Let's start with Prime Time last night--
Tirico, on the dock watching a storm coming in, throws us to the women's marathon. The Tokyo QISEOC moved the race 500 miles north, and an hour earlier, just to avoid extreme heat--and it didn't work. Meanwhile, we're getting into the track finals--Allyson Felix got her 10th medal, in her 5th QISE games. Comcast made an insta-ad out of it. We also got the basketball final. The NBA millionaires won,
Late night brought us a preview of the winter games (just 6 months away) in the form of Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir. They were there to announce they will be anchoring the closing ceremonies this Sunday. I guess NBC is throwing stuff at the wall, hoping something will generate ratings.
I was pretty far behind when daytime coverage started at 8a, but team sports quickly resolved that. Off to freestyle wrestling--did a cowboy break into the announcing booth? He has the ultra-generic name John Smith, which I assume is an alias. After that, we got water polo and golf (aka lunch time), and finals in rhythmic gymnastics, artistic swimming, and equestrian.
Jimmy Roberts returned with a report on baseball, Japanese culture, and the Fukishima earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown. I'm pretty sure they showed this about two weeks ago. The women's 10,000m final ended the afternoon, with the winner screaming for water after the race. The medical staff must have been on coffee break.
In QISE-adjacent news--Reuters reported the final of the karate event, where a real knockout kick left the other competitor unconscious. That's against the rules, and when he woke up, he was told he got the gold.
Just before Prime Time, your local NBC affiliate may be running "The QISE Zone". Your local news people introduce a bunch of pre-produced content created months ago. As a QISE nut, even I can't watch it.
Tirico kicks off the final night of Prime Time coverage, throwing it to the men's marathon, live and already in progress. In fact, it was basically over. Water polo followed--yawn--along with the finale of men's diving.
We'll wrap things up tomorrow.