Athletics IAAF World Championships 2019

[heywoodu 15,174]

Slow motion cameras are all fun and well, they have nothing to do with race walking. It's about the naked eye.

[dcro 10,210]

11 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Unless of course every foul in football is cheating as well, for example.

 

Well, it would be cheating if it was happening every second of the match.

[heywoodu 15,174]

7 hours ago, dcro said:

 

Well, it would be cheating if it was happening every second of the match.

Then they'd get yellow cards. Much like the warnings and eventual DQ's in race walking where, again, it's about the naked eye, not about whatever some slow motion camera shows.

[szy123 79]

2 godziny temu, heywoodu napisał:

Then they'd get yellow cards. Much like the warnings and eventual DQ's in race walking where, again, it's about the naked eye, not about whatever some slow motion camera shows.

But the naked eye rule is prone to manipulations. Tbh it means pretty nothing.

[heywoodu 15,174]

8 minutes ago, szy123 said:

But the naked eye rule is prone to manipulations. Tbh it means pretty nothing.

I'm not a fan of it, agreed, but it is the rule. People looking at replays to point out something means even less.

[szy123 79]

59 minut temu, heywoodu napisał:

I'm not a fan of it, agreed, but it is the rule. People looking at replays to point out something means even less.

It's the rule that needs to be reviewed asap

[Olympian1010 7,989]

The best thing for race walking would be...Keeping judges but not in their current form. I say we have 5 on-course judges and 5 replay judges (the replay judges must be from nations not entered in the event, or from countries that didn’t finish in the top 20). When a judge thinks an athlete is breaking a rule they call it in to the replay judges. Judges will watch the footage and determine if the athlete has broken the rule. If the athlete has broken the rule, a course judge will notify them with a card. Also, shoe chips would be worn to help supplement some “easier calls”, so judges can focus on more technical stuff.

Edited October 8, 2019 by Olympian1010

[Jan Linha 590]

3 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

The best thing for race walking would be...Keeping judges but not in their current form. I say we have 5 on-course judges and 5 replay judges (the replay judges must be from nations not entered in the event, or from countries that didn’t finish in the top 20). When a judge thinks an athlete is breaking a rule they call it in to the replay judges. Judges will watch the footage and determine if the athlete has broken the rule. If the athlete has broken the rule, a course judge will notify them with a card. Also, shoe chips would be worn to help supplement some “easier calls”, so judges can focus on more technical stuff.

 

Totally agree with this opinion. If there is for example Italian judge and Italian race walker has chance to win medal, he might try to rule out the medal opponents of the Italian ...... And shoe chips would definitely help from cheating, no doubt. 

 

But I see the bigger problem in race walk in doping. Such as marathon runners. Similar situation