Athletics EAA European Championships 2018

[heywoodu 15,183]

Abele could do the pole vault without a pole and still win the decathlon. 

[Werloc 3,171]

27 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Feels like TISC. After much complaining, you get points.

Honestly, there's talk amongst the athletes, that Simas is the hardest working athlete in Lithuanian athletics. He has never qualified to any junior championships, a couple of years ago he would still finish dead last in Athletics Team Championships 1st and 2nd league, which was literally the most prestigious event that he has entered during his career. Still, with every season he kept shaving off a couple of seconds off of his time and brought it down to somewhere around 3:44 in 2017 and said that he would be qualifying to Euros this year. He brought down his PB to 3:41, then 3:40 and then under 3:40, breaking the 1500 NR (that was 30 years old) three times this season. If this isn't dedication, I don't know what is, because we don't have any history of successful male middle distance running in anything above 800m.

[Werloc 3,171]

Come on, Edis, bring Lithuania some more joy in the morning session!

[heywoodu 15,183]

Bosnian javelin dude doesn't give two fucks about this competition.

[Werloc 3,171]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Bosnian javelin dude doesn't give two fucks about this competition.

OMG, I was planning to write about this

[Werloc 3,171]

I'm scared for Edis. At the Lithuanian championships he managed to throw over 80 metres three times. So many injuries have plagued him, but I think he needs over 80 again for qualifying.

[heywoodu 15,183]

I found a video with a soundbite of this Novac guy

 

Spoiler

 

 

[Werloc 3,171]

Nice contrast between Bosnia that didn't give a fuck and Romania that cared too much

[heywoodu 15,183]

2 minutes ago, Werloc said:

Nice contrast between Bosnia that didn't give a fuck and Romania that cared too much

I love it when they absolutely scream their lungs out and then end up like 10 meters under the Q  

[Werloc 3,171]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

I love it when they absolutely scream their lungs out and then end up like 10 meters under the Q  

For some unbeknownst reason, here in Lithuania, we don't really have screamers in the throwing events. Our javelin and discus athletes are all pretty chill We do have two shot putters that tend to groan a lot, so you can hear them from the opposite side of the stadium, thankfully, they don't ever qualify anywhere.