Athletics EAA Team European Championships 1st League 2019

[Grassmarket 4,029]

8 minutes ago, OlympicIRL said:

 

Well she lost a heap of time with that so that's unfortunate. Another nail in our coffin

 

 

See, I'm a better Irish Supporter than you are, mate!     You were 4th in the end!  

[Dennis 759]

Why was  DSQ in the men's relay? The relay teams managed to lose 22 points in two finals.

[dcro 10,210]

Again DSQ for the Netherlands.

[OlympicIRL 5,660]

Just now, Grassmarket said:

 

 

See, I'm a better Irish Supporter than you are, mate!     You were 4th in the end!  

 

That's a relief! Not such a disaster after all then.

 

Inner thoughts: Still could have been better  lol

 

Nice to see my brethren here (half-Scottish)

[Dennis 759]

22 hours ago, Dennis said:

Some thoughts after today:

 

• Today's winners:   and  are the teams that did the best today. They are the clear numbers 3 and 4 for me now.
   
• Today's losers: Maybe weird to say this as they are the #1 after today, but  might be my biggest disappointment of the day. Not because of the two finals which were contested today, but because of the preliminaries in all the sprint events. Maybe they saved energy for the finals? Might not be the case though as they missed 4 of them.
   
• Promotion:  still the clear favorite for me to get into the Superleague next year.  and  met the expectations so far. However,  and  are getting closer. Too bad only one team gets promoted, because these four teams would have had an intense battle for three spots.
   
• Relegation: If  wasn't saving energy, then  and  saw their chances of staying in this league increasing, with  being the favorite to stay in this division for me taking today's positive results into account.  also did well compared to other teams based on how close they were to their SBs, but I still don't see them finishing higher than last place.  met the expectations I'd say, with a positive outlier on the women's 400m compensating for the slightly disappointing women's 200m.

 

My thoughts after Day 2:

 

• Positive surprises:  surprised me in many events, especially in the men's long jump.  and  continue their good form they showed yesterday.
   
• Today's losers:  getting disqualified in both relays. Looking at the races, they would have finished first in both relays, so they actually lost 22 points. Had they won those points, I would have had almost zero doubts that  would be promoted.
   
• Promotion: It's all open now.    and  will battle it out together. Seeing how well  and  are doing, they might be the favorites now.
   
• Relegation: After the surprisingly good performance of  today, I think they will finished in 10th place, leaving  behind them.   and  will battle it out for that 7th spot. Right now, it looks as if  might take it.

[IoNuTzZ 311]

1 hour ago, OlympicIRL said:

I would say Hungary will be relegated based on their performances so far.... consistently losing points vs seeding. Romania are doing the opposite.

 

Tomorrow we have at least 3 events with 1 point (pole vault men/women and 3000m steeplechase men) but in rest our best events are tomorrow (long jump women, high jump women, 1500 women, relay women, discus throw men, javelin throw men)so maybe we have a chance to finish in top 7 ....

Edited August 10, 2019 by IoNuTzZ

[OlympicIRL 5,660]

Standings after Event 21 / 40

 

Rk	Nation	Pts
1	Portugal	163
2	Norway	142
3	Netherlands	140
4	Turkey	137
5	Belarus	135
6	Ireland	120
7	Romania	118
8	Slovakia	116
9	Belgium	111
10	Hungary	108
11	Lithuania	91
R	Russia	-

 

[hckošice 15,520]

Standing after Day 2 (21/40 Events)

 

1.   163

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2.   142

3.   140

4.   137

5.   135

6.   120

7.   118

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8.   116

9.   111

10.   108

11.   91

[hckošice 15,520]

we all know that we will be relegated, very likely finishing dead last. Actually just a fact we did qualified here is like a kind of sci-fi thing, as a newly promoted team in 2nd division we shocked everyone in Tel Aviv and advanced to this 1st division, but the truth is that we don´t belong there, this is not the real state of our athletics, just look at the Olympics qualifiers, we still qualified 0 in athletics. but the positive thing, our athletes despite enormous handicap against athletes from all the countries they compete against this weekend are really fighting. Great team spirit and display how you have to fight to avoid relegation. Kudos to our athletics team here. even if they´ll probably fail, we can be more than satisfied with what we saw during last 2 days.

[Ionoutz24 129]

Guy's why third league is not here?