Athletics at the European Championships 2022

[hckošice 14,900]

10 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I know the goal was 'one final', but this should definitely count as 'mission accomplished'  

Sure, it is.

 

Job done

[Werloc 3,171]

Every Lithuanian is so off-form here, all I feel is pain  

[Bearas 521]

Morauskaitė just missing the spot for the final  Another impressive PB for  Victoria Ohuruogu, she's progressed this season by over 2 seconds!

[heywoodu 15,174]

6 minutes ago, Werloc said:

Every Lithuanian is so off-form here, all I feel is pain  

You should hear the Belgian commentator this morning, he's nearly finding a bridge to jump off of, damn. And this false start for Bolingo doesn't help, although it should of course be a yellow card judging by what we saw earlier in the men's semi's.

[heywoodu 15,174]

Great to see Bolingo come back from a bad knee injury by reaching the final  

[Bearas 521]

Abele failed to clear 4.60, but he probably will get another re-run on his own later on in a day.

[phelps 7,706]

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

There had been an earlier FS in the the 100m as well!

yes, but in decathlon the rules are different from the single disciplines...

 

an athlete is allowed a personal false start through the whole event, so, if it wasn't Abele to make both false starts in the 100m (and he did not), it's correct that he wasn't DQ in that moment...

he had to be DQ (and he actually was, before being reinstated) only after his personal second false start, which happened "only" in the 110 HS race...

 

hope I did explain it better now...

[phelps 7,706]

52 minutes ago, Agger said:

First Kojo Musah, then Axel Vang and now Benjamin Lobo Vedel won't start in the semi!

he knew that today he couldn't repeat himself with only 15-hour recovery time...

 

one of our 400m specialists explicitly said that those who made this schedule are a bunch of idiots (and also those who decided to have some people running 1 round less than others in disciplines different from the 100m)...

[Werloc 3,171]

40 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

You should hear the Belgian commentator this morning, he's nearly finding a bridge to jump off of, damn. And this false start for Bolingo doesn't help, although it should of course be a yellow card judging by what we saw earlier in the men's semi's.

Tell me when he finds that bridge

 

I felt like I was having a heatstroke yesterday and today I woke up with a cold  

 

I have to leave to work in an hour and the entire morning was also filled with disappointment in sports  

[heywoodu 15,174]

32 minutes ago, phelps said:

(and also those who decided to have some people running 1 round less than others in disciplines different from the 100m)...

On one hand I agree that this is bad, on the other hand...we'd have way more of a B-event without this. Personally I do want to see as many of the actual best European athletes compete here as possible, and that wouldn't be the case if all the top athletes had to run another round so shortly after the world championships.