How much of the women's 800 and men's 1500 do you think NBC will televise? Treat values as per cent of the winner's total time.
Edit: Wish I was better at proofreading... :-( s/les/less/
I was surprised. They only skipped 2 minutes of the 800, from 2:54 until just before the 500 turn.
No back story feature at all on Ledecky.
They probably didn't expect her to win. I did see the back story on Cielo. They only do back story on people who might win.
I knew this was going to happen because they did not go to commercial break after interviewing Phelps and went right to the event without really having the introductions. So we did no see the 200 finish and came back at the finish of the 500 and that is a shame because some of the best parts of the race where there. It was mentioned on Australian site that she was only a couple of tenths away from the 4:03.85 400 Free of Janet Evans and that this portion of the swim was faster than her 400 Free swim in the individual event.
I cannot understand why they don't think people out in TV land will get bored and not pay attention to the entire swim race. They never do this with the 3000 Meters in track and that is almost the equivalent in time of this race.
NBC just had to show a little under 3 minutes to show the complete race and they felt commercials, stories and interviews are more important than the event itself. I really thought they would show the entire race because of a threat to the World Record.
Well, NBC initially showed women's 50 free. After track and field and beach volleyball, it showed women's 4x100 medley relay. I guess men's 1500 free won't be shown at all as it was supposed to be the event between these two. Luckily I watched it live online this afternoon.
They show a lot of the 1500. Sun Yang dove at the "stand up" command, prob due to language diff. He broke the world record by more than 3 sec. This is with the coaching of the Aussie coach.
They never do this with the 3000 Meters in track and that is almost the equivalent in time of this race.
Call it the "NASCAR effect". The 3000 is the steeplechase. With all the obstacles there's always the possibility of someone "crashing" in a spectacular way.
Glad to hear they broadcast most of the 800. (I was out of antenna range at the time.)
Anyone have a link to an online replay of the women's 800 final? I missed it.
You can access the replay of that entire session here: www.nbcolympics.com/.../index.html
