Athletics WA World Championships 2023

[OlympicsFan 860]

20 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

You probably don't watch a lot of gridiron football. Except a random nose tackle most of these "fat" people can run faster than you think

1) There is a lot of room between fast and "faster than you think". My grandma can also run faster than you would think, doesn't make her fast/an athlete.

2) Not sure if i would qualify someone as an athlete who can run fast once for 2 seconds and then needs 20 minutes to recover (which luckily can be used to show a dozen commercials). American football is 90 % standing around/commercials.

[Topicmaster1010 5,352]

Decathlon time! 

[Josh 11,528]

 Mayer surrounded by Estonians in H1 of the decathlon 100m. 

 

Erm clocks a PB of 10.69 to take the win, ahead of Mayer in 10.79, Tilga in 10.84, and Oiglane in 10.94

Edited August 25, 2023 by Josh

[Topicmaster1010 5,352]

 Keshorn Walcott a DNS in the javelin throw

[Josh 11,528]

 Ziemek clocks a 10.58 to take H2 of the decathlon 100m, ahead of  Victor in 10.60, and  Taam in 10.64

[Josh 11,528]

Warner leads in the standings after 1/10 events, clocking a 10.32 to take H3 of the decathlon 100m, ahead of  Owens-Delerme in 10.43,  Eitel in 10.44 and  LePage in 10.45.

Edited August 25, 2023 by Josh

[heywoodu 16,004]

Can't wait for tomorrow with once-every-two-years commentators talking about the insane comeback from Kaul, coming from well outside of the top-15 into the top-6 or so in the last two events, as would of course be totally expected given his qualities  

Edited August 25, 2023 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 16,004]

Can't decently follow a decathlon without a forecast obviously, so here is the one of ten7events based on everyone's decathlon PB. Not ideal, because it also counts PB's from like 6 years ago (there used to be one which counted mostly the past two years or so), but it is still a lot better than nothing to give a sense of how good certain results really are (so one can see that for example a 10.90 for Kaul would be WAY WAY better than a 10.40 for Warner):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KDPhuokybKcTLiISQ9Sq5pcIINbkUkCU/view

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[Josh 11,528]

88.77m auto Q for  Chopra in men's javelin throw qualifications