Athletics WA World Championships 2022

[Grassmarket 3,409]

I read elsewhere that setting your VPN to  works for YouTube.

[Grassmarket 3,409]

3 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

FYI here’s the BBC timetable.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/62125848

 

BBC Coverage is already . If you like to watch lots of ex-athletes expressing banalities about modern athletics the BBC is for you.  If you want to watch athletics, VPN & YT.

[Monzanator 4,503]

8 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

BBC Coverage is already . If you like to watch lots of ex-athletes expressing banalities about modern athletics the BBC is for you.  If you want to watch athletics, VPN & YT.

 

I watched BBC athletics for two days once. Even Michael Johnson sounded bemused by the ammount of nonsense spoken by the other pundits. That was the last time I would ever watch athletics on BBC. It was unbereable to listen indeed.

[heywoodu 15,145]

Anyone else noticing the pronounciation of the athletes' names by the lady doing the commentary on the WA YouTube stream? At least a third of the names isn't even remotely near to what it presumably should be, as in, Wrotynski being pronounced Wrotoroski or Comenentia being 'Comentina'  

[heywoodu 15,145]

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

I read elsewhere that setting your VPN to  works for YouTube.

This absolutely does!

[JoshMartini007 2,538]

Canada falls to 13th in the men's hammer throw right at the last throw

[intoronto 5,645]

1 minute ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Canada falls to 13th in the men's hammer throw right at the last throw

Ofc we do. 

[Monzanator 4,503]

Norbert Kobielski picked up a foot injury during one of the training jumps and has WD from the HJ quals.

 

Anna Kielbasinska won't start in the 4x400 mixed relay. She was supposed to be in the final line-up only but WA rules state there can only be one change from SF to Final and it will obviously happen with someone else. So Kielbasinska would have to run both SF & F or don't run at all. It will be the latter.

[Grassmarket 3,409]

13 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Anyone else noticing the pronounciation of the athletes' names by the lady doing the commentary on the WA YouTube stream? At least a third of the names isn't even remotely near to what it presumably should be, as in, Wrotynski being pronounced Wrotoroski or Comenentia being 'Comentina'  

It is Jenny Meadows, former British 800m runner (and coach to Keely Hodgkinson). Her struggles with names are a byword. 

[heywoodu 15,145]

7 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

It is Jenny Meadows, former British 800m runner (and coach to Keely Hodgkinson). Her struggles with names are a byword. 

Curious to hear her in the events she follows a bit more closely. In hammer throw she mostly sounds like one of them Olympics.com or English Eurosport commentators who do 10 different sports but only know the PB's, SB's and random facts that are on their commentator papers