Wejo, quit putting sprint results on the main page. We just don't care.

Wejo,

I am a track fan. I like seeing the sprint results.

I am less of a field fan and am pleased with the irregularity (bot not complete absence) of field results on the main page.

Thanks.

I agree with the doctor on this one. The sprint results gotta be up there too

I have not read the whole thread but I'd like to give my opinion...

I am a distance runner... I am also a TRACK FAN. I support the sport and like to see good efforts and races regardless of the event. I do think that the TV coverages lean too much toward sprinters but Letsrun has it right. Talking up the events that were the best.

Keep it up. You guys are doing a good job.

You guys need to decide if you're fans of the sport or your event. Anyone who doesn't think that sprinting is an integral part of track and field (and the primary reason non-runners watch our sport), then you shouldn't be on running websites. You should be in your room, ready to jump off your chair just before climax.

It's easy to make the case that sprints are boring by citing anecdotes of boring races. It's just as easy to do the same thing with distance running, football, soccer, basketball, baseball, boxing, bull-fighting, cricket, tennis, and cycling. Pretty much the only sport that's consistently entertaining is professional wrestling, because it's scripted to be entertaining. Every REAL sport is boring sometimes, and thrilling at other times.

long and steady wrote:

You're wasting your time and ours.

So getting excited about Tyson Gay's 19.58 is a waste of time? If you can't appreciate that then how can you truly appreciate the sport as a whole?

Just curious.

To paraphrase a coach from my past, everyone would run the 100 if they were good at it, but if you aren't good at it, run the 400, and if you suck at that, run the 800, etc...

Oh I see all you dead track shark advocates are still at it.

You see, there is the issue, that you consider sprinting to be a "sport", like playing darts or dominos.

It has nothing to do with ATHLETICS.

Running is athletic. Running 15 miles is athletic.

There is nothing athletic about sitting down on a track moaning and whining because your butt is too big and too fat.

No one goes to T&F news, and TS is dead, so they were sitting around - on their butts - and got the great idea, hey let's wabble over to LET'S RUN, that's a popular site, with all those DISTANCE RUNNERS over there. Maybe we can stick our butts in the tent and get some attention!

Yeah we know what you're up to.

By the way did you go for a RUN today?

How FAR did you RUN???? What???? 1/4 lap of a track????

And then you sat down on your.... butt????

How bloody exciting for you.

J.R. - You're an idiot. Go suck those Chinese women from '93 and '97 off.

If anybody hates seeing the sprint results up then you aren't a fan of Track and Field. Period. One of my favorite results over the past week - Baylor's win in the 4x400m. That stuff is exciting. As exciting as Bekele coming from 20m back in a 10K and winning with a lean. A race is a race is a race.

To those saying "they only run 10 sec", do you think everything on the front page should be dedicated to Dean K.? Since he runs farther/longer/more time than everybody else, I guess by this precedence that he is king of all running. Ever.

Good results are good results, regardless of event. If you don't like it, don't read it. Afterall, it is "LetsRun", and last I checked what Bolt is doing is running... very fast.

The sprints are great to watch, but the coverage is annoying because it goes on forever for very brief races. I'd like to see more field event coverage. women's hj, men's shot, discus, javelin, hj, lj, both pv. The distance coverage is always bad, because you cannot get into those races when the coverage is always shifting to other events or to commercials during the races. As long as the U.S. sucks in distance, they will stint on the distance coverage.

luke skywalker wrote:

...I care.

I can't believe I didn't catch this 3 days ago. This is the greatest contextual use of a movie quote I have ever seen on Letsrun. Kudos to you, young skywalker.

Last time i checked this was letsrun.com, sprinting is considered running is it not?

If anything, this thread is showing American ignorance about the whole concept of track and field. The majority of media coverage is on the sprinting events, this is true. But even the distance runners in here can agree that events greater than 800m deserve coverage. This thread is showing the opposite: only 800m on up deserve the coverage while blow off all of the other events because we believe they aren't real demonstrating of athletic feats.

Bulls***. All events deserve equal coverage, including the field events. The coverage on this forum only shows the results of hard-working, dedicated athletes who love this sport, whether it be on the high school, collegiate, professional, or local levels. Why can't we appreciate all of these people? Just because you knew some slackers on your old athletic teams doesn't mean those slackers represent the entire sport. Is Usain Bolt a slacker? How about Stephanie Brown Trafton? Or Angelo Taylor? Or Bryan Clay? Christine Ohuruogu? The Russian women 4x100m relay squad? These are all gold medalists from the 2008 Olypmics, who are pretty much non-distance runners. Sure Bryan Clay needs to run a good 1500m race, but he also excels in the sprints and discus throws. How can you call them slackers or not-worthy of coverage on here? An athlete on this caliber deserves to be recognized somewhere if they aren't recognized within the news media outlets. This website is a great place for them to be recognized.

Meet Director: "Hey NBC, I want you to show 30 minutes of distance coverage...eh, even though we don't stand a piss poor chance of medaling or setting any records at all. It's all about equal coverage right"

NBC: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

To the majority of Americans, and TV watchers, distance running is boring and distance runners are skinny. Sprinters are exciting and sprinters are sexy. Sprints are easily packaged and there can be a lot of 'back and forth' in a short amount of time. I get excited when I see a sprint race and someone falls out in the last few strides or someone bridges the gap. In distance running you don't see this until about the last mile, maybe 800m. This is why if you do see a distance race it's the 800m or the mile. The 5k and 10k are piss ass poor for TV. Show the winners and the last lap, maybe the last few if there's a lot change.

Alan

Except, that every distance runner can beat every sprinter.

Including the names above who I've never heard of.

If you can't run a mile, then maybe you can run a 1/4 of a lap of the track... oh and get a medal for it too lol

J.R. wrote:

Except, that every distance runner can beat every sprinter.

Including the names above who I've never heard of.

If you can't run a mile, then maybe you can run a 1/4 of a lap of the track... oh and get a medal for it too lol

Really? In what event? Distance events, sure they can be beat them. Sprinting events, no. Throwing events, no. Jumping events, no.

These people don't need to run the mile with the fastest times in the world. But I bet they all can run a mile at some reasonable pace.

As for the names listed above:

- Stephanie Brown Trafton: discus (USA)

- Angelo Taylor: 400m hurdles, 4x400 relay (USA)

- Bryan Clay: decathlon (USA)

- Christine Ohuruogu: 400m (Great Britain)

- Russian 4x100 relay: come on, that explains itself doesn't it?

They all won gold medals in the 2008 Olympics. Also Angelo Taylor won the gold medal in the 400m hurdles in 2000 as well, while Bryan Clay got silver in 2004.

Yep, True wrote:

Really? In what event? Distance events, sure they can be beat them.

Those are the only events that matter.

I've never heard of any of those names that you mentioned.

If the sprinters are going to be hanging around here, since they have nowhere else to go (since their own message board failed), then probably the best idea is to divide Let's Run into two parts, i.e. (1) real runners, distance runners, 800/1500 on up, and (2) lazy buggers who can't run even 1/4 of a mile.

Then, to each their own, and let's run will continue to thrive as it always has. Heck there are probably more lazy buggers than real runners anyway.

you're just trolling, but obviously you cannot be away from a track for awhile and not be amazed by the speed and power of the sprinters when they're just warming up. Anyone can be trained to run distance. Only some have the toughness to do it. But from the ranks of the good sprinters come many of the best distance or middle distance runners.

Speed and power when they're warming up??? You've got to be joking.

Any good distance runner can tell you the biggest issue when sprinters are on the track is to get past them wabbling along with their big fat lazy butts.

A typical warm up for them is sitting on their butts in the middle of the track including lanes one two and three laughing about how stupid and lazy they are. Then they might jog and walk a lap of the track, which would take them about eight or ten minutes, again in lanes one two three four and five.

There is nothing admirable about that.