Athletics 2020 Discussion Thread

[Monzanator 5,136]

Lashmanova is back? When did her doping ban end?

[Gianlu33 6,055]

8 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Lashmanova is back? When did her doping ban end?

I don't know, she have a very dark last and I remember that she was involved with Chegin too...

[dcro 10,211]

Not just a Russian, she is also a convicted doper and a well-known case of a running race walker. She should be uneligible for any kind of records.

[heywoodu 16,468]

Lashmanova, that's long ago I heard that name. Basically the whole thing started there (at least the Chegin-saga) if I'm not mistaken  

[Monzanator 5,136]

Lashmanova was like the new sensation... in 2012! It's been so many years I thought she simply retired after her ban and the whole Russian race walking went belly up since then anyway (like the whole event in general). Nobody cares about race walking apart from Latin America & Eastern Europe

[Col_Frost 179]

6 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Nobody cares about race walking apart from Latin America & Eastern Europe

Didn't know that China, Australia or Japan are Latin America countries and Spain, Portugal or Italy are Eastern Europeans 

[Olympian1010 8,321]

7 hours ago, dcro said:

Not just a Russian, she is also a convicted doper and a well-known case of a running race walker. She should be uneligible for any kind of records.

Huh, that’s what Evan Dunfee thought too 

[Grassmarket 4,313]

10 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Lashmanova is back? When did her doping ban end?

And in Russia the word “ban” is interpreted very loosely.  Plenty of training facilities and domestic competitions held in the likes of Mezhdurechensk, Votkinsk & Yessentuki, where the eye of Lord Sauron never looks. 

[Gianlu33 6,055]

Vetter was so close to the WR

[OlympicsFan 860]

35 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Vetter was so close to the WR

97.76 m!

Also had 94.84 m, which is also better than anyone else except Zelezyn has ever thrown. 
Vetter said that it would have gone over 100 m if it wouldn’t have been in a closed stadium.

Edit: He improved his own German record by 3.32 m.

 

I feel really sorry for him, he can only lose at this point. Unless he wins Olympic gold next year everyone will say that he messed up.