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2 hour posponement

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At Heroes Square atm. Heavy storm expected, race walk is postponed.

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Slight chance of rain/storm for tomorrow, and then some pretty high temperatures for the next few days.

 

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Well, this sure is something new. The Hungarian athlete in the 100m prelims will look a bit out of place. 

 

 

But hey, this is one of those very rare sprint races where a Hungarian can actually qualify to the next round. 

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Startlists are up for the first day. 

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Apparently 300 thousand tickets have been sold so far. 52.3% of ticket holders are Hungarian, the rest are foreigners. Tickets have been bought in 103 countries.

 

That seems like a lot of foreign spectators. Probably the most for a sport event in Hungary, only the EURO2020 matches can rival with that. 

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Konstanze Klosterhalfen officially out due to injury. 

 

 

On a more cheerful note, Heroes Square is getting ready for the marathon and race walking events.

 

 

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I think it's too early to say something definitive about the weather for the second half of the Worlds, but it's safe to say at this point that we can expect some intense heat for the first weekend. There might be around 30 Celsius during the men's 100m final. 

 

Edited August 14, 2023 by Vektor

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Everything is at near completion now, they are building the spectator zone and the medal plaza at the stadium. There will be a second spectator zone at Erzsébet Square. 

 

 

 

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It looks like the medal ceremonies will take place before the evening sessions, or at least that's what Eurosport's streaming schedule shows us at the moment. 

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  On 8/12/2023 at 9:37 AM, Josh said:

Yeah I've noticed that too with Kersee. Wonder if Athing Mu will soon follow suit. 

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Isn't her withdrawal almost certain at this point as well? Why would they talk about skipping the Worlds a few days before the event if they show up here anyway? 

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On a less dark note, I see that we finally have a map of the venue and its surroundings. 

 

https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/64d3777c41260e1767542b83.pdf

 

This sure will be a test of the public transport as tram 1, 2 and 24 will be overloaded like they never have been before. H7 might be the best option for anyone who wants to travel in the direction of the city centre. 

 

I wonder when the medal ceremonies will take place at the "medal plaza". I think they should have it between the sessions, right after the morning session. But I can't find any information about that. There should be a separate broadcast window for that, but I am not seeing it on the program. 

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Are these "minor injuries" are really just minor injuries, or is there some kind of advancement in the anti-doping program and some training programs are avoiding the Worlds deliberately? It did see some rumors about this online now that these announced injuries and recently announced doping violations are stating to add up, but yeah, they are just rumors. 

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  On 8/10/2023 at 5:46 PM, Monzanator said:

 

You come from a country where there isn't any national governing body to a large degree (the closest to being one is NCAA). Majority of most popular US sports are run by billionaire owners and most popular Olympic sports are focused on the so-called stars that pull the rest of the team & even the entire sport. The same way CFB football brings revenue for college volleyball, lacrosse or whatever other sports are played on campus.

 

You clearly don't understand that in most countries even the most popular sports are short on funds and rely on government support. Poland's biggest athletics star of the last decade is Anita Włodarczyk and pictured below is her club stadium where she started - ruins dating to mid 60s. Could you imagine Oregon, USC or Ohio State producing world class athletes on such junkyards? Of course not but I don't blame you that you live in US sporting bubble and don't realize how much other countries are struggling with sports like athletics which is globally important but also dominated by a few selected countries that take majority of the shares.

 

 

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I mean, this goes without saying. You can see in the medal and gold medal distribution of the Olympic Games. The moment the Eastern European block moved into a capitalist system, they immediately lost ground compared to Western Europe at the Games. The Games were far less one sided 20-30 years ago. Hungary is only managing to hold on somewhat successfully because Orbán pretty much created the same centralized system that worked during the Soviet era, he's putting an insane amount of state funds into Hungarian sports. We would be on the level of Bulgaria if Orbán wouldn't view sports as an important part of the Hungarian national pride/spirit. And you can't possibly expect Hungarian sports to work on this level in any other system, we are waaay too behind Western Europe and we will never catch them, even if a liberal capitalist genius takes over as PM, it's impossible. 

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There are no independent athletes. You can never ever remove the nationality of a person, they are born with it. And if that person achieves something extraordinary, the state and its people will use it for national pride. As long as we have nation states, this will not change. Hungarian people even take pride in the fact that Hungarian born scientists helped to build the first nuclear bomb (Teller and Szilárd, they are featured in the new Oppenheimer movie), and they were as far removed from the Hungarian state as any Hungarian born person can be on this world. You can't make anything apolitical, it's not how the world works. 

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Medals unveiled

 

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It seems we got a LOT of wildcards, there will be Hungarians in almost all the events.

 

Huge Hungarian team, by far the largest ever. 63 athletes. There will be two events with 3-3 Hungarian athletes: Men's Hammer Throw and Women's 100m hurdles.

 

Women

 

100 m: Takács Boglárka
200 m: Takács Boglárka, Sulyán Alexa
400 m: Rapai Fanni
800 m: Kéri Bianka
1500 m: Vindics-Tóth Lili Anna
5000 m: Wagner-Gyürkés Viktória
100 m hurdles: Kerekes Gréta, Kozák Luca, Tóth Anna
400 m hurdles: Molnár Janka
Marathon: Kovács-Garami Katalin, Szabó Nóra
20 km race walk: Madarász Viktória, Oláh Barbara
35 km race walk: Madarász Viktória, Récsei Rita
4x100 m relay: Csóti Jusztina, Kerekes Gréta, Kocsis Anna Luca, Kozák Luca, Nguyen Anasztázia, Sulyán Alexa, Takács Boglárka
4x400 m relay: Kéri Bianka, Kriszt Sarolta, Nádházy Evelin, Mohai Regina, Molnár Janka, Rapai Fanni, Simon Virág
Long Jump: Bánhidi-Farkas Petra, Lesti Diana
High Jump: Fekete Fédra
Pole Vault: Klekner Hanga
Triple Jump: Szabó Beatrix
Shot Put:  Márton Anita
Discus Throw: Kerekes Dóra
Hammer Throw: Gyurátz Réka
Javelin Throw: Moravcsik Angéla, Szilágyi Réka
Heptathlon: Krizsán Xénia, Nemes Rita

 

Men

 

100 m: Boros Bence
200 m: Wahl Zoltán
400 m: Molnár Attila
800 m: Huller Dániel, Vindics Balázs
1500 m: Szögi István
5000 m: Kovács Ferenc Soma
110 m hurdles: Szeles Bálint
400 m hurdles: Bánóczy Árpád
3000 m steeplechase: Palkovits István
Marathon: Szemerei Levente
20 km race walk: Helebrandt Máté
35 km race walk: Venyercsán Bence
4x100 m relay: Boros Bence, Bundschu Patrik, Illovszky Dominik, Pap Márk, Szabó Dániel, Wahl Zoltán
4x400 m relay: Huller Dániel, Kovács Árpád, Molnár Attila, Nadj Levente, Steigerwald Ernő, Wahl Zoltán
Long Jump: Németh Mátyás
High Jump: Török Gergely
Triple Jump: Szenderffy Dániel
Shot Put: Tóth Balázs
Discus Throw: Szikszai Róbert
Hammer Throw: Halász Bence, Rába Dániel, Varga Donát
Javelin Throw: Herczeg György

 

Mixed

4x400 m relay: Kéri Bianka, Molnár Janka, Rapai Fanni, Steigerwald Ernő, Wahl Zoltán

 

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You can thank the Gods that the Worlds aren't held in the first half of August here, it might as well be another Aquatics Worlds for us instead of Athletics. I mean, the situation is nowhere near as bad as in Slovenia, but still, it's constantly raining, it's windy, it's cold. The worst weather I have seen in August in recent years. There was a huge storm in Budapest last night. Hopefully it will get better in the second half of August. 

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I think the only nation who might be able to pick multiple wildcards is us. I have seen it reported that we are expected to enter around 45 athletes, and that's only possible with some wildcards for the host nation.

 

Btw, it looks like I will be there for the entire first weekend. Should be plenty enough to experience the Worlds with events like the men's 100m, hammer throw, shot put, and the heptathlon. I will watch the rest of the Worlds on TV. 

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FYI to anyone who comes here for these Worlds: you can't park your car near to the stadium. The organizers made it quite clear that spectators should use public transport. The stadium is a "green zone", they didn't build a big parking lot for it. 

 

Google maps is your friend, it's very reliable here, you can use it to find the best public transport routes.

 

And if you are here for an entire week, buy a monthly pass for the public transport, which costs 9,500 HUF (around 24-25 EUR). If you are here for only a couple of days, you can buy a 72 hours pass (5,500 HUF, 13-14 EUR). 

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 Bence Halász, Hammer throw, 78.27

 

At the Németh Pál Memorial in Hungary, you can find the results here: https://atletika.hu/live-results/1082

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So much stuff was happening in the past days that I missed this news.

 

 György Herczeg with a new U20 European record in men's javelin throw, you don't see something like this often from a Hungarian athlete in this sport.

 

84.94m at the age of 18: https://www.facebook.com/gerely.hu/videos/1200588723944009

 

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  On 7/26/2023 at 10:11 PM, Olympian1010 said:

These are kind of things that really upset me concerning national federations. Their job, at base level, is to support the participation of their athletes. If someone met the standard/ranked high enough, every effort* should be made to make sure they can go to the world championships.

 

*I can understand financial hardship, but that definitely isn’t the problem in this case.

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Yeah... this is something we would never do even if we could send an enormously large team. Hungary's goal is to send as many athletes as possible. The Hungarian Athletics Federation is doing everything they can to help Hungarian athletes gain WR point even at the July 30th deadline, we will have multiple last minute events in the country this weekend. And I think we will end up with one of the largest Hungarian athletics teams ever at the Worlds Champs (not that large compared to the top nations, but it will be respectable from us)

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Well, better to happen in Monaco than in Budapest, but that's still shocking from Duplantis.

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  On 7/19/2023 at 7:04 PM, OlympicsFan said:

What do you mean with "out of nowhere"?

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I meant that she was competing yesterday and the news broke literally the next day. I feel like many times the athlete "disappears" from the spotlight before they get suspended, so you kinda see it coming.