Athletics WA World Championships 2023

[OlympicsFan 858]

Absolutely horrible schedule, basically only evening sessions. One of the worst world championships ever from a viewer's perspective.

[Gianlu33 4,568]

23 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Can not remember a more boring athletics session than this morning, even at times wehere there were much less events.

 

The guy who invented the schedule for this Saturday morning will hopefully sign a contract soon with IOC, that would only fit with the idiotic way IOC is conducting its Olympics schedule policy

I think that it was the WA point: have less morning schedule and not-so-interessing to watch. They capitalize the evening session

[OlympicsFan 858]

Neugebauer's focus this season was clearly on the NCAA (same as pretty much all US-trained athletes in non-olympic years). Can't wait to see what he can do next year when his focus will be on the olympics. Right now i would put my money on him winning gold next year.

[Vektor 3,326]

9 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Absolutely horrible schedule, basically only evening sessions. One of the worst world championships ever from a viewer's perspective.

It's one of the best from a casual viewer's perspective, which I think was the goal here. Basically have everything interesting in a 3-hour window every day in the evening, this way the Worlds have an easier time to fight for the attention of the public. I mean, even 3 hours are too long for most people these days, I wouldn't be surprised if at some point the evening sessions will be crammed into two hours like the Diamond League. 

[heywoodu 15,141]

19 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Well, good for you then.

 

Decathlon for me is not anymore that special event what it used to be. Lost my interest a while ago. W Shot Put qualifiers are not particularly my highlight event of the athletics circuit neither. I found myself many times just surfing around the web than really noticing what is happening at the stadium this morning

Yeah the women's shot put usually goes right past me as well, just like the women's javelin which is just horrendous nowadays and yesterday was basically as boring as expected with the one exception of Kitaguchi's throw  

[heywoodu 15,141]

1 minute ago, Vektor said:

It's one of the best from a casual viewer's perspective, which I think was the goal here. Basically have everything interesting in a 3-hour window every day in the evening, this way the Worlds have an easier time to fight for the attention of the public. I mean, even 3 hours are too long for most people these days, I wouldn't be surprised if at some point the evening sessions will be crammed into two hours like the Diamond League. 

Yeah, morning sessions have always been for the true athleticos anyway, no casual viewer is going to turn on the TV for some morning athletics over breakfast or something in the weekend (especially if it's not raining and people want to do outside stuff), let alone during a weekday  

[heywoodu 15,141]

Tilga is more and more putting himself in the bronze medal fight.

[heywoodu 15,141]

The medal fight is getting more and more interesting, massive throw for Victor who is now fully in it as well  

[heywoodu 15,141]

Victor goes even further!

[Topicmaster1010 4,179]

 Garland in danger of not recording a pole vault mark

 

Edit: and out

Edited August 26, 2023 by Topicmaster1010