Watching the ski racing. At the end of the race, NBC is too brain dead to show the racer's time to us TV viewers. Ski racers are all good, all fast, and the difference between a gold and last place is a fraction of a second. After watching the skier hurtle down hill we want to know how well he did, namely his time.
NBC sometimes displayed a stopwatch on screen but it was broken, showing 2 minutes and some seconds as the skier leaves the start house, where it should read zero. It also would stop and start erratically during the run. They never displayed the skiers time and name, not at the start, not during the run, and not after the run. BOO.
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Yeah, I'm none too thrilled with NBCs coverage. I hope they don't show the next winter olympics.
You were probably watching the Super Combined since it had a time at the start. The time at the start was their time on the downhill portion of the course from earlier in the day. It would be nice if they showed the slalom time separate, because very few people can figure can spot a good slalom run from a bad one unless they're skiers themselves.
I also hate how they show only 10 out of 50-60 racers and go back and forth between the different events.
The guys also doing the play-by-play are terrible too. They don't really understand any of the sports they're commentating on.
I'm very happy for Bode. A bronze, silver and gold medal now. Before he took the silver in the downhill, he wasn't considered a medal contender at all.
Go fast Bode! Still two more events!
Every skier than gets to the Olympics is so good that unless they fall, they look so good you cannot tell how they are doing with out the time of the run. Or for the jumping, the length of the jump, which good old brain dead NBC isn't telling us either.
Bode is local boy made good. Everyone up here is so happy.
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