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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 2478605, member: 730"] I remember back in the late 70's a co-worker was in Italy during the Olympics and he told me how European television showed every event, commercial-free, 24 hours a day on several channels. It only took 30 years for the US networks to catch up. I stopped watching or caring about the Olympics when a 4 hour "live" broadcast had about 1 hour of actual athletic competition and 3 hours of warm-hearted features about some US athlete or a walking tour in whatever city the event was being held or some other nonsense. 2 hours of Jim McKay for every 15 minutes of athletics. I saw hypocrisy when Carlos and Smith got sent home for injecting politics and then our president banned the team altogether for purely political reasons. No $$$$? Fine. Less revenue? If wcbb can get on tv without some network doing it I'm sure the Olympics will too. Just maybe less commentary , less crap, and more Olympics. [/QUOTE]