Just listened to his interview on the LRC pod. The guy knows sprinting and he's clearly super passionate. If we could get the Brits to announce the middle and long distance events and have Ato do the sprints on the broadcast I think that's about the best we could ask for.
Finance Bro wrote:
Just listened to his interview on the LRC pod. The guy knows sprinting and he's clearly super passionate. If we could get the Brits to announce the middle and long distance events and have Ato do the sprints on the broadcast I think that's about the best we could ask for.
Hearing he went on the letsrun pod actually made me lose some respect for him. Can't imagine why you'd want to support the brojos.
He's good, but by Letsrun standards I don't think he's underrated because he's received quite a bit of recognition over the years on this site.
Ato knows his shi%$t. Not a huge fan but the guy has some insight and his pre race calls are usually on. We could be doing much worse. You want Mike Tirico or Al Michaels calling your W 200 Meter Final??
Too bad the Al Michaels transformer is slated to replace the wonderful volunteer track & field announcers such as Ato.
Ato is top shelf. Extremely knowledgeable with a great delivery.
kmaclam wrote:
Ato knows his shi%$t. Not a huge fan but the guy has some insight and his pre race calls are usually on. We could be doing much worse. You want Mike Tirico or Al Michaels calling your W 200 Meter Final??
Mike Tirico would kill it, though. He's easily the best play-by-play guy across all networks for the NFL. His skills would transfer to any sport, I'd wager.
He's a solid announcer.
Sting wrote:
Ato is top shelf. Extremely knowledgeable with a great delivery.
Ato has a UCLA brain. He went to UCLA which invented the Internet and tons of top secret aerospace, deep space, weapons, drones, cruise missiles, etc. UCLA has the largest undisclosed endowment in the $100B in the world from the Pentagon, CIA, NASA, NSF, NIST, FBI, etc. larger than #2 USC.
Finance Bro wrote:
Just listened to his interview on the LRC pod. The guy knows sprinting and he's clearly super passionate. If we could get the Brits to announce the middle and long distance events and have Ato do the sprints on the broadcast I think that's about the best we could ask for.
Very true.
He is one of the best. He makes sprinting fun.
Better than Michael Johnson on BBC.
Finance Bro wrote:
Just listened to his interview on the LRC pod. The guy knows sprinting and he's clearly super passionate. If we could get the Brits to announce the middle and long distance events and have Ato do the sprints on the broadcast I think that's about the best we could ask for.
He sucks as a commentator. He gets athletes names wrong; shares no insight into the races or athletes; when one of his fellow commentators ask him a question, he answers Sanya Richards-Ross. That's just rude.
No scholarship limits anymore! (NCAA Track and Field inequality is going to get way worse, right?)
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