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IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant's Rant: 8-5-24 Great Race, Not Call

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant Napear

Football, Sports, Basketball

4.7944 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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The Men's 100 Meter dash at the Olympics yesterday was a dandy. The same cannot be said of the call by NBC's Leigh Diffey who got the call wrong! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:17.2

they've got a fixed view the men's 100 meter dash

0:20.6

arguably the most anticipated event of the summer games and we had it

0:25.2

yesterday and it was an absolute dandy unfortunately the man behind the mic cannot

0:30.8

say the same thing. NBC's Lee Diffie made a the Who wants it the most? Now Thompson starts to wind up. Curly is going with him.

0:45.0

This is close. Jamaica's gonna do it.

0:47.4

Kassani Thompson is a gold medalist.

0:49.4

Uh, not so fast. Not so fast. Not so fast. Thompson did not win the gold medal.

0:58.0

It was as close as it can be which gives me the question and I'm sure most people have. How was it that Lee

1:07.4

Diffie was so certain that the Jamaican runner won the race? this is one of the most botched calls in one of the

1:16.2

great Olympic races of all time. I mean, I don't understand how he could make that call when the race was decided by what three

1:25.8

one hundredths of a second three one hundredths of a second and yet he was so sure the

1:31.3

runner that won the race was not the American in Liles? Come on now.

1:36.0

No Liles is the gold medalist from the United States. It was close. We know it was

1:42.4

close. How close? A photo finish. So a photo finish and yet

1:47.5

Diffie was so certain that the runner from Jamaica won the race.

1:54.5

I got to tell you this reminds me of the story.

1:57.0

This was a long time ago.

1:58.7

I was at a seminar with Charlie Jones, also of NBC, and Charlie was announcing track and field and he was

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