Athletics IAAF Diamond League 2019

[Matteo92 107]

 

After his amazing 800m in Monaco and the impressive sub-45'' in the 400m in Padova, I thought he might even try to attack Rudisha's monster WR time 

[heywoodu 16,004]

Injury for McMaster as well, I hate today.

[heywoodu 16,004]

Karsten Warholm with the 7th fastest time in history   

 

 

(all 6 faster times were set by 6 different guys btw  )

[Wumo 3,023]

I'm so much looking forward to a WCH final with Warholm, Samba and Benjamin in it. 

Edited July 20, 2019 by wumo26

[heywoodu 16,004]

5 minutes ago, wumo26 said:

I'm so much looking forward to a WCH final with Warholm, Samba and Benjamin in it. 

 

I'd murder to see that.

 

Spoiler

Note to FBI: this was meant as a matter of speech, not literally.

 

[Olympian1010 8,230]

10 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Injury for McMaster as well, I hate today.

I wonder if he’ll miss the Pan Am Games in 2 weeks. He’d be devastated if he did. In a interview he talked about how wanted to get  a medal at all the major events.

[heywoodu 16,004]

Williams is freaking mad at Jamaica not already having selected her for Doha, holy crap, 12.32   That's the second race in a row where someone moves to 7th on the all-time ranking  

[dcro 10,210]

10 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I wonder if he’ll miss the Pan Am Games in 2 weeks. He’d be devastated if he did. In a interview he talked about how wanted to get  a medal at all the major events.

 

I honestly doubt he can get it any global event...

[Olympian1010 8,230]

25 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

I honestly doubt he can get it any global event...

He already won the Commonwealth Games, and he was actually the favorite for 2017 Worlds before he got injured that year. He would have been the 2019 Pan Am favorite, and still will be a huge favorite in Doha.

[OlympicsFan 860]

Some observations about this diamond league meeting:

- WADA officials must be crazy mad after seeing how blatantly Ingebrigtsen and Warholm are cheating

- Jamaica had a slump, but now they just don't seem to give a shit anymore. Blake and SAFP are suddenly world-class again + the girl in women's hurdles who came out of nowhere + the guy in men's long jump + Dacres. To be honest i understand it, considering that Kenya has had half of their athletes banned during the last 12 months but is still allowed to send a team to global competitions. I also have to say that i absolutely understand that russian athletes/officials are angry. Compared to Jamaica/Norway/Kenya/Ethiopia they were playing perfectly by the rules.

- I also hope that some of the british athletics officials will talk to Dobbin and tell her that she can't go on like this anymore: Until 2018 her best was 23.31 (and before that her best was 23.94) and then in 2018 she suddenly ran 22.59 into a -1.3 m/s headwind, all that at the age of 24, this is just insulting to all other athletes who have to compete against her.