Aren’t you bright enough to see the contradiction in your statements? How the hell would you have know enough about Moussambani’s backstory to appreciate his efforts if NBC hadn’t told you about it?
The folks at NBC are trying to do the impossible: air interesting stories to satisfy all of their viewers, all of the time.
If you don’t find something interesting enough to hold your toddler-age attention, you have 3 choices:
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[li]Watch it anyway and try to learn something,[/li][li]change the channel or (gasp) turn off the TV, or[/li][li]sit on your ass, watch it, then get online and whine about it like a petulant child.[/li][/list=1]
Isn’t that was the commentators are for? I want to watch the event, not this guy’s life story. Let the commentators tell us what the athelete had to go through to get here WHILE the event is happening. Don’t make a big production about it.
I think olympic moments are okay, but not at the expense of airtime which could otherwise be used for showing us sports.
And, as for that guy who was swimming all alone in the pool, I noticed something…I don’t remember the exact time, but I think he finished the entire swim in just over 2 minutes (less than the 1:## required qualifying time, IIRC.) I looked at it, and it was a HUGE POOL. I definitely wouldn’t have been able to swim to the end and back in 2 minutes. Relative to the other competitors, he may have sucked, but he swam well, and the audience cheered him on because he had enough spirit to keep going. I say he did a good job.