Athletics EAA European Championships 2018

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6 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

Yeah, this Shukh girl is one to watch out for. She's recored 51 m in the javelin here already. I thought Ruckstuhl was much older tbh. She seems to be around for a much longer than in reality.

My money's on Vicente

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6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I truly wonder why women's decathlon is not being added as a 'thing' yet. I mean, awesome events are being thrown out of the window left and right to make space for women's events (even if they're not competitive), all in the name of gender equality, yet women still have to accept doing 'only' 7 events, jumping over lower hurdles (and a shorter distance), throwing lighter weights and so on. The whole thing of these special women's weights/heights and only 7 events says "women are not as good as men", which is quite odd to be accepted nowadays. 

Please stop this agenda, I don't want all of our Heptathlon athlete hopes thrown out of the window with 2.80 Pole Vault marks.

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Just now, Monzanator said:

And what is so wrong with Schippers? Without her, Dutch athletics would be anonymous on a global stage  

 

Ever since switching from heptathlon to full-time sprinter, she's become more and more and more 'arrogant', irritating, angry at everyone, blindly mad as soon as anyone says a fact like 'hey, three years ago you were faster'. She has become pure madness and surely the average Dutch person likes her (because she wins a few medals and coincidentally has the same nationality in her passport as them, so hey, gotta cheer for her!), but among athletics fans (in the Netherlands) she is very, very quickly losing her popularity. 

 

Basically she is one of the most negative people we have in the Dutch world of sports. 

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3 minutes ago, Werloc said:

Don't count out Qatar.

Wonderful idea! Buy her right now if possible, Tokyo 2020 won't fall within the 3-year deadline so that'd be good  

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3 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Send her to , or at least to . It's not nice to steal without giving anything in return.

No! How can you even think of sending someone who projects that much negativity to a place with that much positivity? Might as well send another Hurricane Maria/Irma that way, that'd do less damage.

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3 minutes ago, Werloc said:

Please stop this agenda, I don't want all of our Heptathlon athlete hopes thrown out of the window with 2.80 Pole Vault marks.

Austra Skujyte has the decathlon world record, so there's hope  

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Just now, heywoodu said:

No! How can you even think of sending someone who projects that much negativity to a place with that much positivity? Might as well send another Hurricane Maria/Irma that way, that'd do less damage.

 

Hurricane Daphne?

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2 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Hurricane Daphne?

List C for the Southern Pacific Ocean, there she is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone_naming

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1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Austra Skujyte has the decathlon world record, so there's hope  

Austra Skujytė is now training a girl that's breaking all of our U16 100m and Long Jump records.

She (Skujytė)  might have not been a good sprinter in her time (because of how her body was built), but she finished the best sprinter school possible in Lithuania (her coach was Stanislovaitis that passed away two years ago) and is now probably the only person handing down his knowledge, since Lithuanian 100m record holder Rytis Sakalauskas left the sport in 2017 with no interest in coaching.

 

Also, Skujytė has a son now, so there's hope indeed

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21 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Austra Skujyte has the decathlon world record, so there's hype  

 

I corrected it for you.