Summer Olympic Games 2020 Test Events

[EselTheDonkey 824]

In my opinion, it's a much odder decision, that they ran only 5km because of the hot weather and yet kept the normal distance in swimming and Cycling. Isn't this rather unfair for the best runners?

Edited August 15, 2019 by EselTheDonkey

[uk12points 434]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

I don't think it was harsh at all. With this result fixing, consequently they could have shared available prize money and/or ranking points.

 

And that just comes on top of making a mockery of competition and being disrespectful to other racers.

It was a British selection event! I believe they would both have been selected so that’s why they may have been jointly celebrating!

[heywoodu 15,145]

Just now, uk12points said:

It was a British selection event! I believe they would both have been selected so that’s why they may have been jointly celebrating!

It's a bit poor they don't know the rules of their own sport then. I mean, it's not like it's the first time ever there's controversy about British top triathletes crossing the finish line more or less together..  

[vinipereira 3,240]

1 hour ago, EselTheDonkey said:

In my opinion, it's a much odder decision, that they ran only 5km because of the hot weather and yet kept the normal distance in swimming and Cycling. Isn't this rather unfair for the best runners?

 

That is worrying since this was the Olympic selection event for some nations.

 

[EselTheDonkey 824]

56 minutes ago, vinipereira said:

 

That is worrying since this was the Olympic selection event for some nations.

 

 

Yeah, here in the article it says, that Australia has cancelled it as their Olympic selection event for this reason:  https://tri-mag.de/szene/olympia-testevent-tokio

Edited August 15, 2019 by EselTheDonkey

[heywoodu 15,145]

1 hour ago, vinipereira said:

 

That is worrying since this was the Olympic selection event for some nations.

 

Including for the Brits, of whom the top-2 athletes were disqualified. This was a mess  

[Shravan Kumar 109]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Including for the Brits, of whom the top-2 athletes were disqualified. This was a mess  

I don't know how they call it sportsmanship. It is fixing to a certain degree. 

[dcro 10,210]

Well, athletes should hope that their federations are not stupid enough to still count this as a selection event.

Although, to be honest, triathlon is usually mostly about running anyway, so I guess it was nice that swimming and cycling became a bit more influential, at least for this one competition...

[Olympian1010 7,976]

5 hours ago, heywoodu said:

It's basically matchfixing. Can't do that.

At a major competition yes, at a lowly test event, no.

[Olympian1010 7,976]

5 hours ago, dcro said:

I don't think it was harsh at all. With this result fixing, consequently they could have shared available prize money and/or ranking points.

 

And that just comes on top of making a mockery of competition and being disrespectful to other racers.

I didn’t get those vibes at all. Yes, they should have just finished race as individuals. I think the DSQ was a bit much. Let them have the moment and just use the photo finish to separate them, and give them a warning.