I enjoyed the coverage and you just have to take it for what it is. I also was surprised that more was not made of Lieto since he was the top American especially since they focused so much on the female American but she did fnish quite high.

I disagree that there should have been more coverage of regular age groupers and actually thought there was too much of that. The human interest stories are good and that should be the extent of the AG stuff. Watching a bunch of regular joes stumble around is not interesting especially when they can show you the pros battlng for the win!

Anyway great stuff and wish they would have more of it on TV!

Ya, I'd agree. It's definitely done for the masses and not necessarily those who follow the sport itself. But like you said it is Triathlon and the clips of the pros and age groupers swimming, riding, and running still make it worth watching. Got me pumped!

Bro is chris lieto he placed 9th overall and 1st american. surprised they didn;t cover that a little more for the american audience. Too much of just Stadler and Macca and not much of anyone else on the men's side. Made it seem it was just the Aussies vs. ze Germans.

Anyway, still a good production. I actually caught a shot of myself taking pictures along Alii drive. Sweet my 15 nano seconds of fame :)

As Tribro well wrote, it really got me pumped too!! Boy can´t wait till tomorrow´s long run...
I enjoyed the human stories, I found them really inspirational.
I am disapointed about the lack of coverage of the rest of the pack of the pros...particulary, why so little said and filmed about the Top American, Chris Lieto...
Did anybody missed Peter Reid?? I did...
But I really enjoyed, all the way....

I was under the impression that Herriman (sp?) went into a corner too fast and crashed... The broadcast said he was hit by a car. If that was simply a mistake, okay, but if it was sensationalism, which would not surprise me, shame on NBC for that...

hmm, i didn't catch that. I'll have to watch again. I remember the girl they covered was hit by a car, but yes I thought he crashed coming down a mountain and his back fell on a rock.

I don´t agree with having more of the AG winners. We have to understand we would like to see that but most people wouldn´t. I guess NBC knows what sells and what doesn´t.

What do you guys think about those people rolling to the finish line for that ALS guy??? I bet that was nice for the guy..but wouldn´t like to see that happening more often. Couldn´t imagine myself racing the IM and having to jump over a guy or slow down my last 2 meters just to watch him roll. I sounded realy selfish I know!!! But hey in the end it´s a race!!!!

On the other hand it was sad to see this guy after a year and know he is no longer able to walk!!! What a horrible sickness.

just imagine if they braodcast nascar or football the same way they package the ironman championship. geez. pathetic. as i have said 100 times. the pro's really get hit the hardest. nbc is just sellin commercials.

I agree with you christri but again..... triathlon isn´t the typical sport a couch potato would be interested to watch on sundays with a six pack of beers and a bag of chips.

I would also love to see more of the pro race (I as a Triathlete) but I also can imagine why NBC covers the race this way. And also why WTC is interested in having their race be transmited this way. Don´t forget that this coverage encourages many "morthals" to go out there and sign up for another IronMan race and start training. They have to sell the IronMan to everyone.

Remeber that in Nascar or NFL you can´t just sign up for a race or match. You have to be a pro to race with the pros. That IS NOT THE CASE with Triathlons you can actualy race in the same race with the pros.:D

so any ideas where i can watch it since i missed it when it originally aired?

NAte said he intended to record it and put a torrent up.
I guess he will be psoting the url soon.

Riverbrady.... let us know where you downloaded the german coverage.

if NBC wants some credibility they should offer another broadcast that is more of professional sport coverage.

maybe i am just being cranky. so just agree with me.

I was at the event, but spent much of the "down" time watching the big screen they had set up. I am pretty sure that what I was seeing was the same as what the people on the webcast were seeing. I thought the coverage was pretty good...I just wished they would broadcast it on OLN, like they do the tour. I don't think there is any way in hell we are going to get extended coverage on NBC ever, but there are good options out there.

The only thing I fear is joe schmo sitting at home with a beer resting on his gut, decides to enter the lottery after seeing some of these human interest stories. I think it is great that we are a "wecloming" sport, but this is the superbowl and I think you need to pay your dues before you can just walk into it. True, you have to qualify, but come on now...there are hundreds of people out there who are fast, but not qualifying fast who in my opinions have earned the right to be there more so than the Florida Marlins manager who just woke up and said, I am going to go on the biggest stage in Triathlon. That guy was around 40 maybe and his time from what I can tell was pretty darn slow....This is an elite event for elite atletes, if you want to do Ironman, go sign up for IM florida or any other one...don't take a slot from a truly deserving athlete.

The torrent file I used for the German coverage of the Pros. (see attachment).

Basically, if you already know what's going on you can figure it out from the coverage. If you don't (like I didn't), you can figure it out, it just takes a bit more...and it's focused on the pros the entire race.

PM me if you have any questions.

I am working on creating the torrent now, I will post it once its done

in the meantime you can access the FTP using the following info

Username: kona
Password: kona
(all lowercase)
address: 68.162.154.190
port: 21

to access via explorer use ftp://kona:kona@68.162.154.190:21
Firefox I do not believe accesses FTP; so use internet explorer v5.0 or higher
let me know if you have trouble accessing it - if you get the message "too many users" someone else is on there

you can also access my IRC server on the undernet
channel #moviestogo use the trigger for NathanChaseK

the torrent should be up in about 20 mins or so

dang bittorrent is being a pain cant seem to get past "Checking for Firewall...."

alright, thanks for letting me know, I will check it out once I get home this evening

ohh yeah,

also the DVD is available for purchase here

http://www.ironmandvd.com/20foirwochdv1.html

hey Tikal any tips to share so the rest of us can get it?

sorry Tikal
I was in NYC all weekend since thursday, when I left everything was working

I will have it up again this evening as soon as I get home I promise!!

I hadnt had time to fix that bittorrent either ...sorry guys...busy couple of days for me

it will be back up at 6:00 eastern time at the latest

what do you mean?

at what point does it stop?