List all the issues with NBC production this Olympics trials

Going to commercial during distance races and showing field events during distance races. So disrespectful. The field event attempts can easily be shown between races as can the commercials. (At least they have figured out how to do a split screen for this. But they should just show the entire race without interruption.)

Not automatically bleeping out all the “all the glory to god” comments

Automatically redirecting coverage to gymnastics moments before the world record setting performance in the 400H by Mclaughlin. Baffling, confirmed that I will be getting a VPN and watching CBC or BBC instead of watching the ad-infested, uninformed, cut-for-time coverage barfed out by NBC.

They do this weird thing in every 400 where they wait an extra second or two after the leaders are out of the frame on the turn before they switch to a camera where you can see them again.

- A lot of times they didn't get the result graphics on screen quick, sometimes had to flip to live results or try to see scoreboard on screen.
- Peacock issue: If watching main stream during a distance race when the NBC broadcast did split screen with an ad, peacock would just show "coverage starts soon" logo/music.

1. Leigh Diffey

2. Leigh Diffey

3. Leigh Diffey

I can't stand that Aussie muck-twad. Supposedly, Peacock will be carrying the World feed again at the Olympics, so at least I have that to look forward to.

Too many mums and too much focus on the athlete's family. We get it. Everybody in the race has family cheering for them.

Too much focus on farms. Too little focus on trading card games.

If you are going to have Terry Crews from "AGT" demonstrating hammer on the coverage, then I demand equality in the form of Sofia Vergara from "AGT" wearing a skin suit or buns to explain how it helps runners to perform at their peak.

Worst USA OT show ever. No network TV. No paid announcers nor paid crews nor paid writers.

Ask a post race interview question on something you noticed d u r i n g the race that was interesting, instead of rattling off your prepared from last night queries for the umpteenth time.

NBC paid Terry Crews and Snoop Dogg $millions according to Variety.

I simply cannot watch middle-distance and distance races on NBC because of their use of 287 cameras and their constant MTV-like cutting between shots. It makes me nauseous.

Something I'll never understand is cutting away from distance events because they're "too long," then stretching out the sprint events so that they take up even more air time than the distance events. If you don't think people have the attention span to watch an 8-9 minute steeple, what makes you think we want to focus on the 200m for 10 minutes?

I have been watching the networks cover track (and basketball and football) since the late 70z and the track coverage, especially the distance events, are infuriating.

I could elaborate on your points but I will save it for the Olympics coverage which will be more of the same.

Kara Goucher I guess is okay enough but she rarely offers anything else other than the emotional determination of a competitor and how much they want it and how hard they have trained and why NBC doesn’t have a guy like Nick Symmons (like sprinting has the great duo of Ato and SRR) is baffling.

There’s a reason why the coverage of Track sucks so badly in comparison with the rest of the major 5-6+ major sports in America and it’s probably mostly financially driven but I think there are other factors to consider.

A great trials meet and in comparison to the Masters it’s presented by amateurs….

Snoop Doog and Terry Crews, just give us the trials and save the extra stuff for the actual olympics.

We the athletes, coaches, parents, etc. should own ALL RIGHTS FOREVER to videos, stats, results, pictures, interviews, quotes, etc. by NBC, Nike, TTUSA, Runnerspace, Flotrack, Citius Advertising, AP, Getty, etc.

We should not sell our Intellectual Property to USOPC, IOC, or anyone.

It's ours. We did the work. We ran the races. We threw, We jumped. We walked.

If any streaming giant wants to use our IP they should pay for one time use, or per usage.

-nbc announcers; get rid of them all except for Goucher for 800 on up (the number of stupid nonsensical comments the other announcers make; it is better to watch the race on mute)

- don’t consistently show/announce splits

- I have mixed feelings about the arrow they introduced to identify a runner but they would only use it for one person in each race.

- limited introduction of key athletes

- cutting away from distance events (or screen w/in screen to show field events simultaneously)

- the forced cut over to gymnastics on Sunday night and causing me to miss W 400 hurdles live

- Lewis Johnson’s post race interviews. Why does he have a job?

- essentially most of their production decisions

i am a fan of cycling - track needs a Phil Liggett - someone who captures every relevant development during a race and adds valuable commentary throughout. NBC has consistently had duds for announcers for track and they are almost single handedly killing track in the US.