Really? What a disappointing and ho-hum call of Dathan's Amercan record-setting run. Absolutely no mention during the race of the fact that he was on American-record pace. It was an after thought call. "Lewis, I will tell ya, I was watching the clock...it's going to be very close...Dathan Ritzenhein potentially breaking the American record of Bob Kennedy," said Dwight Stones, post finish. And no post-race interview? Come on NBC. Get with it. Pay attention and show some emotion!
They're just taking the European feed.
Yeah, it's exactly the Euro feed. Even that bit about their allegedly "catching up" with Isinabyeva; that was a Euro interview, not theirs. The coverage of Ritz precisely no more or no less than the Euro feed. Who knows where Leswis and Dwight were to make their call, but it certainly wasn't Zurich.
At least they didn't claim from the get go that Ritz for going for the American Record.
NBC is just mailing it in......trying to get some viewers of UBolt. The equivalent of "sure go ahead if you have to, but don't wake me up.
Those West L.A. uni sprts dweebs are smoking ganja.
Other than some voice overs saying NBC, this was the same show as the Universal Sports show. Pretty sure they were at the Playboy TV studios in LA watching the meet, which is where Universal Sports does a lot of their stuff out of.
It seemed to me like the british announcers on the universal sports feed paid 10x more attention to ritz than nbc's.
Friday I watched the meet on Universal...with the Brit announcers, who showed great passion for Dathan late surge in the race, and the American record.
Kudos to the meet's camera men for having enough instinct to catch Dathan's emotion and expression -- the importance of the moment -- and the cameramen/women realizing that Dathan was moving up dramatically.
Satuday I watched the meet on Canadian TV/CBC/, and the Canadian announcers showed great emotion for Dathan's surge, and his getting the American record, 3rd fasted non African, etc.
Sadly, Lewis and Stones, showed less emotion.
We are of course lucky to get/see any track on t.v. and more, since it has become so marginalized by other sports and the dumbing down our society.
I use to stay up late to hear the guy on the radio say It is 10 oclock time for the Wanamaker Mile.
Complain all you want, to me we are awash with T&F thanks to the electronic age. Between listening to radio in my Doctor Ds and watching 87% of the track events live from Berlin WC and every GP meet in me robe with Gwendolynns ashes sitting next to the Plasma, I take the latter even if it means Carol Lewi....eer let me take amoment before saying something that will bite in my arse...
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