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>  I agree....ABC is only interested in showing 1) Any USA
>  competition or 2) the first place teams.
>  
>  This seems a bit strange since ABC has bragged about how
>  "over 10 (?) billion people, from over 100 countries,
>  watching our broadcast". Geez, I bet that folks in Europe
>  and Latin America just *love* to see the US teams whip the 
>  smaller countries.

There is a difference between what we see in the US and what the rest of
the world sees.  ABC is required to provide neutral television coverage
of every event in its entirety.  Each country can use what it wants.
There have been charges of bias in other countries (Australia is one that
comes to mind) that there was too much bias in favor of the home-country
athletes and that people actually wanted to see MORE of the US athletes.

Incidentally, I agree that the ABC broadcasts here have been overly biased
in favor of the US.
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