I've been enjoying the Beeb's coverage of the athletics this week. There's still a massive over-emphasis on British athletes to the exclusion of everything else during races - last night's focus on Laura Muir while barely ever mentioning the winner was particularly bad. And not to get too Alan about it, there's a slightly unpleasant trend to ignore African distance runners no matter how good they are in favour of talking about white Brits, Americans and other non-Africans - particularly in the distance events.
However, the studio discussions have been excellent. They've done away with the Claire Balding mateyness in favour of some proper analysis of issues like drugs and the Caster Semenya thing. Michael Johnson, Steve Cram and Paula Radcliffe are all excellent. Intelligent, knowledgeable and able to get their point across in an engaging way. And Gaby Logan is a very good host. And the race commentaries, the points above notwithstanding, have added a lot of excitement. Just need to stop Steve Backley saying "another big effort" for everything in the field events. His co-commentator Tony Minichello has been very good though - really knowledgeable.