Johnson/ Denise Lewis

She is a world class numpty

by far the most stupid woman on tv

She has a great arse though.

lovely lips and teeth

nibble

Here's her efforts yesterday on Phillips Odowu's poor efforts in Triple Jump Qualifying:

Denise Lewis, BBC Sport athletics pundit
On Phillips Idowu's first attempt in triple jump qualifying: "I'm surprised he looks as good as he does.

He looked very laboured even in warm-up

Denise Lewis, BBC Sport athletics pundit
On Phillips Idowu's second effort in the triple jump: "One of the telling signs is that he's not going to touch whatever part of the body is injured. The reception he is getting from the crowd must really be helping him."

Well I was there and the reception for him was what you could call muted, compared to the loud support for every other Brit taking part, even the 'useless' Javelin thrower.


Katharine Merry, Olympic bronze medallist and BBC athletics commentator
On Phillips Idowu's failure to make the triple jump final: "What a horrible, horrible number 16.53m is. He was 3cm short but would have had a nervous wait even if he had gone further to see if he was in that top 12. He was rusty, the shape he was in just wasn't good enough. He still gets a ripple of applause from the GB crowd."

she looked so fake in that clip of them shouting home Mo Farah

She is one of those annoying people who say everything twice as if it enhances what she says.

I said she is one of those annoying people that.............

Yeah I find the repeating everything very annoying. Like Colin Montgomerie when commentating on golf

Great arse and lovely p$ssy.

Denise Lewis's ego is getting bigger every time she's on TV. She thinks her pathetic fake exuberance has made her a huge TV star.

Johnson's face a picture when Denise did her 'Mo-bot'

She will 'put her neck on the line'. Nonsense chat.This is car crash. Retort from MJ 'Why would she not want another gold in four years?' Comedy TV only as an observer

MJ is mortified, lewis is a numpty

What was that drivel concerning teacher and pupil and ****

would love a blowy off denise and them bubba lips

She is the worst so-called' expert' I've ever seen since they let Freddie Trueman loose on World Series Cricket in the late 70's.

MJ is a consummate pro- it's a really good job he suffers fools gladly (or appears to anyway...)

she is the athletics version of mick fitzgerald,pretty good at her chosen sport but really naff at presenting and talking about it

fitzy is a miles better pundit than lewis

not so good looking mind

I used to think she was fit until she started commentating.

Cymro - you are so wrong. Do you not remember BBC getting the prize catch of Cathy Freeman as an expert. All she did was go "wow" with the occasional "oooooooooooh".
It was excruciatingly embarassing and think Beeb let her go after a few days.

I don't rate Denise as a pundit, her talents obviously lie elsewhere, but I find Colin Jackson far more irritating.  I'm sure he's a nice fella but he just states the bleeding obvious every single time.  No insight and looks even worse next to the brilliant Johnson.

When watching a slow mo replay of a sprint:  "he was fast out of the blocks". 

When watching hurdles: "he doesn't want to hit a hurdle"

When the Brit trails in last: "he'll be pleased with that".

He said something along the lines of "I think Jamaica will be pleased with that" after their 1-2-3 in the 100m in a tone of voice suggesting he was being very insightful.

My 2p's worth. She's usually not that bad during other events and championships. I think there's a few reasons why she isn't doing well here. Nervousness about the GB athletes. The fact it's a home games/distractions. The work load, mornings and often on the evening show and possibly a slight hint of jealously of not being able to perform at these Olympics. All in all she's not working at 100% of her abilities as a pundit. I remember Sue Barker a few years back - she was horrendous. Not as bad these days though.

She's certainly better than Kelly Holmes, might be good at running but struggles to get her words out of her mouth when the cameras are rolling live.

...either that or she's just f***i*g sh-hite.

Same as Sharon Davies in the swimming. Great shag / poor commentator.

At least she's just self obsessed and not a psycho like Davies. Look into the eyes lol....

met Davies quite a few times in the early/mid 80s when she was dating judo world champ Neil Adams - she used to come to quite a few National squad training sessions and some times took us through some stretch sessions

as mad frogs box of

yeah, could see it a mile off. The fellas she's had have taken a few years to work out their mistakes. Seen her type all over. Vacant behind the eyes (shudders)

Did Neil Adams not do a runner

lol, they all do!

Derek Redmond ran so fast he fook*d his other hamstring!

Just a shame she managed to get rid of Bill Sweetenham, just as he was turning round British swimming. Now look at us :(

was she prone to giving Old Bill a rusty trombone?

yes he packed her in, she was doing his head in

freaky eyes and madly intense, desperate wannabe

Strictly Come Dancing for Denise imo.

she has already done SCD

should get johnson on SCD hes so good he could present it and compete at the same time

Presenting SCD

Anyone know why Johnson doesn't work for US tv covering the Olympics? He's one of their all time greats. Is it simply a case of we pay him more?

Can't imagine the likes of Redgrave covering the Olympics for another countries tv.

May be he does it's not live on NBC apparently.

If you think our pundits our bad then you've never watched US TV during sports.  Google Carol Lewis and you will quickly see why Johnson doesn't go anywhere near US television.

^ my guess is US TV don't do reasoned analysis, just "hail to the chief", "salute the flag", "go USA", "USA is the bestest", and such and such.

US TV doesn't do live Olympics fullstop

One of the reasons that we are fortunate enough to have Johnson is that the US media didn't think he had enough personality to "market" compared to the likes of Carl Lewis. I remember an interview with a US media type after Johnson replaced Lewis as their record breaking star and this goon said that Johnson was a disaster as he was lacking in personality by which he probably meant shouting and waving his arms about. Their loss and our gain.

us tv were shouting from the rooftops about one of their shooters the other day, saying she was the first olympian in history to get a medal at 5 games .. why bother with the details

typical the world ends at their doorstop.

Must be one of the best analysts ever.

Aug 10, 2012 -- 1:06PM, kincsem wrote:

^ my guess is US TV don't do reasoned analysis, just "hail to the chief", "salute the flag", "go USA", "USA is the bestest", and such and such.

Been there and heard them. It's embarrassing. If you think the Beeb is a bit OTT at the moment, once you've spent 10 minutes watching NBC and the like, you really want to switch back to BBC.

Think Johnson probably too intellectual as well for mainstream US audiences. Brilliant that we have him every time the Beeb show major athletics meets.

Johnson has worked on the BBC for years because we cover Track and Field on television a lot more over here. US TV doesn't offer him constant, stable work. It's probably a mix of factors by Johnson, including this.

This article last week tells you all you need to know about NBC's commentary:

"The Brits earned three track titles in under an hour, with Jessica Ennis gutting her way to gold in the heptathlon, Greg Rutherford somehow winning the long jump, and Mo Farah running away with the men's 10,000m as Willie and Kate jumped up and down in the stands. Add those to two golds and a silver in rowing, and one gold in women’s cycling and it was a great day for the home team. They passed Russia to take the third spot in the standings"

Russia were never 3rd in the rankings. When I read this last week they were down in 11th, and hadn't been higher.

upthebum - the US (and a few other countries) base their medal tables on 'volume' of medals and not most Gold, then Silver as tie breaker as we do, and incidentally as the official Olympic tables do.

That being said, I agree with all the rest mate, US coverage is pathetic. I had the misfortune of living in the States whilst a Winter Olympics were on (think it was Lillehammer) and the coverage was abysmal.

Finally, love the name :)

Johnson is sublime. He has got the lot ~ gravity, accuracy, knowledge, educated, professional, insightful, humble, thought provoking, objective and succinct. And a reasonable sense of humour. Been there and done it. A classy individual on and off the track it would seem.

Brilliant when the GB high jumper was rolling out the usual clichés, how he'd changed his life and work hard. Johnson 'exactly what has changed?' Grabarz 'well not a lot, really'

Great post there Cider.

The man is a true pundit god.

insightful, humble, thought provoking


Indeed he is humble. When everybody else was going on about the triple jump, he had the humility to admit he knew nothing about the technical ins and outs of that particular event. I'm always impressed when somebody has sufficient confidence in his knowledge to be able to point out when he doesn't know enough about a particular discipline to talk about it in-depth.

inverdale "question" .... mj "thorough answer" .... dl "what he said"

MJ going well this evening, swatting away Invrdale's questions like KP facing spin from Ronnie Corbett

the other night inverdale went to her first, she turned to jackson next to her and said, "i was just going to ask colin the same question? ... superb

Colin would have only had to ask wotsisname.

Trying deperately to be polite about our abject failure in yet another relay. i don't think we should ever enter one again.

Kelly Holmes .  At least Denise is easy on the eye.  As least the beeb gave Gunnell the boot.

Kelly Holmes .  At least Denise is easy on the eye

Yeah, but Kelly's not pretending she's an all-knowing expert.