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Chicago Marathon - 12th Oct 2014

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    #482
    xElDeeX
    Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭xElDeeX


    dublin runner wrote: »
    Could be a cracking finish. Not looking like a time-trial race at the moment.

    Hope so. I'm looking forward to the pacemakers dropping off as I find that confusing to watch and then the race can start properly.


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    #483
    dublin runner
    Registered Users Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭dublin runner


    xElDeeX wrote: »
    Hope so. I'm looking forward to the pacemakers dropping off as I find that confusing to watch and then the race can start properly.

    Yeah, I know. Wonder when the first move will be made. Bekele looks to be running a sensible race. Hard to know at the moment.


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    #484
    xElDeeX
    Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭xElDeeX


    dublin runner wrote: »
    Yeah, I know. Wonder when the first move will be made. Bekele looks to be running a sensible race. Hard to know at the moment.

    In the meantime we do get that classic view of the first mile once everyone has left. That would have kept me up at night worrying if I hadn't known what it looked like.


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    #485
    tang1
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    Johnny through 15k in 1.09.10. On course for 3.14.xx finish.


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    #486
    yaboya1
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    Bekele looks to be using the others now to shade him from the sun.


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    #487
    Stazza
    Closed Accounts Posts: 784 ✭✭✭Stazza


    Jake Krong through halfway in 68:47 - predicted finish 2:17:35 - if his hammy holds up...


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    #488
    dublin runner
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    Does Kipchoge sweat? Haha! Worst commentary ever.


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    #489
    Chivito550
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    rom wrote: »
    Any chance we can see the elites running instead of another airhead **** spouting ****.

    I'm turning this off as soon as the leading woman crosses the finish line. The glorification of 4 hour marathons annoys me at the best of times, but throw in American "you can do it" bullsh1t and it becomes intolerable.


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    #490
    dublin runner
    Registered Users Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭dublin runner


    They are giving virtually no coverage of the women's race. Quite insulting. Ok, that's my last comment on the coverage!


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    #491
    rom
    Registered Users Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭rom


    "Wheelchair runners" lol seriously


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    #492
    yaboya1
    Registered Users Posts: 4,610 ✭✭✭yaboya1


    dublin runner wrote: »
    They are giving virtually no coverage of the women's race. Quite insulting. Ok, that's my last comment on the coverage!

    FYP


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    #493
    dublin runner
    Registered Users Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭dublin runner


    yaboya1 wrote: »
    FYP

    Haha!

    At least RTE will do a better job when covering the Dublin Marathon. Oh wait.....


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    #494
    yaboya1
    Registered Users Posts: 4,610 ✭✭✭yaboya1


    Wait until Kipchoge starts sweating.
    Bekele and the pack are f*cked!


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    #495
    dublin runner
    Registered Users Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭dublin runner


    yaboya1 wrote: »
    Wait until Kipchoge starts sweating.

    FYP.

    Everyone knows he doesn't sweat. Have you been listening at all?


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    #496
    MrMacPhisto
    Registered Users Posts: 343 ✭✭MrMacPhisto


    I have to admit that I have only been watching this for 15 minutes. I have seen about 25 seconds of the womens elite race and none of the mens. What kind of coverage is this?


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    #497
    dublin runner
    Registered Users Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭dublin runner


    ANY CHANCE OF COVERING THE RACE????????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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    #498
    yaboya1
    Registered Users Posts: 4,610 ✭✭✭yaboya1


    Now we're on Columbus Drive just before the first mile marker.
    The race started an hour and forty minutes ago so there's nobody here.
    Obviously this is more interesting than the men's/women's elite races.

    FFS!


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    #499
    rom
    Registered Users Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭rom


    No chance of mile markers on the map but temperatures classic.


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    #500
    dublin runner
    Registered Users Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭dublin runner


    yaboya1 wrote: »
    Now we're on Columbus Drive just before the first mile marker.
    The race started an hour and forty minutes ago so there's nobody here.
    Obviously this is more interesting than the men's/women's elite races.

    FFS!

    I have given up.

    All you can do is laugh!!


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    #501
    rom
    Registered Users Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭rom


    I thought it couldn't get worse than paris two years ago when they started to interview a dog in the middle.


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    #502
    Chivito550
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    The US public give even less of a sh1t about elite athletics than we do. NBC are giving the people what they want to see. Sad but it's the truth.


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    #503
    Chivito550
    Registered Users Posts: 7,695 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    "he's a professional athlete. He's a tennis pro".

    FFS!!


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    #504
    rom
    Registered Users Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭rom


    FFS so a reporter is interviewing another reporter.


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    #505
    Slow_Runner
    Registered Users Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Slow_Runner


    Worst



    Coverage



    Ever


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    #506
    ecoli
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    Chivito550 wrote: »
    The US public give even less of a sh1t about elite athletics than we do. NBC are giving the people what they want to see. Sad but it's the truth.

    Sadly that is the truth of it. Checked their FB and not only were they not complaining about lack of athlete coverage they were actually complaining that they were showing the East African's to much and to show more of "other runners":mad:


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    #507
    yaboya1
    Registered Users Posts: 4,610 ✭✭✭yaboya1


    From the little bit of the men's race we did see there, I'd like to be on Chumba.


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    #508
    Chivito550
    Registered Users Posts: 7,695 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    Why is that chick still standing at Mile 1??


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    #509
    rom
    Registered Users Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭rom


    Time to bring up 911, Pearl harbour, Come on our troops, Merica, etc etc


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    #510
    MrMacPhisto
    Registered Users Posts: 343 ✭✭MrMacPhisto


    Good news, still no rain


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    #511
    Chivito550
    Registered Users Posts: 7,695 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    "We're now looking at the threesome going at it".

    :eek::D


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