Athletics 2023 Discussion Thread

[Biathlonfan 625]

Meanwhile after their great first throws Allman and van klinken foul all their throws so far

[Biathlonfan 625]

BIG BOOM, VALARIE ALLMAN GOES 70.25 IN APRILAND BREAKS THE 21 YEAR OLD FACILLITY RECORD. 

Edited April 7, 2023 by Biathlonfan

[Biathlonfan 625]

66.97 for Perez and 67.05 for van klinken in their last throws

[Grassmarket 3,409]

 Very good quality Sprint meet from Florida this evening.  Think the YT timing is wrong, main programme starts at 13:00 Florida/18:00 UK.

 

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

11 hours ago, Dragon said:

"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)."

Way too late for any of that. Zarco got exactly what he wanted, the Olympic experience.

[Monzanator 4,503]

Meanwhile Michael Johnson has a plan how to make athletics better. Diversity? Neah, not when field events are in town

 

What a load of bull crap here...

 

 

 

 

 

[phelps 7,677]

1 hour ago, Monzanator said:

Meanwhile Michael Johnson has a plan how to make athletics better. Diversity? Neah, not when field events are in town

 

What a load of bull crap here...

 

 

 

 

 

this is pure SHIT!

[Biathlonfan 625]

Following live results for american meets is torture but here are results from the discus from the male side so far

Sam Mattis-67.49

Alex rose-65.69

Nicholas Percy-63.54

Lawrence Okoye-63.45   

 

[Biathlonfan 625]

And those end up being the final results.

[Biathlonfan 625]

LOL,Mykolas Lithuanian coach gave the results quicker than the live update site could get it's ass in movement