The Triumph and the Struggle | Molly Solomon | TEDxMiddlebury

February 9th, 2022, 9:25 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. I'm in the control room of the Beijing Winter Olympics. As executive producer of NBC's Olympics coverage, I oversee the production of the games and I'm responsible for everything viewers see on the screen. I'm not in a good mood. These co air Olympics have been creating headlines for empty stadiums, athletes in mass, and geopolitical issues. But as fortune would have it, we had circled this night on the Olympic calendar literally years before because it f ...