Clueless writing about our sport

[wamego relays champ]

Chinese teen finishes 100m sprint in 12.07 seconds, video breaks the internet

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-11-1...ceY/index.html

Fifteen-year-old Lu Qirui from Hangzhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province, has become an overnight social media sensation after a video showed her finishing a 100-meter sprint in an astonishing 12.07 seconds. These numbers are good enough to perch her on the No. 8 spot at the national-level championships.

Huh? Astonishing? For a 15 year-old?

[wamego relays champ]

Clueless headline writing:

Headline - Miller-Uibo attacks WADA over Naser’s acquittal in doping case

WADA had absolutely nothing to do with the Naser case.

https://guardian.ng/sport/miller-uib...n-doping-case/

Even worse, the story itself correctly indicates that in her Instagram post Miller-Uibo says she is pleased that WADA may be considering an appeal to have the Naser decision reversed. How the headline writer chose to conclude SMU was attacking WADA is a real head-scratcher.

[tandfman]

Clueless headline writing:

Headline - Miller-Uibo attacks WADA over Naser’s acquittal in doping case

WADA had absolutely nothing to do with the Naser case.

https://guardian.ng/sport/miller-uib...n-doping-case/

[gm]

This -- https://twitter.com/ChrisChavez/stat...243715/photo/1 -- shows the results I was working from when I wrote that brief.

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[Atticus]

Got me again! You're the best at that. 😀 I will confess to being careless. Clueless? OK, sure, why not.

Look at it this way: you were off by 0 seconds!

[gm]

USATF is guilty of this one. The story is now linked on the front page is from the USATF website; it's a report of the Michigan Pro Half-Marathon, which was held yesterday. The story includes this:



The problem is that in the story, there's a link to the official results of the race, and those results show Lara beating Day for second place, with both timed in 62.17.

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Got me again! You're the best at that. 😀

I will confess to being careless. Clueless? OK, sure, why not.

[tandfman]

USATF is guilty of this one. The story is now linked on the front page is from the USATF website; it's a report of the Michigan Pro Half-Marathon, which was held yesterday. The story includes this:

Morgan Pearson won a very close men’s race in his debut at the distance, clocking 62:15 to hold off Tyler Day (62:16), Frank Lara (62:17) and Scott Fauble (62:18).

The problem is that in the story, there's a link to the official results of the race, and those results show Lara beating Day for second place, with both timed in 62.17.

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[gm]

My HS track coach would rattle off repetition splits as 66,67,68 and if there was a straggler he'd say something like "6:30pm". Sometimes he'd use a date. "Smith Nov.4th!"

I had no idea I was your high school coach!

[Helen S]

I always enjoyed being able to read out the split “7:11 - your favorite convenience store!”

[Atticus]

My HS track coach would rattle off repetition splits as 66,67,68 and if there was a straggler he'd say something like "6:30pm". Sometimes he'd use a date. "Smith Nov.4th!"

In a workout in college we did 4x400 with plenty of rest, but I was toast on the last one and struggled in DFL. The event coach (not Payton Jordan) looked at his watch as I staggered past him and cheerfully said, "Well, at least you finished today."

[NotDutra5]

A chuckle-worthy error in the results from the women's 5000 at last night's distance festival at Icahn Stadium:


1 Berkson, Maddy Unattached 4:16 p.m.

My HS track coach would rattle off repetition splits as 66,67,68 and if there was a straggler he'd say something like "6:30pm". Sometimes he'd use a date. "Smith Nov.4th!"

[wamego relays champ]

A chuckle-worthy error in the results from the women's 5000 at last night's distance festival at Icahn Stadium:


1 Berkson, Maddy Unattached 4:16 p.m.

So would you convert to 16:16.00 ?

[gm]

A chuckle-worthy error in the results from the women's 5000 at last night's distance festival at Icahn Stadium:


1 Berkson, Maddy Unattached 4:16 p.m.

[Atticus]

picky, picky....

You're a High Jumper - you should know better!!

[dukehjsteve]

Doesn't work so good for the field events.

picky, picky....