Athletics EAA European Championships 2024

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3 minutes ago, phelps said:

ask European Athletics

There’s a good page here where the EAA explain all their mistakes.  Takes a while to open in your browser.  

[OlympicIRL 6,315]

 also with an unusual colour strip for them. Where is the light blue or white I am used to  

[Grassmarket 4,314]

Hey, all of a sudden we’ve got two Bъlgarian medal contenders!

[phelps 8,766]

9 hours ago, mpjmcevoy said:

I assume there has been a major funding injection in Italian Sport similar to that provided by the UK Lottery that turbo charged UK sport?

unfortunately not...

 

actually, funding for sports here in Italy is always less

 

in some sports we've been lucky to find some good officials who really care about success rather than filling their pockets with money and powerful roles only

 

Stefano Mei becoming NF president, in particular, changed many, many things in our athletics

 

add this to a new generation of coaches who have been humble enough to go abroad (especially in the USA) to learn new training methods and open to use them instead of the old, surpassed methods of the past

 

this is also what happened in swimming (another sport which wasn't on our radar before the end of the last Century, until the poor Alberto Castagnetti could start a new era for our swimmers -finding generational talents like Fioravanti, Rosolino and Pellegrini all together did help a lot, too)

 

Sailing, Judo and Taekwondo are also among the NF working really well, having the advantage of a major increase of youngsters practicing the sport, which helps a lot to find new talents (it's hilarious that Judo and Wrestling are managed by the same federation, but Wrestling is and I fear will be for quite a long time irrelevant -despite a good tradition- because of lack of boys and girls enjoying the sport)

 

other sports named above, actually already have a great tradition in Italy...in Track cycling for instance we're not even close to what we used to have until the late Sixties

the main reason is the lack of infrastructure...hopefully now we're gonna have 1 (maybe in the next future 2) indoor velodromes with 250m track, which might help us to stay competitive in the next future (when a talent like Ganna won't be here anymore to make our team look stronger than it actually is)

 

and however, the improvement in some disciplines doesn't mean that we're not experiencing a lot of troubles in sports where we used to get more than what we currently have to be satisfied with (men's Road Cycling, Rowing and Boxing, for instance)

 

more in general, we've been lucky to find a good new generation of youngsters in the recent past and now we're enjoying them, but after Covid-19 period, we've lost a lot of boys and girls practicing any sport and we're not expecting a bright future in many disciplines which are so successful right now...we're already starting to see that trend in some sports, where we still have some promising talents, but a lot less than the recent years in terms of quantity

 

p.s. not going to mention -not the right thread- that some of this year's medals here in Rome are also possible because of the absence of  and , who have always been dominant in this sport (especially in some events)

if they were here, we surely wouldn't have such an impressive medal table as it is right now

[Monzanator 5,136]

Safety Car in Montreal so I get to see NR for

[Josh 13,628]

10.96 for  Asher-Smith in the women’s 100m semifinals!

 

NR’s for  as well!

[Josh 13,628]

 

[OlympicIRL 6,315]

1 minute ago, Josh said:

NR’s for  as well!

Is this the new Benelux union? Who kicked out  ?  

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5 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

 

p.s. not going to mention -not the right thread- that some of this year's medals here in Rome are also possible because of the absence of  and , who have always been dominant in this sport (especially in some events)

if they were here, we surely wouldn't have such an impressive medal table as it is right now

Yes & no. Those countries never had any sprinters, but race walking - for sure.

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Results under review Men 400m Semi 3.

 

 O’Donnell DQF lane infringement.

Edited June 9, 2024 by Grassmarket