BBC to stop broadcasting athletics after Tokyo

Yes its the BBC's fault we don't want to watch a 3.30 1500 runner go through in 2.10 and then get outkicked. Its so entertaining.

Coevett wrote:

The BBC could try giving British athletics more coverage on their website and news channels. They give more space to disabled athletics than able bodied. They only report on Brits if they are black or female, preferably both. Charlie Grice didn't even get a mention when he became the 4th fastest Brit ever.

Even the idea of broadcasting the 'British' championships is probably considered 'racist' by the PC maggots who infest the BBC these days.

There are more para athletes being funded the GBA than able bodied it is thus quite right that we should move to athletics on tv being mainly about para athletes.After all a para medal equals an able medal.Stop being in the last century.

Paarafan wrote:

Coevett wrote:

The BBC could try giving British athletics more coverage on their website and news channels. They give more space to disabled athletics than able bodied. They only report on Brits if they are black or female, preferably both. Charlie Grice didn't even get a mention when he became the 4th fastest Brit ever.

Even the idea of broadcasting the 'British' championships is probably considered 'racist' by the PC maggots who infest the BBC these days.

There are more para athletes being funded the GBA than able bodied it is thus quite right that we should move to athletics on tv being mainly about para athletes.After all a para medal equals an able medal.Stop being in the last century.

Is there a correlation between the performance dept of GBA being more for disability athletes and the very low number of non para medal potential going to Doha and with the same lack of potential for Tokyo?

Ya'll need another converted Somali distance runner.

FFF wrote:

Ya'll need another converted Somali distance runner.

Will be recruiting loads of para Somalians.That will maintain government funding,which may well be the name of the game.

Coevett wrote:

The BBC could try giving British athletics more coverage on their website and news channels. They give more space to disabled athletics than able bodied. They only report on Brits if they are black or female, preferably both. Charlie Grice didn't even get a mention when he became the 4th fastest Brit ever.

Even the idea of broadcasting the 'British' championships is probably considered 'racist' by the PC maggots who infest the BBC these days.

Very true. But you have to realize the BBC is for the most run by the same red diaper grandchildren who run the media in the US - and the largest lobby in DC. These people care not a whit for any Western nation they live in other than for how much they can carve out of these nations before they eventually pack up and run for it. Sure, they want to replace Westerners with third world peoples, partly due to their hatred of Westerners (while calling all Westerners racist) and partly because these racist hypocrites have stated they can rule over these replacement populations with ease.

Sounds nutty until you do some actual research. Look up the actual authors of the main immigration laws in the US (The Immigration Act of 1965 - Ted Kennedy had nothing to do with it), GB, Australia, Sweden, and so on. Behind the scenes lobbying, skullduggery, bribery, and blackmail. And these folks always manage to have their own privileged group maintain refugee status in perpetuity.

What on earth has this to do with low performances and attendance at GB Champs?

BBC insider overpaid wrote:

They are so fed up with the low standards and attendance at GB Champs that even they can’t hype up below average performances any longer.

How many performances that may just make world semis were lauded as “ really exciting.” ?

For some clarity in this thread, can you state if this is true, or just a rant/troll? I haven't watched Paris or GB champs on iPlayer yet - maybe they said it on air in one of those.

Sounds like the OP is just one of the many self-hating anti-British trolls. I guess he got a reaction out of me and some others. Not sure even if the BBC could drop the GB athletics championships if they wanted to. As for 'performances that may just make world semis', we've known this for decades, and most of the British public know it's because we're competing against African and FSU countries whose athletes are doped silly. British athletics in terms of performances is on a major upswing, especially middle-distance in men's and women's, but it will take a while to trickle through to the public, and even longer if the BBC doesn't give the new talents the exposure they deserve.

jake_h wrote:

BBC insider overpaid wrote:

They are so fed up with the low standards and attendance at GB Champs that even they can’t hype up below average performances any longer.

How many performances that may just make world semis were lauded as “ really exciting.” ?

For some clarity in this thread, can you state if this is true, or just a rant/troll? I haven't watched Paris or GB champs on iPlayer yet - maybe they said it on air in one of those.

athletics federations need to look at what is being done by IFSC to build the sport of climbing with incredible global success.

Check out YouTube channel especially. Free streams and highlights. Sponsors obviously heavily invested. Big crowds everywhere.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC2MGuhIaOP6YLpUx106kTQw

https://www.ifsc-climbing.org

Maybe a personality/mentality difference between athletics and climbing? But they are getting it done.

These people are insane.

BBC gonna stop broadcasting athletics because they show too many blacks, females and disabled athletes for your liking?

Refugees 'priviledged'?

What is wrong with you lot

Hardly major even in the few events you point to and other than Muir not a medalist in remote sight.

And as for the other events , hardly a qualifier.

After Tokyo I think BBC will run away.

Maybe you'd be more competitive if you stopped making excuses and your runners stopped choking at their national championship.

BBC insider overpaid wrote:

They are so fed up with the low standards and attendance at GB Champs that even they can’t hype up below average performances any longer.

How many performances that may just make world semis were lauded as “ really exciting.” ?

So what distance are these below performances in? Name them.... It seems there is a good standard throughout, and most certainly not slipping from what has been over the last twenty years. For a Farah no longer on the scene you have middle distance booming, speed as good as usual, field not as worse as usual, track distance holding their own and some especially across the women. Or maybe you are getting confused that this were Champs and people were only interested in getting in top 2/3... This was an attendance issue not a performance issue.

You seem confused ye little nameless troll....

Major upswing wrote:

Hardly major even in the few events you point to and other than Muir not a medalist in remote sight.

And as for the other events , hardly a qualifier.

After Tokyo I think BBC will run away.

Perhaps not a 'major' upswing, but certainly an upswing. Britain only ever has one or two stars realistically with a chance of Gold (since the invention of EPO), and it's no different this time with Laura Muir.

Athletics will never gain in significant popularity until we start to shine again in the middle-distances, and there is definitely a 'major' upswing there, even if (aside from probably Laura Muir) it might not result in WC or Olympic medals for a while (having said that, Kyle Langford should have gotten the bronze in London).

We have a few guys in the middle-distances who could make finals and if they can raise their game just a notch even be medal contenders. We have stacks of talented juniors, and although the majority wont make it as seniors, the sheer numbers at the moment suggest two or three will, and we haven't had talents like Max Burgin and Ethan Hussey since the 1970's.

We will probably do very well in the European Championships in Paris next year and hopefully one or two will make the jump up in class for Tokyo.

My first Champs was as early as 1966 and I have only missed a couple.

I think we can look to both ends : medal contenders and depth and say the£20 million the Govt pumps in looks a very very poor return.I think the BBC can see it in the same light.

I think the athletics family also agree and have voted with their feet.

TrickyD wrote:

athletics federations need to look at what is being done by IFSC to build the sport of climbing with incredible global success.

Check out YouTube channel especially. Free streams and highlights. Sponsors obviously heavily invested. Big crowds everywhere.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC2MGuhIaOP6YLpUx106kTQwhttps://www.ifsc-climbing.org

Maybe a personality/mentality difference between athletics and climbing? But they are getting it done.

I watched the entire slam week of coverage. Mike and Charlie are great commentators, and the athletes were remarkable. Shauna Coxey is a hell of a story going into Tokyo 2020, and the Japanese are just on another level right now.

Thank god they nixed Flotrack to give us this awesome FREE live coverage. You are right that climbing fans are much more supportive of the athletes overall, but there have been no drug controversies (can you imagine athletics if there had been literally NO drug busts?). They are definitely on a sweet honeymoon phase of the sport.

This racist crowd fails to see the simple fact that the public will follow Brits that are competitive for medals on the world level. In the distances, they just have not had that for a long time, with the exception of Mo Farah, who was the greatest Brit ever at winning gold medals (which the racists here care nothing about). Stop with all the absurd conspiracy theories. Immigration laws have been loosened from humanitarian and anti-racist concerns, plain and simple.

YMMV wrote:

Thank god they nixed Flotrack to give us this awesome FREE live coverage. You are right that climbing fans are much more supportive of the athletes overall, but there have been no drug controversies (can you imagine athletics if there had been literally NO drug busts?). They are definitely on a sweet honeymoon phase of the sport.

Yes, you make a good point. Global athletics an aging and unwieldy beast and definitely has an image problem at this point.