Greatest womens 10,000m race ever.
New WR that many considered untouchable.
Ayana's second 5000m was faster than the stand-alone 5000m Olympic record.
Four sub-30 when no woman had done it 7 years and only 5 ever in history.
9 national records, including new AR.
18 of 37 ladies ran PB's.
NBC used only 30 seconds to show highlights in primetime and another 20 seconds talking about Molly Huddle's new AR. Not even 60 seconds of primetime coverage? Seriously?
In before coach d.
Pro---The morning slot showed pretty much if not all of the race.
with 37 on the track it was a visual nightmare
Con---No mention of the W1500 first round races or results.
Watched whole race on NBCsports channel this morning and it was well covered. Also, each of 7 prelim heats of 800. Sure NBC prime time is a joke but overall, NBC is offering practically everything on one of their channels if you want it. Every bit of track and field is being covered somewhere. If you don't have it, it's available on cable or satellite and you CAN get it. Pay for one month, during Olympics, then cancel, otherwise, stop bitching about primetime slots for 10k women. (Sorry to disappoint, but hardly anyone outside of LRC gives a shite about watching women's 25 lap track races, at least enough to put it on primetime for 30 minutes, especially 12 hours after the race is over!)
We've watched cool stuff each day so far, and the commentating on the other NBC channels is so much better than the Joke that is primetime NBC. (Total Phelps knob job, non stop!)
wineturtle wrote:
Pro---The morning slot showed pretty much if not all of the race.
with 37 on the track it was a visual nightmare
Con---No mention of the W1500 first round races or results.
I watched it on the NBC app. It had no commentary and it was difficult to tell the runners apart, especially with all the lapping. I was looking forward to some decent highlights since I knew they wouldn't take 30 minutes to show the whole thing, or even 15 minutes of it.
They could at least interview someone though.
The race was on live, in the morning
The Guy Who Says wrote:
The race was on live, in the morning
It was on llive on two channels with two sets of announcers. Tom Hammond and Masback on NBC and Hutchings / Albert and on NBCSN.
1500m was on the evening coverage.
You just have to check. As someone said all of the track is shown on one of the many NBC affiliates.
good thing the Germans showed the whole thing uncut on their live stream.
30 seconds is a new low for NBC.