Sochi 2014 - Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games

.... and a reminder it all gets underway at 0555 tomorrow morning on BBC Red Button with the prelims of the Slopestyle competition.

Probably opening with the OBS intro. I'm quite surprised really they didn't put at least some of tomorrows events on BBC2.

https://twitter.com/BBCAnnaT/status/428882046115516416

Looks pretty small . . . hopefully they will have some camera tricks up their sleeves.

The size doesn't surprise me, going on memory previous Winter Games but, the small set seems no better than what you'd get in a stadium for a Challenge Cup game, so it's a bit disappointing in that respect.

'Wake Me Up' by Avicii as the music on the 'coming up' screen - and Brekkie's right, just the OBS title sequence. Host graphics look very similar to 2012's, but with new animations and slightly different backgrounds.

http://home.vis-is.co.uk/data/grabs/obs_sochi/sochi_01.jpg
http://home.vis-is.co.uk/data/grabs/obs_sochi/sochi_02.jpg
http://home.vis-is.co.uk/data/grabs/obs_sochi/sochi_04.jpg
http://home.vis-is.co.uk/data/grabs/obs_sochi/sochi_05.jpg
http://home.vis-is.co.uk/data/grabs/obs_sochi/sochi_06.jpg
http://home.vis-is.co.uk/data/grabs/obs_sochi/sochi_10.jpg

Where do I turn the dish to get some Olympic feeds?

.... on a purely subjective assessment, just how bonkers is Slopestyle?

Very trivial point, but the standard BBC Sport GFX on the 'coming up' holding screen seem to have an embossed effect, more so than they are intended to have.

Some of the background beauty shots are impressive, all BBC cameras too judging by Jonathan Bramley's Twitter.

Slopestyle is pretty bonkers. I love it.

There is also a snowflakes wipe when the Olympic graphics appear.

No, they're OBS.

Seems to be quite a lot of them. Can't remember how many they offered for London- was at least 4, but pretty sure there wasn't 12!

https://mobile.twitter.com/JonnyBramley/status/430605482269478912

So are these not BBC cameras then? And if they are BBC, what are they used for?

Edit: sorry, misread post, so they're OBS. I'm presuming the BBC had their own equivalent in London, as I'm pretty sure there were more than four in use.