Athletics WA World Championships 2022

[intoronto 6,410]

4th for Canada in the women's shot put, on brand!

 

But really proud of Mitton, gutsy performance to get Canada's best ever finish in this event. She will be back.

[Monzanator 4,768]

sweeps the 100m podium. Kerley wins with 9.86.

[FireRun 197]

Sad for Tentoglou. I thought he had it with 8.32m, but Wang came out of nowhere in that last round. 

[Jinzha 702]

4 hours ago, james89 said:

This is typical Canadian luck. Not only a 4th place, but losing out a medal to the countback....

 

I know this is not true on paper but it feels like the Netherlands does well in every sport. 

Our success in athletics is a very recent phenomenon, but I'm loving every moment of it! Schilder is still improving every tournament, I hope she keeps this up. Apparently she and the Canadian were friends too, they were hugging and chatting after the throws.

[Pifta 41]

Somebody scored no result in long jump. I don't know how that is possible. If somebody stepped in let's say 5cm after the line, their result is technically 5 cm. Can be decisive in case of a tiebreak or something :D the same goes for triple jump. Simply, the first jump is just very short. 

(Joking a little, extremely hard to imagine a scene where it matters if somebody stepped in 5 or 7 centis)

[heywoodu 16,004]

Bit of a disappointing 100m final in terms of time, but definitely not in terms of tension, that was fun  

 

Same for long jump: no fantastic jumps, but a great twist at the end. I truly thought Tentoglou was going to do it in Tentoglou style again - never amazingly good, but always incredibly consistent and solid - but not this time  

[Grassmarket 4,030]

41 minutes ago, Pifta said:

Somebody scored no result in long jump. I don't know how that is possible. If somebody stepped in let's say 5cm after the line, their result is technically 5 cm. Can be decisive in case of a tiebreak or something :D the same goes for triple jump. Simply, the first jump is just very short. 

(Joking a little, extremely hard to imagine a scene where it matters if somebody stepped in 5 or 7 centis)

No, that’s not how it works because the jump is measured from take-off to landing. So you have to jump!

[stepansevs 145]

42 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

No, that’s not how it works because the jump is measured from take-off to landing. So you have to jump!

Technically it is take off. You take off from one leg and land with other leg :-D interesting is that if you do this way for example 2metres, it counts. So what is the rule? :-)

[Grassmarket 4,030]

10 minutes ago, stepansevs said:

Technically it is take off. You take off from one leg and land with other leg :-D interesting is that if you do this way for example 2metres, it counts. So what is the rule? :-)

You have to take off from behind the line.  But you cannot measure a jump as being 1.25cm because your foot has never left the ground. I suppose that is the rule, you are have to start on the ground (obviously!), leave the ground and the jump is measured from the position where you land. 

[Belle 1,017]

Fiasco for Sweden (yes I mean especially Montler) 

 

I don’t expect any other medal for Sweden other than…well you know. Now I pray for him to not get Corona or anything else bad.