Not to pile on, but Boston coverage has never been so bad. It's like Chicago and Houston when the national feed is produced by local media and their collective running experience is walking the mile in 7th grade.
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DanM wrote:
Jonathan Gault wrote:
I can't believe the broadcast. Lemma is making a HUGE move to drop the men's field and all the broadcast is showing is Hannah Storm at the finish and a Meb retrospective. Why have the rights if you are not willing to tell the story of the race?
Marathon coverage for the Good Morning America audience.
Looked like Emma Bates tripped with someone and they both almost fell down? I don't know, it went straight to commercial as it happened and I'm sure it won't be talked about...
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Will coop wrote:
El Keniano wrote:
Lemma is not hanging about. Perhaps he’s not respecting the course as he should?
Its very aggressive, 2:00:06 pace through 10k, he's picked it up
The weather’s great, but this is absurd. He’s more likely to DNF in Newton at that pace.
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What do you mean Emma went down? I'm stuck on a plane watching this terrible coverage.
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Last year they did split screens showing the mens race - because Kipchoge was there.
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Will coop wrote:
El Keniano wrote:
Lemma is not hanging about. Perhaps he’s not respecting the course as he should?
Its very aggressive, 2:00:06 pace through 10k, he's picked it up
Sub-2:02 pace for the 8 guys in the chase pack. This could be the day the 2011 CR goes down.
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moni wrote:
What do you mean Emma went down? I'm stuck on a plane watching this terrible coverage.
They tripped over each other. I don’t think she went down, but while stumbling the coverage went back to the wheelchair.
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Gronk, nobody has decent text on women coverage! Zero knowledge. Stuck in 20e century.
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moni wrote:
What do you mean Emma went down? I'm stuck on a plane watching this terrible coverage.
Looked like she tripped and got tangled up in another women and they both started to fall down right before coverage switched. And the idiot broadcasters never went back to it or mentioned it.
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Jonathan Gault wrote:
I can't believe the broadcast. Lemma is making a HUGE move to drop the men's field and all the broadcast is showing is Hannah Storm at the finish and a Meb retrospective. Why have the rights if you are not willing to tell the story of the race?
Harvard, outside of Yuki/Des type weather, no move in the first 10K matters here.
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At least there's only about a half hour of wheelchair racing left to watch.
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Good to see, back to wheelchair coverage. Did you hear about Marcel hug? I hear he's really good.
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if anyone is sick of the coverage and has a VPN you can watch on the olympic channel (in Japan, New Zealand, maybe a few other countries).
Coverage is still average but no adverts or Gronk features at least!
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Where is CJ?? This could be his day to clean up in the coming carnage!!
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OED wrote:
Ten minutes and counting since ESPN has shown anything other than the wheelchair races. But hey, at least we get to hear from Gronk, for some reason.
17 minutes in between coverage of the men’s race. Glad we didn’t miss anything.
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disciple of valbymania wrote:
moni wrote:
What do you mean Emma went down? I'm stuck on a plane watching this terrible coverage.
Looked like she tripped and got tangled up in another women and they both started to fall down right before coverage switched. And the idiot broadcasters never went back to it or mentioned it.
And now she’s back up front. Why is she running 2 seconds ahead of the pack??! What’s the point of doing that so early?
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How is Bates back in the lead now ?????!?
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Si_Valley_Joe wrote:
At least there's only about a half hour of wheelchair racing left to watch.
Wheelchair race is FINISHED! Hug the Swiss for the Nth time. Now can we watch runners actually racing??
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moni wrote:
Ah yes, gronk, the expert in marathon running and I must hear his perspective on this years front runners.
I'm not watching and I never thought Gronk was very intelligent but I remember Alan Page (google him) running a marathon after his football career and he said it was a tougher than football.
Another NFL player was in the lead car when Boston Billy broke the pack and he said he'd never seen anything that tough in the NFL.
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The wheelchair race needs to be the main focus of the coverage! Who cares about the runners?
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