Not too soon to start bashing NBC's marathon OT coverage

A real positive kind of guy you are, have a great day.

There will be almost ZERO splits.

Larry Goofball: " He's picked things up folks."

Will we will be seeing a winners water bottle moment as the fight for third and fourth unfolds?

I'm waiting for the

"go down to your local high school track" comment.

Larry's doing the commentary from a nursing home.

"Ryan Hall has picked things up, folks"

No, you'll see the human interest, overcoming injury and adversity, story at that point.

Over/under on the length of The Ryan Hall Story segment?

"i almost quit running" wrote:

No, you'll see the human interest, overcoming injury and adversity, story at that point.

Many of them. The point is to find a personality or two that people will watch during the Olympics. They have to churn through a bunch to see who plays well.

They should have Nick Symmonds commentate. Maybe a live berating of their crappy coverage would prompt some change, no?

NBC will likely have a piece on Alana Hadley and how she will be too young to compete in the Olympics even if she places top 3 at the Trials.

They ought to do a segment on Rachel McFarland having qualified but not qualified due to her race not having been sanctioned by USATF. Not to bash USATF but to generate awareness of the sanctioning requirement so it doesn't happen again. Well, maybe they should bash USATF anyways while they're at it (including for the $30 registration fee).

Larry Rawson has been working for ESPN lately (though he wasn't on their Razorback Invite coverage) so maybe we will be spared.

Hutchings has done some indoor meets/USATF stuff so I've got my fingers crossed. Him and Masback (with Lewis Johnson for interviews/human interest stuff) would be perfectly acceptable.

"They will focus exclusively on the lead pack, and once it splinters forget about getting any updates on any other runners."

I know! It will be just like this past Sunday when the only teams they talked about were Carolina and Denver.

Masback is horrible. He's a miler not a marathoner and his monotone voice puts people to sleep

Tom Hammond is hosting, joined by Hutchings and Masback. Looks like Lewis Johnson and Carrie Tollefson will be on course.

It is really a shame that these clowns are going to ruin the most interesting race in U.S. running.

I would rather watch a grainy illegal stream with decent commentating and a focus on the actual race than the garbage that NBC is going to throw at us.

"There will be almost ZERO splits."

Check

"NBC will likely have a piece on Alana Hadley and how she will be too young to compete in the Olympics even if she places top 3 at the Trials"

They better run this piece early in the broadcast

"Will we will be seeing a winners water bottle moment as the fight for third and fourth unfolds?"

Absolutely

Hopefully someone in the production crew has graduated from the high school A/V club and we can get split screen of the men's and women's race.

Commentario wrote:

"They will focus exclusively on the lead pack, and once it splinters forget about getting any updates on any other runners."

I know! It will be just like this past Sunday when the only teams they talked about were Carolina and Denver.

Not the same. Anything can happen in a marathon, especially if temps are going to be as high as they say. The leaders could crater, it would feel nice to know who is lurking and might make a late push.

Ritz came from 45+ seconds back to almost catch Abdi last go around, and that got no airplay. Would have been a compelling subplot, with the final Oly spot on the line