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8/16 - “Who cares about swimming anyway, I guess”
By The Stabbing Pen | August 16, 2008
I was watching ESPNews at about 7:40pm West coast time, and they mentioned that Michael Phelps would be going for his 7th gold medal in about 6 minutes. Sitting on the couch doing nothing, I said to myself, “Damn, I wanna watch that.” So, I flipped to NBC, where “Access Hollywood: Live from the Olympics” was on. Scanning through the guide, I saw that the Oxygen Network had Olympics coverage.
I switched over to that channel only to see Bela Karolyi, Mary Lou Retton, and some other person I don’t know having a roundtable-type discussion—instead of Phelps stretching before his next big race. The guide indicated NBC’s coverage wasn’t to start until 8pm.
I understand that with the Olympics in China, events often can’t be aired live for me. However, in this case, there’s no reason why I shouldn’t be able to watch this dumb race live at 7:46pm.
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