dwight stones and company did provide there typical commantary.
gatlin displayed a better race than powell with the wind and the bump in consideration. also powell shut down about 5m from the finish for the 32nd consecutive time.
fun meet to watch. first time an american(citizen) has won the bowerman mile in a while though.
Yeah those announcers… I cringe at some of the things they say. I didn’t catch the meet today, but those quotes are freakin classic. “1/4 inch away” haha… too funny. Props to Gatlin!
Dwight Stones seems to have the same problem a lot of former athletes have when they move to the broadcast booth. They seem to have taken (maybe actually have taken) a course in “how to be a broadcaster”, but they only understood half of it and bumble their way through something they should handle easily. Stones is knd of like Joe Morgan in baseball --when he just is himself and expresses his opinion, it’s sometimes interesting, but when he tries to read from the “how to announce an event” script he’s terrible.
Of course, on Dwight’s worst day he’s still vastly better than Carol Lewis. At least she finally has stopped going on and on about Carl Carl Carl.
