correct channel for your own TV setup. How cool is that?

2010 Olympics - Mobile Alerts

When it is so easy to get mobile alerts, printable schedules for the Olympics may indeed by a thing of the past. To find out how to use Winter Olympics mobile alerts for your phone, check out this page.

2010 Olympics - Twitter, Blogs and More

For the Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver you'll want to use your mobile phone for alerts if not for video playback of Olympic sporting events. You'll also want to follow Twitter (which wasn't even around for the last Winter Olympics) and Facebook (which was limited to college students in 2006) for by-the-minute action and thoughts from fans and participants.

On the NBCOlympics.com site - as opposed to four years ago - featured prominently is a Table of Contents link to Olympic athlete tweets and blogs. Click this link and you'll be taken to a "tweet" page that features tweets from athletes, tweets from NBC Olympics, and both. If you're familiar with Twitter, you'll understand the divisions and can follow the hash tags in individual tweets to collect even more topics, columnists, Olympics fans, and athletes to follow. If you aren 't familiar with Twitter, by all means get an account, take a short tutorial on the basics and add some of these people/topics to your Follow list.

Follow Tweets

Olympic athletes included are Apolo Ohno, Taylor Fletcher, and Louie Vito - just to name a few. Even if you don't add anyone to your Twitter favs, it is still fun to go to the NBC Olympics page and see what the athletes are tweeting about.

Follow Olympics Athletes Tweets here.

Follow Blogs

Blogs currently sponsored by or being followed by UniversalSports.com are In the Loop (ice skating), Get in the Games, a general look at all Olympic sports, Rinkside featuring the men's hockey team and ski cross competitor Casey Puckett.

Most of the blogs found here are general and not written by individual athletes, so you might want to look elsewhere for more personal blogs.

Whether you are wishing for a 2010 Olympics printable schedule, a guide to finding the best Olympics TV Schedule, or are ready to embrace mobile alerts, twitter and more for the 2010 Olympics, you'll be able to find just the right medium for you.

For the latest info on the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Medal Count, go here.

Sources:
Printable Schedule - www.vancouver2010.com
TV Schedules, Mobile Alerts, Twitter and Blogs - www.nbcolympics.com