NBC Covers Reynolds Case, to a Point

NBC, which reported extensively on the legal drama over Butch Reynolds’ quest to run in the Olympic track and field trials, ended its Saturday coverage without a resolution to the story.

NBC concluded its show at 3 p.m. PDT, with host Bob Costas saying the 400-meter preliminaries would be run no earlier than 5 p.m. The story was updated on the “NBC Nightly News.”

The preliminaries were moved to today at 10 a.m. PDT

NBC Sports spokesman Ed Markey said had the event been run Saturday at 5 p.m., it would have been “highly unlikely” that the network would have preempted other scheduled programming to show it.

Today’s race will not be shown live, because it begins before the noon start of NBC’s coverage.