And mostly boring. Every time I turned in NBC was either showing basketball, boxing, or volleyball. I can watch that and the NBA thugs anytime.
Guess it was too hard or too expensive to take their cameras outside of the dome. Why not more coverage of the sports one only sees every 4 years: kayaking, archery, skeet shooting, dressage, canoeing, decathlon, badminton, table tennis, etc.?
The Winter Olympics are more exciting and coverage is usually a lot better.
Would have been interesting to compare the BBC coverage of their Olympics.
Every sport was available live on internet feeds, and NBC's cable networks carried a lot of these sports both live and tape-delayed.
The prime time broadcast was tailored for the prime-time audience, not the sports junkies who knew how to find and use the live feeds. I saw (well, kind of... it was over 3G) the women's gymnastics team finals live, half a day before it aired on NBC primetime, using NBC's own iPhone app.