As a Swede, the winter Olympics are fun to watch. Most sports aren’t spread across the globe, so we have chances for medals.
One of the most exciting events are the Biathlon, and perhaps it was a reaction to disappointing results for the Swedish ladies, but I got really upset at the software:

The numbers for the time are too difficult to read on a non-wide-screen TV. I have a 28 inches box from 2000, and get tired from trying to distinguish 32 from 39.
So an estimate is that more than half of the viewers have trouble seeing what time the athletes have at certain moments.
They also have graphics for shots not fired, hits, misses; and the coloring choice for not shot and misses are too close, and I don’t even have a color-blindness (I think…)
The main graphics from the software is too cluttered, which gets apparent when an athlete is shown in a corner with only parts of the graphics, and everything is much more clear (although the space is smaller.)

And everything is connected, so the software doesn’t only have Usability problems, there are functional issues as well:
When athletes are shooting, their target plate can be displayed multiple times, e.g. at one occasion it was displayed that the Norwegian favorite Björndalen shot at two targets, at one starting from the left, and on the other from the right. When he had finished, it was Teela that had two targets…
On a replay, Helena Jonsson’s time was 0.0.0.0 and matched against a leading time of unknown source.

There has also been missing features, in the latest events they have added an indicator of the wind, and also you can see the time difference between the athlete and the leader (or the second place if it is the best time.) When the inevitable happened, that the time was exactly the same as the leader, the graphics displayed -11.0…

I have no idea how this software has been developed, if they have done any sort of testing, but the addition of features and apparent bugs indicate a rushed project without input from people that will watch the event on “real” TV sets.

But since Björn Ferry won gold, I am not upset anymore; rather this software can be seen as a nice opportunity to practice your ability to see anomalies in real time software.