Scumbag NBC and Lewis Johnson play game of "Gotcha Journalism" with silver medalist Paul Chelimo

Lewis is a dummy.

I watched every track and field broadcast on the NBC app with the Brit and Aussie announcers. Not one second of Tom, Ato, Lewis, SRR or any of the other tools who are supposedly the NBC "A" team. Most enjoyable Olympics ever for me. Distance races without interruption, no commercials, professional commentating.

Now if only I could get the NCAA's, Pre, and every other NBC track & field broadcast this way.

Buck Knight wrote:

I watched every track and field broadcast on the NBC app with the Brit and Aussie announcers. Not one second of Tom, Ato, Lewis, SRR or any of the other tools who are supposedly the NBC "A" team. Most enjoyable Olympics ever for me. Distance races without interruption, no commercials, professional commentating.

Now if only I could get the NCAA's, Pre, and every other NBC track & field broadcast this way.

The British and Aussie announcers were pretty bad at all the sprints and field events. They seemed to understand the distance events though.

They didn't even know what the bungee was in the pole vault warmup, so you can't really expect them to be able to provide expert commentary in that event. The other field events they were equally low on knowledge.

Agreed that Hammond is worse though.

I'd like to see Trey Hardee and Sonya RR replace those guys, they were both pretty solid when they joined the announcing at trials. They both seem to be much more of students of the sport than the current announcers, and Trey especially (as you would expect from a decathlete).

Louise Johnson is a B. Great job cheapening Chelimo's moment. At least Chelimo keeps silver.

Don't the officials have any responsibility to notify the athletes before they notify the media?

Ditto, I thought the live streaming was excellent, no interruptions, and the announcers were great. Does anyone know who the announcers were? They were very knowledgeable in all track evens and all field events, best track and field coverage i have ever seen.

hmmmmmm wrote:

Don't the officials have any responsibility to notify the athletes before they notify the media?

You are missing the point of the "broadcast partner." The IAAF knows they need a reality TV show to attract an audience and they produced one.

broken arrow wrote:

Ditto, I thought the live streaming was excellent, no interruptions, and the announcers were great. Does anyone know who the announcers were? They were very knowledgeable in all track evens and all field events, best track and field coverage i have ever seen.

I get cable through my landlord. I don't have any of the account info so I couldn't stream. Also my internet has been AWFUL of late and I can barely stream audio, let alone video. Maybe I'll have it figured all out so I can stream full events by next Olympics.

It would have been classic if Chelimo's shocked reaction was to punch Lewis in the nuts.

Matt Lauer did the same gotcha journalism with the obvious retard,Lochte.

I don't think it's very ethical to try and trick these athletes into reactions.

Pure dick move by Johnson. My guess is with all the Allison Felixs, Ashton Eatons, and SRRs getting towards retirement and being commentator material he needed to try and generate a made for tv event and keep his job. Much respect for Chelimo for his response. I'm glad he got his medal and now I'm a fan for life.

kzfhkdjshf wrote:

It would have been classic if Chelimo's shocked reaction was to punch Lewis in the nuts.

When Chelimo stepped back and turned away immediately after hearing Lewis Johnson say his sh1t, I really thought he was going to rip his jersey off and punch Lewis in the nose.

NBC is nothing but scumbags.

It was disgraceful. It'd have been one thing if Johnson had just found out, but to know it and hold it until live was just cruel. That they did it to the US M 4x1 team as well adds to it.

I didn't need any more to hate NBC but I now have more reason.

If you read articles written by NBC about Chelimo and how he first heard about the DQ, they just mention that 'some member of the media' was first to inform him about it. They try to gloss over the fact that they were actually the ones to do it.

WK wrote:

If you read articles written by NBC about Chelimo and how he first heard about the DQ, they just mention that 'some member of the media' was first to inform him about it. They try to gloss over the fact that they were actually the ones to do it.

Oh jeez. I hadn't seen any of that. That's disgraceful. Shady as all heckfire. Awful, awful, awful! At least own up to it. C'mon.

I have an issue w them thinking its a bigger deal that this is a travesty because they did this to a us soldier as the headline states. All members of the us team are equally deserving of respect by the NBC commenters. Don't you think?

Paul chelimo serving in the army is a separate issue and we cam be glad for guys service but by making it the headline it makes it sensationalizing the military aspect

Was NBC coverage so bad that their print writers didn't even watch it? "Apparently, he heard from a television reporter, he stepped off the track..."

They won't name their own reporters in the article. Just shameful.

Hounddogharrier wrote:

Much respect for Chelimo for his response. I'm glad he got his medal and now I'm a fan for life.