With the coverage of the third run bumped for live coverage of the last minute of the USA/Canada hockey game, NBC squeezed in a little bit of the fourth run at the end of primetime. They showed Steve Holcomb, in fifth place, drop a place but had not shown Pierre Lueders of Canada for context. They then skipped Ivo Ruegg of Switerzland which made it pretty obvious that the top three would not be displaced.
As with many of these sports, I have gotten used to seeing them in full each week on Universal Sports. We see the top 20 sleds in their final runs. Here, just four sleds in the final runs for the medals. More shameful coverage by NBC.
By the way, skipping Ruegg almost seems like an editorial decision not to even acknowledge the Swiss bobsled team. The other two sleds of Beat Hefti and Daniel Schmid dropped out of the competition following training crashes and NBC never mentioned it. Hefti was probably the gold medal favorite, or at least among them. All that and we get Bob Papa on play-by-play.
Sigh.
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