USATF Press List for Worlds ?

Maybe, but I doubt they bother to put it on the internet.

wouldn't the credentials come from the iaaf and not usatf?

if you are looking for who from the US was covering the event, according to tim layden of SI:

Phil Hersh of the Chicago Tribune, Amy Shipley of the Washington Post, Dick Patrick of USA Today and Chris Clarey and Juliet Macur of The New York Times and [Layden].

keep in mind that hersh's home paper is the trib but his stuff appears in multiple papers that are owned by the same company. some of the others may be in a similar situation.

Track and Field News was there as well.

flowtrack got rejected by usatf. what a buffoon that guy is. he made a public fool out of himself showing up with his little camcorder and got rejected. the whole usa press delegation laughed the whole week at flowtrack.

yea because flocast is horrible for track.... idiot.

flowcrapped, you are an ass. flotrack is far superior to layden and the rest of mainstream media bc it is personal, interesting and from a real runner. sure, he isn't super polished and doesn't have a clue sometimes, but i would much rather watch an unguarded interview with kara goucher or alan webb than i would see layden turn a phrase but bring me no closer to the action. flotrack is grassroots and free, much like most of what is good in this world.

As always at worlds, there were alot of wannabe amateurs approved by USATF as working press, along with the real US media, and they were awarded IAAF yellow press credentials with the USA thumbnail-sized flag shown proudly on it. But flowtrack was denied a press credential by USATF communications and the IAAF. Such is life. With youtube, blip.tv, google video, letsrun.com, the many USA team members and fans can still upload videos of the races, interviews, parties, sightseeing adventures, Outback Restaurant feedings, Osaka Castle trips. Without an IAAF yellow press cred, you can still do that. Nobody is stopping you guys. If you were at Worlds, and had a camcorder, point-and-shoot, cell-phone-camera, voice-recorder, or just a pencil and paper, then upload what you have, or write an email and post it here on letsrun.com. Let is know how it was and what your experience was. Tell us about the competition. We want to know. Stop WHINING.

chuck d wrote:

if you are looking for who from the US was covering the event, according to tim layden of SI:

Phil Hersh of the Chicago Tribune, Amy Shipley of the Washington Post, Dick Patrick of USA Today and Chris Clarey and Juliet Macur of The New York Times and [Layden].

keep in mind that hersh's home paper is the trib but his stuff appears in multiple papers that are owned by the same company. some of the others may be in a similar situation.

that is by no means an exhaustive list. there are some others from smaller papers that may have a local interest - say one athlete - that were there too.

layden is just naming people from the big name papers that everyone will recognize.

uhhhhh wrote:

flowcrapped, you are an ass. flotrack is far superior to layden and the rest of mainstream media bc it is personal, interesting and from a real runner. sure, he isn't super polished and doesn't have a clue sometimes, but i would much rather watch an unguarded interview with kara goucher or alan webb than i would see layden turn a phrase but bring me no closer to the action. flotrack is grassroots and free, much like most of what is good in this world.

in what way?

I enjoy some of the flotrack stuff.

But people aren't falling over backwards for post race interviews.

WCSN had post race interviews on their site and I don't see you praising WCSN as the salvation of our sport.

Only the hardest core watch interviews anway.

Only WCSN, NBC, etc could do videos at Worlds. The days of some guy showing up with a camera and shooting videos are over.

Thus Flotrack did not get a press pass. If they are not allowed to shoot videos and put them up then they don't get a press pass. If they took an athlete pass and shot videos anyway they had better be careful because the IAAF could say, "you'll never get a pass for anything". But with web partners paying big bucks like WCSN, the days of someone else shooting videos are over. WCSN did a great job of covering Worlds. Flotrack can cover other things where the mainstream outlets aren't there.