The Road to London....... Build up to World Championships mod notes #342 and #653

Chivito550

Irish people moaning about British TV coverage. Ridiculous. How about watching it on an Irish TV channel instead. Oh wait....

alan partridge aha

Chivito550 wrote: »

Irish people moaning about British TV coverage. Ridiculous. How about watching it on an Irish TV channel instead. Oh wait....

Doesn't mean we can't comment though does it.

dinorebel

alan partridge aha wrote: »

Doesn't mean we can't comment though does it.

I see your username is taken from Irish TV........

rom

Fastest 10,000 in 3 years. Had to watch it on the phone as there was a really important Sunderland game with an empty stadium on in the pub

pconn062

Chivito550 wrote: »

Irish people moaning about British TV coverage. Ridiculous. How about watching it on an Irish TV channel instead. Oh wait....

No one, I don't think, has any issues with the BBC focusing on British athletes, of course they will. It's the highly nationalistic, jingoistic, Brexit-tier, unpartial punditry that makes some people struggle to enjoy the coverage.

And of course it sucks that RTE won't cover it, but I find that at least with most Irish coverage they are not afraid to criticise the athletes. At least Tony Monticello, Jess Ennis's old coach is there and seems to have refused the GB sunglasses that all the other BBC pundits are wearing. Refreshing to hear an original voice.

Chivito550

pconn062 wrote: »

No one, I don't think, has any issues with the BBC focusing on British athletes, of course they will. It's the highly nationalistic, jingoistic, Brexit-tier, unpartial punditry that makes some people struggle to enjoy the coverage.

And of course it sucks that RTE won't cover it, but I find that at least with most Irish coverage they are not afraid to criticise the athletes. At least Tony Monticello, Jess Ennis's old coach is there and seems to have refused the GB sunglasses that all the other BBC pundits are wearing. Refreshing to hear an original voice.

They are catering to their own people. I don't think Irish people living in Ireland get a say in how a UK television network conducts its business.

Eurosport are better though. Go with that if possible.

We are fairly painful ourselves. Euro 2016 football anyone?

Tom Mann Centuria

pconn062 wrote: »

No one, I don't think, has any issues with the BBC focusing on British athletes, of course they will. It's the highly nationalistic, jingoistic, Brexit-tier, unpartial punditry that makes some people struggle to enjoy the coverage.

And of course it sucks that RTE won't cover it, but I find that at least with most Irish coverage they are not afraid to criticise the athletes. At least Tony Monticello, Jess Ennis's old coach is there and seems to have refused the GB sunglasses that all the other BBC pundits are wearing. Refreshing to hear an original voice.

They are representing a country, they have the national anthem of the country played when they win. It's nationalistic by default. And any national broadcaster is going to focus on their athletes and get more enthused by their performances when they do well. Try watching Australian or US coverage. The part of your post about brexit is just silly.

pconn062

Chivito550 wrote: »

They are catering to their own people. I don't think Irish people living in Ireland get a say in how a UK television network conducts its business.

Eurosport are better though. Go with that if possible.

We are fairly painful ourselves. Euro 2016 football anyone?

I don't why we can't comment on it, just because we are not British. I'm on Eurosport by the way, I'll even take the ads over Gabby, Colin and Denise.

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

They are representing a country, they have the national anthem of the country played when they win. It's nationalistic by default. And any national broadcaster is going to focus on their athletes and get more enthused by their performances when they do well. Try watching Australian or US coverage. The part of your post about brexit is moronic.

If that's how you're going to respond I'm not even going to bother. It's the same around here every time there is a major championship.

Tom Mann Centuria

pconn062 wrote: »

I don't why we can't comment on it, just because we are not British. I'm on Eurosport by the way, I'll even take the ads over Gabby, Colin and Denise.



If that's how you're going to respond I'm not even going to bother. It's the same around here every time there is a major championship.

No moral high ground for you I'm afraid when you are going on about brexit.

pconn062

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

No moral high ground for you I'm afraid when you are going on about brexit.

Enjoy the champs.

walshb

400 men's heats start at 1045. BBC sport app on App Store has a great schedule for these championships.

Pherekydes

Can we get back to talking about what's actually on. The heptathletes!

Tom Mann Centuria

pconn062 wrote: »

Enjoy the champs.

I will, thanks. You too, regardless of the coverage.

pconn062

Gregan in Heat 4 @ 10.45. PB of 45.26

hillsiderunner

Chivito550 wrote: »

They are catering to their own people. I don't think Irish people living in Ireland get a say in how a UK television network conducts its business.

They do give quite a bit of attention to the Irish athletes. In the 400m hurdles final in Rio the poor winner hardly got a look in with all their talk about Thomas Barr. Even after the race was over!

No Eurosport here, so in front of BBC2 waiting for the 400m heats.

*Yes I know it was mostly because the UK had no-one in that final

walshb

Before 10 k final several athletes were introduced, but not all...how is it decided who gets crowd introduced?

IvoryTower

Kerley showboating in 400 heat, that's a first for me!

walshb

IvoryTower wrote: »

Kerley showboating in 400 heat, that's a first for me!

Odd running get style..

Chivito550

pconn062 wrote: »

I don't why we can't comment on it, just because we are not British. I'm on Eurosport by the way, I'll even take the ads over Gabby, Colin and Denise.



If that's how you're going to respond I'm not even going to bother. It's the same around here every time there is a major championship.

We don't pay a licence fee to the BBC. Our opinions are irrelevant.

Yeh Eurosport are the way to go. Far better commentary.

Djoucer

That was a great 10,000. Brilliant racing. Delighted for Mo to win in a field that threw everything at him.

2nd, 4th and 5th all ran pbs. 3rd ran a sb

Erik Shin

Greegan did well there to qualify, well done indeed !

Pherekydes

Jesus, Gregan did it!

But Steven Gardiner looked like he was out for a parkrun.

Erik Shin

At one point he looked to be 6th or 7th, but kept his form well and eased into third

robinph

walshb wrote: »

Before 10 k final several athletes were introduced, but not all...how is it decided who gets crowd introduced?

They would be announcing names forever otherwise. Whilst there yesterday during the 100m preliminaries the announcer said they would introduce the two favourites for the heat and the lowest ranked who would otherwise never get a shout out. They changed the call outs slightly for the next round and it tended to just be the top three ranked, or a GB athlete.

Chivito550

"I wouldn’t say I’m a morning person, but I got out and did it.”
Big performance by Brian Gregan to advance.
http://therunningreview.com/gregan-powers-into-london-semi-final/

walshb

robinph wrote: »

They would be announcing names forever otherwise. Whilst there yesterday during the 100m preliminaries the announcer said they would introduce the two favourites for the heat and the lowest ranked who would otherwise never get a shout out. They changed the call outs slightly for the next round and it tended to just be the top three ranked, or a GB athlete.

True..

I understand the time issue. Was asking how they decide who they introduce..

Thanks for the info.

walshb

Mark's up now.

torqtorq

The Kenyan Korir, the winner of the fourth heat of the 800 m has a personal best of 44.53 for 400m.

Brian Gregan - 400m specialist - has a PB of 45.26.

walshb

He's out..not great!

Al_Coholic

walshb wrote:

He's out..not great!

Was a very poor run