NBC covered the men's two-man bobsled live Saturday night, but never made a single mention of one of the biggest stories in the event. Beat Hefti of Switzerland, the favorite to win the gold medal, withdrew from the competition after suffering a concussion in a practice crash on Wednesday.
Hefti won four of the eight World Cup races this season, including the most recent race in Igls, Austria. A major, major contender in the competition drops out and NBC doesn't mention it???? This is pure and simple, shoddy journalism. I guess that Hefti wasn't one of the stories NBC had clued in on before the event, and he isn't American so i suppose NBC doesn't care. This coupled with stories surrounding the dangers of the course since the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili last Friday make Hefti's crash and withdrawl a major story.
Bad marks all around to NBC on bobsled coverage. They did not show some of the major contenders on the first run, and only came in after the fact to report Canadian Lydon Rush's crash on the second run, when he was sitting in third place after the first run. Let's hope they improve coverage throughout the week.
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