Official 2016 - Day Two PREFONTAINE CLASSIC MEET Saturday Events - thread

igh wrote:

Yes, the coverage is abysmal. I would much rather pay flotrack to get uninterrupted coverage than this crap. Everyone here complains about paying for flotrack or ustaf.tv. You want free coverage? This is what you get.

Free= $124.95 a month for the package that includes NBC sports.

Just in case someone watching Pre in person is reading this thread...

Please do us all a favor and use Periscope to live stream the 5000 M race in a few minutes

https://www.periscope.tv/

Clerk wrote:

Announcers explaining pacemaker: they make the pace.

Do football announcers explain what a time out is?

I think that announcers in track and road-racing events should be required to explain that, in certain races, the runners who are leading much of the race actually aren't considered "in" the race and would probably be ostracized by sports authorities and other athletes if they competed honestly and tried to win. If that were explained often enough, perhaps the inherent fraudulence of the concept might become more apparent and unacceptable to those fans who have become inured to the practice.

Zev wrote:

That was Berian saying eff you Phil Knight.

You're a moron. Knight is near retired. Doesn't bother himself with this stuff.

That is why the has a CEO and a Legal Staff.

Knight's FU to the critics is his net worth of $30+ bn, FTMFW!

The free Eurosport link online is actually quite good. Announcers are fairly knowledgeable and fairly enthusiastic. Minimal commercial breaks. Pleasantly surprised!

The steeple got it's own thread but reposting here too:

Jebet led by about 3.5 seconds at the bell.

Kiyeng closed well and only .04 separated them at the finish. Jebet got the win and 2nd sub 8:00 clocking ever.

Emma Coburn officially is the American record holder. She had run 9:11.42 but there wasn't drug testing there so the AR was Jenny Simpson's 9:12.50.

Pos Name Country Result

1 JEBET Ruth BRN 8:59.97F

2 KIYENG Hyvin KEN 9:00.01F

3 COBURN Emma USA 9:10.76F American Record

4 CHEPKOECH Beatrice KEN 9:17.41

5 ASSEFA Sofia ETH 9:18.16

6 O'CONNOR Leah USA 9:18.85

7 KRAUSE Gesa Felicitas GER 9:22.33

8 CHEPKURUI Lidya KEN 9:22.81

9 KIRUI Purity KEN 9:31.76

10 LALONDE Geneviève CAN 9:32.17

11 HIGGINSON Ashley USA 9:33.38

12 NYAMBURA Virginia KEN 9:36.09

DNF KIPP Shalaya USA DNF

The only other sub 8 was at the 2008 Olympics by Russian Galkina

Read more:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=7326706#ixzz49z8cXqpT

That said,

BORIS BERIEN = AWESOME!!!

I expected Wheating to move up, but he just looked slow.

WOW !!! NBC SHOWED THE WHOLE 800 and 400!!!!!

NO COMMERCIAL BREAKS!!!

Avocado's Number wrote:

Clerk wrote:

Announcers explaining pacemaker: they make the pace.

Do football announcers explain what a time out is?

I think that announcers in track and road-racing events should be required to explain that, in certain races, the runners who are leading much of the race actually aren't considered "in" the race and would probably be ostracized by sports authorities and other athletes if they competed honestly and tried to win. If that were explained often enough, perhaps the inherent fraudulence of the concept might become more apparent and unacceptable to those fans who have become inured to the practice.

My point was that the explanation is implied in the name: pacemaker, in the same way that term "timeout" explains what it is.

And the announcers in baseball or football do explain the basic stuff, but they do it in a way that doesn't alienate real fans.

If you're on NBC, try

to get an uninterrupted view of the 5000m. No promises, but more likely. Showing the startlist now, while NBC is commercials.

Start list:

CHEPTEGEI Joshua UGA

CHELIMO Paul USA

LEVINS Cameron CAN

AHMED Mohammed CAN

MEAD Hassan USA

HAJI Yasin ETH

LAGAT Bernard USA

TANUI Paul Kipngetich KEN

TRUE Ben USA

HILL Ryan USA

KOECH Isiah Kiplangat KEN

SOI Edwin KEN

ALAMIREW Yenew ETH

NDIKU Caleb Mwangangi KEN

EDRIS Muktar ETH

LONGOSIWA Thomas Pkemei KEN

GEBRHIWET Hagos ETH

KAMWOROR Geoffrey KEN

LANGAT Clement Kiprono KEN

KANGOGO Cornelius KEN

CHELANGA Samuel USA

Gun off

800 results?

Kamworor in the same sharp blue as Farah was last night.

No Kejelcha, DNS

Rabbit leads 28-29 to get into position through 200m. Kamworor in 3rd.

Quick predictions for the 5K? I've got:

1. Kamworor

2. Tanui

3. True

Pacemaker hits 60 on the dot through 400m

Thank You,

"Cracking Field!"

I won't spam with 200m splits but these first laps are important to watch how the pace settles. 1:31 through 600m

Kamworor is GOING for it. Right behind the pacemakers out very quick.

2:35 through 1k