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OKBecky in Tulsa, OK
Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 12:48 AM

Rich, I don't think your weariness with back stories and excessive commentary by NBC folks is a generational thing. Many of my college peers (we're now in our early 30s) are frustrated beyond description by the back stories and the lack of real coverage of all athletes, rather than a few American ones. So much of this is not athletics, but showmanship, and it's very, very tiresome. We know there are athletes from all around the world, but NBC covers this like it's "the U.S. vs. the World" and who even needs to see the other athletes? It's not like they're important or anything..... And anyway, who even watches the Olympics for the actual sport? It's all about the advertisers and the glurge and the insincere jingoism and the Wheaties commercials. At least, that's how the coverage comes across now, and has come across for at least 16 years.

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