Have they showed even 1-second of the top American's??
I've been watching for a half hour+ and haven't seen a second of them
And the announcer at the Chicago starting line pronounced Sisson's name wrong. And was reading off this list of accomplishments and you could tell he didn't know if the resume was before the elite runner's name or after. It was a mess.
Have they showed even 1-second of the top American's??
No, the cameras were devoted to the wheelchair racers. So…we get 90 minutes worth of wheelchair coverage instead of seeing the US men and women chase Olympic standards during that same window.
Winning a world major > qualifying for the Olympics.
The American leaders are just too slow to be relevant.
Wheelchair racing is like the WNBA. They force it on running/basketball fans but no one cares. Yet they still force it on us.
The reason it is so bad in this race compared to others is they start the wheelchair race so close to the elite race. Pretty sure most of the other marathon majors are 30 minutes before the start so they are over much earlier and don't get as much coverage bleeding into the elite race.
Incredible that Chicago Marathon can't spare cameras to monitor the rest of the elite field. You'd think they'd want to put Americans on their screens.
Even the HM at the World Champs Riga was able to capture the chasing packs.