Athletics WA World Championships 2025

[Federer91 3,390]

Bol with a pedestrian leg these Championships and the US get their win.

[Monzanator 5,136]

20 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Is it the second medal ever for mexico after Ana Guevara ? @mrv86 and congrats btw 

Mexico has like 10 medals (most of them in race walking but also marathon and even 400m in the race where Michael Johnson broke the WR).

[copravolley 656]

We won two medals today (Palmisano's silver is non-Olympic, so I'm not counting it): silver and bronze + the loss of a big opportunity for Iapichino tomorrow. Maybe we will win 3-4 Olympic medals in total here, but if there's no gold, I'll consider it a bit of failure.

 

 

 

-Fabbri was out of form all season, which is why even a bronze medal is a succes for him. In last year's form, he probably would have had gold, because Crouser was beatable today,

 

-Battocletti is still working wonders with this group of Africans he has to compete with. She gave 100% od her possibility now,

 

-Iapichino - no comment. This will be probably a bigger waste of talent than Andrew Howe in the long jump some years ago 

 

 

In summary: Italy was good, with one exception, but nothing spectacular and it'll be tough to win gold here. We probably need Sinner in athletics to win more golds

Edited September 13, 2025 by copravolley

[copravolley 656]

By the way, who would you prefer: one Duplantis or 3x Fabbri or Battocletti?

[copravolley 656]

3 hours ago, hckošice said:

Unfortunate, in other hand a bit of relief for our commentator who will not have to read her name which is in slovak a vulgar name for women genital part just like he always spoke about the weather and nice attendance in the stadium and so... during Pichardo´s different attempts 

Larissa or Iapichino? I think that Larissa it`s a old Russian name, which was popular during the Soviet Union time (Larissa, Ludmyla etc). Now it's rare even there, but in Italy such a name is as rare as meeting a dinosaur  I never have met anyone with that name in real life (30 year ago there was a famous Russian cross- country skiing with this name: Larissa Lazutina).

Edited September 13, 2025 by copravolley

[Gianlu33 6,055]

19 minutes ago, copravolley said:

By the way, who would you prefer: one Duplantis or 3x Fabbri or Battocletti?

I’ll NEVER sweep italian athletics for the swedish one. NEVER. Duplantis is a true champion, but what if he’s gone?

[copravolley 656]

12 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

I’ll NEVER sweep italian athletics for the swedish one. NEVER. Duplantis is a true champion, but what if he’s gone?

It's not about the Sweden, Italian or samothing more, but about choosing between: a one great champion vs. two/three good, but not outstanding, people. For example, I could similarly ask whether you'd prefer: one Sinner vs. three Musetti or Zverevs.

Edited September 13, 2025 by copravolley

[Gianlu33 6,055]

10 minutes ago, copravolley said:

It's not about the Sweden, Italian or samothing more, but about choosing between: a one great champion vs. two/three good, but not outstanding, people. For example, I could similarly ask whether you'd prefer: one Sinner vs. three Musetti or Zverevs.

It's twenty times better to have a three-quarters chance of winning a medal than just one great champion like Duplantis. I have no doubt about that.

[phelps 8,766]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

At least after the first few events where they had it (junior worlds and such), they understood - unlike in swimming - that you should at least have a fixed M/W order...whatever one's opinion on this event, it is at least not difficult to follow (unlike, again, certain mixed swimming relays).

I don't know if it's already been written here or elsewhere (don't want to search for it through hundreds of forum pages)

 

a few days ago World Athletics made it official: the mixed 4*100m relay from now until at least Los Angeles (2028) included will be run with the format M/W/M/W, just like the mixed 4*400m

 

so, there will be 2 very complicated male-to-female exchanges instead of 1 (if they held the initial format M/M/W/W or viceversa)

[prso1000 747]

14 minutes ago, copravolley said:

It's not about the Sweden, Italian or samothing more, but about choosing between: a one great champion vs. two/three good, but not outstanding, people. For example, I could similarly ask whether you'd prefer: one Sinner vs. three Musetti or Zverevs.

I would take everything than Sinner 😂
well not true, tsitsipas is even worse 

Edited September 13, 2025 by prso1000