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NBC's hype machine is really going down in flames. First Michelle Kwan, then Miller and Rahlves doing nothing in the downhill, and Ohno stumbling out of the 1500 in the semis. Only the snowboarding kid survived his glowing coverage. Between all of Bode Miller's pre-Olympic hype and then his stupid Nike commericals I can't imagine very many people hoping he would win other than the people at NBC and NIKE who invested so much in him.
Why in the world can't NBC show these events live while they are happening like they do everywhere else in the world? Instead of showing NASCAR qualifying all afternoon they could have been showing us live Olympic events. When we can read about the results online as they happen it seems like the least our braodcaster can do is show it to us. It is nice to see the women's hockey live, but that is the only thing we have been shown live so far.
