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Yah, not sure how they pulled it off, but at least one event occurs at 10am Korea time, so East Coast USA gets 8pm prime time viewing.

Networks have often jockeyed for preferred time slots of events.   The Euro networks have bid for primetime cross country and biathalon.  Nbc wanted various Xgame events in prime and of course deservedly took grief for forcing the snowboard cross to take place in less than ideal conditions .  That was a shame.   

Awesome moment for the US Cross Country team 'last night'/broadcast earlier/rerun tonight (2 woman Sprint Relay) .  The first ever gold medal for any U.S. athlete in cross country skiing, and only the second medal.  Bill Koch won a silver in '76.   The pair (Diggins of Minnesota, Randall of Alaska) was expected to be in the medals, but things were totally up in the air that entire final lap between (SWE, NOR, USA).

The color guy on the NBC broadcast (Chad Salmela) was brilliant.   You gotta sell Cross Country skiing to begin with, but Salmela is really knowledgable about the athletes and has great enthusiasm.   He's had other great lines and calls before, but 'Here Comes Diggins!, Here Comes Diggins!' is an all-timer. It made me think of the 'Look at Mills, Look at Mills!' call of the '64 Olympics 10,000m (when Billy Mills won an impossible gold).

Women's hockey final was fantastic. U.S. dominated from the middle of the 3rd period to the shootout, then had to take it to chance. Then more chance. One of the Canadians ripped her silver medal off as soon as the presenter stepped to the next player. Wow.

No, the women don't play at the same level as the men, but who cares? Cfb isn't the same level as the NFL, and it's still great fun to watch.

I might be off here, but I felt like Canada Woman's Hockey Team was akin to the USA Men's Basketball Dream Team. They dominated the sport for the last 20 years. How would you have felt to be the 1st team to not win the Gold? It would be tough for me to deal with it. 

Bobsled is badass.

Friends of mine have been practitioners of the sliding sports, and I once went to the track in Park City to see them in action. You really need to see it in person to appreciate just how fast they’re going. 

As for the hullabaloo over the silver medal, I believe that it was Floyd Mayweather who once said that you don’t win silver, you lose gold. I guess I understand losing for the first time in 20 Year’s is going to burn, but keep that on.

How is that hyperbole just because you don't pay attention to the sport?

I think saying a rival who is your equal or near equal betters you is not hyperbolic, just because you don't care about the sport.  That can be true in the workplace, or anywhere.  They are simply using examples more familiar to a mainstream audience.  If they had said this is a rivalry as great or important as Ali-Frazier, then yes, hyperbole.  To say one needed the other to reach her best, like Ali needed Frazier, I think is a perfectly apt comparison.