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I don't really follow athletics, but as a reminder to myself in case I decide to follow it someday, I should never come close to some people discussing the results here. I've seen some sexist, LGBT-phobic, and apparently racist comments, and I'm surprised some of you just let that slip as if it's nothing. It's one thing when you are not a huge fan of such and such athlete. It's a different thing altogether when you purposely misgender people or when your remarks about someone might come off as racist.

We will try to work on that on the future and I agree with you something has to be improved under this point of view. But just as a reminder to every user, you can (and should) report posts if you find them racist. Even when we will have a better organized moderation team, moderators are not reading the threads 24 hours, and when you make a report a notifications will arrive to moderators and the post can be checked more quickly. I have received 3-4 reports during the World Championships and all of them have been dealt pretty quickly. Also (I am not talking to you but in general) we should differentiate between racist comments and comments made by users we can not stand. For the latest ones, you should all use the "Ignore" feature this forum allows everyone to use (apart from me, even though I would love to be able to use that function too )

Mnogo naporno, lepse ovako kad je na tanjiru

Plus of course not any post that someone considers racist is immediately a racist post that should be deleted. Especially in today's world you've got to be careful just deleting everything that makes someone uncomfortable (since there's a huge amount of 'everything is racist'-feel on internet). I'm guessing this could be about Semenya: calling her a man is not racist, for example It's factually incorrect and (unlike saying there's a very complicated situation) it's incredibly unfair to her, but it's not racist (don't know if that's what was meant, but I'm just pointing it out since I've seen a lot of people on other places on the internet pull the racist card whenever some idiot says Semenya is a man)

While waiting for the results, I want to suggest a different predictor design for the contests where we have to guess the winners instead of the results. The idea is due to the fact that it could be very hard-working filling a big table like in Swimming and Athletics and many errors can happen for example wrong cut-and-paste, accidentaly copy two times the same athlet or have misteriously mix up the whole table. I think the design shown below could help to make the prediction quickly because you have only to put 'x' instead of copy-and-paste the names avoid cut and paste errors make easily the prediction also with smartphone because you have only to copy the big table and then fill it with 'x' What do you think? Could it be useful? Maybe we can make a test at the beginning of 2018. Here a couple of examples (if you have to guess the first 5 athlets it's enough to add two more columns on the left) Example 1: 3 different athlets Event and Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Men's 100m Day 2, August 5th, 2017 Ben Youssef Meité Jimmy Vicaut Chijindu Ujah Yohan Blake Usain Bolt x Thando Roto Akani Simbine Christopher Belcher Christian Coleman x Justin Gatlin x Any Other Example 2: option Any Other used twice Event and Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Men's 100m Day 2, August 5th, 2017 Ben Youssef Meité Jimmy Vicaut Chijindu Ujah Yohan Blake Usain Bolt Thando Roto Akani Simbine Christopher Belcher Christian Coleman x Justin Gatlin Any Other x x

What a shitty world championships all around. Disappointments a plenty. Really tough to watch the Canadian team struggle. As a nation that probably falls in the top 10 in the world in athletics, sucks to leave with no medals. Chalk it up to injuries and bad luck, but I expect to see Canadians back on form in Doha.

It wont' be competitive enough until Germany wins a medal.

Prepisuju oni od Žurnala i Tanjuga svakako

Nekad pomislim i da nas citaju hahhah, skoro sam video naslov na nekom sajtu na foru "Balkanski rat na YouTube u toku utakmice Bosna i Srbija" a to sam ja komentarisao ovde Mislim da je bolje da citaju nas nego sto prepisuju vesti jedni od drugih

Srpski sportski novinari bi mogli štošta naučiti ovde

I noticed before that you are extremely agressive in this thread and basically never write anything sports-related, what is the reason for that? I never said anything about Germany missing out on a medal being the reason for my claims, but i am not surprised that you are desperately trying to use everything you can to troll here, that is apparently what you have become these days. The womens 4x100 m relay is probably the second least competitive relay, only ahead of the womens 4x400 m relay, whether Germany wins a medal there has nothing to do with it. In fact the level was really bad this time and 42.X would have been enough for bronze, which is very weak. I am honestly disappointed that you dont seem to be able to be objetive towards your own athletes, unlike me. You said nothing about the shocking performances of Bosse, Diniz, Robert-Michon and Bigot, which completely contradicts your normal behavior in this thread, i really thought that you were one of the very few who was able to recognize suspicious performances at first sight.

Pricekaj malo. Bice vam servirano kao na tacni sve Bicete iznenadjenji. Cime se mi bavimo

I don't see many racist posts here (although sometimes they do happen), but I'm positive @thiago_simoes know how to differentiate such things, especially since was him that also pointed out the problem with sexist and LGBT-phobic posts - which are just as bad. The fact that some people only took the "racist" part of his comment it's telling.

The attendance was the main thing keeping the overal feel of the championships slightly positive

Indeed. Comments like this have become quite common on Totallympics. In the past month we had a huge amount of misogynist and transphobic comments here. It's still better than some other sports forums/groups around the web, but I fully agree we shouldn't ignore things like these.

Good thing about swimming is that you see everything (every heat, every final). Good thing about athletics is that it's infinitely more diverse (whereas in swimming you see the same athletes over and over and over and over again, I already have no idea who won which event )

Koliko sam razumeo pravilnik IAAF-a, odluke su konačne i ne mogu ići na CAS, ne znam da li će se žaliti na propuste IAAF-a i tražiti odštetu, zlato dobiti neće.

Men's Junior World Championship (Belgrade, Serbia) 1. Greece 2. Croatia 3. Serbia 4. Hungary 5. Montenegro 6. Spain 7. Italy 8. USA 9. Russia 10. Canada 11. Australia 12. China 13. Japan 14. Netherlands 15. Egypt 16. Iran 17. Argentina 18. New Zealand 19. Puerto Rico 20. South Africa Medal matches: Greece - Croatia 12-10 Serbia - Hungary 12-11

So, the FIG World Cup Series is over. I've closely followed it since April, and now that it's over, the only major event left this year is the World Championships (and the Grand Prix Final, though this is not an official FIG event and I've never been very enthusiastic about it). About the World Cup Series, unsurprisingly the Russians dominated the season. Not only Dina and Arina Averina, but especially Soldatova and, to a certain degree, Bravikova and Selezneva. Even Khonina and Lugovskikh who came out of nowhere managed to win gold medals for Russia. Amazing. The real surprises here are the Bulgarian gymnasts. Vladinova finally managed to win medals easily, and I'm glad Taseva, Kaleyn and Zafirova also got medals. Belarus also has some amazing gymnasts, especially Harnasko (my favorite) and Halkina. Kudos to Evchik for getting a medal as well. The performances of individual gymnasts from Ukraine are the biggest disappointment of the season. Diachenko is not bad, but she's not on par with the likes of Bessonova or Rizatdinova. Still, I'm glad Diachenko got a medal, and even Mazur also managed to earn one. But Ukraine has a long way to go. Israel did pretty well with many medals earned by Victoria Filanovsky and Linoy Ashram. I'm surprised their group was absent all year, though. Not sure about what's going on. The United States earned medals with Zeng and, surprisingly, Generalova. I believe Generalova is the first person of African descent to ever win an individual medal at the World Cup series ever (Francielly Pereira from Brazil was the first one, as far as I can remember, in 2013; but she was part of the group event). The World Cup exists since 1983 and I might be mistaken, but still it goes on to show how difficult it is for a non-white person to earn medals in this sport, so kudos to Generalova all the same. Also, first ever medals for Kaho Minagawa (Japan) and Sabina Ashirbayeva (Kazakhstan). Both are amazingly talented, and I'm happy for them. Speaking of Japan, they have become one of the top contenders for a group all-around medal at the World Championships, and I'm rooting for them. Spain is going through some serious renovation, but the group still got a bronze medal somehow. They have some work to do, but I hope they are ready for 2020. Italy is probably stronger than ever in the group event, and they even have a talented individual gymnast who earned many medals this season. Looking good. Salome Pazhava from Georgia has just recovered from injury, and I reeeeally hope she looks confident at the World Championships. My favorite gymnast, ever. I know she will not challenge for a medal at Worlds, but all I want is for her to go back on track. Finally, Brazil was a late show at the World Cup, with only one participation, but still enough to make it to a final. Hoping for a top 12 finish at the World Championships in the group all-around. This would be great at this point for us.

Congrats for majd eldin Ghazzal on his bronze medal today , i think this's the biggest highlight of Syrian sport since bronze medal of Ghada Shoaa in heptathlon in wch 99 and it came in a very tight situations for Syria , also this's been one the worst high jump competitions i've ever watched

overall it's been the worst competition for Egypt since 2005 , after silver medal and 7th place finish last tournament , but i think i've enjoyed every single moment of this wch and i'm really sad it came to an end for African countries , it's been a terrific tournament with 2 countries being placed 2nd and 3rd overall in medals table nothing special for Kenya , they proved again that they're a super power in athletics globally , but SA was just outstanding in this tournament , the main highlights is the big failure of Bolt and Jamaica overall , Omar macleod just saved their ass with his gold in men's 100m hurdles , Russia is back on track hopefully cleaner this time , but i must admit that i lost hope that athletes can be 100 % clean in this sport so i just forgot about the doping issues and enjoy what these athletes can present

We met our medal target on Sir Mo and relay teams alone

Canada dominated the points table among nations with no medals, 30 vs. Botswana's 14. Overall 12 top 8 places (5th-8th) with a potential of three more if De Grasse and Drouin competed. Hopefully Own the Podium realizes the performance and won't cut funding.

the rest of the standings will be posted tomorrow

About spelling mistakes I know i found out a few too like for Stahl without "e" and Wlodarczyk with "cz" not "sz" it was a typing mistake (remember i had to type the names and check them lol) so for Sally Pearson it's clear it's Sally so it's Pearson : I almost got confused with the Ingebrigsten brother but since only Filip is participating this year in 1500m then it's Filip thanks for the correction !

No, hold on. The Dutch commentator is the one who said this, there is no Dutch interviewer for Eurosport (the athletes have an English interview with Eurosport, which is sent to I guess all European countries with Eurosport, where the local commentators talk about the sports and interviews) Meaning he didn't specifically talk to Ingebrigtsen, he was talking about him

The championships are over, it's tables times Medals table Placing table For anyone interested, I've also updated my historic placing table (here). Poland, The Netherlands and Great Britain scored an all time high, when Italy and Ukraine hited an all time low (Russia too, but that was expected)

wow that's quite the aggressive journalism. Here if a commentators says something like that he would probably never again get an interview from that athlete, even if the performance was trash they have to say "oh you still did your best effort, thanks for giving us a minute of your time, etc" I guess dutch people are more open to criticism in general though.

Well yeah, sometimes they're not but there are always one or two who turn out to be highly competitive No way any sane person would ever get rid of the relays

Everyone was suspicious during the 80s

X 2 I was hoping Rivera could join his brother as World Championships medalist in field events and establish a new NR, but well I'm glad Ghazal got a place in the podium.

Is it late? I'd say 19.00 is a rather ok time actually...much better than the swimming world championships, where every finals session started at a time when a majority of people would either still be working or just finishing/getting back home.

Brazil's fourth place in the women's 20km walk and bronze on the men's 20km walk. Years ago I would have thought it impossible that this category was our strongest.

Yeah, never trust Colombians

Perez was from Ecuador. Good finish for Bonfim, probably upgraded to silver in a few years.

Medal The "4th-place finish curse" has been broken.

Shange has the best technique as far as my naked eye can see

But Brazil loves a 4th place in race walking

Go Caio He's my favorite from the leaders

So far Caio Bonfim is not making a bad impression at all...who knows.

Because he should totally be happy about it, right?

It's not looking for good for Brazil also, but we're pretty used with bad performances in Athletics World Championships. In the last 4 editions, only 2 medals, both by Murer. She's now a commentator for TV, and (surprisingly) good at this.

Including the italian? Or you're saying that all the other top athletes should be disqualified and the italian should've won gold?

I understand the frustration, but when you complain about all the other top athletes in this race and not your own, it kinda enters "conspiracy theory" territory.

C´mon If there a country that is still exceptionally prepared for the olympics, it´s surely Canada. you´ll again medal almost everywhere and about women´s hockey, yes that old known song..USA winning world champs titles year after year, but then came the olympics and Canada score the overtime finals winning goal

There is an "Ignore User" function here, I love it already