Thalia Kwok of CNReviews has a great post up about watching the games from your computer… she suggests using these options to watch the obscure sports with little airtime on mainstream TV, but I think with headphones and a little subterfuge convincing your coworkers that you’re too busy to be disturbed, you could watch at work, too.

Part II Non-Chinese Language

Bejing Olympic Games Official Website

• http://en.beijing2008.cn/video/ (English)

Online Live Video Stream Sites:

• NBC: http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/index.html (English, 2,200 hrs, up from 100 hrs in 2004, RWW reported.) Just enter zipcode and install Microsoft Silverlight plug-in. 锛圲S only)
• YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/beijing2008 (Available in more than 70 countries where exclusive rights have not been sold like India, South Korea, Iraq. See cNet report here.) How to get around Youtube regional filtering
• Eurosport: http://eurosport.yahoo.com/ (multiple languages, only available to certain regions outside of the US) Also has streaming audio coverage
• Eurovision: http://www.eurovision.net/ops/olympics.php (certain European Broadcasting Union (EBU) territories only)
• CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/livevideo (Canada only)
• BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/video_and_audio/default.stm (UK only)
• TerraTV: http://www.ar.terra.com/shared/pekin2008/ (based out of Argentina - Spanish - certain regions only)

She’s got links to Chinese language sites too, in the original post, but I believe the majority of visitors to Beijing Olympics Fan are English speakers.

Via Beijing Olympic Games Online Video Stream Guide