Athletics at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

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1 hour ago, tirtha22 said:

Nigeria's national 100 metres champion Favour Ofili will not compete in the Paris Olympics because, she says, the national athletics federation failed to register her in time.

According to the Olympic press service, Ofili missed the Tokyo Games because Nigeria failed to meet the minimum testing requirements for a number of its athletes, as required by the Athletics Integrity Unit.

Oh wow, that's awful.

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They didn't register Ofili in the 100m but she is registered in 200m & 4x100 relay.

 

Nigeria IOC should learn from Poland IOC which registered athletes who didn't even make the Q standards

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Team Slovakia

Day 6

THURSDAY 01.08.2024

 

Athletics M 20km Race Walk Final

34. Dominik Černý  1:23:25

 

Athletics W 20km Race Walk Final

34. Mária Katerinka Czaková  1:34:46

37. Hana Burzalová  1:36:12

 

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Track & field events starts today  & starts with my favourite event Decathlon 

Will be cheering on Kaul & Neugebauer 

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Very big crowd already.

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The reporter on Belgian TV got asked who he'd like to interview. He said he mostly wants to be able to interview Sarah McLaughlin, because according to him, that's going to be 'the fight of these Olympics' between her and Femke Bol.

 

 

Uhm, will someone tell him?  

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Olympics aren’t a marathon, they’re a sprint for lucky Solomon Islands distance runner

 

PARIS (AP) — For Sharon Firisua of the Solomon Islands, the Olympics are not a marathon, they’re a sprint.
 

In a turn of events that could only happen here, the Solomon Islands placed the 30-year-old marathon runner into its lone spot in the women’s 100 meters. On Friday, the preliminary heat of the Olympics will mark Firisua’s first — and probably last — 100-meter race.
 

Firisua finished 72nd in the marathon at the Tokyo Games and was hoping to make Paris her third Olympic marathon.
 

When she didn’t qualify, her country’s Olympic officials decided to award her the wild-card spot they had been granted. Those spots are usually reserved for small countries as a way of providing their athletes a chance to compete in the big time, even if they don’t meet the needed qualifying standard.
 

When approached with the opportunity, the country’s officials were told the 100 was the only race that had room, and they should pick a runner to join a field that includes Sha’Carri Richardson, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and a few dozen of the world’s best sprinters.
 

All of which seemed like a fun little story — one that will end about three hours and 42,000 meters short of Firisua’s typical race — except not everyone is pleased.

 

https://apnews.com/article/olympics-solomon-islands-marathon-100-meters-66a9eb6bf8aa7d08bd56cc0931007473

Edited August 2 by vovanA

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17 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Very big crowd already.

Many of whom were expecting Kevin Mayer 

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7 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

Many of whom were expecting Kevin Mayer 

Including BBC1