The only reason hardcore purists ever watched Dolt after his 9.72 in NYC was to see when he would either get popped, or go down with injury, finally out of his envelope.
We only got minor satisfaction very late in his “career”, making having watched it ultimately mostly a waste of time. Satisfaction with Flake came a bit sooner, also with Carter.
A “superstar” can be “super” because they are great, because they are adored, or because they are reviled, or because they are funny, or because they are an entertainment clown show, or because they are super-hot, etc…lots of reasons, for lots of different people.
Bottom line: they need to arouse passions.
For me right now, I can’t stand CC and El Baakali, SCR, so I will watch them race in the hope that they fail—and the greater the failure, the greater will be my satisfaction. I like Mu and Muir, I want to see them do well and beat some men and users. I like Bromell because of his technical beauty, I watch to see how closely to perfection he can execute a race. And of course the Citizen Runner, true grit—for me, rainy Boston was epically great, where the best marathoner (if not the absolute fastest) won the race💪👍.
Mondo, Warholm, Kipchoge, Dibaba, Syd, Jakob, etc are all just meh for me.
But some people do arouse passions, for whatever reason—the thing is, you have to follow a bit to develop those passions, unless you are a child or a half-wit, and respond to the instantly superficial—like how tall someone is or a pose, how hot someone looks, how great you think their body is, how long their nails are, what color their hair/wig is, how they are dressed, etc.
Maybe this shallowness explains the popularity of the 100m: short attention span. You see them behind the blocks, and judge for the 5-10 seconds the camera is on them—then you have to pay attention for only 10-11 seconds or less.
In that 10 seconds, for the average joe there are 3 parts, lasting say 3 seconds each: start, middle, finish. Bam! 💥. A series of quick hits, like the best TikTok vid, or ad. And the motion is rapid, and the moves are fast.
Easy. Gets you going. Makes you want another hit. That’s why rounds are the best, multiple hits.
Distance, you have to invest time to understand—and the dynamics are so subtle that they need education to even perceive. Sure a hockey, basketball, or football game are long, but look at how many individual dynamics happen along the way—tons! Especially in hockey. And they’re obvious to anyone, instantly.
This may be why distance will be followed by only those who have actually done it. Literally, too much time/work for others, they could be getting tons of big hits in the meantime from a video game, surfing, pro sports, etc.
I think the biggest issue is that its frustrating to watch athletics, even for a hardcore fan. Its hard to try to get into a distance race when you can only see 1/4 of it because they need to replay someone's pole vault for the 4th time in slow motion. Maybe a solution would be to separate the track and field events completely, make a 120m straight besides the 400m track where you can have the 100m and hurdle events while the distance races would be taking place, that way you can cut from one event to the next without any down time. Also cut out the amount of people competing so we don't have to sit through heats. Personally I would also love to see the multi's be their own thing completely because its not very interesting to see someone do an event when they are not world class at it.
although I don't know if Kipchoge fits in the track and field category he is still one of the best runners of our time and arguably more impressive than Usain Bolt ever will be.
No it is very popular in some other more cultured countries.
Maybe if Scott could have come close to Ovett or Coe things could have been different. Draft
Sprints with its long list of dopers is actually what has turned people off the sport. Bolt was just lucky no out of comp testing in Jamaica when he set his records. Strange that in his peak years mid to late twenties he never beat those times.
The average person has never heard of any of those people. Everyone in the world knows about Usain Bolt. It's beyond comparison on a massive scale. He's not wrong.
Bolt's comments are so disrespectful to his own countrywomen, the great Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson-Herah, who are both regarded as the greatest female sprinters of all time.
Just for his nasty comments, I hope Bolt has to watch Erriyon Knighton and Letsile Tebogo completely destroy his world records. Even worse, may he watch Noah Lyles get towed behind those two and break Bolt's records while only getting bronze.
The only interesting athlete to come doing has been ShaCarri but track fans don’t like her(because she’s not boring like the others) and she hasn’t helped herself with her recent behavior and lack of consistency.
Sydney is boring and runs a boring event. I’m not saying she isn’t good but she’s dominating in an event that the more talented athletes historically haven’t run.
Lyles tries too hard.
Trayvon Brommel is likable but he is reserved. Kerley is a very nice guy but he lacks charisma.
The other dominant athletes aren’t American(yes the country you run for plays a factor). Plus Bolt used to dominate and that helped him as well.
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There is not a single person outside of hardcore track fans who gives a rats@ss about sprinters doping. They don't know, and if they do, they don't care
No it is very popular in some other more cultured countries.
Maybe if Scott could have come close to Ovett or Coe things could have been different. Draft
Sprints with its long list of dopers is actually what has turned people off the sport. Bolt was just lucky no out of comp testing in Jamaica when he set his records. Strange that in his peak years mid to late twenties he never beat those times.
There is not a single person outside of hardcore track fans who gives a rats@ss about sprinters doping. They don't know, and if they do, they don't care
The only reason hardcore purists ever watched Dolt after his 9.72 in NYC was to see when he would either get popped, or go down with injury, finally out of his envelope.
We only got minor satisfaction very late in his “career”, making having watched it ultimately mostly a waste of time. Satisfaction with Flake came a bit sooner, also with Carter.
A “superstar” can be “super” because they are great, because they are adored, or because they are reviled, or because they are funny, or because they are an entertainment clown show, or because they are super-hot, etc…lots of reasons, for lots of different people.
Bottom line: they need to arouse passions.
For me right now, I can’t stand CC and El Baakali, SCR, so I will watch them race in the hope that they fail—and the greater the failure, the greater will be my satisfaction. I like Mu and Muir, I want to see them do well and beat some men and users. I like Bromell because of his technical beauty, I watch to see how closely to perfection he can execute a race. And of course the Citizen Runner, true grit—for me, rainy Boston was epically great, where the best marathoner (if not the absolute fastest) won the race💪👍.
Mondo, Warholm, Kipchoge, Dibaba, Syd, Jakob, etc are all just meh for me.
But some people do arouse passions, for whatever reason—the thing is, you have to follow a bit to develop those passions, unless you are a child or a half-wit, and respond to the instantly superficial—like how tall someone is or a pose, how hot someone looks, how great you think their body is, how long their nails are, what color their hair/wig is, how they are dressed, etc.
Maybe this shallowness explains the popularity of the 100m: short attention span. You see them behind the blocks, and judge for the 5-10 seconds the camera is on them—then you have to pay attention for only 10-11 seconds or less.
In that 10 seconds, for the average joe there are 3 parts, lasting say 3 seconds each: start, middle, finish. Bam! 💥. A series of quick hits, like the best TikTok vid, or ad. And the motion is rapid, and the moves are fast.
Easy. Gets you going. Makes you want another hit. That’s why rounds are the best, multiple hits.
Distance, you have to invest time to understand—and the dynamics are so subtle that they need education to even perceive. Sure a hockey, basketball, or football game are long, but look at how many individual dynamics happen along the way—tons! Especially in hockey. And they’re obvious to anyone, instantly.
This may be why distance will be followed by only those who have actually done it. Literally, too much time/work for others, they could be getting tons of big hits in the meantime from a video game, surfing, pro sports, etc.
The only reason hardcore purists ever watched Dolt after his 9.72 in NYC was to see when he would either get popped, or go down with injury, finally out of his envelope.
We only got minor satisfaction very late in his “career”, making having watched it ultimately mostly a waste of time. Satisfaction with Flake came a bit sooner, also with Carter.
A “superstar” can be “super” because they are great, because they are adored, or because they are reviled, or because they are funny, or because they are an entertainment clown show, or because they are super-hot, etc…lots of reasons, for lots of different people.
Bottom line: they need to arouse passions.
For me right now, I can’t stand CC and El Baakali, SCR, so I will watch them race in the hope that they fail—and the greater the failure, the greater will be my satisfaction. I like Mu and Muir, I want to see them do well and beat some men and users. I like Bromell because of his technical beauty, I watch to see how closely to perfection he can execute a race. And of course the Citizen Runner, true grit—for me, rainy Boston was epically great, where the best marathoner (if not the absolute fastest) won the race💪👍.
Mondo, Warholm, Kipchoge, Dibaba, Syd, Jakob, etc are all just meh for me.
But some people do arouse passions, for whatever reason—the thing is, you have to follow a bit to develop those passions, unless you are a child or a half-wit, and respond to the instantly superficial—like how tall someone is or a pose, how hot someone looks, how great you think their body is, how long their nails are, what color their hair/wig is, how they are dressed, etc.
Maybe this shallowness explains the popularity of the 100m: short attention span. You see them behind the blocks, and judge for the 5-10 seconds the camera is on them—then you have to pay attention for only 10-11 seconds or less.
In that 10 seconds, for the average joe there are 3 parts, lasting say 3 seconds each: start, middle, finish. Bam! 💥. A series of quick hits, like the best TikTok vid, or ad. And the motion is rapid, and the moves are fast.
Easy. Gets you going. Makes you want another hit. That’s why rounds are the best, multiple hits.
Distance, you have to invest time to understand—and the dynamics are so subtle that they need education to even perceive. Sure a hockey, basketball, or football game are long, but look at how many individual dynamics happen along the way—tons! Especially in hockey. And they’re obvious to anyone, instantly.
This may be why distance will be followed by only those who have actually done it. Literally, too much time/work for others, they could be getting tons of big hits in the meantime from a video game, surfing, pro sports, etc.
sydney is boring, barely races, and is toooooo serious (and runs one event)
Warholm..again....runs one niche event. sort of boring
Jakob seems like all he cares about is training and is too serious/focused. not much personality
sifan is just another east african running doped up fast times
Noah Lyles was sort of a bust at the olympics. bronze medal isnt going to make you a well known superstar. lets see if he can win in paris
Only person who has that "it" factor is someone like MU but she doesnt really race anymore is prefers to be a runway model (and why not, track is boring. shes already accomplished enough to be one of the GOATs)
You can’t be serious ??? Sifan isn’t east african and Mu is way more boring than Jakob. She never says bold things, is just always kind and quiet, doesn’t even get that excited about winning, is just always nervous and barely even races.
Don’t get me wrong she’s a great athlete, but I don’t see what she has over the others in terms of personality.