THE COVERAGE

Highlights from media coverage of the Pyeongchang Olympics:

WATCH THE WORDS: Athletic miracles do happen, and sometimes you have to be prepared for them. NBC’s Dan Hicks declared Cornelia Huetter as the only skier with “any real chance” of beating Austria’s Anna Veith in the women’s super-G Saturday and when she didn’t, said “it’s Anna Veith of Austria who repeats as Olympic super-G champion.” That made it four straight Olympic gold medals in that discipline for Austria, he said. As the pictures showed an emotional Veith, Hicks said she “just about can’t believe it.” After a commercial, NBC switched to figure skating and later had to break in with the news that little-known Ester Ledecka had stunningly beaten Veith, and it showed her winning run. There’s no shame in thinking Veith was the probable winner and even switching to another sport; after Huetter’s run The Associated Press wrote that Veith was “on the brink” of defending her gold medal. But probable isn’t the same thing as certain, and Hicks was burned.

TAKE THAT, BODE: Yes, the Veith who won silver in the super-G is the same Anna Veith that Miller had cited in suggesting marriage could be hazardous to a female skier’s career .

RATINGS: NBC had its roughest night of the Olympics so far. The 19.3 million people who watched the games on NBC, NBCSN or streaming services in prime time on Thursday was down 16 percent from NBC’s 22.9 million viewers in Sochi four years ago. On NBC alone, the viewership of 16.2 million represented a 29 percent drop, the Nielsen company said. It hurt that the night’s two most anticipated (and ultimately disappointing) performances — Mikaela Shiffrin’s second slalom run and Nathan Chen’s short program skate — happened around midnight on the East Coast. NBCSN, which aired the entirety of the skating program, had its biggest audience of the Olympics with 2.75 million.

GOLD ZONE: NBCOlympics. com’s “Gold Zone” is a highlight show that gives a solid overview of the previous day’s best performances, with a few twists. Friday’s show, for example, showed Yun SungBin’s gold medal-winning skeleton run as it was called on South Korean television (they were a little excited). For medal ceremony junkies, it caps the highlights with the winners getting their due. “Gold Zone” streams at noon Eastern each day, timed for people in offices to watch during lunch. They might want to consider a more compact version for people without the luxury of a twohour lunch break.

QUOTE: “That performance is what angel’s breath looks like.” — NBC’s Weir — really, who else could it be? — describing the men’s short-form figure skate of Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu.