halleluiah, the womans wheelchair race is finally over. Now we just need to get the 10-minute interview out of the way, plus coverage of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places, plus some replay of them men's wheelchair finish. THEN we can see more running!!!
The crazy thing is that the coverage at Berlin of the women's marathon was severely lacking. And, I watched it in GERMAN, which I do not speak. But I honestly think Chicago is even worse. History may or may not be happening right now. A *black* woman is running an incredible race, and I would love to see it. What she is doing is incredible and brave and she'll probably blow up, but I would love it see it one way or the other. I've barely seen her at all! Just endless wheelchair coverage interspersed with very brief views of the men or women or else spectator interviews. As letsrun likes to say at times, "our sport is a joke."
I am a Seattleite. A sort of history has been made in baseball here the last few days. I don't follow baseball but apparently we qualified for the playoffs or something like that for the first time in decades. What if during the decisive game they skipped the majority of that historical event to focus on women playing softball and disabled athletes playing baseball / softball?
This is just ridiculous. And honestly, again, sad. What other opportunity do we have to see women from East Africa, ever, for any reason? Ruth is maybe doing something spectacular today and no one is watching.
Now you have interviewers that have no idea what questions to ask wheelchair people so they goad them with idiotic questions like "tell us how special Chicago is"?
Am I allowed to participate in the wheelchair race as an able-bodied athlete? If so I'm doing this next year and during my interview telling them to focus on the actual race
the would only do this to running zero respect. would they have the mens and womens basketball finals on the same day and go back and forth giving equal time to each game?
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.
It's all about being "Woke!" - equity.
Ruth Chepngetich, (KEN) 2:12:14 (World Record is 2:14:04) 1:34:01