They didn't even show or tell us either winner's time as they crossed the finish line. They don't even cover the basics. Plus, for all that time they had Molly on camera, they didn't say what place she was in.
$10,500 bucks for Fauble. Geez, Spieth won $1.4M yesterday playing golf.
How much of an appearance fee did he get?
If our sport didn't have appearance fees then the prize money would increase significantly.
Maybe not as much as golf but it would increase and if the general public knew how much they were getting there would be more interest and even more money.
I'd love to know total money paid out for the Majors. Then, remember, golf pays only men in any single tournament- no women, no wheel chairs, no masters.
Bill Rodgers ran 2:09:55 in 1975 in what effectively were slippers; winning by ~ two minutes.
Give me and everyone else a break…
Wasn’t he running bigger mileage in his earlier marathons, and cut back to only 120-130 miles/week by 1979?
And eating hot dogs and mayonnaise by the spoonful- I grew up in that era and often wonder how much faster many of us would have run with today's technology and knowledge.
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If our sport didn't have appearance fees then the prize money would increase significantly.
Maybe not as much as golf but it would increase and if the general public knew how much they were getting there would be more interest and even more money.
I'd love to know total money paid out for the Majors. Then, remember, golf pays only men in any single tournament- no women, no wheel chairs, no masters.
Spieth’s caddie earned 104k
Yes, but that doesn't address the point of the post.
Take every dollar spent on athletes in Boston this year and turn it into Men's only prize money. I' very curious. 20+ years ago they said there was $10 million in appearance money.
Olympic and World Champs supposedly got $1 million appearance fees.
In 1979 Bill Rodgers ran 2:09:27.. he would still be competitive in American marathoning today.
Seeing as half this board thinks runners from that era were tougher, trained harder, and are so much better than today's runners - I would think its a shock to many that we have any runners close to what Rodgers ran in '79 - must be the shoes.
Apparently at least one of them (Rodgers) was just flat out better. Better racer, better competitor, faster, more durable. Better.
BR was laying down times that our current super shod pros cannot. Not saying he was tougher, or whatever, but he out performed them.
Running is an extremely objective sport. It's not like football or whatever, you are what clock says you are, and our current guys struggle to match what BR and Salazer where throwing down. Deal with it.
Professional darts leagues get better coverage than this
Totally. Only reason I watched the final day of the Masters was to see Tiger Woods. They covered all his shots. Because that's what viewers care about. These guys don't tell us where any of the Americans are at the finish? For the viewer at home that isn't on a Letsrun thread - they have no idea what happened to Molly, Des Linden, Jared Ward.....
Where are all you, "Molly is still on PB pace" people from an hour ago????
I think people are wondering what actually happened. Was she just mentally broken? Did she get injured? Maybe she just stopped into a watering hole to hydrate. Basically people weren't rushing to judgment before knowing the facts.
once again, staggeringly annoying TV coverage. Is it is possibleto do a worse job? Absolutely, because the Larry Rawson boardcasts were terrible a decade ago, but I'm surprised that the marathon majors don't demand better coverage, smarter coverage, for these races taht they spend so much money supporting.
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