Why are there no highlights of the olympics

International Soccer. Scottish Premiership. Fantasy Premier League. Women's College Basketball. Sports Business. Bay Area. Kansas City. Las Vegas. Los Angeles. New Orleans. New York. San Antonio. San Diego. Tampa Bay. Washington DC. By The Athletic Staff. It's the final weekend of the Olympics, with two days full of medal events set to cap off the action in Tokyo. With the time difference, each day's live competition begins in prime time Eastern and runs overnight into mid-morning the following day.

There will be no live events from roughly 10 a. Eastern each day, though that time will be filled with delayed or re-aired broadcasts of various events. This installment covers events happening Saturday Friday evening to Saturday morning in the U. All dates and times below are converted to Eastern time, 13 hours behind Tokyo time.

NBC's main-channel curated prime-time show Friday night will feature live coverage of track and field and the U.

Saturday's primetime show features live coverage of track and field and the U. Sunday's prime-time show at 8 p. ET features the tape-delayed closing ceremony, which be streamed live at 7 a. All events can be streamed at NBCOlympics. What: Women's marathon, women's high jump, women's 10,m, men's javelin throw, men's m, women's 4Xm relay, men's 4Xm relay finals. Saturday is quite possibly your last chance to see Allyson Felix race in the Olympics.

The year-old is expected to compete in the women's 4Xmeter final after winning bronze Friday in the individual event. The U. The United States goes for gold against Japan early Saturday morning in a rematch of both teams' first game of the knockout stage. South Korea faces the Dominican Republic for bronze late Friday night. When: Friday, p. The United States gets a rematch after losing to France in the opening group-stage game as the Americans try to make it four straight golds since the disappointment in Athens.

Slovenia faces Australia early Saturday for bronze. A bad-weather weekend is forecast in Tokyo, so the women's golf final round is getting started an hour earlier than originally scheduled, with players teeing off on both the first and 10th holes. American Nelly Korda leads by three shots at 15 under.

She goes off at p. We know this Olympics will not have all of that usual charm. It can't. The lack of fans, the bubbles, the social distancing, the quarantines -- even the medals won't be presented in the same way, as athletes will have to take them off a tray and put them around their own necks in one of many changes that feels a bit more like COVID theater than legitimate public health protocol. There will be controversies. There will be protests, from athletes speaking their truth and from locals who believe this is all a sham.

There will be anger and frustration and exasperation. Like so much else we have lived through, these Olympics are not perfect. They are not what we imagined. They are messy and problematic and complicated. But they are also a chance for these thousands of competitors. A chance to play. To strive. To strain and stretch and maybe, just maybe, touch that dream they've always had. That is worth something. It has to be. So Greece marched in first, as it always does in the parade of athletes.

There was the oiled-up, bare-chested Tongan again as well as an oiled-up, bare-chested Vanuatuan! The Bermudans in their traditional shorts and the Panamanians in their trademark hats. And Sue Bird and Eddy Alvarez carrying the flag for the United States, reminding us, with the glow in their eyes, that even with all that lingers over these Games, it is OK to find the moments that inspire.

It is OK to find that light. Eighteen hundred drones came together above the stadium, lit up together as a dazzling orb to form the Earth. The Olympic torch arrived, passed from one to another until it reached Naomi Osaka , the Japanese tennis star.

She took it and ran the final leg, climbing the steps of a figurative Mount Fuji before leaning toward the cauldron. Others entered in the corner of the NBC screen next to a giant ad.

Would you like to learn more about Finland? HIGH: Everyone fully accepting the mood of and sitting on the floor. It was really hot, all the athletes were wearing fancy heavy clothing except Tonga guy! So all the athletes sprawled out on the stadium floor while they waited, and it looked like a bored school assembly, and honestly, there was something genuine and nice about that. Who among us, etc. LOW: A big flying drone globe that also happens to look like a coronavirus.

Tell us to imagine there are no countries when, in fact, this event is premised on having many different countries competing against each other! HIGH: Having three performers with big round heads commit to acting out pictograms for all 50 sports in sequence. It was also a reference to the drawings that originated during the Tokyo Olympics.

This is the kind of endearingly nerdy stuff the Olympics needs. The pictogram people were great, the drones were weird, but in total there was very little coherence to the whole program. Just one thing lurching into another totally different thing, with no transitions or cohesive themes.