F you, ESPN2

completly uncalled for. they can show a tyson gay tie his shoe for 2 minutes but they cant stick around and show tegs. move??? i am angered

Give them negative feedback about it. I love that it's televised, but please make it QUALITY. Make it half an hour longer if you're going to show races and highlights from earlier in the competition!

i know i cried a little when they cut to commercial right as teg was passin lagat.

tyson gay just ran the fastest time ever into a headwind. teg's 2nd place in 13:31 is what on the all-time lists? And, traditionally, the winner of the sprints US champs wins big at the Olympics and world champs while the winner of the 5K does what? maybe makes the final. why would they show more of him?

sorrypeople wrote:

tyson gay just ran the fastest time ever into a headwind. teg's 2nd place in 13:31 is what on the all-time lists? And, traditionally, the winner of the sprints US champs wins big at the Olympics and world champs while the winner of the 5K does what? maybe makes the final. why would they show more of him?

Here at ESPN2 are racist. We will only show fast black men and women and cut to comercial everytime a white guy comes into shot...except for Breaux Greer... our producer has a "thing" for "bro"hawks.

tyson gay can run a 9.69 and still no one will care cause he talks funny and is kind of fugly.

You know, I'm not really one for bitching about the TV coverage all of the time, but these ESPN folks are not even trying. Clearly they were thrilled to have the 100s on live, but did they even ATTEMPT to present the 5000s in any coherent fashion? No. What do they do, sit around in staff meetings and say "let's go back to it at the 11:00 mark?" Honestly, there's no getting around the fact that they've made an intentional decision to do a rotten job. And the lead commentator, whose name I'll choose not to even know, knows less about track than my 86-year-old aunt.

ESPN2 does which is why they show him tying his shoelaces, and the world will care when he medals at major meets while Teg will get blown away by a bunch of Africans like Lagat just did to him. Sad, but true (I like Teg).

did anybody think that kid would beat Legat, get real man, but great race Teg.

haha, if something little like tv coverage angers you this much, perhaps you should masturbate more often. clear your f***ing heads man.

I know Tyson Gay is more likely to win/medal than the 5k guys, but does he really need his own logo and theme music?

hahaha. I couldn't help but laugh at that.

sorrypeople wrote:

...traditionally, the winner of the sprints US champs wins big at the Olympics and world champs while the winner of the 5K does what? maybe makes the final. why would they show more of him?

Lagat, winner (not runner up) of the 5K, is a 2-time Olympic medalist. Yea, it's in the 1500M, but he's clearly a medal threat in the 5K. Why are you comparing the 100M winner with the 5K runner up? How about comparing how poorly the 100M runner up measures to Lagat?

i wanted to know how tyson ties his shoes. im going to starting tying mine that way, maybe ill be that fast

Satch the black dude wrote:

did anybody think that kid would beat Legat, get real man, but great race Teg.

Don't see this Legat character in the results; musta been a DNSer. Had he ran, hard to say, Teg mighta beat 'im.

If i want to know how to tie my shoes and how juicy Ruby Tuesdays meat is i will deff. go back and watch this on my tivo.

The race itself sucked. It was a horribly boring race for 4500 meters. To give this race more than 2 minutes of air time would be harmful to our sport. This race is why the average joe is not interested in Track. I was at the meet and you could watch a good portion of the crowd talking amongst themselves during most of the race. It was ideal conditions and you have guys falling off of the pace when it was still 14:00 pace. THE 5K WAS BAD TRACK.

I have never been satisfied with a broadcast by the ESPN network, for the kinds of reasons many of you were frustrated with tonight...

It's too damn bad it wasn't broadcasted on NBC. I'm not sure if it would've made a huge difference, but NBC's coverage of the Prefontaine Classic recently was amazing. They showed every race as it was... hell they even showed the steeplechase in almost its entirety. I must say, that was the first time I had been happy with a track and field telecast in a while.

hehateme wrote:

2 Commercials during the 5k? F That, i'm boycotting

yeah and no carol lewis either. i missed her so bad.