Athletics 2020 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 14,953]

9 minutes ago, Blue Swede said:

WR jump was Duplantis sixth jump in the competition.

 

More time to recoup in an olympic event,so I do not see the lenght as a big problem since Armand will start late(or perhaps having one warm up jump at say 5,60 and then jump again at say 5,80).

 

Problem is that gold medal height won´t recuire WR height.Winning the gold medal is nowadays normally enough for the athlete to stop the competition.

 

That DuPlantis will jump higher than 6,17 is very likely though..if it happens at the Olympic games is I agree debatable.

 

And they're right. Like Bubka did, there's way more money in taking WR's in big meets instead of major championships.

[hckošice 14,792]

No womens 2 meters jumps in Banská Bystrica tonight, Ukrainian clean sweep as Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the traditional Banskobystrická laťka with 1.96 ahead of her team mates Iryna Herashchenko and Yulia Levchenko both 1.93. 4th finished Chernjul of Slovenis 1.90, 5th Skoog (SWE) Trost (ITA) Spencer and Scheper (both LCA) all 1.85 followed by Palsyte (LTU) 9th also with 1.85 and Szabo (HUN) also in the top 10 with 1.85 as well.

 

The mens competition will start in a couple of minutes, Live on SVK national TV, RTVS 2

[Werloc 3,161]

I'm actually watching the high-jumping in Slovakia via livestream. 

 

All I can say is that the male high-jumpers have a very bad music taste and Adrijus Glebauskas is also guilty of this picking something from our awful hip-hop scene. 

 

Airinė dropping out without reaching 1.90 is a good indication she is not yet recovered after her injuries.

[hckošice 14,792]

Man Luis Zayas look really strong

[hckošice 14,792]

Zayas izzy

[phelps 7,664]

Italian shot put specialist Leonardo Fabbri was measured at 21m59cm earlier today in Stockholm, new National indoor record, beating the 33 years old mark set by Alessandro Andrei (1987 world -outdoor- silver medallist)...

[hckošice 14,792]

Luis Zayas (CUB) and Jamal Wilson (BAH) remains 2 of the last 3 in the competition, both just cleaned 2.31 and now both will try Tokyo standard attempts 2.33 @Wumo

 

+ Tom Gale (GBR) but he already has the standard

[hckošice 14,792]

Zayas Easy as hell !!!

[Wumo 3,001]

8 minutes ago, hckosice said:

Luis Zayas (CUB) and Jamal Wilson (BAH) remains the only 2 in the competition, both just cleaned 2.31 and now both will try Tokyo standard attempts 2.33 @Wumo

Thanks  I follow the event over the livestream. High jump is after all one of my favourite disciplines in athletics. (Mostly due to being a former high jumper myself in my youth.)

Edited February 11, 2020 by Wumo

[hckošice 14,792]

Jamal Wilson qualified to Tokyo as well