Athletics WA World Championships 2025

[rafalgorka 1,821]

We live next to a small stadium here. A small one but with all the athletics Polanik infrastructure. Great place for athletics training. But kids from local schools  don’t want to go to athletics trainings. Almost noone does It . Everybody wants to play football , both boys and girls. Football pitch is occupied all the time. Different training groups, various age groups. But athletics items closed in the magazine all the time sadly.

 

so no bright future for athletics here in Poland im afraid

[rafalgorka 1,821]

6 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

No, we had zero medals in Rome 1987 as well (and that was a really weak team then, a couple of '83 medallists past their prime and bunch of domestic champions). Two 4th places were the best result.

Yep. The very bottom of LA84-protest consequences era. Next year in Seoul 88 we had no athletics medal either . And no 4 th places. Only 1 point from W relay

 

luckily, Artur Partyka was about to show up

[copravolley 643]

5 minutes ago, rafalgorka said:

We live next to a small stadium here. A small one but with all the athletics Polanik infrastructure. Great place for athletics training. But kids from local schools  don’t want to go to athletics trainings. Almost noone does It . Everybody wants to play football , both boys and girls. Football pitch is occupied all the time. Different training groups, various age groups. But athletics items closed in the magazine all the time sadly.

 

so no bright future for athletics here in Poland im afraid

What`s a city in Poland?

[rafalgorka 1,821]

2 minutes ago, copravolley said:

What`s a city in Poland?

A small village close to Kraków 

[heywoodu 16,465]

Nathaniel has said the reversal of Benjamin's DQ was fair, and he wasn't hindered by the hurdle and should not have been upgrade to bronze because of it. That should be the end of that (in terms of time to protest it already is, I assume, but also discussion-wise, since he is the only one who could have been affected by it).

Edited September 19, 2025 by heywoodu

[copravolley 643]

1 minute ago, rafalgorka said:

A small village close to Kraków 

I remember that in Poland in the '90s (Warsaw), we all boys played football- the school playground were terrible- concrete, but no one seemed to mind. I still have scars on my legs from that era because no one spared themselves back then. Nowadays, young people have better playground, but they prefer to stay home and surf the internet. It's the same in Poland and Italy.

[Dragon 2,073]

5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Nathaniel has said the reversal of Benjamin's DQ was fair, and he wasn't hindered by the hurdle and should not have been upgrade to bronze because of it. That should be the end of that (in terms of time to protest it already is, I assume, but also discussion-wise, since he is the only one who could have been affected by it).

Nigerian team management have appealed against Benjamin

[rafalgorka 1,821]

Just now, copravolley said:

I remember that in Poland in the '90s (Warsaw), we all boys played football- the school playground were terrible- concrete, but no one seemed to mind. I still have scars on my legs from that era because no one spared themselves back then. Nowadays, young people have better playground, but they prefer to stay home and surf the internet. It's the same in Poland and Italy.

But here at my place really a lot of kids play football. Lots of them. Everybody wants to be another Lewandowski .

 

A lot of girls started to train football recently as well . This is sth new. Few years ago it wasn’t like that .

And no concrete pitch anymore. They have beautiful grass pitches here

 

I would add a photo here but all my photos are too large and i don’t know how to do it. Sb explsained it to me before but i forgot it

 

[rafalgorka 1,821]

1 minute ago, Dragon said:

Nigerian team management have appealed against Benjamin

I can only image all the NBC drama if it happened in LA28

Edited September 19, 2025 by rafalgorka

[chargundam 54]

2 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Nigerian team management have appealed against Benjamin

Really? Even though the athlete himslef said he thinks the outcome is fair