Wow never would have thought I have the honor to witness a German Race Walking medal at the Olympics. First Race Walking medal at major international championships since Andreas Erm won bronze in 1997 over 50km.
give Diniz 10 min and he will be back in the leading group
ExpandKorzeniowski said there are less than 30 judges in the world who can actually work at the Olympics level
Olympics level include the 18km Race walk + 2km running medley event?
Interesting though.
Split times indicate a Doha winning time of about 4 hrs.
I fear that no Eugene standards will be met today
Diniz breaks me
Time to grab a beerExpandThe very same. The only 4x Olympic champion in
history.
He just said that Toth & Diniz shouldn't threaten the "Japanese youngsters" so let's see how that works.
Tbh that looks like another Diniz harakiri ;-)
ExpandMen's 50k walk is on. Legendary event in Poland all because of one person (who is commenting this on Polish ES right now)
The great Robert Korzeniowski who won every race walking event back then when I was a kid and fell in love with Race Walking :D
Wow, all heptathletes that finshed the event are over 6,000 pts. Ellenwood with 6,077 pts at rank 20. That's a pretty high overall level.
Btw Schäfer missed the (insane) Eugene standard of 6,420 by 1 pt.
I really love race walking but I did not see such ridiculous last 2km for a long time. The first three were ALL flying all the way, you could even see it with the bare eye. But of course the judges do not have the balls to DQ them. What a fucked up ending.
Stano flying his way to gold.
Expand@dcro @Jur @Makedonas @JoshMartini007 @LowerSaxony I'm thinking of writing a story about World Athletics denying non-100m athletes universality spots... people deserve to know about it. If anyone knows of any other cases where athletes were denied spots and replaced by sprinters, please let me know! So far we have
Tyrone Smith (long jump) and
Gopi Chandra Parki (marathon), but I bet there could be more.
In the 100m start lists, eight athletes I found are specialized in other events, according to World Athletics records.
- Women:
(400m/800m),
(triple jump),
(100m hurdles),
(400m hurdles)
- Men:
(5000m/10000m),
(1500m),
(110m hurdles),
(800m/1500m)
Good idea. What media/platform do you plan to use?
As said before, it's an absolute disgrace of WA. F.e. the guy from TLS has a ~14:30 PB over 5000m and might not be world class, but he still has a very decent level (better than >99,99% of the world) and it is absolutely disrespectful to offer such an athlete a place for an event where he has no connection with and - from the point of view of WA - where the athletes least bothers the entire event. Likewise, you don't ask a dressage rider to compete in show jumping because there are no more slots available for dressage.
ExpandOnce World Athletics saw how many World Ranking athletes would miss out
What a surprise. They allow universality spots while restricting the number of participants. If they were not able to account for this in advance, that's blatant incompetence and ignorance.
ExpandYeah. Seems like World Athletics started insisting at some point on the universality athletes entering 100 m events. I guess to round up their already controversial universality system. Pathetic.
Bermuda will have two athletes then....?
Actually, the athlete from Timor Leste who got an universality place for the 100 meters is a 5000m runner. Guess he's not the only one. It's a shame. All that WA/IOC wanna have is as most flags as possible and the pretense of universality - they do not care about the athletes AT ALL.
lol
Lots of universality places have been added to the Road to Tokyo list by WA.
Women's Shot Put
Katharina Maisch - 18,51 m
(16.6. Neubrandenburg)
Meraf Bahta and Sarah Lahti beat the 10.000 metres Standard in Stockholm today (31:08 and 31:11)
Jeez... Mihambo 6.58m without board in her 3rd qualifying attempt. Her competitions are always a thriller..
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