Athletics at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[Epic Failure 355]

10 hours ago, dullard said:

Progression in the 800 is almost as outrageous.

 

Actually, the progression in the 800 is far more believable.

 

She went 2:03 as a 20 year old, coming second in the British age group champs in 2014.

 

Hell, she'd gone 2:08 as a 15 year old. That might not sound impressive, but it is quicker than Phoebe Gill went at the same age.

 

Bell was a talented youth who fell out of love with the sport after a disastrous few years, including a couple of years in the NCAAs which did nothing for her.

 

She's now being trained by the same coaches as Keely Hodgkinson, coaches which include Jenny Meadows (a 1:57 800m runner herself).

 

 

 

 

I understand that people will have their doubts and I'm certainly not going to sit here and claim that no British person would ever be a doper. But let's not also pretend that she has no absolutely no athletic background at all either.

[Fer GUA 496]

This picture means a lot, since Alberto in February was in the hospital for 2 weeks, and for 6 days he fell into a coma. He had already qualified for the Games so started training back and did his season best at Paris 2024.

 

He won the Half Marathon at the Central and Caribbean Games in San Salvador 2023 and the bronce medal at the Pan American Games in Santigo 2023.

 

Yay for Alberto!  

[NearPup 3,045]

14 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Can't wait for the interview on Dutch NOS, where the guy asks her 1 question and then she rattles on non-stop for 5 minutes  No idea what she'll be saying but I'll love it  

Her interview after her first marathon lives rent free in my head.

 

 

[Olympian1010 7,971]

I noticed no one metioned it during/after the men's marathon, but Yaseen Abdulla  placed 33rd in his first ever competive marathon (time: 2:11:41). 

Edited August 13 by Olympian1010

[OlympicsFan 858]

Top 8 finishes:

 

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Edited August 13 by OlympicsFan

[Adriano 590]

The story of gold for Botswana for me is absolutely incredible.

[OlympicsFan 858]

Women:

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[bestmen 2,817]

The staff revealed what happened, apparently Sadjati was the only athletes went through 5 tests of Labs in paris while others didn't even 1 

they pushed him in Semifinal and searched his room 1 day before final to disturb him and missing the Gold ... and of course IOC will not investigate this unfair act because he is poor without strong politic or nuclear bombs 

[NearPup 3,045]

30 minutes ago, bestmen said:

The staff revealed what happened, apparently Sadjati was the only athletes went through 5 tests of Labs in paris while others didn't even 1 

they pushed him in Semifinal and searched his room 1 day before final to disturb him and missing the Gold ... and of course IOC will not investigate this unfair act because he is poor without strong politic or nuclear bombs 

Obviously won gold because they are rich and won silver because we have nukes pointed towards Lausane.