olympics

I love the Winter Olympics. I haven't had a chance to watch much here, but I've discovered the New Zealand coverage has advantages and disadvantages compared to the U.S. coverage.
For one, no sappy features about the athletes. It's just sporting action on the tube here. That's good.
Unfortunately, there's only about three to five hours of coverage a day - two hours starting at 7 a.m., then about three hours starting at 9:30 p.m. Obviously, this isn't a big deal to New Zealanders - although they do give it more coverage than the country's nine Olympic athletes may warrent.
The biggest problem comes from trying to pack all the coverage into these small windows (especially when they occassionally run the same coverage in the morning and at night). The events, especially the long ones such as cross-country races and hockey games, become edited down to a continuous highlight reel. This would be fine, except they pretend they're showing you a full event. They keep the commentary and edit it to flow as though there were no breaks in the action. This is amusing when the clock on screen suddenly jumps 10 minutes, or 30 minutes, ahead.
It's particularly egregious in hockey coverage. I saw a game where a shot went into the stands. They cut to a faceoff, with the commentary implying the faceoff was a result of the last shot. Only problem was, the on-screen clock showed the game was in the next period.

Also, why do the medals look like CDs?