How the Olympics gave me one more reason to like Japan

I have a rented TV here, it is actually pretty nice, a 37in Sharp Auqos. Due to the language barrier I didn't plan to watch TV, I intended to just hook up my computer and use the thing as an extravagant monitor but nothing else. When I discovered that all of the Olympic content posted to the Internet by NBC was blocked outside of the US, I dragged my TV across the room and hooked it up to take advantage of the local broadcasts of the Olympics. On the days of the Synchronized Swimming competition not only did they show all of the routines and the preliminary competition, they showed it all Live and then again in prime time!