Kneeling, Drugs, Too many Africans, Discovered F1, Boredom..?
Kneeling, Drugs, Too many Africans, Discovered F1, Boredom..?
Dwight stones carol Lewis and Larry rawson
Nothing, I don't watch them now. Never watch TV. Rarely watch a live stream. Real life is far too interesting to spend all that time just watching and doing nothing.
I already don't watch those, and I'm a coach.
Drugs did that. You literally can't know until ten years later (or whatever the statute of limitations now is) who actually won a competition.
Forget it.
Already mostly happened thanks to NBC and Flotrack.
When is it actually possible to watch? I have tried to watch during the Olympics but the US network seems to spend most time showing synchronized sewing or some other subjective BS competition rather than T&F.
What did it for me was the “legal” performance enhancing. All of the concoctions that Salazar was cooking up and the thyroid medicine by Linden and Goucher. They lost me when they scream from the highest mountains for a drug free sport while flirting with stuff themselves.
lease wrote:
I already don't watch those, and I'm a coach.
Drugs did that. You literally can't know until ten years later (or whatever the statute of limitations now is) who actually won a competition.
Forget it.
+1.
Used to watch every meet. Stopped caring or watching when it all turned out to be fake because of the drugs.
A pandemic.
alexi pappas
In spite of the rampant use of PEDs in the sport I will probably always watch and follow the pro meets and road races. I know when I watch a great performance there’s a chance that the winner might be doing drugs. It adds an element of drama and mystery I guess.
If everyone kneeled for the American national anthem.
When males who want to look pretty get by with competing with girls. Then resources are wasted because a part of society actually thinks it's ok and their rights shouldn't be infringed completely destroying the rights of the female athlete. What's next, baby rape is acceptable?
the main reason for refusing to watch is the fact that i don't even watch them in the first place. i usually just watch some youtube clips of usain bolt running 9.58 or matt centrowiz winning the 1500m in a jog fest, but i don't sit down by the television to watch the entire World Championships or anything like that. it's too boring, to be honest.
past his prime wrote:
Nothing, I don't watch them now. Never watch TV. Rarely watch a live stream. Real life is far too interesting to spend all that time just watching and doing nothing.
I'm curious about how much time you spend reading/posting on Letsrun and if you consider that to be any more "real life" than watching a live track meet.
And to answer the topic question...basically any financial barrier to entry. If it's on for free and it's a race I care about, I'll watch it if I can. But I'm not going to pay for NBC Gold, Flotrack, or some other service, because I don't care about any race that much.
If Bolt or Rudisha test positive then I'm done with the track. If even those two are dirty, then there is no one trust worthy left in the sport
Kneeling is fine. I would applaud it. But if Larry Rawson or Craig Masback are calling the action I would have to turn the volume to off.
Juiced Kenyans. Oh wait.
Juiced Ethiopians. Oh wait.
Juiced Americans. Oh wait.
Juiced Chinese. Oh wait.
Juiced Jamaicans. Oh wait.
Juiced Russians. Oh wait.
Shady Coaches. Oh wait.
Shady Sponsors. Oh wait.
Corruption in IAAF. Oh wait.
Corruption at USATF. Oh wait.
Corruption at IOC. Oh wait.
no distance events in DL, pacing in marathons, pacing on track.
past his prime wrote:
Nothing, I don't watch them now. Never watch TV. Rarely watch a live stream. Real life is far too interesting to spend all that time just watching and doing nothing.
But not to go on here!