h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Don't know if it's of any consolation, but it's pretty much the same in Germany - at least as far as the football world cup is concerned. Depending on which channel it is on (three channels share the live broadcast), it's one of the following: Günter Netzer, Mehmet Scholl or Oliver Kahn giving their comments (together with some other commentator - I can't recall their names now). I don't usually watch any sport, so I don't know if this goes for all the other sports, too.

I don't remember the presenting details, but I do remember that the bias is the same. Any time that I'm abroad I pray for the country I'm in to have all its players eliminated so I can watch Federer or Nadal and not be subjected to the great local hopes hacking around on an outside court in rounds one and two. I could try San Marino, but they probably just default to showing Italians.
The Olympics is worse - there no coverage on any channel of the men's downhill, the premier event, because the country I was in had no competitors. Fortunately I didn't understand any commentary, so I couldn't get wound up about that.