Olympics

• NEW YORK (AP) — In the age of social media, NBC now has millions of television critics who make their opinions known about every aspect of Olympics coverage instantly. Theyve even set up their own hashtag on Twitter: (hash)nbcfail.
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• Vacant seats at London Olympics venues should be resold if they are still empty 30 minutes after events start, British Olympic Association Chairman Colin Moynihan said. Moynihan was responding to reports in the U.K.
(Bloomberg)
• (AP) LONDON - North Koreas Om Yun Chol said he wanted to lift a big weight and make the other athletes nervous. He definitely nailed that strategy.
(CBS News)
• London (CNN)-- British soldiers will be asked to act as temporary placeholders in premium seating at Olympic events, as organizers attempt to avoid the spectacle of empty seats at venues.
(CNN)
• The week ahead may be one of the most challenging for the message mavens of the presidential campaigns as they try to break through Olympic fever.
(New York Times)
• LONDON — Savannah Guthrie, the freshman host of NBC's "Today" show, is interviewing five members of the American men's gymnastics team at the Tower of London when her producer, Don Nash, decides to veer off script.
(New York Times)
• The U.S. opened the defense of its Olympic men's basketball title with a 98-71 rout of France in London, where the Americans broke open a game they led by just one point after the first quarter.
(Bloomberg)
• NBC seems to have figured out a way to break ratings records with its TV coverage of the London Olympics. Now if the network could just stop fans from carping about the scarcity of live broadcasts and other complaints.
(Los Angeles Times)
• LONDON (AP) -- With her seventh-place finish, Shelley Olds posted the best result for an American woman in the Olympic road race in 20 years. If she hadnt suffered a puncture she could have ridden her way onto the medal podium.
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