I knew the Olympics coverage had turned to crap in my lifetime! I haven’t watched much of it in decades, but I was sick-to-death of all the soap opera “narrative” crap and just wanted to watch great events and performances. I couldn’t stand a lot of the announcers and so have watched rather little of it in the past 30 years.
NBC has a streaming app now where you can just watch the sporting events and skip all the olympic melodrama on the regular broadcasts.
I have sort of channel surfed to some of the NBC cable events. I noticed that, nearly every time I landed on a channel carrying some Olympic event, I landed during a commercial.
It is difficult enough to try to find events I would watch, as they are scattered over nearly a dozen cable channels — some of which I have no access to. Even the ‘schedule’ on the NBCSports website is not that great.