*If you had any doubts that Usain Bolt was still the fastest man alive, you can throw them out the window ’cause on Sunday he pretty much proved he’s the best sprinter ever.
Approaching his world-record time of 9.58 seconds, Bolt ran a 9.63 in London, which was good enough to defeat fellow Jamaican Yohan Blake (silver) and American Justin Gatlin (bronze).
At this juncture, an empowered and energized Bolt looks to defend another title in the 200-meter dash on Day 13 (Thursday).
Can Bolt win yet another Olympic gold medal, his fifth? That’s the question, isn’t it. Well, we say he can.
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And in all but the most affluent country in the world, we couldn’t see it live. In fact, had to wait almost a whole day to see it.
I think NBC is missing a huge opportunity here and killing the sports in the process.
Although soccer is not a popular sports here, the US vs Japan female World Cup final was the most tweeted sporting event up until that point. With twitter, once something big is live, the word gets around and the tv rating explodes. That’s hardly going to happen with taped delayed events. It’s amazing that NBC doesn’t seem to realize how much they could boost their ratings with live Olympic events due to twitter. And then the excuse of having it in prime time doesn’t even seem to make that much sense. Take yesterday. That was Sunday. Since when was it a bad idea to show a top sporting event on Sunday or Saturday in the day time?
Unfortunately, a lot of Americans seemed to be weaned on NBC’s pathetic coverage of these events.
But if NBC still can’t see that they are not helping their cause by not showing these events live, then the IOC should give the Olympics to another network in the interest of the sport. The decline in interest in track and field is partly due to big events like these not being available live.
London’s Daily Mail:
“Two BILLION people watch Usain Bolt’s win… but none of them in America: Sports fans outraged as NBC fails to show 100m final live on TV”
NBC chose not to air the historic 100m final live, saving the footage for their prime-time recap Sunday evening.
Comes as network faces continued criticism over their coverage of the London Games.
An estimated two billion people around the world saw Jamaica’s Usain Bolt thrash his rivals to win gold in the men’s 100m final – but none of them were in the U.S., as NBC declined to broadcast the historic moment live.
Bolt sailed through the semi-finals before successfully defending his Olympic title – against a field that included three Americans – at 4.50pm EDT.
But, not for the first time this Games, NBC took the controversial decision to hold off broadcasting the hugely popular event until prime time, leaving millions of track and field fans outraged.
Fans desperate to see the 25-year-old set the track on fire again, four years after his superb performance in Beijing, took to Twitter to vent their anger, using the hashtag #NBCfails.
‘How can NBC be so inept? How many senior execs will be canned? How high will the cleaning go? It’ll probably be delayed,’ one user tweeted.
Another wrote: ‘Thank you NBC for showing Bolt winning the 100 meter finals instead of woman vollyball (sic) and horses. wait you didn’t.’
‘Would have been nice if NBC chose to broadcast it live. NBC really values its audience,’ a fellow track fan tweeted.
In an Olympic record time of 9.63 seconds, Bolt sensationally defended his coveted title as the fastest man on the planet. A global TV audience estimated at up to two billion watched the Jamaican retain his 100-metre sprint crown but Americans weren’t among them.
The race had been billed ‘the greatest’ race of London 2012 – and it was certainly the most anticipated. The latest blunder comes after NBC’s employees started turning on the network’s much-criticised Olympics coverage.
Twitter has been flooded with gripes about NBC keeping most day’s marquee events off the air until they can be shown in prime-time, the broadcast that brings in the most viewers and advertising revenue for the network.
It was also forced to apologise after airing an ad featuring a monkey performing gymnastics, right after showing the performance of Gabby Douglas, the first African-American to win Olympic gold.
Considering the hype surrounding the race before it happened, it is really surprising that NBC would have passed over the option to show it live.
The race had been billed as the ‘hottest ticket’ of London 2012 with people paying prices of up to £725 to be among those in the stadium who could forever say ‘I was there’.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184123/London-Olympics-2012-NBC-fails-Usain-Bolt-win-mens-100m-final-live.html
Wish I could forever say I saw it as it happened.