I guess the TV coverage is not too bad for American
TV, but it's still quite poor. The meet started at 8
pm EDT. ESPN came on at 1 am -- a five hour delay.
Australian TV again showed the whole meet live. The
entire high jump. The entire 10K.
I guess ESPN didn't want to pre-empt their
How to make your blood run cold in one easy paragraph.
The BBC has a new director of sport, Peter Salmon, who is at present
observing the Olympics. And the Guardian's media page says: "He's
interested in NBC's approach to winning huge audiences, which links
sporting achievements to the human
As a subscriber to this list, I sometimes get bored by the discussion
over TV coverage. Living in Sweden, I still can get the message: For
track fans - US TV coverage is not good. (the word "sucks" might be
appropriate, but I'd rather not use it.) I know the problem - I have
lived in the US and I
On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 00:41:40 +0200, you wrote:
To end it. Where is all the response to the big results? Alekna threw
73.88!!! (give or take a few cm...) Voronin cleared 2.40!!! I'd expect
some reaction to this!
And two world records in the women's javelin, neither of
which got even one note of
