This leads to a couple more questions; why don’t they employ the camera-on-line, like they do for NFL games? Because it would mess up the pole vault, or other?
Howabout getting shots from drones flying in front-of and back-of the runners?
Thanks for the link. Wish I could see the seconds leading up to that. Was it a case where he messed up, not realizing they were already coming, so he quickly decided to hold his ground, like he planned it all along?
Replay is on Peacock. You can hear the crowd yelling for the cameraman to get out of the way.
Looked to me like he was working the triple jump pit and was unaware the Steeple had started. The triple is awfully close to the track, so it may be tough to get that entry shot from the side in the space in between the track and pit.
Cameramen have been consistently terrible. Was there a single throw in either men's or women's hammer where they actually manage to follow the hammer with the camera?
Where were the course marshals? Shouldn't there be officials spread out all over the track? At the triple jump pit, at the barriers? This was right by the finish line! They had nobody there? Do they just have Bill Bowerman's 90 year old classmates patrolling the track? I have warned many people off the track at high school meets, how can the World Championships be a place where vagabond cameramen can roam around the track unchecked? Another massive failure for the meet officials.
Nope. Meet officials and marshals are heavily restricted from the track by WA, who wants a ‘clean field of play.’ As such, there are very few real time eyes to correct things like this. Officials were not pleased from the get-go about the lack of access, but WA and TV are running this meet. Heck, umpires are in the concourse.
Complain to Seb.
Having said that, the bell ringer was screaming at the guy, as was the crowd. While he couldn’t hear due to his headphones, I’m guessing his producer told him at the last second to freeze in place. But that producer should have kept him off the track to begin with.
Relax folks, it’s just part of the steeplechase obstacle course: high hurdles, puddles, and occasionally having to dodge a rotund old dude with a camera. Good thing no one tried to jump over him.
This leads to a couple more questions; why don’t they employ the camera-on-line, like they do for NFL games? Because it would mess up the pole vault, or other?
Howabout getting shots from drones flying in front-of and back-of the runners?
A swarm of drones, one for each runner, each set to auto-follow its target, the way the great SJD gets his sweet sweet downtown Denver B-Roll! DGR strong baby!!
I am trying to think about what this type of mistake would look like in other sports. For example in football, maybe the equivalent would be a cameraman standing between the center and QB while the ball gets snapped.
I think it's part of the effort to get rid of inane track events - the steeple, 10K, hammer, javelin, triple-jump. They knew that steeple runners could deal with this. Had this been a women's 1500 field they would have all fallen down.
If a world record had been set at the event, the only reasonable thing to do would be to make a camera person a required fixture henceforward, and position the dolt on the final straight for every competition to follow.
And make that camera man do it for the next few years. That would serve him right.
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