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NBC's Opening Ceremony Broadcast Edited Out 23 Minutes Of The Event, So Here's What You MissedNBC’s tape-delayed Olympic opening ceremony broadcast, as usual, didn’t manage to air the entire event. While the Peacock Network continues to improve upon previous years’ heavy hand in editing, they still sliced off 23 minutes in the 14 hours that passed before it finally hit NBC’s airwaves. Here’s...

Okay, About The Cold At The Olympic Opening CeremonyHere is how excited everyone in Pyeongchang was about how cold it was going to be at the Opening Ceremony: The press conference put on by the Korea Meteorological Administration was the hottest ticket at the Media Press Centre this past week. On one of the shuttle buses, a photographer who had atten...

Kip Keino's Emotional Speech And Everything Else NBC Edited Out Of Its Opening Ceremony BroadcastNBC’s tape-delayed Opening Ceremony broadcast ran a cool 4:58:38—more than an hour longer than the event’s real-time duration—but, as usual, the Peacock Network left plenty of the show on its cutting-room floor. Here’s everything NBC excised from last night’s broadcast:...

Report: The Olympics Opening Ceremony Features Gisele Bündchen Getting Assaulted<em></em>

That supermodel Gisele would have a role in this week’s Olympics opening ceremony was a given, and previous reports indicated the Brazilian supermodel would have a “sexy starring role.” But reports from witnesses of Sunday’s opening ceremony dress rehearsal explained to Brazil’s UOL that Tom Brady’s...

Here's Everything Else NBC Edited Out Of The Opening Ceremony Broadcast

NBC promised to show yesterday's Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony events from Sochi "as they happened." That obviously wasn't true, though compared to the network's butchering of London's closing ceremony two years ago NBC managed to keep most of the substance. Viewers in the U.S. saw 91% of th...

Russian TV Didn't Show The Olympic Rings Malfunction

Remember this? Five giant snowflakes suspended above the Fisht Olympic Stadium were supposed to open up into the five Olympic rings. Only four did, and scheduled pyrotechnics never materialized. If not for the internet, Russian viewers would be none the wiser....

Russian Police Choir Sings "Get Lucky" Before Sochi Opening Ceremony

The Russian police choir, which has become rather famous for its wonderful covers of popular pop songs, made an appearance before the Olympic opening ceremony in Sochi today. It was delightful....

How The Opening Ceremony's Russian History Lesson Handled The Bad Stuff

Every Olympic opening ceremony is essentially the same—the host nation's history, by way of Cirque du Soleil. The real drama is in seeing how they'll whitewash the bad stuff. So, how did Sochi organizers cover the period between the Russian Revolution and World War II, the period of purges and famin...