about the news and not the sports. very seriously news. the issues of terrorism, security, put in s anti-gay propaganda law. that took up all of the airspace and the headlines really for months leading up to sochi. i ve never seen a games where we have focused less on the sports going into the games. now, i would say that in the last week we have really made that turn to sports. you make the point and i think it s well-taken that then where are the superstars. we don t have any huge names to talk about. splut absolutely. there s no doubt it will affect the way the games are looked at for the future, the way history will look at the games and it did take away the sports impact because there was so much news. right. nbc s ratings have been about the same as the last winter olympics. i m measuring in terms of the water cooler factor and how much people are talking about it here in the states. during the women s downhill skiing event, nbc commentator steve parrino said that they do this
about the news and not the sports. very seriously news. the issues of terrorism, security, put in s anti-gay propaganda law. that took up all of the airspace and the headlines really for months leading up to sochi. i ve never seen a games where we have focused less on the sports going into the games. now, i would say that in the last week we have really made that turn to sports. you make the point and i think it s well-taken that then where are the superstars. we don t have any huge names to talk about. splut absolutely. there s no doubt it will affect the way the games are looked at for the future, the way history will look at the games and it did take away the sports impact because there was so much news. right. nbc s ratings have been about the same as the last winter olympics. i m measuring in terms of the water cooler factor and how much people are talking about it here in the states. during the women s downhill skiing event, nbc commentator steve parrino said that they do this
you know, sometimes there really shouldn t be a debate about whether a child should do this or not. bill: what would be dying is too as a parent, though, what would be the difference, martha and i talked about this last, what if he were in a downhill skiing event or snow boarding event? i mean, it carries risk there, what is the difference. yes. you can say all sorts of things, he could have died walking to school, right? i car could have hit him. but you make judgments as parents, what is the likelihood that my son will die if there is an accident in the event and, let s face it, you know, this is like going very fast in a car, and when you crash in a car you are highly likely to die or suffer severe injuries, why would you put your child through that because you can, kids like to do things impulsively and they think they are invincible and their brains are not done developing and that is why he went indulge their requests, mom i want to jump off a bridge in a parachute and,
today. more on the day s jam-packed schedule. good morning, jeff. let s see what s on tap for the first day of competition. reporter: great day for sports. we are getting conflicting reports, the main event, the men s downhill skiing event has been postponed. we re still working on that. conflicting reports at this hour, that event has been postponed once again because of the weather. it is believable because they have had these training problems everyday because of the fog up on whistler. we will keep a close eye on that. there s other great events happening today regardless including, we ll show you some of them, biathalon, hockey today, the men s luge today following the horrific accident involving the georgian luger. that will happen today as well. i should mention, they are building up that wall on curve 16 where that luger had been killed and had the accident as a precautionary measure according