2010 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony Brings End to Successful Winter Games

The 2010 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony is already here. It seems like the 2010 Vancouver Olympics just started, but the Closing Ceremony take place on the night of Sunday, February 28th in Vancouver, Canada. The 17th day of competition at these Winter Games also marks the day that Canada will close out the Olympics and hand the torch over to Russia for the 2014 games. The Vancouver Closing Ceremonies are scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday night, and will definitely be one of those must-see events. It is almost a sad ending to see the Winter Games come to a close, but Canada has to be happy with the success they found this Winter.

The Olympics Closing Ceremony has an unfortunate conclusion for West Coast viewers though. For those not living in the CST or EST viewing time zones, the Olympic Closing Ceremony will be tape-delayed, adding it to an already extremely long list of delayed events at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. It's a terrible way for NBC to end these games for viewers, delaying the coverage in the very time zone where it is taking place, and forcing people to stay up late into Sunday night because of the lazy programming format that NBC has gone with. It isn't that much of a surprise though, after the tape-delayed the Opening Ceremony and figure skating events to force viewers to watch NBC through midnight.

East Coast (and CST) viewers will probably be quite happy that the Vancouver Closing Ceremony will be broadcast live on NBC, giving them the opportunity to view as everything unfolds. There will be a half-hour of fluff beginning at 8:00 p.m. that will lead up to the Closing Ceremony starting at 8:30 p.m. in those time zones. It is expected to be a good Closing Ceremony however that NBC ends up airing it, and should provide the perfect closure to a very successful Winter Games. Sure there were problems with snow, sure NBC monopolized viewing rights, and of course there were disappointing events, but on the whole these were a pretty impressive Olympic Winter Games.

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