Athletics 2022 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 13,540]

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[Jinzha 529]

Kipchoge is one of the most inspirational athletes of this age

[Grassmarket 2,748]

Missed this story a couple of days back. WA getting wise to the manipulated results for Olympic qualification scam. You’ll not be surprised at the countries named.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/63011572

[heywoodu 13,540]

Chepngetich starting a tad fast in Chicago.

 

[Vektor 3,195]

300 days to go (hopefully...), tickets will be on sale by the end of November.

 

 

[Federer91 2,127]

Don't know, if people are aware, but i just read this sad news. 

 

Former pole vault star Tim Lobinger has been battling leukemia for a few years and has admitted, that there isn't a way back from this and the end is near. 

 

Names come and go, but i still remember watching him 15-20 years ago. When i first started watching athletics he was one of the most recognizable faces for me. He also started and led Germany's best period ever in the pole vault alongside Bjorn Otto, Danny Ecker, Holzdeppe, Malte Mohr afterwards. A vacuum, that has been severely missed the past years.

 

Tim Lobinger talks about his incurable cancer

[Jan Linha 465]

Guangzhou World Relays in 2023 have been cancelled (surprise😅😅) This also means the criteria for qualifying for WCH 2023 have changed. Newly, best 8 relays from Eugene automatically qualify to Budapest and remaining 8 according to world ranking. 

 

[Grassmarket 2,748]

1 hour ago, Jan Linha said:

Guangzhou World Relays in 2023 have been cancelled (surprise😅😅) This also means the criteria for qualifying for WCH 2023 have changed. Newly, best 8 relays from Eugene automatically qualify to Budapest and remaining 8 according to world ranking. 

 

And this will be the official welcoming song.

 

 

[dcro 10,179]

The World Athletics Council has decided to postpone the World Athletics Relays Guangzhou 23, scheduled for 13-14 May 2023, until April/May 2025 (exact dates to be confirmed).

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— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) October 31, 2022

 

They should just scratch World Relays for good then if nobody is up to for hosting it except China.

 

Hilarious thing to say that China is up for hosting anything these days, but here we are. I will not even attempt to understand the inner mechanism of Winnie.

 

Edited October 31, 2022 by dcro

[rybak 2,683]

2 hours ago, Jan Linha said:

Guangzhou World Relays in 2023 have been cancelled (surprise😅😅) This also means the criteria for qualifying for WCH 2023 have changed. Newly, best 8 relays from Eugene automatically qualify to Budapest and remaining 8 according to world ranking. 

 

Thats unfair, the event could be moved somwhere else, to Chorzów for example 

 

With this new qualification criteria no relay from Poland isnt actually qualified