Olympics/Americas Cup - Moonlight/Rayv

[NoOp]

OK, it's that time of year again...

Olympics are starting this weekend (if they get snow), and the Americas
Cup (if they get wind). Problem is (as usual) that non-Win/Mac users are
still being left out of being able to watch both events in HD.

For the Olympics, NBC have again elected to use MS Windows Silverlight.
However, the most recent version of moonlight (mono-o-mono) is supposed
to work. However, even with the moonlight 2.0 plugin[1] I can't get the
nbc site (http://www.nbcolympics.com/) a silverlight video. Instead I get:

<http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/get-started/install/default.aspx?mode=sysreq&reason=unsupportedplatform&v=3.0.50106.0>
===

Linux, FreeBSD or SolarisOS

If you are using a Linux, FreeBSD or SolarisOS operating system, please
press the Click to Install button to get the appropriate installation
package for Silverlight.
====

That of course loops back to [1]. Anyone gotten this to work in 9.10?
I've tried both 32bit and 64bit versions.

For the Americas Cup (http://www.americascup.com/en/index.html and
better site IMO http://www.cupinfo.com/) they are using rayv (rayv.com),
yet another Windows/Mac specific media streamer. I can of course watch
the live feeds via 'MD' on the AC site or on the Oracle site, but wonder
if anyone is aware of a rayv compatible plugin/standalone for linux?

Please forgo the usual Mono/Windows/Novell/NBC/etc blather/slams/flames
when replying. At this point I'm just looking for suggestions that will
enable linux/Ubuntu users to view these events without having to boot up
into Windows (or run in a VM).
  So, if any of you have suggestions I'd really appreciate hearing them
(as I'm sure other users on the list will as well).

[1] http://go-mono.com/moonlight/download.aspx
[2]
<http://newteevee.com/2009/12/19/watch-the-winter-olympics-on-ubuntu-silverlight-2-for-linux-is-here/>