Funny, I never completed this one, so back to the Day II one in Day III:
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Usually, one of the most stirring shots of the entire Games, over the course of the actual 16 days is the cauldron, over the stadium, burning brightly.
Well, they got the burning part right (unlike Vancouver, when one of the four final lighters failed because their portion of the hydraulics needed to light the cauldron completely failed in front of a billion people!)...
The problem is that the cauldron (more, the 204 rods which make up the "cauldron") is not tall enough for the flame to be seen outside the stadium!
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NBC is being roundly criticized for their Olympic coverage. (Let me add that the live feeds are effectively pay-for-view: You need a cable name/password from your cable company, and that one has to carry CNBC and MSNBC to get the live feeds -- unlike 2008.)
But now word from Yahoo! is that NBC is faking some of the Olympic sound coming from the events!
This, on top of not showing the Opening Ceremony live, disrespecting a number of the countries involved therein, and the regular nationalistic cheerleading.
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Controversy in the pool too.
No, not Michael Phelps, though USA Swimming is underperforming quite a bit with him at the helm.
A Chinese swimmer, a female teenager by the name of Ye Shiwen, won the 400m individual medley, the same event Ryan Lochte won.
No problem there, until you take a look at the races...
You find out that Shiwen outsplit Lochte in the final 50 meters (the back half of the freestyle leg). The women's winner outsplit the men's winner in the final 50 meters of the event.
As one can expect, drugs are suspected.
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