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7 hours ago, phelps said:

 

yeah, with Klosterhalfen right behind her (and she too, below the old ER by Gabi Szabo)...

 

ah, those Salazar magics! :whistle::coffee:

 

It's not like Klosterhalfen ran 8:29 already 2 years ago as a 20 year old ...

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14 hours ago, LDOG said:

It's amazing how much this dude has progressed, he wasn't particularly great before Rio, now he's throwing top ten all-time distances.

 

Brazil athletics in general has gotten crazy good these last two years.

Agree, completely ridiculous. As far as i know his PB wasn't even 21 m+ before Rio and then he suddenly improved by more than 1.5 m in 3 years in his mid 20s. I don't really see how brazilian athletics got crazy good? In 2016 they had Braz da Silva and Murer as medal contenders, now those 2 are gone and they only have Romani as medal contender (+ maybe a small outside chance in women's triple jump).

2015: 20.90 m at the age of 24

2016: 21.02 m at the age of 25

2017: 21.82 at the age of 26

2018: 22.00 at the age of 27

2019: 22.61 at the age of 28

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hace 53 minutos, OlympicsFan dijo:

Agree, completely ridiculous. As far as i know his PB wasn't even 21 m+ before Rio and then he suddenly improved by more than 1.5 m in 3 years in his mid 20s. I don't really see how brazilian athletics got crazy good? In 2016 they had Braz da Silva and Murer as medal contenders, now those 2 are gone and they only have Romani as medal contender (+ maybe a small outside chance in women's triple jump).

2015: 20.90 m at the age of 24

2016: 21.02 m at the age of 25

2017: 21.82 at the age of 26

2018: 22.00 at the age of 27

2019: 22.61 at the age of 28

 

They also have a pretty good 4×100 I think.

 

I meant "crazy good" more on a pan american level (given the proximity of the games) rather than olympic/world medal level.

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Well, Romani did something extraordinary. Every 22.00+ result is fantastic, not to mention 22.50. How he improved to this level is another question, i hope that PS didnt have anything with that.

I see some great results in shot put, Nigerian is also close to 22.00m.

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2 hours ago, LDOG said:

 

They also have a pretty good 4×100 I think.

 

I meant "crazy good" more on a pan american level (given the proximity of the games) rather than olympic/world medal level.

Yeah, their relay is pretty good, but a medal would be a major surprise. Even if the US drops the baton as usual, Japan + GB are clearly better individually and Canada + Jamaica + China + Turkey + South Africa + France + Netherlands are all on at least the same level individually (in my opinion), so i think even making the final would be quite a success for Brazil.

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Edis Matusevičius :LTU improved his own Lithuanian national record in Javelin Throw to 84.93 in Universiade qualification this morning. 7 centimetres away from Olympic qualification, it is also his third throw over 84 metres.

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