I watched almost nothing. Missed the opening & closing ceremonies. Most of the events I wanted to watch were on during the day or in the wee hours in the morning or very late at night.
Probably most frustrating of all was that the news stations (as well as the station with exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympics) would spoil the results of the major events
before or while they were being broadcast.
I understood how that was a bother for a lot of people, but what I couldn't understand was how people were constantly complaining (in the US at least) that the Olympics weren't being aired live. I heard this a lot from my family, including one saying "with all this technology, how hard is it to air things live?" They didn't realize why things weren't always being aired live at a time where probably 80% of the people in the US who would want to watch them wouldn't be able to.
When in reality here, many sports and competitions were being aired live, but what would be considered the 'big' competitions like Volleyball, Swimming, Track and Field, and Basketball were being saved for evening airings so they would get higher ratings than if they aired at say noon on a Tuesday when people were at work. It's a lot like when other sports play and people record them, they run the risk of hearing the score. You just have to work a bit to avoid seeing results.
I guess I couldn't figure out how a lot of people didn't realize this and instead claimed nothing was being aired live. Yeah it's a pain that some things go spoiled, but that's bound to happen with a time difference, especially with an easy access to information that we have now.
They also edited them to make it to make it seem more suspenseful, like the womens gymnastics. Or the opening ceremonies. To cut out the London terrorist attack memorial to show Ryan Seacrest.
They did a awful, awful job.
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