B Trials Qualifiers Being Treated Separately than A Trials Qualifiers During the Race?

Hi Rich!

-Steve S.

Thanks for the post Steve. You did a great job at all those races, I was there to see it in person. It is a shame, perhaps even a crime, that you weren't asked this time. That is the nature of the NYRR.

The fact that we are even dealing with this issue shows a lack of concern by teh NYRR. don't give me the crap about them stepping up and solving the problem. They created the problem!

Someone please explain the entry fee for the race?????

A major part of the bid is affordable housing for participants and their families. $399 a night??? Who negotiated this mess?????

I am neither for or against the fluid to A and B qualifiers, but I do want to add my .02. Maybe they didnt contact you for a reason? I dont know.

Looks like it will have the most coverage of any USOTM since 1996....according to

http://www.nyrr.org/races/pro/mens_trials/media_fact_sheet.asp

>TV and Web Streaming

>The start of the race will be shown live on NBC’s Today

>show on race morning. The race will also be streamed in

>its entirety at NBCSports.com, and a 30-minute highlight

>show will be broadcast nationally on NBC on Saturday

>afternoon.

And if things continue as they have been thus far in South Bend, one could hope that this 30 minutes may expand so that NBC can put anything other than Notre Dame football on the air.

Joe,

Forget about the coverage. We will be running around the park checking it out.

Rich

Or you could stand at the finish line by Tavern on the Green, watch the live action on the Jumbotron, and listen to the live updates and commentary, plus watch them pass you 'en vivo' five times.

No live coverage of the race on local broadcast TV?

How exciting is the start of a marathon? Seems it's more TV worthy than the Finish of the race according to the NYRRC. How much of the 30 minute show will be a Gary Murkhe shoestore promo?. Will they have agegroup awards?

Press release:

NBC in a move to insure greater fan enjoyment will no longer show the whole NFL game but will bring you

EVERY KICKOFF OF EVERY NFL GAME in an action packed 30 minute format. Imagine seeing the very first 13 seconds of EVERY game from the comfort of your easychair. Not one or 2 games but EVERY KICKOFF OF EVERY GAME, No boring Touchdown or Point after tries, no flypatterns no wideouts nothing but KICKOFFS.

Do not forget to tune in next week when we bring you the LIVE loading of the starting gate at the Belmont Stakes and aspecial sneak preview of the pace lap at the Indy 500.

Our new slogan "NBC for the ADD Generation"

[quote]Joseph McVeigh wrote:

Looks like it will have the most coverage of any USOTM since 1996....according to

http://www.nyrr.org/races/pro/mens_trials/media_fact_sheet.asp

WOW JOE. BETTER THAN THE LAST TWO OLYMPIC TRIALS?????????

WE WERE TOLD IT WOULD BE BETTER THAN EVER. "UNPRECEDENTED" IS THE TERM THAT USATF AND NYRR THREW AROUND.

That's my plan, Rich.

Honestly, I think it should be left to the quailifers to determine if the evnt is/was a success or not?

Simply have letsrun posters come up with a legitamate questionnaire on the event and then have all qualifiers fill it out. Additonally, have them grade the event!

Afterwards, the results can be posted and future bidders of the USOT 26.2 can use it.

I am sure Weldon, can figure out how to implement this to ensure it is done correctly.

A phone call to the Marriott on 92 st got me a rackrate quote of $299 per night this weekend 2 people king bed.

Joseph McVeigh wrote:

And if things continue as they have been thus far in South Bend, one could hope that this 30 minutes may expand so that NBC can put anything other than Notre Dame football on the air.

NBC is wayyyy too smart to put on the OT marathon in place of any ND game. Hell, even ND practice film would outdraw the OT marathon.

yawn. it's streamed live on the internet. what more do you want?

Who's doing the coverage? Not Larry Rawson I hope...

Steve, yes your organization and personal attention to each and every Trials participant in Birmingham was more than impressive, it was simple amazing.

I find it very hard to believe that the NYRRC made this decision after "discussing it with B qualifiers." Maybe they found one B guy who was willing to say "I just need plastic cups of tepid water."

Just the fact that the NYRRC even thought about not giving special drink privileges to B qualifiers says a lot about them and their people.

Do you think that one B guy was Famiglietti?

JRE wrote:

Do you think that one B guy was Famiglietti?

If it was, he would have said, "Just make sure there's an ice cream truck parked at 95th St. so I can stop and refuel each loop."

if Khalid can run a world record without special fluids, then the Bs could certainly do the same. Seriously, between this and the Deena dissed thread, this board gets more and more lame with each passing week...

yawn... wrote:

if Khalid can run a world record without special fluids, then the Bs could certainly do the same. Seriously, between this and the Deena dissed thread, this board gets more and more lame with each passing week...

That's not the point. The point is the NYRR and the incompetent leadership of USATF promised us an event of unprecedented quality in every aspect. Instead we get more of the same, or in this case, an inferior product.