Catching up from last night…
- Speed Skating Team Pursuit is another one of these silly sports where you follow closely behind another skater and “draft” the leader. The whiny US team quickly lost—leaving them with zero medals in the disclpine.
- We also got the final of Short Track Speed Skating, which determines the fastest man and woman on ice!* Viktor Ahn was the big winner for Russia**
*who doesn’t crash or is taken out by another skater
**since the South Korean Skating Federation pissed him off, so he defected
Moving onto Saturday’s coverage…
- …and Al Michaels checks in at the Fortress for the last weekend.
- NBC showed a 45 minute documentary on a Russian hockey team that died in a plane crash. Wow—how upbeat. You didn’t have some Curling on tape? Maybe some lower-ranked figure skaters you previously edited out?
- Prime time begins with—another video package that has virtually nothing to do with QISE. A paraplegic swimmer finds her roots in Russia. Nice, but have we run out of events?
- After a few sports odds and ends, NBC shows an interview with new QISE President Thomas Bach. Clearing out the tape vault, apparently.
- He doesn’t want to talk about Russia’s civil rights record—I was reminded of a line from Monty Python—“This is supposed to be a happy occasion! Let’s not argue and bicker about who killed who…"
- At least we get the Figure Skating exhibition—with Lipinski and Weir (wearing weeds in their hair) doing the commentary. The exhibition is basically an audition for the Ice Capades.
One more day to go...