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TV Trials, July 1, by Jim Dunaway, note by Larry Eder

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Wallace Spearmon, photo by PhotoRun.net

Wallace Spearmon won the last official event of the 2012 US Olympic T,rials. By the time that you read this, most of the remaining fans will be at the Wild Duck cafe and then show up, at 5 pm tomorrow at Hayward.

James Dunaway reviewed the July 1 NBC TV program which featured the last day of these amazing Trials…

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The TV Trials

 by Jim Dunaway              
Sunday, July 1   ***1/2


Today was supposed to be the final day of The
Trials, and except for the run-off between Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh, now
scheduled for Monday, it was.


Things started off a little shaky for the
announcing team when, in introducing the finalists in the women’s 400-meter
hurdles final, Ato Boldon said, about Lashinda Demus, “She has never been to
the Olympic Games.” Actually, Demus took third in the 2004 Trials and finished
fifth in her Olympic semi-final in Athens.
I also thought it took Tom Hammond and Ato too long to call T’ierra Brown
coming up for third. After all, this is one meet where third is just as good as
first.

And it would have been appropriate to mention that Brown’s coach is U.S. Olympic women’s head coach Amy Deem.


And in the men’s 400 hurdles
race call, surprise winner Michael Tinsley, who was moving fastest of all
over hurdles 8, 9 and 10, didn’t get a call until
the last few meters, although his bright orange singlet was impossible to miss.
We did, however, get a really good view of Kerron Clement edging Bershawn
Jackson for third place, and we could see the misery on Jackson’s face after the race.


I hope, too, that people will now stop
spelling Tinsley’s first name as “Micheal´– unless that really is his name, in
which case I hope people will stop spelling Tinsley’s first name as “Michael.” One
way or the other, pull-eez!


Craig Masback did a good job calling the
women’s 1,500-meter final (did anyone beside but me notice that the runners
were definitely not “set” when the gun went off?). But in the men’s race Craig
committed American announcers’ Number One sin: he got involved in a lengthy
disquisition (about Matthew Centrowitz and his father Matt) while long-shot John
Mickowski charged into the lead. Craig ignored Mickowski (and us viewers) to
finish his set piece, and we never were told who that guy in the yellow shirt
was. Earlier, while talking about Matthew before the race, Tom Hammond referred
to him as “Matt,” no doubt surprising a good many listeners.


Watching the summary of the sensational women’s
long jump, I kept wishing that NBC’s techies would have come up with a better
way of showing viewers just how far these women were jumping – Brittney Reese, 7.15,
Chelsea Hayes, 7.10, Janay DeLoach 7.08w (7.03 legal). As far as I can recall, this
is the first time three women have jumped more than 7m/23 feet since the Athens
Olympics in 2004. I’d have also loved to see the close-up photos of their
hitting the take-off board, and I’m sure Dwight could have made that interesting.


It doesn’t take much more time to do things
like the above, but you do have to think about what might occur in the meet and how to
make it understandable and thus interesting to viewers.


The day’s final event was the men’s 200-meter
final. It was probably expected to be an exciting conclusion for The Trials,
but a lot of the air went out of the tires when three of the four expected
stars – 100-meter 1-2 finishers Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay and the injured Walter
Dix – withdrew. That made things a lot easier for Wallace Spearmon, Jr., who
must be sick and tired of hearing the word “redemption.”


Just before the start, Boldon said about
Shawn Crawford in Lane 7, “I can guarantee he’ll be in first coming off the
turn.”


If I’d been sitting next to Ato, I’d’ve shot
back, “I’ll betcha a hundred bucks,” and it would have taken less than 11
seconds to win the bet, because Maurice Mitchell was in front when they hit the
straightaway. Spearmon’s strong stretch run brought him home in an excellent,
but windy, 19.82 more than three meters ahead of Mitchell.


Now, an aside, about announcers and words, from
the Grammar Police:


1. There is no “d” in congratulations. It should
not be pronounced “congradulations.” If you say “congradulations”
instead of “congratulations,” you should go to the blackboard and write “I
will not pronounce ‘congratulations’ with a ‘d’ ” 100 times.


2. NOBODY
gets his or her ticket punched these days. That was a phrase used half a century ago when
people traveled on trains; even then it was an instant cliché. But it seems to
be having a   revival among people who have never been on a train, and it
is in appallingly frequent use today by sports people with poorly equipped vocabularies.


Always remember that using a cliché is a
substitute for thinking. It is an insult to the listener, and a tacit admission
of inadequacy by the user.


Class dismissed. There will be a quiz.

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    Larry Eder has had a 51-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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