Aliphine Tuliamuk complains of NBC Trials coverage on twitter

anyone who watched the trials should have been able to instantly recognize how the coverage, especially the post-race coverage, largely ignored ali. which is weird because she was not only a surprise, but also the winner...

She is right. White privilege was on full display. OP you’re clueless.

You’re clueless. We all thought it while watching the trials, but the time is appropriate to bring it up now as an example that this kind of thing happens every day in all manner of situations.

On Instagram she is ranting.

Shame on her for trying to make this about racism. The fact is NBC race coverages suck. They always do.

That’s where the complaint is and should have been back in February. Not 4 months later trying to make it about racism.

Shame on her and HOKA should reprimand her.

It was almost embarrassing, as if the media thought that maybe she didn't speak English, so they didn't approach her.

Umm, she brought it up the week after the Trials when she first watched the replay. People weren’t listening then, so she brings it up again. Then they get on a message board to complain about it? Have some decency. Your white privilege is showing.

Shame on you.

I am black.

I just watched it again, or at least the last few miles. It was not that bad at all. She was running side-by-side with Seidel for most of it and the commentators talked about both equally.

Shame on me? I'm defending her. Shame on the OP.

I was at the Trials. People were going NUTS for all the women. even the freakin pregnant mom who dropped out at the half while running at 7 min pace. There was probably louder cheering for the top 10 women than there was for all the men. I witnessed it.

Besides, if you honestly run for the adulation of the crowds, you are running for the wrong reason.

That should be secondary to achieving your goal, which she did!

I don't see why she is complaining.

Rhodium Nights wrote:

I was at the Trials. People were going NUTS for all the women. even the freakin pregnant mom who dropped out at the half while running at 7 min pace. There was probably louder cheering for the top 10 women than there was for all the men. I witnessed it.

Besides, if you honestly run for the adulation of the crowds, you are running for the wrong reason.

That should be secondary to achieving your goal, which she did!

I don't see why she is complaining.

She isn’t complaining about the crowds. She is making a point about the biased and terrible TV coverage from NBC.

NBC coverage is bad. Any time you can watch on BBC or Eurosport, its much better.

She is 100% right.

Nbc coverage was absolutely brutal for the trials as is there coverage of the major marathons. I couldn't get over how clueless the comms team was.

From what i remember she was hardly talked about.

She is absolutely correct.

The coverage was incredibly dismissive of the black and foreign born athletes.

In the pre-race they talked about Rupp and Ward, no mention of Korrir. The guy with the second fastest time didn't get a mention. Similarly, they talked about Des, Sisson, and Molly (just to mention it was her debut), but no mention of the only runner with a World medal in Kipyego. This wasn't some heat of the moment snubbing, they had plenty of time to properly consider who to highlight and they made these choices.

Abdi got a 1 second mention for leading at the half mile, then there was no mention of a black athlete again until after the half. They say something along the lines of "After the big two of Rupp and Ward, it is hard to put a finger on a third guy".... again, the guy with the PR faster than Ward?

At one point Aliphine was referred to as "Bruce's teammate"; at another they say "the big names are up front" and start listing off the names of the people to her right and left and skipping her.

They managed to have a three minute advertisement for Nike's shoes before mentioning Korrir's name. They talked about the 16 year old before Aliphine or Kipyego. They had Bolton on to talk about the USA sprint team and talked about more black athletes in that context than they had about any of them in the actual race.

Rewatch the race with this in mind; it is borderline hilarious.

I think that she is right. If it had been Shalane, Steph, Jordan, Kara or especially Desi, the coverage, the crowd, the news, and USATF would have anointed them Queen of the Marathon. I think that everyone would have been happier if Molly Seidel would have won instead of second. I hope Aliphine eventually goes to the Olympics and kicks everyone's butt! Go Aliphine! Go NAZ Elite!

NBC sucks bigtime wrote:

On Instagram she is ranting.

Shame on her for trying to make this about racism. The fact is NBC race coverages suck. They always do.

That’s where the complaint is and should have been back in February. Not 4 months later trying to make it about racism.

Shame on her and HOKA should reprimand her.

NBC coverage was great for Molly Seidel. Not so much for Ali

Agreed they did not focus on her. I think it is more of a bias for homegrown talent over immigrants.

I am guilty of this bias. I do not list Lagat among my top Americans of all time because he came here after he was already a 3:26 guy. But I’ll root for Donovan Brazier all day long.

Really what do you expect? We set up Athletics and the Olympics as this “team” sport where you root for your country above all others, so yeah, I want my champions to be American from the day they were born (well...since they young at least, Lopez Lomong I root for).

I’m not denying racial bias exists, just that I think it’s more immigrant bias with this one.

Throwing a temper tantrum is going to cost her fans, not gain her fans.

Your white privilege is showing. wrote:

She is right. White privilege was on full display. OP you’re clueless.

stupid comment