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Hungarian commentators are saying that the men's hammer throw is done for today. Well, it's not just for today, it's probably also for LA and for Brisbane. This will be a decade long, Bolt level dominance. 

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That men's hammer throw WR won't live for much longer. He will break it in 1 or 2 years. Maybe even today. 

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The 4x400 girls broke the oldest Hungarian record in athletics from 1980, fitting end for the Hungarian team at these Worlds. Well done, everyone.

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  On 8/26/2023 at 9:43 AM, OlympicsFan said:

Absolutely horrible schedule, basically only evening sessions. One of the worst world championships ever from a viewer's perspective.

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It's one of the best from a casual viewer's perspective, which I think was the goal here. Basically have everything interesting in a 3-hour window every day in the evening, this way the Worlds have an easier time to fight for the attention of the public. I mean, even 3 hours are too long for most people these days, I wouldn't be surprised if at some point the evening sessions will be crammed into two hours like the Diamond League. 

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Now that the Worlds is in its final stages I just want to say: I would have never ever expected to see this many spectators in Hungary for athletics. I mean, look at how many people are in the stadium for a morning session of decathlon when we don't even have a Hungarian in decathlon. The organizers went above and beyond to market this event to the public and it clearly payed off in a country that never had any big traditions in athletics beyond hammer throw. It's the ultimate proof that Hungarians like big sport events and they show up in big numbers even when we don't have a star on the level of Katinka Hosszú or Kristóf Milák. 

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  On 8/26/2023 at 5:13 AM, Federer91 said:

So they are going to run countless back and forts on a straight for the marathon like hamsters.  Because closing 5 more streets and going a bit around the city will be such a big problem. Completely destroyed any ambition i had to continue watching this.

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I mean, this is why I said that Budapest is a small city. We have a large course for the big annual marathon but you only need to close down the city for one day on Sunday for that. Here you have to close it down for multiple days and the city literally can't function during that. Budapest isn't Paris or London, you would have to close down all the major inner roads during the weekday to have a larger course for this and people need those roads to work and live their lives. 

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Apparently Hudson's eye has to be checked because something may have went into it during the crash, that why the first SF is delayed.

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200 heat 1 is postponed because of the crash

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  On 8/24/2023 at 6:00 PM, hckošice said:

buses crashed

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I was just thinking about it yesterday that these things can be dangerous...

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  On 8/24/2023 at 7:32 AM, Monzanator said:

You can trust WA will follow suit on IOC and claim race walking needs some changes Killing off 50k was obviously a huge mistake.

 

Perez gets the Spanish flag but ditches it as she still has one lap to go.

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I think the only big mistake was that 20k became the Olympic distance. 35k should be the compromise between 20k and 50k. It would make sense to only have 1 male and 1 female race walking events, just like how we only have the Marathon outside of the stadium. And forget about the race walking relay nonsense. 

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Lol, thank God that the officials warned her, that could have been much worse if she went into the finishing lane. 

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These repeat wins make me question if having 20k and 35k race walk events make sense. 20k and 35k just seems way too similar. They should return to 20k and 50k or have only 20k like at the Games. 

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I see that ES is now editing their own broadcast instead of just using the main feed. World Athletics really messed up the main broadcast by showing so little of the field events.

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  On 8/22/2023 at 7:19 PM, Grassmarket said:

Jeez, hope Budapest hospitals have got some extra beds.

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We got beds. Doctors on the other hand...

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If the weather continues like this until Thursday, the 35k race walk will be very challenging.

 

Edit: Nvm, that's very early in the morning, they should be fine.

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5000 heats moved to the evening session on Wednesday because of the heat wave. The morning session will be shorter.

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One random thought: maybe I am biased because I was there, but I think the logo of these Worlds is one of the best ever. It feels very memorable to me, by far the best we had for a big sport event in Hungary. It feels more timeless than the modern logos.

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Heat wave in Hungary atm, currently 34 C in Budapest even at 18:00, thankfully the evening program will start late at 18:40. 

 

The heat wave will likely end on Friday. 

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  On 8/21/2023 at 1:42 PM, heywoodu said:

I love how everyone from every country always feels like their country is performing badly. Which is just impossible, because if every country performs badly, we're going to be left with medals that aren't won by anyone  

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Well, I am personally not complaining. We got our medal here. We have won 3 gold medals in fencing, 1 in sailing, 1 in swimming, 1 in water polo, 1 in taekwondo and at least one more should be coming up in canoe sprint this year at the Worlds if not more. We are overperforming before Paris in terms of gold medals and Milák isn't even competing. If we would repeat this with Milák also coming back, that would be a 10+ gold medal performance from Hungary in Paris. I hope we aren't setting up ourselves for a disappointment, this year has been "too good to be true" one year before Paris. 

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Btw, I am not joking, looking at Katzberg's throws again, his age, his body type, if he keeps improving he might be a generational talent. I am not sure where this came from, I feel like very little was said about him before the Worlds. We saw Fajdek coming during the 2010s, this is far more surprising. Looking at his results, nothing indicated that he will throw over 81 here. 

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One thing I forgot to say about yesterday that I truly feel like we might never win our first gold at the athletics worlds. Pars was destined to do it during his peak era and he won in London and at the Euros, but not at the Worlds, only silvers. Now Halász had a very clear chance, but it wasn't meant to be. Somehow this just continues to be the one World title in all of the major Olympic sports that we can't pull off. Now watch Halász win next year in Paris. 

 

But yeah, we might just see Katzberg win every world title from now on for a few years. It's very scary how good he already is at the age of 21. He might be the next Fajdek. 

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  On 8/21/2023 at 5:37 AM, heywoodu said:

They show a different live calculation in the stadium? Because on TV Vetter was shown as bronze basically the whole way, with Vidts and then Krizsan being close for a bit, but in the last 100 meters or so they took the live standings away from the graphics, so on TV there was never any sense that anything unexpected happened in the fight for bronze...

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Yeah, I saw that Krizsán was projected 4th on the TV, we are getting the TV feed in the stadium. But once the race was over the official results showed up on the big screen without Vetter and a couple of other athletes, so Krizsán was shown as the third placed athlete. They basically showed an incomplete final result for some reason in the stadium after the race was over, the points of the last few finishing athletes in the second 800m heat weren't calculated. Even the Hungarian Eurosport commentators got confused and started thinking it might be final. You can see it in the broadcast that even Krizsán was kinda confused because the crowd went wild. 

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Venues are expensive, it is what it is. They made the perfect sized stadium for these Worlds with temporary seats in the upper level and it still cost a fortune. 

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Back to today's events. I am not sure what you saw on TV, but in the stadium Krizsán was shown as the bronze medalist for 30 seconds, that's why the crowd went insane. I think even Krizsán though for a sec that some miracle happened. They need to be more careful about how they show the live calculation.

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Btw, the public transport isn't shit in Budapest. It could be better, but I think it's reasonably fine... for a city of 2 million people. But the Olympics in it's current state isn't fit for a mid sized city.