Athletics 2019 Discussion Thread

[Wumo 3,004]

 Mo Farah will run the 10,000m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

 

[heywoodu 15,253]

I can hardly hide my excitement about this. Oh well.

[phelps 7,746]

33 minutes ago, Wumo said:

 Mo Farah will run the 10,000m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

 

 

I hope someone is going to keep him and his "coeds" (Hassan above all) well far away from the Japanese Capital...

[SalamAkhi 323]

Very good news 

[Monzanator 4,579]

Still enough time for the Salazar case to blow up in his face so let's wait whether he actually makes it onto the start line

[heywoodu 15,253]

Evan Dunfee got screwed in the behind.

 

 

[Monzanator 4,579]

Race walking is the stepchild of athletics. Anglo-Saxon world doesn't care about this even more than anyone else. Race walking cycles around names from Central/Eastern Europe, Asia & Latin America, period.

[Grassmarket 3,533]

1 hour ago, Monzanator said:

Race walking is the stepchild of athletics. Anglo-Saxon world doesn't care about this even more than anyone else. Race walking cycles around names from Central/Eastern Europe, Asia & Latin America, period.

 

Strangely enough, like many sports, Britain invented race walking as a sport, and it was hugely popular in the 19th Century. We still were winning medals up until the 1960s. Unfortunately now people in Britain don’t like it because the governing body cannot consistently enforce the sports’ own definition of what walking is.

Edited December 3, 2019 by Grassmarket

[Dunadan 1,103]

22 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Unfortunately now people in Britain don’t like it because the governing body cannot consistently enforce the sports’ own definition of what walking is.

 

And yet the most ridiculous displays of race walking that I remember are organized in GB, with British people cheering on the stands while their home hero "walks".

 

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[heywoodu 15,253]

29 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

 

And yet the most ridiculous displays of race walking that I remember are organized in GB, with British people cheering on the stands while their home hero "walks".

 

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Yeah, those race walk sprints are just awful for the entire race walking discipline, sadly