How NBC Took Advantage of Olympic Fans

There’s no TV event quite so massaged as the Olympics on NBC. Sure, televised NFL football (and particularly the Super Bowl) ...
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Johnny Weir, Tara Lipinski to cover Kentucky Derby and Rio Olympics for NBC

At the risk of telling you something you already know, there is no figure skating at the Summer Olympics. Fans of the sport might be disappointed to be reminded of that. (I’m related to one such ...
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Windowless bunker brings NBC's marathon Rio Games operation to life

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The epicenter for one of the biggest media operations at the Rio Olympics is a 75,000 sq feet (6,970 sq metres) maze of windowless rooms lit by thousands of monitors that ...
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Abbey Weitzeil Fulfills Her Olympic Dream at Rio

Three years ago, Abbey Weitzeil was in a small swim meet. Now she's an Olympic swimmer, which is a "dream come true" for the American.
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Athletes who can three-peat (or four-peat) at the Tokyo Olympics

Katie Ledecky, Andy Murray and Lisa Carrington are a few of the athletes vying for a third straight gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
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Watch Every Michael Phelps Race, From Sydney to Rio

Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympian of all time, with a record 28 total Olympic medals after completing his fifth Games in 2016. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, when he was just 15 years old, ...