Athletics 2019 Discussion Thread

[TomJa 64]

2 godziny temu, Col_Frost napisał:

Here you have. They cross the finish line somewhere around 9:30, you can start watching 1-1,5 minute earlier or of course watch a whole thing   

 

I'm dissapointed. I expected them both to hit the line and it was necessary to check which trip to the finish line was before. Mengstu survived far behind despite 2 seconds off.

[phelps 7,675]

8 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Manager Federico Rosa is doing a good job again, miracle guy!

 

He and Renato Canova are really a sort of "miracle guys"...for those who believe in miracles, of course...

[Griff88 1,952]

https://thebridge.in/hammer-throw-kills-17-year-old-kerala-athlete/

 

My goodness this is so sad

[Olympian1010 7,975]

2 hours ago, Griff88 said:

https://thebridge.in/hammer-throw-kills-17-year-old-kerala-athlete/

 

My goodness this is so sad

Stupid incident. Completely the organizers fault. In the US, no other events are allowed to take place during the hammer throws. At meets where all events are contested, the hammer throws generally start and finish a few hours earlier than everything else.

[heywoodu 15,141]

1 minute ago, Olympian1010 said:

Stupid incident. Completely the organizers fault. In the US, no other events are allowed to take place during the hammer throws. At meets where all events are contested, the hammer throws generally start and finish a few hours earlier than everything else.

Which is sadly why the hammer throw is the ignored baby of athletics.

[Olympian1010 7,975]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Which is sadly why the hammer throw is the ignored baby of athletics.

Well they don’t even let us throw Javelin in California...

Only universities can throw Javelin and there are still some of them that don’t have programs.

[Vojthas 949]

In Poland hammer throw is very important part of the meetings. It's not dangerous at all, when organized well - with the cage, net and people in the field thinking about the danger and behaving appropiate to that.

[Olympian1010 7,975]

12 minutes ago, Vojthas said:

In Poland hammer throw is very important part of the meetings. It's not dangerous at all, when organized well - with the cage, net and people in the field thinking about the danger and behaving appropiate to that.

Right because hammer is an important event. Most people in the US probably don’t even know the hammer throw is a thing, and our sprinters aren’t exactly the brightest...so they’d get hit often when warming up in the field if we had hammer at the same time as other events.

[Col_Frost 179]

3 godziny temu, Olympian1010 napisał:

Right because hammer is an important event. Most people in the US probably don’t even know the hammer throw is a thing, and our sprinters aren’t exactly the brightest...so they’d get hit often when warming up in the field if we had hammer at the same time as other events.

It's (or at least it should be) same important as any other event. It's not more dangerous than javelin. Maybe you remember how Pitkamaeki hit long jumper during Golden League meeting in Rome? So what, we should make every throws outside the competition now? Maybe let's organize them without audience, coaches, referees and more than one competitor. Than it'll be 100% safe. And remind me please, at what meeting warm up is in the center of the stadium? Or maybe you assumed that hammer can fly to place where 100m start is (or to warm up arena)? Safe is very important but it also not very hard to ensure. Get very good net and make sure that no one will be in throw area, that's it. And you don't have move this event hours before any other.

[heywoodu 15,141]

4 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Right because hammer is an important event. 

I'm still not sure whether or not this is sarcastic. As a fan of sports, it shouldn't be, but I'm not sure.