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Seriously?

My money is being used to pay you for this rubbish.

Please do something about support for British sprinting! Why is Mark Lewis-Francis swaggering and pointing at camera at start? Don't cover the shot! He came in 6th?! Why the swaggering? Drop these prima-donnas from coverage. Stick to field events.

I wonder what Kenya and Kenyans did to you, Tom - you wrote a summary of last evening's events and quietly forgot to mention that there were some sterling Kenyan performances in there - nothing on Nancy Langat, nothing on the 3,000 S/C, but a mention of Dibaba hidden somewhere in between inches on Lewis-Francis, who couldn't qualify from his heat.
I wish the Ö÷²¥´óÐã would bring back Mike Costello.

How about showing us some of the athletics? You've been on air for over half an hour now and all we've seen of today's athletics is the "legends" race.

Tom - thanks for your response, but do I assume from that that you think the "main events" mean "track events"? All we've seen of the discus is the winning throw, and that just now about half an hour after it actually happened. When are the Ö÷²¥´óÐã going to give field events the coverage they deserve?

The UK athletes performed badly at Crystal Palace because succeeding in Europe doesn't mean they can compete with world-class athletes (mainly Americans). Re: Ö÷²¥´óÐã coverage why has Brendan Foster got such a high opinion of Lisa Dobrisky? She has not proved herself over the last two years and I fail to understand his persistence that she is world class. Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis are, at the moment, the only GB athletes who can challenge the rest of the world. As for Mark Lewis Francis - well, surely by now we can know what he cannot achieve, in spite of his high opinion of self!

Quick comment on Lisa Dobriskey - she did get a silver at the Worlds last year (fair enough, upgraded from a bronze due to a DQ) and she is the Commonwealth Champion so to say she isn't world class is a little foolish.

Tom,

I am afraid you are catching the backlash for what has been truly awful coverage of the Diamond League and athletics in general on the Ö÷²¥´óÐã this year.

The Ö÷²¥´óÐã3 coverage of Paris was beyond awful.

Even the Ö÷²¥´óÐã1 coverage with it's lack of any meaningful field event coverage, the bad timetabling of events, the pointless post-race interviews, the massive home-athlete bias, the continual interruptions while we listen to ex-athletes (great athletes but bad pundits) trot-out the same soundbites race after race, the bad sound quality as the music and DJ Geoff blared in the background... the list goes on. I am a huge athletics fan and even I couldn't put up with it on Saturday and turned over to the swimming instead.

Couple this to the disappointment of the Diamond League format itself, which promised us regular high quality meetings and failed to deliver anything more than average matches with a minor sprinkle of starlets to try and make them look better than they were. (e.g. 400m from Crystal Palace).

The biggest selling point of the whole Diamond League was the Gay/Powell/Bolt showdown, which never even happened.

"Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis are, at the moment, the only GB athletes who can challenge the rest of the world."

Err what? When you say Mo Farrah, do you mean Phillips Idowu? You know a man who has actually won gold medals on the world stage and had world leading jumps, as opposed to a long distance runner who has never won anything on the world stage?

Sheer lunacy.