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Woman's gymnastics

posted 8 years ago by detataandrea
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This is arguably one of the most popular events and the one event that I looked forward to watching the most. I was completely frustrated when NBC showed 30 minutes of woman's gymnastics followed by 2 hours of swimming. I was waiting all night for the gymnastics to come back on but I had to throw in the towel and go to bed because it was getting super late!!! I watched it the next day on Comcast OnDemand and they cut out so much of the show and did not show the gold medal ceremony for the USA women's team. NBC get it together and show other events too. It seems like this whole viewing on NBC is nothing but swimming....I like swimming but yawn!!!! How many more times are we going to watch people swim laps in the pool...boring!!!!

[–] JoanTheVampireSlayer 8 years ago

It seems like this whole viewing on NBC is nothing but swimming....I like swimming but yawn!!!!

Don't forget about the 50 commercial breaks they have to throw in there during every competition. I feel like I've seen more commercials ABOUT the Olympics than the actual Olympics itself.

I know I'm a vampire, Snookie.

[–] detataandrea 8 years ago

So true. Show more Olympics and less commercials please...!!

[–] bobcobb301 8 years ago

The problem is that there aren't a lot of other events that they can cut too. Gymnastics routines and swimming races take a few minutes. Water polo, basketball and other events like that take hours.