NEW YORK (AP) — Sometimes it's important to take a break from the pool.
Swimming has given NBC some memorable moments in Rio de Janeiro, continuing Wednesday with a third gold medal for Katie Ledecky and her American teammates in a freestyle relay. But between the surprise gold medal by Kazakhstan's Dmitriy Balandin and the women's relay race, the network aired a seemingly endless series of turgid semifinals.
Meanwhile, NBC held back video of the scintillating men's gymnastics all-around competition, one of the showcase sports in any Olympics. Japan's Kohei Uchimura, widely considered the greatest men's gymnast in history, won the gold medal over Ukraine's Oleg Verniaiev by less than one-tenth of a point.