Agreed! Who cares what the gap is between the winner and the 5th place finisher.
Also, I don’t find live tracking of pace in kilometers per hour useful. For Diamond League meets I like the plots of speed of competitors at various points in the race interesting, but that’s too much useless information during the live broadcast.
To save costs on a money losing event that they are contractually obligated to cover for 10 straight days, NBC is just using the international pool video feed and graphics. They have announcers in the stadium but, with the exception of the camera on Lewis Johnson interviews, they are just poaching the pool's event feed. That's why we are getting metric stats.
To save costs on a money losing event that they are contractually obligated to cover for 10 straight days, NBC is just using the international pool video feed and graphics. They have announcers in the stadium but, with the exception of the camera on Lewis Johnson interviews, they are just poaching the pool's event feed. That's why we are getting metric stats.
It's not that it is metric. It's thar speed is a useless metric when watching a live track race. It doesn't matter if it is shown in km/hr, m/sec, or mi/hr. Speed is a dumb metric to show for track races.
Field events on the other hand should only show results in metric. Never in imperial.
To save costs on a money losing event that they are contractually obligated to cover for 10 straight days, NBC is just using the international pool video feed and graphics. They have announcers in the stadium but, with the exception of the camera on Lewis Johnson interviews, they are just poaching the pool's event feed. That's why we are getting metric stats.
It's not that it is metric. It's thar speed is a useless metric when watching a live track race. It doesn't matter if it is shown in km/hr, m/sec, or mi/hr. Speed is a dumb metric to show for track races.
Whoever decided to put that stupid kilometers per hour stat on the screen is obviously not a track fan. That stat is meaningless.