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A word about the commercial breaks. In many respects, they pay for the games. NBC pays hundreds of millions of dollars for the rights, which pay for the running of the Olympic committee, etc. If it weren't for TV dollars from all over the world, the committees couldn't exist.
At least this year, none of the ceremony was missed during the breaks because the networks now use a technology -- soft of like a super high quality TIVO -- so that they can basically stop playing, but continue recording and then go back and pick up at the point that they left the ceremony. It sort of elongates time.
We couldn't do that back in the days of video tape delays.
What a cool idea it would be if those "CD" size medals really were recording material and the athlete's win was recorded and played back by his/her medal.
Ain't electronics wonderful
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