Andrea Kremer was thrust into the swimming world's spotlight last year as NBC/Universal's on-deck reporter for swimming & diving at the Beijing Olympics. A year later, she's back at the biggest meet of the year - 2009 World Championships in Rome.
Personally, I think she's ok on the sidelines at football, but her coverage of swimming has been abysmal. In Beijing, it was the same question over and over again to all the swimmers - "How does it feel..." - and that she was out of her element and had no idea what to ask - "Tell us about that swim." Rome was much of the same, though I will give her some credit that she did have some better material in Rome, but I feel like she was really reaching with a lot of her questions, and she visibly irked M.Phelps with repeated (read: nagging) suit, Biedermann and Cavic questioning.
Now you play NBC Sports Exec - Who do we bring in to replace her?
My pic - Summer Sanders had done (I thought) a real nice job asking some provocative questions as well as making some great on-the-spot observations while covering the Charlotte UltraSwim. With a household name like hers, why was she not kept around for Rome - if even only for the Universal Sports broadcasts? She's a woman, with experience, AND has first-hand knowledge!
