For me, the worst part of the TV coverage was the lack of suitable title information. For instance, if you came into the room a second too late, it's possible you would never know who the athlete was that was performing. One would think that an identifying name(s) would be flashed on at least once midway through an event or a performance.
Accompanying this default was the fact that when identifying names and national flags were shown, they were down in the lower left corner, so absolutely tiny that you needed a search warrant to read them.
Comparative running-clock times were flashed on so briefly that the eye couldn't focus in time to digest them, even if you were lucky enough to read them without squinting.
The TV producers apparently never once woke up to the fact that the athletes wore little or no identifying logos or flags as to what country they were from. They undoubtedly assumed that viewers were able to glean this information by magic. Magic was indeed needed to identify specific nationalities out of the scores of white-clad snow-athletes all dressed identically like teletubbies.
The mishandling, sheer stupidity and thoughtlessness in the lack of enlightening screen information should make it obligatory that NBC be banned from ever televising the Olympics again.
Leni
PLEASE forward your well-written comments to NBC... maybe, just maybe they'll listen...