Friday, 21 August 2009

100m sports commentator

That's got to be a pretty good job, right?

You get to travel all over the world. Stay in nice hotels. All expenses paid.

Then when it comes to actually doing your job you don't even need any proper training.

10 seconds of commentary. Less than.

"And they're off. And Bolt's in the lead. And he's won"

Then you look at the score board. Is is a new world record, isn't it a new world record.

And Usain Bolt has broken his own world record with a time of 9.17 seconds.
And the world record has not been beaten on this occasion, but Usain Bolt wins the race with a time of 9.37 seconds.

How hard is it?

I'm so in the wrong job.

I mean, granted, you could build up your commentary distances to 200m and maybe even 400m at a real push, but I think you'd want to specialise in the shorter races.

Nothing more than 400m, which is less than a minute.

You could busk that. 50 seconds, no one's going to know you don't k ow what you're doing.

And if someone busts you on your commentary just be clear. Say you're more of a 200m oand really a 100m commentary guy and 400m commentary's a little outside your comfort zone.

And as for 1500m.

Never, ever even attempt that. You'd be exhausted. Those commentaries sometimes run to over three minutes.

Three minutes!

You could pull a vocal chord or something.



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