Olympic Coverage and is that a Sport

I know that I have said that I was interested in the Olympics this time but I do have a complaint, the total over coverage. The local station, Channel 7 KTVB, has had pretty much nothing but the Olympics and that is okay. On cable MSNBC is also carrying the Olympics for about 2/3's of the day. Today when I looked at KTVB they were showing some of the women's swimming events and some gymnastics. MSNBC so showing badminton and women's beach volleyball. Badminton and beach volleyball are Olympic sports? With all that is happening in the world right now I fail to see how beach volleyball and badminton are that important.

I know that CNN, Fox and Bloomberg are all covering world events for cable but MSNBC is trying to cast its self as a the source for all the election news, "The biggest event this Year" they keep trumpeting in their ads. So I find it hard to believe that they are covering badminton in the middle of the day with Russia and Georgia putting the world on the brink of a larger global war.

Another thing is NBC is tape delaying the events. I know that many of them are being played in what is the middle of the night for most of America but in this day of instant communications and 24 hour news, internet updates and screen crawlers it is hard not to know the outcome of an event before NBC gets around to showing it. There is nothing like watching the USA basketball team take on China knowing that USA wins by 31 points. In fact NBC is streaming many of the events in real time on their own web site. So come on NBC show them as they happen.