Rio 2016: Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Broadcast television coverage of the Rio 2016: Summer Olympics Games of the XXXI Olympiad, an international multi-sport competition that took place in and around Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 05 August 2016 through 21 August 2016.
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"But there is a small but. NBC, along with its cooperating cable allies, presented the 2016 Summer Olympics about as well as it can be done. There have been various trends in the past, including a dreadful period of "up close and personal' segments in the 70's we had to endure just to make it to coverage of the sporting events. NBC did it right, they gave us enough personal info to provide a little human element to the competition and then focused on the sport rather than the people. The one exception to this was the Ryan Lochte coverage. So he turned out to be a strap but I didn..."
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More than 11,000 athletes from 207 National Olympic Committees, including first time entrants Kosovo, South Sudan, and the Refugee Olympic Team, took part.
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Broadcast television coverage of the Rio 2016: Summer Olympics Games of the XXXI Olympiad, an international multi-sport competition that took place in and around Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 05 August 2016 through 21 August 2016.