Griping about Swimming

Australia seems to be taking the news hard that the Olympics will hold the swimming competitions in the morning in Beijing 2008 to accommodate American TV schedules. I'm sympathetic to an argument that TV plays too big a role in the Olympics, although when NBC is the single biggest source of revenue for the games you do cede some control.

But hey -- American and German and Russian and Chinese and Jamaican swimmers ALL will have to swim in the morning, along with the Australians. I don't quite see the big deal...