Official 2024 New York City Marathon Discussion Thread

Mant'z grit will make the podium this year.

It's still not grammatically correct, even though you fixed the "spelling".

Mantz's. there now you can move on with your day

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If Tola wins in NY after his Olympic Gold he sure is 2024's best marathoner.

I think both champions from last year repeat. In the women's race I will be cheering for Edna Kiplagat and Dakotah Popehn. Top Americans are the obvious one, Dakotah Popehn and Connor Mantz. I think Jess McLain will challenge as will Young. One of my favorite running Sundays of

Why is there a thread about running on a political site?

Tola would get the title at least temporarily. Lemma could make it a virtual tie with a win and sub-2:03 in Valencia.

Well here we go again. Is anyone else somewhat annoyed that the race favorites are discussed in one section and American men in another? Pretty much being treated like two separate races.

Too bad there is not more incentive for some of our sub 13 min 5000m guys to try the marathon earlier.

Will we have more than 2 American men ahead of the first woman?

What about a mixed relay. East African men and American women v American men and East African women?

Belgium's Bashir Abdi will prevail. You heard it here first.

I'm a big Kamworor fan, but he's over the hill.

i know it's too late to have any effect on whatever camera production crew is going to be shooting NYC, but given we all pretty much universally HATE the coverage we get, would anybody be willing to clearly type out what they would consider to be absolutely ideal

even if you just have one specific thing to add, i'd be interested because i honestly think it would be in our (hardcore fans of the sport) best interest to create a live document for each major race where a production crew can look at it and just blatantly steal it if they choose or at least take some advice

a few things that come to my mind

- stop explaining the race or what workouts the athletes do as if you are talking to someone who has zero knowledge of the sport and this is their introduction; it would absolutely drive viewers of any other professional sport insane
- no back stories of anybody during the race if it means you have to cut away from the live feed; we don't care!
- film the ENTIRE race; we understand it's a live broadcast and you have to show commercials, it's business that's ok, but when you upload the footage to youtube have the decency to show the entire race that you were not able to on TV/Live for understandable reasons. you can still put the same sponsor/commercials in the youtube video as were in the live broadcast, just edit the parts of the race that had to be cut back in
- to cover the pros properly you prob need like 6 cameras on bicycles with setups like what PoMan Productions has in this video (you see his rig very briefly towards the end of the race, not at all what i had been expecting but very cool) and maybe a starlink or something to broadcast the signal i don't know for sure, but most of the camera footage we get from trucks and motorcycles sucks
- i could go on, but want to hear others input

Sadly in a relay race with an African man and woman vs. two American men the Americans would lose badly.

He lost a lot of time due to the motorcycle accident. We never got to see his potential for consistency.

I wonder how Young feels being in Mantz shadow all the time

Well Young got his moment at the Olympics when he planted himself at the finish line and ruined literally every olympic marathoner's finish line photos