You have to buy the rights to cover the Olympic games (which I've always found strange - how do you stop someone from reporting what happened in the world?), an

You have to buy the rights to cover the Olympic games (which I've always found strange - how do you stop someone from reporting what happened in the world?), and these rights are sold by country. The BBC isn't going to buy the rights for every country just for people to listen to the BBC outside the UK