Thanks for the memories, Back to the current competitions

I would like to thank Universal Sports for it's month of homage to Bud Greenspan. Bud Greenspan made extraordinary documentaries about the Olympic games starting with the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Universal Sports was the appropriate place for the airing of these quality documentaries.
The problem I do have with Universal Sports is the shear number of times they repeat the events they do broadcast. It was quite evident with the three or more times that I was flipping channels and ran across the same documentary. I may have had bad luck, but I know very well that the same three events get played all week. The only events I have seen this winter are figure skating, downhill skiing, and skeleton being played on a regular basis. There has been some very limited coverage of cross country skiing and ski jumping, but the truth is that it is nowhere near the coverage from 2009 and 2010.
I can only hope that with the more airtime available we will see more of these events televised. I realize that they have very little pull in part because Americans are not the main stars of these sports, but without television coverage there will never be any interest by more than a few American youth. I don't expect to see these events live, but they can easily be played during the week to fill some of the airtime that right now is being used for reruns of races and competitions broadcast on the weekend. Biathlon, a sport consisting of rifle marksmanship and cross country skiing, is going to bring its World Cup to the United States. I can only hope that there might be an outside possibility that we will see this event live or tape delayed during the week immediately following the competition. With the upcoming World Championships for most winter sports I hope to see more variety on Universal Sports.