Athletics 2020 Discussion Thread

[OlympicsFan 858]

Impressive world lead for Vetter, I guess he would have preferred it if the olympics would have taken place this year.

[Grassmarket 3,409]

4 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Wasn’t it 13:27?

13:25 in the Heat , 13:17 in the Final.

[OlympicsFan 858]

9 hours ago, phelps said:

 

 

and 21.57 (outdoor PB, just 2 cm behind his indoor PB, set last March also in Stockholm) for Leonardo Fabbri in the men's shot put...

 

happy to see him back to the pre-covid shape and to see his performance curve starting to raise again...maybe by next year we will have a world class athlete since quite some time (except for the race walkers, we have to go back to Tamberi's results before the 2016 injury)...

Interesting, maybe you should try the same approach as in other sports (swimming, wrestling). I think Italy could buy some Cuban track and field athletes if they tried.

[OlympicsFan 858]

1 minute ago, Grassmarket said:

13:25 in the Heat , 13:17 in the Final.

Ok, I only watched the prelims (didn’t know there was a final) and it showed 13:27 as his winning time.

[Grassmarket 3,409]

2 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Interesting, maybe you should try the same approach as in other sports (swimming, wrestling). I think Italy could buy some Cuban track and field athletes if they tried.

They’ve already got tons!  Not as many as , but plenty.

[Werloc 3,164]

Underperformances from all three attendees, though even with those results, Gudžius got second and Kilty got third.

[phelps 7,678]

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

They’ve already got tons!  Not as many as , but plenty.

 

yeah, but normally we don't "buy" them...

 

they just come to live in Italy after they get married with Italian people (and they're not escaping from their Country, in most cases the marriage actually happens in Cuba, with authorization of the Cuban officials) and after a few years living here, they just get our citizenship and a few of them start competing for Italy (only because they're not good enough to make the Cuban team...the only exception are Frank Chamizo -wrestling- and Osmany Juantorena -volleyball)...

 

p.s. and even if we wanted to buy them, we just can't, as Cuba is one of those Nations we don't give away our passport that easily...it takes years to become Italian for them, even after marriage (which in most cases instead is an almost automatical thing)...

[Werloc 3,164]

On the topic of passports, some Russian athletes are already looking for their missing Lithuanian grandmothers and grandfathers and considering switching nationalities.

 

There are also talks that Lasickienė might switch, because she has a Lithuanian husband and is very outspoken on the issues of Russian athletics as well as mentioning the fact that she might be considering to start for another country and Lithuania would be the most logical choice.

[Grassmarket 3,409]

14 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

yeah, but normally we don't "buy" them...

 

they just come to live in Italy after they get married with Italian people (and they're not escaping from their Country, in most cases the marriage actually happens in Cuba, with authorization of the Cuban officials) and after a few years living here, they just get our citizenship and a few of them start competing for Italy (only because they're not good enough to make the Cuban team...the only exception are Frank Chamizo -wrestling- and Osmany Juantorena -volleyball)...

 

p.s. and even if we wanted to buy them, we just can't, as Cuba is one of those Nations we don't give away our passport that easily...it takes years to become Italian for them, even after marriage (which in most cases instead is an almost automatical thing)...

Yeah, that is right.  It’s kind of forgotten, but when an international athlete changes country then the birth country has the right to insist on a four-year embargo from World & Olympic Championships*.  Nobody ever bothers with it anymore - except .
 

*But not DL etc.  Possibly Europeans, I don’t know.

[Dragon 1,844]

18 year old British runner with the 2nd fastest time in the world this year