I went to watch an NCAA D1 track meet today, and I was surprised that the announcer was talking during jump attempts and hurdles races. I would think those athletes need to concentrate. About half a dozen of the triple jump attempts were fouls, and it makes me think it was because of the announcer distracting them. What do you think?
There should not be any throws or jump attempts during 800m races and final 800m of longer track races. Does this add 10 minutes onto T&F meets? Yes, so what.
The weird thing is the announcer was talking about the jumpers during their attempts! That’s bound to be a distraction.
Same thing with the high hurdles. “___ is off to a good start!” Total distraction.
T&F announcers work fo free, pay their own airline tickets, hotel, food, gay bar, etc.
I thought he did a great job calling the meet overall. It was just the comments about the jumpers and high hurdlers while they were in action that seemed like it would be distracting to them.