Athletics IAAF World Championships 2019

[Jan Linha 590]

  On 10/1/2019 at 8:08 PM, orangeman said:

Wow, De Grasse's wiki is already updated.

 

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If you look at his main event CV, he cannot aim for anything but GOLD in Tokyo 

[Jan Linha 590]

Guys, the schedule maker is a real a*s Since when we watch decathlon and heptathlon at the same days? 

[dcro 10,210]

  On 10/2/2019 at 3:53 AM, Jan Linha said:

Guys, the schedule maker is a real a*s Since when we watch decathlon and heptathlon at the same days? 

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Well, these championships do not have morning sessions, so therefore decathlon/heptathlon competitions are scheduled to stretch beyond midnight... Combining them into the same competition days limits the number of days where post-midnight action is necessary.

 

It's mostly a compromise, and not a new rule...

[TomJa 64]

  On 10/2/2019 at 3:51 AM, Jan Linha said:

 

If you look at his main event CV, he cannot aim for anything but GOLD in Tokyo 

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He likes to win medals step by step, so in Tokyo silver on 100 m and gold on 200 m will hang on his neck.

[Monzanator 4,610]

Polish ES is talking decathlon in the on-site studio and Robert Korzeniowski revealed he did some banter decathlon during his career and his high-jump PB is 1.38m

 

He's 1.68m (5'6") tall, mind you

[dcro 10,210]

It's really sad how decathlon/heptathlon are now limited to only 24 athletes...

[Monzanator 4,610]

  On 10/2/2019 at 1:55 PM, dcro said:

It's really sad how decathlon/heptathlon are now limited to only 24 athletes...

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It's another stepchild event for IAAF. Likewise for the heptathlon if only the Brits didn't have their crazy KTJ hype. I mean N.Thiam is nowhere near as popular as maybe Carolina Kluft used to be as well.

[OlympicsFan 860]

On the one hand i am happy that Mayer will probably prevent a canadian gold medal, on the other hand i am always sad to see an athlete with such an ultra suspicious progression.

I think Canada could very well win two medals in men's decathlon.

[Monzanator 4,610]

Tim Duckworth DNS. BBC site reports it's a thigh injury.

[OlympicsFan 860]

  On 10/2/2019 at 2:13 PM, OlympicsFan said:

On the one hand i am happy that Mayer will probably prevent a canadian gold medal, on the other hand i am always sad to see an athlete with such an ultra suspicious progression.

I think Canada could very well win two medals in men's decathlon.

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Maggie Ewen in women's shot put also with an ultra suspicious progression ... 16.82 m in 2016 and then 19.46 in 2018. If you follow athletics, you can't expect to see clean athletes, but when it is that blatantly obvious, it is just disrespectful.