Official 2022 Chicago Marathon Thread - live reaction, commentary, analysis

halleluiah, the womans wheelchair race is finally over. Now we just need to get the 10-minute interview out of the way, plus coverage of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places, plus some replay of them men's wheelchair finish. THEN we can see more running!!!

The crazy thing is that the coverage at Berlin of the women's marathon was severely lacking. And, I watched it in GERMAN, which I do not speak. But I honestly think Chicago is even worse. History may or may not be happening right now. A *black* woman is running an incredible race, and I would love to see it. What she is doing is incredible and brave and she'll probably blow up, but I would love it see it one way or the other. I've barely seen her at all! Just endless wheelchair coverage interspersed with very brief views of the men or women or else spectator interviews. As letsrun likes to say at times, "our sport is a joke."

I am a Seattleite. A sort of history has been made in baseball here the last few days. I don't follow baseball but apparently we qualified for the playoffs or something like that for the first time in decades. What if during the decisive game they skipped the majority of that historical event to focus on women playing softball and disabled athletes playing baseball / softball?

This is just ridiculous. And honestly, again, sad. What other opportunity do we have to see women from East Africa, ever, for any reason? Ruth is maybe doing something spectacular today and no one is watching.

Interviewing second place wheelchair? When do they interview second place runner? NEVER. And Daniel has never been a good or interesting interview.

The only entertaining thing out of this coverage is I found out there are now super wheelchairs too

Oh my GOD. REALLY, the previous winner interview noooooooooooooo

Why a I paying 5 dollars on peacock to watch a damn wheelchair race….

And now an endless interview with a wheelchair runner-up...this joke is ON. Someone needs to be held accountable for that parody.

Now you have interviewers that have no idea what questions to ask wheelchair people so they goad them with idiotic questions like "tell us how special Chicago is"?

Infuriatingly bad.

Emily Sisson
5K - 16:23 (2:18:15 pace)
10K - 32:54 (2:18:47 pace)
15K - 49:17 (2:18:36 pace)
20K - 1:05:49 (2:18:52 pace)
Half - 1:09:26 (2:18:52 pace)
25K - 1:22:09 (2:18:39 pace)
30K - 1:38:37 (2:18:43 pace)

We are officially on American Record watch.

American Record - 2:19:12 - Keira D'amato - Houston 2022

I had exactly the same thought.

I am in physical pain

I was about to say, would they ever even entertain the idea of interviewing the second place finisher in the elite race?

Am I allowed to participate in the wheelchair race as an able-bodied athlete? If so I'm doing this next year and during my interview telling them to focus on the actual race

the would only do this to running zero respect. would they have the mens and womens basketball finals on the same day and go back and forth giving equal time to each game?

Ruth Chepngetich, (KEN) 2:12:14 (World Record is 2:14:04) 1:34:01

Women's marathon 30 km split


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Damn, women's field broke wide open. Missed the break!

The way you all feel about the wheelchair race is the way everyone else feels about running

“Now say something about the women’s leader for 2 or 3 seconds before we head to break.”

Self-parody.

The approach from the broadcasters is fundamentally wrong if they think the final 10% of the race is the part that matters.

Is there a way we can push for change from the top?

Have being a World Athletics Gold Label event predicated on providing full elite coverage - for all races from the marathon down.