[TomGuy]

What aggravates me with the NBC commentators/announcers is this:

For several events the commentators have basically handed other teams the gold medals BEFORE the event takes place. They have implied that the Americans didn't stand a chance of winning.

And in those events, Americans ended up winning.

If there is any 'smashing', it should be the mouths of the commentators.

[Betty Jane]

I agree about the announcers. I only watched about a half hour of the Olympics, but I did see this race and women's race where Katie Hoff (USA) came in second.

Before the women's race they showed some personal footage of the French woman who was supposed to win it. She came in last. England, who had never medaled in that race took gold and bronze. France was dead last. What a waste of time the announcers spent talking about some French-Italian swimmer girl fight over a guy.