Athletics WA World Championships 2023

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Perez just passed one of the male Chinese athletes 

Edited August 24, 2023 by Topicmaster1010

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Partanen collapsed behind the line

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Finally a race walking gold for was about time

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Ntrismpioti gets the bronze so she should be the oldest medallist at these champs?

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Montesinos almost went for a 37km race despite the finish line hostess showing here where to go

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9 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

You can trust WA will follow suit on IOC and claim race walking needs some changes Killing off 50k was obviously a huge mistake.

 

Perez gets the Spanish flag but ditches it as she still has one lap to go.

I think the only big mistake was that 20k became the Olympic distance. 35k should be the compromise between 20k and 50k. It would make sense to only have 1 male and 1 female race walking events, just like how we only have the Marathon outside of the stadium. And forget about the race walking relay nonsense. 

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5 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Right, but we haven’t seen that scenario at all. I believe athletes can be disqualified if they don’t put forward a “full-faith effort” (at least that’s the case in many sports), so if athletes were to attempt that before the competition came to the “natural” conclusion they would likely be disqualified.

Which is ridiculous because there is no other event in sport where athletes choosing not to compete is deemed "natural" and "full-faith effort".

 

What would be so unnatural about skeet shooters wanting to stop the shoot-off for gold after 0, 2, 15, 150 additional targets with no resolve?

 

Edited August 24, 2023 by dcro

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And she said YES! Congratulations 

 

@hckošice maybe you will have another great race walker in 20 years 👍👍👍

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