Why didn't Vessey dip at the line? She surged at 300m and held it pretty good but gave up her effort at the finish. Arrrrrgh!
Why didn't Vessey dip at the line? She surged at 300m and held it pretty good but gave up her effort at the finish. Arrrrrgh!
LI Runner wrote:
*For the sake of competitive balance, I would love to see the other shoe companies step it up a bit. Nike seems to have a chokehold on getting the top runners. Jerry's kids and AlSal's team are a cut above the others. They truly are able to get the most talented athletes.
Sorry to say, Hanson's, etc., just don't attract the same quality athlete. Yes, there is one or two here and there, but there isn't any depth. They just hope to catch lighting in a bottle. Nevertheless, I hope they continue to support American distance running. We need more of them.
I would like to see Adidas, NB and Puma do some more support of athletes. I know it is a business, not a charity, but the marketing guys must have some residual quotient formula from sponsoring T&F athletes. Personally, as a distance guy, I don't think I would buy a Bolt Puma shirt, even though I like him more than any of our 100m men.
*I admit it, I would buy a NOP t-shirt if it was for sale.
*Is 10,000 views for last night's 10k a good number? I don't know. If I take all the college distance people and the younger fans, I would expect it to be a larger number.
*As others posted, the feed was excellent and Tim Hutchings is heads and shoulders above anything we have. He is a pro and our announcers, if they care, should be sitting by his feet learning from him!
Per my post on another thread, here is the inside word from a number of agents via a contact of mine.
A few years ago the other shoe companies decided to pay athletes less, and sponsor fewer athletes, and let Nike bare the burden since Nike was the 800lb Gorilla.
The main effect was to hurt the athletes and help Nike. So now Nike signs more athletes, and can pay each one less.
To their credit they keep signing athletes when they could drop a ton of athletes who rarely do anything.
The shame is that IAAF and USATF prevent the athletes from taking on additional logo sponsors.
Subsequently, that professional Dart Thrower in the UK probably makes more than USA's top track athletes.
Sucks, don't see a route to change.
Emil C wrote:
Dumb azz lean by Symmonds.
I would mount B-Mart. Repeatedly.
There are reasons to criticize the himbo that Symmonds can be, but practicing his lean or leaning out of habit is not one of them.
I knew a guy who always did his lean...and one time it got him on the Olympic team by a lean.
Vessey1 wrote:
Why didn't Vessey dip at the line? She surged at 300m and held it pretty good but gave up her effort at the finish. Arrrrrgh!
I know, I think she was really dying, wobble legs, but still a bubble head move not to lean.
Found a blog post by Reuben Frank on English Gardener if anyone is interested:
Stuff wrote:
Found a blog post by Reuben Frank on English Gardener if anyone is interested:
http://www.sjtrack.org/blog/
*Gardner... sorry
Kudos to ESPN2 for their coverage, and for bringing in Tim
Hutchings to do the commentary. He is SO much better than the others. He and Ato Bolden are a good team.
Are the Brojos mad Gatlin made the team?
wtfunny wrote:
J.R.
Scroll up
this
http://tinyurl.com/m4w5xhg
That link was showing soccer.
800 starting soon!
Rollins just went 12.30 wind aided.
what happened to Harper, was it a DNS or DNF, and why?
checked start lists in two places on USATF and 10 minutes ago Harper was in.
Where can we find late scratches?
Is there a way to stream the Men's 1500m final if we don't have an NBC SN subscription???
RRRR wrote:
Is there a way to stream the Men's 1500m final if we don't have an NBC SN subscription???
bro
http://tv.usatf.org/Mes"s 200 prelims....Finish on the other side of the track ( Empty ) How pissed would you be to have bought finish line seats and the move the finish of the 100 and 200?
edivjii wrote:
Mes"s 200 prelims....Finish on the other side of the track ( Empty ) How pissed would you be to have bought finish line seats and the move the finish of the 100 and 200?
You act as if the stadium is packed to near capacity to begin with.
haha wrote:
RRRR wrote:Is there a way to stream the Men's 1500m final if we don't have an NBC SN subscription???
bro
http://tv.usatf.org/
Uness I'm reading this wrong, the USATF.TV site isn't streaming track events from 4-7, only field events. From the LRC summary of viewing options:
June 22nd, 7:30am to 7pm (Only field events from 4-7pm)
And from the usatf.tv site itself:
"On Saturday, June 22nd, only field events will be shown here from 4-7pm during the live TV broadcasts on Universal Sports (4-5pm), and NBC Sports (5-7pm)"
dieiwikinioitinio wrote:
checked start lists in two places on USATF and 10 minutes ago Harper was in.
Where can we find late scratches?
Can not figure out where they are posted.