But if we all thought #NBCFail was bad at the Opening Ceremony, Deadspin today notes that NBC saw fit to exclude OVER AN HOUR of the Closing Ceremony so that USA's 121 medals would be the main storyline there -- and to protect against anything untoward getting aired. *cough!*
- Chopped over a half hour of the mass entry of the athletes into the stadium. I guess since they couldn't segregate the USA athletes (and especially their champions), they decided to air very little of it except Simone Biles and a few others, it sounds like.
- A three-minute athlete's montage which was aired in the Ceremony. But if you want to watch every American gold medal on a loop, it's been going for three days now online!
- Most of the men's marathon victory ceremony (which is a tradition for the Closing Ceremony), and they did not air that Galen Rupp received his bronze medal. I guess a USA medal is only of more value to you when it's gold, right?
- The newly elected members to the International Olympic Committee. I guess NBC didn't want to explain the athletes electing a banned Russian trackster to the IOC.
- They omitted the Opening Ceremony speech from the Rio organizing chair Carlos Guzman, so why is it any surprise they omitted Closing Ceremony speech from him as well?
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