I agree with this right here. I think the time difference sucks because you know the results before they broadcast. There’s very little star power in these olympics even before Biles withdrew.
In the past, NBC was good about showing the Americans who won medals and you’d see the final round of whatever competition they were in whether it be shooting, fencing or judo or whatever. Now they just gloss over that stuff and instead show nothing but almost meaningless heats in swimming and track and field during prime time with maybe one or two actual events for medals. I think their whole production this year has been absolutely awful.
I also wonder if, like MNLonghorn said, all the wokeism has made the country in general less patriotic. Half the board is going to say “that’s bullshit” but there really is a large segment of the population who don’t like Megan Rapino, Gwen Berry and other Olympic athletes that complain about their country.