World's Strongest Man 2007- the lows

If you stayed up and watched it last night, chances are you were as disappointed as I was.  First off, the American's did not fair so well.  Phister looked off and did not seem hyped or ready to go like last year.  Nee tore up his qualifier, but then seemed to fade into the background during the finals, possibly due to injury, and Pope dropped out of the final event due to injury.  Bad year for the US.

Second, Marius once again DOMINATED the field and won by over 12 points, making it uninteresting to watch, IMO.  I like to watch close battles and this just wasn't one, no one was even close to Marius.  He completely dominated the field and did it with ease, hardly breaking a sweat.

Third, and perhaps the biggest disappointment was there was NO mention of the passing of Jesse Marunde.  Jesse did so much for this sport, you would have think they could have at least mentioned it???  I think that was a huge slap in the face of Jesse's family and friends to act as if nothing happened.  Terrible and low class, IMO.  They did a nice video up to him and posted it here: http://www.theworldsstrongestman.com/wsm/video/index.html.  How hard would it have been to play that on TV last night?  It was what, 2 minutes long?

Please, for the sake of the sport and the memory of Jesse, and for the sake of his family, email ESPN here: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?page=contact/espntv and let them know what they did was in bad taste.  Be nice, but let them know how you, as a fan, and maybe even a friend of Jesse, felt when he was not honored as a fallen warrior.  Maybe if enough of us do this, they will realize the error of their ways and fix their mistake.

Thanks for reading-

-Rick

Comments

[Chris D.]

Watched the WSM the other day. I was also expecting something about Jesse, but lo and behold they passed it right over.

Thanks for the link to the video.