They show so little ACTUAL running that you have to wonder if they're not embarrassed to show it for some crazy reason. This is not right...and they keep on blabbering about carbon chairs, no one gives a TOSS !
Someone's taking the p*ss here...
They show so little ACTUAL running that you have to wonder if they're not embarrassed to show it for some crazy reason. This is not right...and they keep on blabbering about carbon chairs, no one gives a TOSS !
Someone's taking the p*ss here...
Mantz 2 seconds ahead of Lara at 30K. Hard to say if that means they are still together or if Mantz is creating daylight with Lara. I'd guess the latter.
Time to see how Mantz handles miles 20+ as the race really starts!
Roll Racer wrote:
I don't understand why media refuses to adapt. Just let the people watching the stream (us) choose which camera we want to view and allow us to multibox up multiple views. I would view the elite men and women. A Chicagoan might choose the tailored feed.
This way they still can roll all their advertisements, but more people would be watching the stream overall.
They definitely need to improve the split screens. If you have to show the wheelchairs, at least show some smaller boxes with other races. Or if you have to cut to commercial, have that as the main screen but show the smaller boxes on the side or something.
The current "split screen" they're showing has just so much wasted real estate.
older runner... wrote:
Wheelchair racing is a minuscule percentage of the athletes in this race. Why the constant coverage and back stories on them? Seriously! Do other majors devote the entire broadcast to the wheelchair racers?
I'm not sure but it seems like this race had the wheelchairs start way closer to the runners than normal. Usually both the men and women are done by the time men reach halfway
Herpasa Negasa moving back through the field? Leaderboard shows him back ahead of chase group.
This is the most coverage I can ever remember the wheelchairs getting.
It's absolutely absurd. We might see a women's WR, a men's American debut record, and a women's AR and 50% of the coverage is about two uncompetitive blowout wheelchair races.
whiskas wrote:
London kept panning back to a second pack of man to show their UK guy. Why can't we do that? They boost Chicago, why not American runners. I thought we were supposed to be obnoxious about that.
I feel bad, but I so do not need this very extra wheelchair analysis.
Funny because every comment from British message boards about London was there was absolutely no coverage of the uk runners
This is mostly unwatchable. I grew up watching my dad run Boston several years and don’t ever remember this much coverage around the wheelchair athletes. Really too bad, they’re losing the opportunity to win over some new fans to the sport.
TMADDDHASFNE wrote:
Will we miss the men’s breakaway? Yes!!!
Bingo !
Behind Lara/Mantz there are 4 Americans on sub 2:10 pace - Matt, McDonald, Clayton Young, Nico Montanez, and Zach Panning. All of them won't hold on but getting 3-4 total men under 2:10 would be a big day for the US
And of course we are missing the break in the men’s race
The break in the men's. Koech at the front with Kiruto, Korir (2:09 guy from LA 22) and Seifu
It's beating a dead horse, but jfc; I just tuned in 10 minutes ago and coverage has been dominated by the wheelchairs. In what universe does anybody care about this?
Men's lead pack is now on course record pace, per radio feed (record is 2:14:04). Serious negative splits in play.
the amount of wheelchair coverage is insufferable
I'm suddenly flashing back to Sammy Wanjiru running these same streets, the year he absolutely destroyed the Ethiopian runner in the final half mile.
**After 7 straight minutes of nothing but wheelchair coverage**
Commentator: Oh hey there's some breaks happening in the men's race
**Shows tiny box in corner of screen**
CUT BACK TO WHEELCHAIR
Jonathan Gault wrote:
This is the most coverage I can ever remember the wheelchairs getting.
It's absolutely absurd. We might see a women's WR, a men's American debut record, and a women's AR and 50% of the coverage is about two uncompetitive blowout wheelchair races.
Please try to do something about this
For real... Someone should go back and no kidding get a timer on how much screen time has been dedicated to which race. Like it's one thing to respect the wheelchairs... another to show almost only them? Idk man... is this really where the sport is at these days?
I don't care about the wheelchair race. Does this make me a bad person?