Official 2017 Dubai Marathon Live Discussion Thread

itai wrote:

Why do announcers always suck so much???

You get what you pay for and apparently no one wants to pay to watch marathons.

rojo wrote:

Can you imagine paying $20 to watch a race and the guy who is going for the WR has been dropped and the announcers don't know it? You have to learn about it on the LetsRun.com messageboard.

How do they hire an announcer who doens't know who Ed WHitlock is? Every single year, I promise myself I"m going to email whoever is in charge of Dubai and tell them I'll fly out there on my own dime to commentate next year so they have someone who does a decent job.

Even worse if you spent $20 and the feed doesn't work AND the guy I spent this time and money on has been dropped.

rojo wrote:

Can you imagine paying $20 to watch a race and the guy who is going for the WR has been dropped and the announcers don't know it? You have to learn about it on the LetsRun.com messageboard.

How do they hire an announcer who doens't know who Ed WHitlock is? Every single year, I promise myself I"m going to email whoever is in charge of Dubai and tell them I'll fly out there on my own dime to commentate next year so they have someone who does a decent job.

rojo, we all know that you have the knowledge, but even you know that you don't have the TV voice.

When you are guys gonna start falling in the ditch? Mile 16?

is there an english stream? i'm stuck on an alu akbar stream.

I don't know what KBs plan is, but what is worse? Having to claw back to the lead pack after 25km, or to let them go and have another young Kenyans beat you by 10secs to the WR?

These announcers don't know what KB looks like because they are still talking about KB being in the group, telling the pacers to speed up or slow down. Not sure what they're watching.

gkjgkjgkj wrote:

STICK A FORK IN KENNY B HE'S DONE

This is a rare case where someone might get a light rise out of me on this forum. The leaders are 40 seconds ahead of WR pace at 14k ... unbelievable. He knows better.

Some big positive splits coming our way.

If KB has't dropped completely i wouldn't count him out yet

I really think KB knows that they're going too fast and is just waiting to gun everybody down in the back half.

This is ridiculous. Where the hell is Bekele. How has no one involved with the stream - camermen, commentators, advisors, managers, whatever - notice that Bekele has not been in view in miles?

Old Man Winter wrote:

gkjgkjgkj wrote:

STICK A FORK IN KENNY B HE'S DONE

This is a rare case where someone might get a light rise out of me on this forum. The leaders are 40 seconds ahead of WR pace at 14k ... unbelievable. He knows better.

That's what I'm hoping. He has shown in his road races thus far (Great North vs Farah and Berlin last year) that he can back off the pace when needed and catch up or hold steady as needed.

If he is anywhere within 30 seconds of the front pack and feeling good, he will reel them in after 30km.

You Tube feed offline!

"LIVE Dubai M..." This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Flosports.

The youtube live stream just got taken down

How far back is Kenny B?

FLO TRACK JUST PUT A COPYRIGHT CLAIM ON THE YOUTUBE STREAM SMH

Wow. FloTrack must have called up YouTube. That feed is "no longer available." sh-t

Flocrap just shut the Youtube stream down. wtf????