I'll tell what else is so good...the absolutely WONDERFUL job that the people at www.wcsn.com and Eurovision did with the World Championships webcast. I actually pretty much gave up on trying to watch the PAX-TV daily summaries because they were just so inferior, even though they were using the Eurovision feeds. I started watching a bit of the PAX summary today up until the the start of the men's 5000m and then I just gave up because I knew what it would be like. Hell, Dwight Stones does the best with what they give him, though. I'd like to hear his real thoughts on the winning height in today's HJ. But I never would've thought that Steve Ovett would be such an excellent presenter, either. I think Dwight should just team up with those guys full-time and they would have a great broadcast team.
They did a superb job with the marathon today...I watched every minute of it today, didn't hit the fast forward once and it was worth every second of it. Radcliffe put on a simply awesome display of strength and confidence but Tomescu and Ndereba ran courageous, gutsy races. The only thing which I really missed were some post-event interviews. But we can find them elsewhere on the net, at least for that particular race. One of the best things was the fact that since they covered everything, one could see the utter joy on the faces of these athletes as they did their laps of honor and the fact that they covered all of the medal ceremonies. (Did everyone catch Drechsler and Frankie Fredricks today getting their special awards, too? That was great.) I ended up not fast forwarding through very much of these broadcasts because the actual action and the presentation were well worth the extra time. It is great to know that WCSN is going to cover the remaining Golden League events, too. This is the wave of the future for those of us in the USA who are starved for decent international track and field coverage. (If anyone has figured out how to "capture" these webcast files to the hard drive, please email me. I've tried a few of my tools to no avail so far.) bob
