So NBC chose to show a Russian losing over history.

Simone Manuel creates history becoming the first African American woman to win an individual medal in swimming, gold at that, and instead of showing her medal ceremony live NBC chose to show a tape delayed contest.

Then they showed medal ceremony….tape delayed.

Really NBC

Seriously

Really

Thank You Timothy Burke at Deadspin for pointing this out. Thank you British Broadcasting Corporation for stepping up and showing the ceremony live.

This is 2016 and events are still tape delayed.

We already know the results.

Memo we the interweb.

I mean did we really need to watch Michael Phelps dry off his elbows for 30 minutes to warm up for a SEMI-FINIALS contest. Show the balance beam event then.

Heck all we wanted to see is Simone Biles and Aly Raisman.

Do better NBC.