Shameful Steeple Coverage - NBC FAIL

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Just watch it, like a slap in the face to the event, the athletes, and the fans.
Time to get a VPN.
Un F ing believable.

Beyond annoying. Couldn’t believe how bad it was.

They didn't deserve it.They ran like baby cats. Only two with the standard and they putz the first thousand meters

WTF were they thinking? Possibly no one goes?

I don't think a VPN works for the US trials because there's no non-US coverage of it, right? But it should for the Olympics.

sorry, I mean in preparation for the olympics.

Snoop was the best part of that broadcast and he never heard of the event

Snoop dog? WTF? He made a fool of himself twice and they never went back to him. But why did they even allow him on the broadcast?

Did it look to anyone else like Bor landed or rolled hard on his head/neck? I hope he’s okay. That fall looked like it hurt!

Wilkinson wasn’t excited or anything? Right?

What will USATF do if one or more of the top three men fail to secure the standard or a top ranking by the end of the month? Any chance Rotich or Bor are selected?

Never mind about Rotich or Bor qualifying. Forgot that Jager has a plausibly high enough ranking.

And back to the original post.

They showed 4 minutes of the race. 1 minute plus in small split screen.

Missed the dramatic moments of Bor going from 1st to last, to top three to 9th. Jaeger charging home in 4th, etc.

some F ing BS. NBC is fired.

Steeplechase is the dumbest competion in all of athletics and we should thank NBC for barely showing it. Hopefully it leads to the IAAF dropping it

literally, yes. I wonder if they track as a metric the number of 1-month subs who only watch the trials and cancel for the Olympics. I would happily pay *more* for a VPN sub, that I'd only use for the Olympics, than I would for a Peacock sub that I'd only use for the Olympics. If they delivered a credible product (i.e. the actual basics, i.e. showing the f'ing races) I might tolerate the poor announcing.

Already 3 up votes to this comment. I guess in a moment of outrage the true color of those quiet white men you see at track meets comes put. Just curious, what would have happened had they cut to a comercial on the final lap? Would the N word get drpped and would it get twice as many up votes?

It was so bad that it was comical. In an entertaining way. Not something they should strive for, but memorable if you weren't invested in the outcome

When they cut to the commercial the first one was that AGT guy saying "the next two minutes could change someone's life". I said no kidding and you SOBs are not going to show it. And sure enough one of the favorites takes a fall.

USATF could have had a viral moment with the Snoop Dogg reaction to the Bor fall that could have brought tons of eyeballs to the trials. Instead they sacrificed that to squeeze in an extra Arby's commercial. I hope it was worth it.

Nobody cares about steeple. That is the real reason. Only diehard distance track fans follow it.

yeah it would work for both worlds and Olympics with alternate providers; one thing I don't complain about is the Canadian CBC coverage -it was pretty solid in Budapest...very little fluff and constant cutting out; NBC definitely mediocre--look the 1500m is only 4 minutes long-you don't need to interrupt it with those concurrent ads or field events!