Athletics WA World Championships 2025

[phelps 8,389]

@rafalgorka

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[copravolley 563]

19 minutes ago, phelps said:

it's not a miracle, it's only about younger coaches who travelled, studied, have updated themselves and their knowledge going abroad, becoming more and more "global", bringing new up to date training methods, instead of an old generation being stuck to old, surpassed and less effective theories (and this can be applied to many sports increasing their success rate in the last 20 years, swimming just to name one)

 

add to that a few guys with better genetics (yeah, the "new Italians") and you get better results, also in disciplines where you were not used to (sprint & jumping, to name a couple)

some of these might also be occasional, thanks to a generational talent (Jacobs and the 100m), some others might be repeated because of an established "school", like the many good high jumpers

 

however, we've always had a good number of kids practicing athletics, it's not a miracle if we start to become more successful

 

the miracle is having people winning titles in sport like slalom canoeing or speedskating, where we only have a few hundreds of guys practicing the sport and no more than 2 or 3 places where to train professionally in the whole Country

Thanks for your post.

 

Speed skating is associated with one name in our country: Maurizio Marchetto: the father of Fabris's successes in Turin, then his departure for Russia- a miss of success for some years and then his return to Italy- another successes from 2018 OG. That's too many medals with different people (Fabris, team in 2006, Ghiotto, Lollobrigida, team in years 2024-2025) to call it a coincidence+ however, organizing two winter OGs in the 21st century provides some concrete funding for this and other winter sports (although, of course, with more investment in ice rinks in ITA, this system could be much more efficient and stable).

 

Canoe slalom? There was Molmenti, now it's de Gennaro, also a bit too much for a coincidence. Perhaps it's a niche sport in the world and maybe it doesn't require a huge practicing people to win whatever from time to time? It's not like the 100-meter sprint in athletics...

Edited September 19, 2025 by copravolley

[copravolley 563]

I should used the word "miracle" in quotation marks, because in my opinion, it is more than just a successful or good cycle, most better than previous, as Gianlu recently wrote about here.

Edited September 19, 2025 by copravolley

[copravolley 563]

Palmisano for a medal?

[Topicmaster1010 5,716]

Finally time for another morning session!

[copravolley 563]

These TV commercials on Rai are pissing me off... Can't they really just let it go at night? On another thing, that these commercials are so stupid in that time I'm definitely going to buy a Jeep now that they're showing me a TV ad about it

Edited September 19, 2025 by copravolley

[hckošice 15,806]

Just for information, this is the last race Hana Burzalová is competing in under this name, from next race she will start as Hana Černá as Dominik Černý´s wife

[Topicmaster1010 5,716]

 Palmisano DNF,  Peng DQ'd

[copravolley 563]

Palmisano

[copravolley 563]

Second debacle for us, after Iapichino.