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On 7/14/2024 at 4:09 PM, Grassmarket said:

So much so that :GBR no longer accepts times set there for Qualification purposes.

Why would it not be accepted? There are definately other competitions on high altitude/much wind for Throws etc that would be more reason to not count?

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23 minutes ago, Swewi said:

Why would it not be accepted? There are definately other competitions on high altitude/much wind for Throws etc that would be more reason to not count?

Yeah, but it had become kind of a fashion for British athletes to go there every year specifically to get SBs, so they cracked down.  Geneva, Annency etc are still fine.  Maybe people haven't discovered all those little Italian meets yet. 

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11 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Yeah, but it had become kind of a fashion for British athletes to go there every year specifically to get SBs, so they cracked down.

That's a weird reason not to allow those results anymore. "Athletes are going to location X to have good results, so we won't count them anymore."

 

What. There are sports where that would have been quite a good idea (cross-country skiing for example, where simply participating in certain races was enough to get great points, under the old system at least), but athletics?

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12 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

That's a weird reason not to allow those results anymore. "Athletes are going to location X to have good results, so we won't count them anymore."

 

What. There are sports where that would have been quite a good idea (cross-country skiing for example, where simply participating in certain races was enough to get great points, under the old system at least), but athletics?

No, it was seen as a soft touch, Because people were persistently recording results at altitude that they never reproduced at the big competition. 

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:hyper::yikes::yikes:

 

:USA Quincy Wilson with another U18 WR in the men’s 400m, clocking 44.20 at the Holloway Pro Classic!

 

 

And to absolutely no one’s surprise, he was completely out of breath when doing the post race interview with Holloway :p

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:NOR Jakob Ingebrigtsen and his brothers created a song?  :rofl::rofl:
 

Have to admit, not as bad as I thought it would be. Actually it’s pretty catchy. Now all I need to do is learn Norwegian to figure out what the words mean :p 

 

Probably a secret diss track on Josh Kerr :p

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/C92ZAuRxtFz/?igsh=MXE4cjlyd29wY2Rhcg==

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Mykolas had one last tune up comp/public training session.[His brother also competed,don't know his result yet] before Paris today and the best result was 69.93,also had throws of 69.07 and 69.35.  

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