While most of the problems and criticisms of NBC's 2018 Olympic coverage to this point have been either due to NBC's traditional over-production of their Olympic broadcasts and considerable use of tape-delay, as well as some things that were largely out of NBC's control, such as multiple alpine skiing postponements due to high winds, NBC managed to pull off an embarassing, disgraceful, and Olympic-sized Heidi moment last night, nearly half a decade after the Heidi moment . However, unlike the Heidi moment, which, to my knowledge, did not feature anyone at NBC prematurely declaring a winner in that infamous 1968 gridiron football game, NBC originally declared the wrong person the winner in the women's super-G in Pyeongchang. After a relatively major on-course error cost American Lindsey Vonn any chance of a medal in the super-G, Austrian Anna Vieth posted a very fast time among those that NBC considered to be medal contenders, and Vieth was the leader when NBC cut
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