Athletics WA Under 20 World Championships 2021

[heywoodu 15,135]

Out of curiousity, are the commentators by any chance selected for a specific inability to pronounce names?  

 

Easily half the names are pronounced wildly differently by them than one would reasonably expect  

[heywoodu 15,135]

And wow, that 400m semi of Roshawn Clarke  must have been the fail of the year. Just, wow. Learned a very hard lesson right there.

 

Spoiler

In case it wasn't posted earlier, 55:10, top-2 goes to the final.

 

 

[OlympicsFan 858]

17 hours ago, PHI2019 said:

Sasha Zhoya wins the 110 meter hurdles in a world U20 record of 12.72 seconds. It makes you wonder how fast he can run in the event at the senior level.

 

 

My guess would be around 13.30 s. He seems pretty small and that might be a disadvantage with higher hurdles. Belocian also looked like a sure thing at junior level, but never developed as expected.

[dodge 1,024]

I think he has a much better shot but his hurdling does need to improve. Hit at least 3 in his semi final 

[Fly_like_a_don 1,089]

Christine Mboma has shocked the world today

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9.86s in her leg of 4*100m  looks like by 26 years she'll go under 9s 

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Absolutely cannot believe my eyes tell me it's a technical error 

[Bearas 521]

And  continue to dominate discus! Mykolas Alekna (son of legendary thrower Virgilijus Alekna) just won a gold medal!

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1 hour ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

9.86s in her leg of 4*100m  looks like by 26 years she'll go under 9s 

I think you are overestimating the time. Tia Clayton, who only ran 11.60 this year, was less than 0.3 slower. Also I doubt that „she“ will still be allowed to compete when „she“ is 26 years old.

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15 minutes ago, Bearas said:

And  continue to dominate discus! Mykolas Alekna (son of legendary thrower Virgilijus Alekna) just won a gold medal!

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