The reason why only did Steven is mainly because he was the only one impacted by the BAA's decision to separate the elites from the masses. We've been focused on the 2 minute start controversy.
But if you want to get technical, Steven won the whole corral 1 start. If say Paula Radcliffe in her prime had started in Wave 1 and won the whole thing, we would have written about her as well.
Look, you say they deserve the same attention as the men. We 100% agree but you can't treat both sexes exactly the same if you are going to give the women a 28 minute head start. That's just reality. The only reason why we have these problems that you are complaining about is because women are biologically slower than men and people were upset it was hard to cover the women's race when everyone started together. So women were given a hard start.
Women deserve the same attention as the men? We agree. They certainly get that. They get 28 minutes of uninterrupted coverage that the men don't get at the start of the race. Once the women's race ended - there always are replays, interviews. Even on NBC gold which doesn't have commercials, that took up a bunch of time and they didn't go back to the men's race until 8 minutes were left in it. So the women get 28 minutes of uninterrupted coverage at the start and the men get 8 at the end. My god the men are being shafted.
If you are looking to be a victim, it's easy to find something to complain about.
Or I could have just saved myself a bunch of time and written what NotThatHardToUnderstand wrote.
PS. The one grievance that I think is somewhat legitimate that people don't complain about - is how poorly the African runners are covered. I'm serious. I heard them on NBCSN say they didn't even talk about Cherono in the broadcast until the very end. Is that true?
Maybe talk about that.