The Olympic camera work was an international feed (note the break ups
on the screen the first couple days). Thus the best athletes got the
camera time. If NBC did the camera work you can be sure that
American's would have been front and center, from a ratings standpoint,
if nothing else. On a couple of occasions the US announcers apologized
for the lack of US camera time.

My question is, what happened to the 50K XC coverage on the last day
that was listed in all the papers? NBC seems to have just dropped that
and went with an overview of the games.