Athletics WA Diamond League 2024

[RussB 189]

15 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

If this was the US relay team…..somebody would be persuaded to go down with COVID.

It is just bad timing for him. To be fair I don’t think anyone was flagging this as a miss by the selectors when they announced the team, Sam has knocked over a second off his PB and unfortunately really made many members of the selected relay squad look pedestrian. 
 

Still in case anyone goes down with a niggle now, he is there to be swapped in! A 4x4 team of MHS, Dobson, Reardon and Carvell would be seriously threatening to the US.

[phelps 8,402]

38 minutes ago, RussB said:

It is just bad timing for him. To be fair I don’t think anyone was flagging this as a miss by the selectors when they announced the team, Sam has knocked over a second off his PB and unfortunately really made many members of the selected relay squad look pedestrian. 
 

Still in case anyone goes down with a niggle now, he is there to be swapped in! A 4x4 team of MHS, Dobson, Reardon and Carvell would be seriously threatening to the US.

do you really believe that?

 

I mean, their no.4 (Norwood) yesterday went 44.1 (and they also have someone named Rai Benjamin available)

 

unless the US guys do something stupid in the changeovers, I don't think they're under threat by any mean

[RussB 189]

1 hour ago, phelps said:

do you really believe that?

 

I mean, their no.4 (Norwood) yesterday went 44.1 (and they also have someone named Rai Benjamin available)

 

unless the US guys do something stupid in the changeovers, I don't think they're under threat by any mean

Relative to previous Games i absolutely do. If they are in the race and can get on the shoulder then relays are not just a pure time trial, see 1991 worlds for prime example.

 

ps. I'd still have US as firm favs just to be clear.

Edited July 21, 2024 by RussB

[Grassmarket 4,107]

Bit of thread archaelogy for next week in Lausanne, here’s the timetable.

 

https://lausanne.diamondleague.com/en/programme-results-lausanne/

[Grassmarket 4,107]

23 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Bit of thread archaelogy for next week in Lausanne, here’s the timetable.

 

https://lausanne.diamondleague.com/en/programme-results-lausanne/

Just a bump for this: provisional entry lists now being populated.

 

Qualification for Tokyo Worlds 2025 started before Paris, so a first chance to those who weren’t in fast races in Paris to get a mark set in a paced race.

[Grassmarket 4,107]

Lausanne on Thursday, Silesia (complete with its own language now) on Sunday.

 

Programme & Results (diamondleague.com)

[Grassmarket 4,107]

The Men's Pole Vault in Lausanne is a city centre event - outside the railway station, I think, which is one of the few flat bits of Lausanne - on Wednesday night.

 

SRF zwei - Live - TV - Play SRF

[Monzanator 4,828]

Silesia is obviously the region and the meeting is in Chorzów

 

I presume that name Silesia is easier to pronounce so that's why they advert it like that.

[Grassmarket 4,107]

Previews for the main battles tomorrow night.

 

https://worldathletics.org/competitions/diamond-league/news/lausanne-athletissima-diamond-league-ingebrigtsen-duplantis-wanyonyi-mahuchikh

[Grassmarket 4,107]

20 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Silesia is obviously the region and the meeting is in Chorzów

 

I presume that name Silesia is easier to pronounce so that's why they advert it like that.

Plus to honour the fact that it now has its own language.