IM Lake Placid on Vs.
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Tamara posted 2 years ago.
Chris ~ I just dropped a note to Vs on their website. They've got a comments/feedback page. I told them that while we as triathletes love having the coverage, we'd rather see the athletes race. Made the analogy to bullfighting or hockey in terms of sobstories, and pointed out that as fans of the sport we know the pros and follow their performance the way any sports fans do.
anyway, might be worth it if they heard from a few of us.
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mdd posted 2 years ago.
The only thing worthwhile I have found regarding the VS coverage of the IM events is that you can kind of get a course preview but otherwise they are a joke. Each show seems to be worse than the one before. NBC doesn't show much triathlon coverage but at least when they do it doesn't look like a home movie.
I am glad the IM races are being shown on TV but I hope they improve the quality of the program. They need to cover the races like they cover the Tour De France, then you would have a winner in my opinion!
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PJT posted 2 years ago.
christri25;55053 wrote:
I swear triathlon is the only sport where they have to pitch the sob story.
I'd say just about every Olympics telecast in the U.S. is guilty of this as well.
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Red5 posted 2 years ago.
I've been watching the IM coverage on VS as well and although lacking in substance, I still like watching the pro's go through the motions. You can often pick up little tidbits.
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christri25 posted 2 years ago.
Were there women racing at Lake Placid? Really, if they want to cover an IM races on Vs for an hour cut out the AG BS and just show pro coverage. Or, they could let a bunch of yahoo's bring their miniature pony's to the Pro Rodeo championships and they could put that on for an hour or so. ha ha That’s not going to happen.
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glbrum posted 2 years ago.
I really enjoyed listening to the announcer pronounce Rutger Beke's last name. As far as I know, it's pronounced: be- key. Put those together and say it kinda quickly and you have it. The announcer was terrible. They asid all sorts of things,but at the end they finally settled on "bakeh" or as I can best phonetically spelling out : bake - uh. I felt bad for him, so much so that I turn it off half way and came back to it another day. He had a good race though.
I saw this yesterday.. It was an hour long and a total joke.
First off it was an hour then add in commercials it was about 45 minutes.... Then, They did a 7 minute story on an athlete that had a son that was born premature.... I swear triathlon is the only sport where they have to pitch the sob story. Do we ever see a football game interrupted with a story about a player that had a brother that was really fat and thought he was going to die so he lost a lot of weight and now every one is happy ? NO. Then to top it off the commentating was interesting. One of them seemed to be a triathlete. The other knew very little about triathlons. I mean that would be like having me commentate at a NASCAR race. What was the point ?? GEEZ.
Big thumbs down for that , LOL
Chris
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