Watch NBC's Olympic coverage for 10 minutes and you'll probably find yourself tearing up at least once. Watch for an hour and you'll have something to talk to your therapist about next week.
In its relentless effort to provide the dramatic human interest stories behind the games -- we need something to do while those athletes are just standing around -- NBC seems to have dug up every sad, heart-wrenching anecdote they could find. It would almost seem that a lifetime of training is nothing if fate hasn't also dealt you a couple of identity-shattering blows to the stomach.

Twitter is facing a user backlash after suspending the account of a journalist who had criticised NBCUniversal's coverage of the Olympic Games.
The US TV network had complained that Independent newspaper correspondent Guy Adams had posted the email address of one of its executives.

NBC Sports subsequently released a statement confirming it had called for the action.

These Olympic Games have already seen plenty of participants both suspected of and criticised for morally dubious conduct. China's Ye Shiwen, the 16-year old double gold medallist, has been found guilty until proven innocent of doping by the ever-reliable court of Western public opinion. That same court has been somewhat less quick to conclude that Katie Ledecky, the 15-year old winner of the 800m freestyle, has been generously assisted by chemical friends. Why Ledecky – a wholesome all-American prodigy with an apple-pie smile – has been subjected to less scrutiny than Shiwen is anyone's guess.

She'd been hit flush on the head with a full blooded swing of a hockey stick.
Blood was pouring from a wound on top her head. Players rushed to her side and a stretcher was immediately called for.
After what seemed like an eternity, but was only half a minute, Glynn picked herself off the turf, rendezvoused with the team doctor under the grandstand and had her head stitched, stapled and bandaged.

We’ve enjoyed past Olympic openings and closings, and some of the sports.
But the quality of the past two or three Olympics has been a great disappointment.
The entertainment of this latest Olympics was dark, loud, sexualized with scanty clothes and revealing cleavage on women, and with disturbing pagan noise. Connecting children, beds plus frightening villains made one think of pedophiles.
The black and red colors of sex and violence dominated most of the closing. The nuns were obviously there to mock Christianity while one could only think of Satan being glorified.
The comical entrance of the queen was one of the few bright spots.
Past Olympics had spectacular bright, cheerful and family-style entertainment but the English seem to have put teens who worship Satan in charge. It was disgraceful and we suffered through them hoping for some improvement.
Some of the clothes the competitors wore also reflect the sexualized entertainment.
The male swimmers look unprofessional with their hip-huggers trunks stopping just above their pubic region, as also the women’s track and volleyball with their underwear-bikinis.
All are offensive and degrading. These styles are also now worn in our schools and colleges, which no one seems to have objected to.
The girls’ gymnastics also are sexualized in their swimsuits and are too tight around the buttocks plus partially expose their butts.
We had enough with all the sexuality which took away any enjoyment to watch so we only watched the entertainment.
Rio Di Janeiro has nothing better to offer with more dark juvenile entertainment and women parading around sexually, displaying cleavage and little talent.

Dennis P. & Rosemarie Mitchell
Duluth