Athletics EAA Under 23 European Championships 2023

[IoNuTzZ 293]

16 hours ago, phelps said:

and with another flop (Benati...he was running 46 secs dead as a under-18, he's still there...he hasn't improved in all of his junior and post-junior years ) I'm done with this thing...

 

back on Sunday for Larissa, the rest isn't worth the waste of time 

In this competition, the runners had to run 2 races of 400 meters in the same day, which is extremely difficult, it's no wonder that most of them wanted to conserve their energy and run using as little energy as possible. Benati ran 45.51 this year, which for a 21-year-old runner is very good. 400 meters is an extremely difficult race, in which one cannot always run record after record.

[OlympicsFan 790]

19 hours ago, justony said:

He still should easily take gold, Sotero being only true contender.

 

Meanwhile, first dissapointment for our team, Čurin Prapotnik after astonishing breakthrough season has not managed to qualify even for 100 m semis.

Very weird take ...

1) "He still should EASILY take gold" + "Sotero being only true CONTENDER" ...?

2) How can you call Sotero a contender but not Richter? (Personally i think that neither of them is a contender for gold)

[Bearas 378]

Team Poland with Lithuanian flare - Andrukonis representing in women's Javelin.... although not doing great.

 

Very poor starts for Lithuanians this morning overall. Hope to see Keršulis redeeming the team with good time in 400m final

[hckošice 13,318]

Nice jinx from the commentators our sole medal hope gone just like that by crashing at the 8th hurdle while being clearly in the lead...

 

...so yeah, Back to nothing as usual

 

 

 

Hockey season starts soon

[Vektor 3,196]

 Takács with a new NR in women's 100m yesterday (11.14). The 11.07 Olympic ES is in sight, and maybe in due time she can break into the 10s club. 

Edited July 14, 2023 by Vektor

[Styrka 96]

3 hours ago, hckošice said:

Nice jinx from the commentators our sole medal hope gone just like that by crashing at the 8th hurdle while being clearly in the lead...

 

...so yeah, Back to nothing as usual

 

 

 

Hockey season starts soon

I saw it live, she seemed emotionally crushed after the race 

[hckošice 13,318]

34 minutes ago, Styrka said:

I saw it live, she seemed emotionally crushed after the race 

Well, she arrived with high expectations here, probably her once in a lifetime chance to medal at "major" championship (and completely justified, after what I saw from here the whole season to today), so her tears were understandable

 

but it is how it is, high level sport is also a matter of mental readiness and the ability to handle even the greatest pressure from the general public. This is another thing I noticed many times being the cause of failure of most of our athletes.

 

In other hand she is still young and talented, I do believe this sorrowful experience can and will only help her in the future. I can bet my house she will never crash like that 2 hurdles from the line in the all rest of her life now

Edited July 14, 2023 by hckošice

[phelps 7,001]

4 hours ago, hckošice said:

Hockey season starts soon

yesss! 

 

I'm ready for that! 

[Grassmarket 2,808]

Got one of your Scandi downpours now - everything is postponed.  Crowd still in the stands though

 

Bit of comedy relief with a guy who doesn’t know how to fix his squeegee roller.

Edited July 14, 2023 by Grassmarket

[Grassmarket 2,808]

Restarting at 19:00 .

 

In the meantime, a chance to compare whether than Finnish pop is worse than Polish.  A bit like asking if you prefer train crashes to car crashes.