I haven't been following it much.

We had a friend visiting from out of town and she wanted to watch a bit of it last night, so we watched it with her. We saw some of the swimming events and women's gymnastics.

I must say that what some of those young women gymnasts were doing was downright spectacular ("able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!")

But a salient feature of our watching experience yesterday evening was that, during one half-hour segment, we saw three swimming events, each of which didn't take more than a couple of minutes—and the rest of the half-hour was commercials!

This is one of the reasons Barbara and I don't watch much commercial television and stick pretty close to the presentations of our local PBS affiliate.

NBC did a bit better when they show the women's gymnastics, however. Maybe only half of that time was given over to commercials.

Don Firth (mutter, mutter, snarl!)

P. S. Didn't bother to keep track of which country was winning what, however. More interested in what the athletes themselves were doing, which, to me, is what the Olympics is really all about.