Athletics 2023 Discussion Thread

[Biathlonfan 802]

Turner Washington goes 64.01 in the discus great follow up to a seasons opener of 60.97 a week ago.

[Biathlonfan 802]

Valarie Allman takes the women's discus world lead[to no one's surprise] with a huge 67.90.

[Josh 11,800]

Anna Hall starting to stake her claim for heptathlon gold at Paris 2024. 2:03.23 800m at the Flordia Relays. I mean, what can’t she do? Absolutely incredible. 

 

Edited April 2, 2023 by Josh

[dullard 744]

Mboma and Masilingi to reduce testosterone in order to compete again.

 

https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/olympic-silver-medallist-christine-mboma-to-undergo-hormone-therapy/

 

 

 

 

[SalamAkhi 347]

On 4/2/2023 at 6:00 AM, Josh said:

Anna Hall starting to stake her claim for heptathlon gold at Paris 2024. 2:03.23 800m at the Flordia Relays. I mean, what can’t she do? Absolutely incredible. 

 

Would be interesting to see her line up in a competitive 800, with adversity and, of course, pacing. Probably sub-2 ?

But we know she can achieve this kind of feats, heptathlon gold is not given.

[Biathlonfan 802]

World champion Feng Bin goes 65.29 in China,to go in 2 place in the world rankings

[Dragon 2,059]

"The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has banned Camilo Santiago of Spain and Ivan Zarco Alvarez of Honduras for six months each – from 9 February 2023 to 8 August 2023 – for violating the World Athletics’ Integrity Code of Conduct (the Code) and the World Athletics’ Manipulation of Sports Competitions Rules (MSC Rules) relating to a well-publicised incident at the 2021 Itelligence Citylauf Invitational Marathon in Dresden, Germany on 21 March 2021. The day after the event, the Spanish running website, Soy Corredor, published an online article stating that Santiago competed in the marathon wearing Zarco’s bib. On 23 March 2021, Santiago tweeted an apology, noting he had no malicious intent and that Zarco suggested he (Santiago) use his (Zarco’s) bib to run the marathon as Zarco was suffering from plantar fasciitis. That same day, Zarco contacted World Athletics requesting the marathon result be attributed to Santiago.

 

Santiago and Zarco told the AIU investigation that Santiago’s bag (containing his bib number) went missing just before the race and they explained to the race organisers that Santiago would run in Zarco’s bib. Meanwhile, marathon organisers said: “No official would have indicated that an athlete could swap race numbers…and there were race-number printing facilities at the starting point of the marathon.” In presenting its case, the AIU highlighted the following: “Mr Zarco’s and Mr Santiago’s accounts of events were directly inconsistent with other evidence and did not demonstrate an honest attempt to correct the Marathon results, particularly in circumstances where Mr Zarco must have known that the result in question would have been a Honduran national record…The fact that Mr Zarco and Mr Santiago swapped bibs at all and were caught out in a public forum demonstrates that their conduct was unreasonable and it brought the sport into disrepute…The bib swap was an intentional arrangement for the purpose of altering Mr Zarco’s Marathon results.” Both athletes signed admission and acceptance forms stating they breached the following Integrity Standards in the Code: Honesty (Rule 3.3.1), Maintain Integrity of Competition (Rule 3.3.4), Failure to Report (Rule 3.3.15), and Failure to Protect Reputation (Rule 3.3.17)."

[Biathlonfan 802]

Valarie Allman throws 67.58 in her first throw at Triton,Van klinken goes 66,85. 

[Biathlonfan 802]

Yaime perez-66.12.

[Biathlonfan 802]

Perez continues a strong series by improving to 66.76