Rio: No Love for Masato Sakai?

Last night, as I watched the great American olympian Michael Phelps win another gold medal. But as he finished first place, no one talked about how close the second place winner, Japan's Masato Sakai, came to beating Phelps.

Not just because he came in a close second, but instead of talking about Sakai, NBC rather talk about the stupid feud between Phelps and South America's Chad Le Clos.

Once the race was over, the cameras and broadcasters went right to Phelps (which I understand), then went straight to Le Clos; who by the way came in fourth!

American television totally Tito Jackson'ed, Sakai. They didn't say word, nor put the cameras on him.

Sakai came so close to beating Phelps in .04 seconds. If Sakai had the same arm length as Phelps, it's probably a tie.

Now for those who didn't know about the feud between Phelps and Le Clos, and the olympics gave the swimming match a storyline of Le Clos bad mouthing Phelps. So the competition was solely focused on the two and no one else in the race. By NBC doing that, they basically said: Fuck the other seven swimmers.

Then it became a joke, because Le Clos came in fourth. Leaving out someone who worked their ass off to get to this moment, to hoping to come to beating Phelps, which is in this case was Sakai, then get neglected after coming in second and losing to Phelps in .04 seconds.

NICE JOB, NBC PRODUCERS! SWELL!