Saturday evening at the Olympics

[middlemarch]

Can anyone tell me why we did not see the women's 100m final on BBC1 last night? We watched all evening and enjoyed the British success but suddenly the programme was over and the 100m. had not been shown? Did BBC1 not cover it because there was no British woman in it? It wasn't even mentioned on the news. Perhaps they covered it on one of the other channels but surely one of these voluble presenters should have said so.

[excelsior-1]

i do not have an answer for you .. sorry.

i do however, have another gripe to add to yours.

as the 800m race was about to start, and the women came out onto the track - the bbc showed us a pre-recorded video clip of jessica talking and other snippets .. when it finished we switched back to the live feed, and were informed that we missed the roar of the crowd which accompanied jessicas' entry and introduction.
i like those little touches of crown reaction - and was therefore quite miffed that we were denied it.

[Eve.]

I thought I saw it (though questioning myself now!) though it was very very quick (being only 100m as well) after Mo Farrer winning gold and Jessica Ennis getting her medal. I'm sure it came on between that.

[middlemarch]

Yes, Excelsior we were annoyed about that too. And Jenna I am sure it wasn't on, unless I fell asleep at some point!

[sunny-dave]

Agree with excel -the missing of JE's introduction to the crowd was utterly stupid.

Like Jenna I saw the Women's 100m, but can't remember for sure which channel it was shown on, but I think it was BBC1.

[puzzled54]

Perhaps you blinked and missed it! I saw it.

[Eve.]

She won it in 10.75 seconds so wouldn't have been hard to miss especially as there wasn't much coverage of it save the race itself and brief bit of immediately after (lying on the ground crying etc...). It just kind of appeared inbetween all the excitement over Mo Farrer and Jessica Ennis.

I was watching BBC1.

[TheNovice]

they did show it, medal ceremony today as is Mo Farah's and Greg Rutherfords.

[middlemarch]

I must have missed it in the 10 seconds it took to get a glass of wine then. Had there been a British woman in it, there would have been a big intro then follow-up.

[emmie]

there has been a lot of good things go missing, the BBC seem to be showing bits and pieces, i know it's all on the varying channels, but one gripe is the medal ceremonies, where some seem to be only based around the British entrant.