[r9etb]

The American media ... were understandably disgusted

Well, no, the American media were not "disgusted," they fed the flames. The egregious NBC coverage of people like Bode Miller was positively fawning.

[Mr. Silverback]

The egregious NBC coverage of people like Bode Miller was positively fawning.

Roger that. The Tom Brokaw interview with Miller after he was out of competition...yeesh!

[SengirV]

The egregious NBC coverage of people like Bode Miller was positively fawning.

This is what has ruined the Olympics for me. The events are replaced with a sickening schmaltzy stories that bring almost nothing to the table. Here's a hint NBC, Everytime you glorify Bode Miller, you are NOT showing me an Olympic event.

Plus NBC's stranglehold on the Plympics means if I am not landing on NBC, I don't even know the Olympics are even going on. And if you do land on NBC, you get to see one event every hour and I get so bored with the in-between stuff that I turn the channel and never come back.

[Sally'sConcerns]

I didn't watch any of the coverage this year. I did watch some of the coverage of the winter olympics 4 years ago. Back then I enjoyed some of the individual performances of athletes from different countries.

What's missing for me is the competition the American teams had years ago. While this may not make much sense, I used to love watching the winter olympics simply because the US had very little chance at winning. When the US did win, it made the win all the sweeter.

Back in the 'olden' days there would be news pieces about how the Germans or the Russians or whatever country had training facilities supported by the government of their respective country's. The American athletes were at a distinct disadvantage because they were very definitely amateurs and had to rely on using (as an example) the local skating rink or local coaches, etc. Even though you kind of knew the American's were going to lose it still was great fun to watch what we could do given what we had to work with as far as training went. On the rare occasion the US would win it would be a really big deal because we didn't have the fancy training facilities or the specialized coaches, etc.

Yeah, I know, I'm weird.