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The world is a mess. Let’s have an Olympics!
That isn’t quite the message sent by NBC’s commentators during this morning’s live broadcast of the 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, which unfolded within the chilly bubble of Beijing’s National Stadium. But it isn’t far off, either.
Savannah Guthrie, broadcasting from studios in Connecticut, joined NBC’s Mike Tirico and a pair of experts on China, who were all on the ground in Beijing, in the traditional Olympic attempt to capture the globally unifying spirit of the event. But there was simply no way to ignore the divisive politics hovering over these games, and NBC, to its credit, made sure its live coverage did not. It would have…
