Dear Whiners and Complainers on this board who wanted to see more than Geb's forehead as he crossed the line....

I agree. If most of us who frequent this site wrote emails to EPSN2, they just might sit up and take notice. Also, TV companies assume that for every one person who writes them, there are a lot more people out there who feel the same way but didn't write.

I'm a distance nut, but I have virtually NO complaints about today's coverage ... except that it was only an hour.

You think they're going to show m3k and m1500 coverage over USA gold performances? Hell no! And when I tuned in today, doggone it, I wanted to see Gatlin, Devers, Tyree, Collins, etc. more than I wanted to see Geb run 7:40 or a sorry ass m1500.

My distance fix was plenty satisfied with Krumm and Regina.

This was a great day for USATF, whatever you think of it, and that's what they should have shown and did.

Yeah, stop watching.... that's a brilliant idea. We already get too little coverage as it is... I don't know about you, but I'd rather have mediocre coverage than no coverage at all. Now, letters to extend the broadcast or make it longer are okay, but don't piss the people at ESPN off and make them never televise track again.

jwaksman wrote:

Yeah, stop watching.... that's a brilliant idea. We already get too little coverage as it is... I don't know about you, but I'd rather have mediocre coverage than no coverage at all. Now, letters to extend the broadcast or make it longer are okay, but don't piss the people at ESPN off and make them never televise track again.

I agree with you a 100%, at least they are finally chowing track, It could be much better but I was very pleased with the races they did show. The filming of Krums race was great. I wish people on this board would offer constructive criticism for a change!

Is it possible to get BBC in the states via satellite or cable? Here in the UK we had just about every step and jump live - you couldn't get away from the athletics this weekend. It's pretty much the same for every championships. We do have to put up with Brendan Foster saying things like "and all Kipketer needs to do now is keep going" when Krummenacker is clearly closing him down like superman, but we also get comment and opinion from the classy Steve Cram. (To be fair to Foster he did poke a bit of fun at himself afterwards for that).

BETTER IDEA:

Move to a country such as Japan, Belgium or Sweden, where you can watch the whole race.

ESPN2...A Disgrace wrote:

Instead of COMPLAINING about ESPN's ridiculous lack of coverage of the 3000 and even the men's 1500 (last 100m were shown, although REGINA'S race was shown in full) DO SOMETHING about it.

Swamp the site with angry letters or do not even watch the meets until ESPN will have to change their tune or cancel showing track meets.

Better yet, beg Eurosport to offer race coverage in the U.S.

Considering that probably 50% of all the people who actually watch the meets post here, take action instead of whining about it.

Who knows, maybe there will be change.

At the very least, we got a break from Larry Rawson's "Now y'all just head down to your high school track and try to run a lap in 52 seconds..."

You are f***in' clueless