Probably like you, I've been watching quite a lot of the Olympics. Possibly unlike you, I've been watching very little on my TV. Why would I, when an app from NHK — Japan's public broadcaster — is giving me such a better experience?
What the NHK app, and other regional equivalents, do is untie themselves from the leash of traditional TV restrictions and offer video coverage of pretty much everything going on in Rio. This is usually just the raw footage provided to all official broadcasters around the world to do with what they see fit; NHK doesn't have the budget nor the viewer interest to give each sport the full production treatment with commentary and on-site reporting, so most of these events are only able to be streamed unadorned...
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