While you were sleeping: What happened overnight at the Olympics

Randy Harvey | Tribune Olympic Bureau BEIJING - Here's my question about NBC's coverage: If the network insisted on having finals in two marquee sports, gymnastics and swimming, in the morning here so that they would be prime-time in the East Coast, why did they allow perhaps the main event of the entire Olympics, the women's gymnastics all-around competition, to be scheduled so that it would end after 12:30 a.m. back home? I'm sure NBC execs are a lot smarter about their business than I am. But this one is baffling. So, as Friday is a work day, you very well might have gone to bed without knowing that a U.S. woman won for only the third time and that the United States placed two women on the podium for the first time in history. Nastia Liukin, whose parents were Russian gymnasts but was raised in Parker, Texas, won, joining... [read full story]