Major issue with Worlds boadcast that NBC needs to fix.

I've been thinking there's something wrong with his reaction time all week, so yes, this probably explains it.

This is obviously ludicrous, but I have been wondering the same thing all week.

Look, I always say, if it's a track meet and I"m not broadcasting it, I'm going to complain 9 times out of 10 about the announcing, but I'd bet my life on it. When I was in Budapest and got back to the Airbnb and was listening to highlights, something seemed off about their calls. I thought something was off on the timing but didn't quite understand what it was.

When I got back here, it was obvious what was happening thanks to the Athing Mu race. She nearly falls and then 2-seconds later he talks about it. But SRR and Ato are calling it off what they see so it's very confusing as the timing isn't right.

Thinking back about some of the sprints, there is a long pause before he says anything. Waiting a second or two is fine but he waits like 4 (2+2) and that is bad. On one of the sprints today I think Ato Boldon started doing the play by play so I"m not sure Leigh realizes the monitor is delayed but it is and it really messed me up when I was watching the women's 10k and Hassan fell. I was watching the monitor, heard Hassan fall, looked at the track and it was long over. Very confusing.

Having done some broadcasts myself, I'll say that calling it off a monitor is often done and quite standard as you can see way better. The problem in Budapest is the TVs were delayed by 2-3 seconds which isn't nornal. It made being in the mixed zone very annoying as we weren't seeing anything close to live. A half second dealy isn't bad but multiple seconds is.

Watch Athing's fall or Lyles 200 win. It's obvious he's delayed. The fall is most obvious but even on Lyles call Leigh says, "Watch the clock" but he says it when Lyles is already at the finish line and it's clear it's not a WR.

Instead of yelling at the screen about all the bad (delayed?) track announcing, it is more fun to watch the "closed (not close) captioning) scrolling underneath:

"Noah Lowe's" for Noah Lyles

"Tyson Gate" for Tyson Gay

"A thing more" for Athing Mu

"Ghoul Toppen" for Goyle-Toppin

General Rickey" or "demariki" for Gemman Reekie

"billilimenated" for eliminiated

but my favorite was "Pimp Kato" for some runner.

Leigh is so god awful, if you can help get him fired before the Olympics I will be forever grateful.

It sounds as if he is still not over what happened to Devon Allen last year and so it is indeed impacting his reaction time. Maybe that is why when Faith Kipyegon had clearly pulled away and was close to finishing he was still asking if Sifan Hassan could catch her in the 1500m final.

He’s just slow.

And does not have a trained eye. I don’t care how big the stadium is, after watching thousands of meets, a trained eye could spot many things without needing a monitor. However, if he’s commentating for what we see on tv…I tune him out. Ato & Sanya are a little harder to tune out since they’re yelling. But they’re as obvious and redundant as Magic Johnson when he was on TNT.

We never had these issues with the great Tom Hammond. Bring Tom back.

Also I enjoyed Carol Lewis commentary.

Bring them back!

It was most obvious when he said “Like is running down Femke Bol” when they were coming off that last turn and Bol was obviously pulling away quite easily

His accent will keep him employed, unfortunately.

How can RoJoke be 90% right. Leigh is either calling the races off a monitor with a delay or he isn’t.

Thank God for the mute button.

Maybe he is using monitor about 9 times out of 10 times he says something. Just a guess.

"Ghoul Toppen" is more correct than "Goyle-Toppin" pronunciation wise.

That may be part of it, but some of it is just poor situational awareness. The Bol race, he didn't really understand that she was racing by herself the entire time uncontested.

(set to start at 100m start)

I'm now 100% confident in Robert's theory.

Here is what is going on in case someone at NBC reads this.

1) The audio in the stadium and live NBC video are synced up so that is not the issue.

2) The problem is Leigh Diffey is looking at a monitor in front of him to broadcast the race. This monitor is 2-5 seconds delayed. So everything he says is 2-5 seconds later than it should be.

Every time he calls Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce “mummy rocket” an angel loses its wings.