Can you put my idea I posted (quoted below too) to someone at World Athletics? Forget copying Drive to Survive, the sport is being let down by idiots at local TV stations covering what are meant to be major events.
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World Athletics should mandate Elite coverage for any race that wants to be a major.
They should have an in-house streaming platform to access majors and other athletics events.
I'd happily pay to know I could see all the majors and major champs yearly and not rely on this awful coverage.
World Athletics could also invest in the infrastructure to cover these events, cycling can cover 200km stages in mountains but some races (5th Ave Mile comes to mind) are filmed on potatos.
They show so little ACTUAL running that you have to wonder if they're not embarrassed to show it for some crazy reason. This is not right...and they keep on blabbering about carbon chairs, no one gives a TOSS !
Mantz 2 seconds ahead of Lara at 30K. Hard to say if that means they are still together or if Mantz is creating daylight with Lara. I'd guess the latter.
Time to see how Mantz handles miles 20+ as the race really starts!
I don't understand why media refuses to adapt. Just let the people watching the stream (us) choose which camera we want to view and allow us to multibox up multiple views. I would view the elite men and women. A Chicagoan might choose the tailored feed.
This way they still can roll all their advertisements, but more people would be watching the stream overall.
They definitely need to improve the split screens. If you have to show the wheelchairs, at least show some smaller boxes with other races. Or if you have to cut to commercial, have that as the main screen but show the smaller boxes on the side or something.
The current "split screen" they're showing has just so much wasted real estate.
Wheelchair racing is a minuscule percentage of the athletes in this race. Why the constant coverage and back stories on them? Seriously! Do other majors devote the entire broadcast to the wheelchair racers?
I'm not sure but it seems like this race had the wheelchairs start way closer to the runners than normal. Usually both the men and women are done by the time men reach halfway
This is the most coverage I can ever remember the wheelchairs getting.
It's absolutely absurd. We might see a women's WR, a men's American debut record, and a women's AR and 50% of the coverage is about two uncompetitive blowout wheelchair races.
London kept panning back to a second pack of man to show their UK guy. Why can't we do that? They boost Chicago, why not American runners. I thought we were supposed to be obnoxious about that.
I feel bad, but I so do not need this very extra wheelchair analysis.
Funny because every comment from British message boards about London was there was absolutely no coverage of the uk runners
This is mostly unwatchable. I grew up watching my dad run Boston several years and don’t ever remember this much coverage around the wheelchair athletes. Really too bad, they’re losing the opportunity to win over some new fans to the sport.
Behind Lara/Mantz there are 4 Americans on sub 2:10 pace - Matt, McDonald, Clayton Young, Nico Montanez, and Zach Panning. All of them won't hold on but getting 3-4 total men under 2:10 would be a big day for the US
It's beating a dead horse, but jfc; I just tuned in 10 minutes ago and coverage has been dominated by the wheelchairs. In what universe does anybody care about this?
This is the most coverage I can ever remember the wheelchairs getting.
It's absolutely absurd. We might see a women's WR, a men's American debut record, and a women's AR and 50% of the coverage is about two uncompetitive blowout wheelchair races.
For real... Someone should go back and no kidding get a timer on how much screen time has been dedicated to which race. Like it's one thing to respect the wheelchairs... another to show almost only them? Idk man... is this really where the sport is at these days?
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