Official Grand Slam Track Kingston - Day 1 Live Discussion Thread

Do they test in GST or is this just the enhanced games?

Sounds racist. Fast is fast, why aren't they supposed to get a shot at the $$$? Are you suggesting they ban the Africans so the slower Americans can draw a bigger crowd?

Stadium should be full of school kids. That was a good performance. Not exactly an exciting race though.

So I did just watch the women's 3k on Jumpman's channel. Same camera issues but at least tolerable commentary. Still, I guess if you don't have Peacock or show up to the event, the Friday action will be results page only. I honestly couldn't tell who was who other than East Africans vs not.

8:28 in the heat is fast

What they don't understand is that American and European distance fans are their main audience. Without a solid American/European showing in the distance races they won't have any viewers.

Fisher used to be at +300 I believw

Why do broadcasts always stop showing the race after the winner crosses? Would've loved to see Cranny and Morgan battling out for points out there.

You’re completely missing the point.

Where are the live results, including splits, posted??

How about ACTUALLY testing the Africans the way most others are tested? of course you’ll deflect and cry ‘racist’. Because you know what would happen. And ot wouldn’t be pretty for moat of them.

i could see one of the africans prioritizing GST for $$$ vs grant who will be optimizing for tokyo, i wouldnt bet grant at his current short odds

What I was hoping for: a track production that highlights rivalries and stories.

What we just got: Jess Hull trying Jamaican snacks.

This Jessica Hull snack segment probably lost 25% of the viewers

So between the womens 3km and womens 800m there is a segment of Jess Hull trying and savouring tasty Jamaican snacks and providing her thoughts on them.

Just seems cheesy and a waste of time?

That Jessica Hull/local food bit was hard to watch, especially when she talked about the Jamaicans hopefully bringing a huge crowd.

This is a good point. Camera crew probably needs to change their mentality here because normally this is not important.

anyone else notice the 8 coffee cups on john, matt, and sanya's table

US meets are often subject to strangly low or then high crowds, but I hope that the other GST meets have more people at the track. A meet in Kingston was never gonna sell out. Jamaican athletics can't fill this stadium for olympic trials, and World athletics can't fill any Caribbean stadiums whenever they try e.g world relays.