Athletics 2024 Discussion Thread

[Josh 10,654]

Fireworks at The Ten in the women’s 10000m, with  Tsigie Gebreselama clocking a 29:48.34! 

 

So fast that it’s the 9th fastest time in history!

[Swewi 389]

Andreas Almgrens choice to leave 1500 and 5000m was apparantly the right choice. From mediocre middle distance runner to be just seconds away from the European record in both half marathon and 10 000m

[Biathlonfan 625]

Lawrence Okoye improves to 64.47,he's building himself up little by little this year.

[Makedonas 2,165]

Looks like we won't be competing at the World Relays, which means we won't try to send our women's 4 x 100 to the Olympics.

 

I thought they had a real chance to sneak a quota, they are 21st, only less than half a second off the top 16, and with such a young team that has already improved a lot individually since last year, it is pretty crazy to not even try.

 

Emmanouilidou improved her 100m PB from 11.44 in 2022 to 11.21 in 2023, and already in 2024 improved her 60m PB from 7.26 in 2023 to 7.24.

 

Tsoukala improved her 100m PB from 11.83 in 2022 to 11.44 in 2023, and already in 2024 improved her 60m PB from 7.52 in 2023 to 7.39.

 

Anastasiou improved her 100m PB from 11.54 in 2022 to 11.41 in 2023, and already in 2024 improved her 60m PB from 7.41 in 2022 to 7.37.

 

Based on their performances this year in 60m, I would say it's pretty safe to say they are in good shape, not to mention the 4th member of the team would either be Spanoudaki or Pesiridou, both girls are older and with previous Olympic experience. I guess we'll have to wait until 2028 to see these girls, hopefully some of them can at least make it in individual events (Emmanouilidou really should for example).

[Biathlonfan 625]

Izabela da silva  threw 62.75 four days ago for her second best ever result and moved up to 7 in the world rankings.Samantha hall  has improved to 62.12,also the second best ever result for her,jumped up to ninth in the rankings.Denia caballero,[the very early season world leader] improved to 64.15 in early march and is currently third.

[Olympian1010 7,989]

It’s been a relatively joyful week for  athletes it seems @Fer GUA

 

 

[Olympian1010 7,989]

The Barkley Marathon is 20+ hours underway. This X profile is providing some good updates.

 

 

Edited March 21 by Olympian1010

[Olympian1010 7,989]

Yep, definitely thought that after cross country races before 

 

 

[Olympian1010 7,989]

Verys  now the solo leader on loop four.

 

 

[Olympian1010 7,989]

It would certainly be interesting if there were back-to-back multi-finisher years given the reputation of the race. 2012/2013 is the only time it’s happened before (with three and two finishers respectively).

 

When are you and @brunamoura giving this a go @heywoodu?