Athletics WA World Championships 2025

[phelps 8,766]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Jesus, did you find the pessimist juice again?  

he found the source of that juice!

 

and I thought I was "the" cosmic pessimist par excellence 

 

if only I've known him before...

[phelps 8,766]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

I agree, mainly I hope this is another small step to deleting this whole nonsense 0,1 second rule.

actually, they want to set it at 0.080 

[phelps 8,766]

2 hours ago, copravolley said:

Iapichino always will be a good promese, nothing more. Unfortunettly. She hasn`t a winning mental

so, a girl that at 23 has won 1 gold and 1 silver at the indoor Europeans, 1 silver at the outdoor Europeans, the junior and u-23 European gold, 2 Diamond Leagues and has been 4th at the Olympic Games doesn't have a "winning mentality" and she's nothing more than "a good, promising athlete"...OK 

 

ps as if Italy had thousends of World and Olympic champions in sports like Track& Field (especially among the women) 

[Gianlu33 6,055]

4 minutes ago, phelps said:

so, a girl that at 23 has won 1 gold and 1 silver at the indoor Europeans, 1 silver at the outdoor Europeans, the junior and u-23 European gold, 2 Diamond Leagues and has been 4th at the Olympic Games doesn't have a "winning mentality" and she's nothing more than "a good, promising athlete"...OK 

 

ps as if Italy had thousends of World and Olympic champions in sports like Track& Field (especially among the women) 

And to think that a few years ago, when we scored zero points in China inside the stadium, there were still those who said that, all things considered, it hadn't gone too badly... 

Sometimes Italian fans deserve not to win a piece of shit.

Edited September 13, 2025 by Gianlu33

[copravolley 656]

14 minutes ago, phelps said:

so, a girl that at 23 has won 1 gold and 1 silver at the indoor Europeans, 1 silver at the outdoor Europeans, the junior and u-23 European gold, 2 Diamond Leagues and has been 4th at the Olympic Games doesn't have a "winning mentality" and she's nothing more than "a good, promising athlete"...OK 

 

ps as if Italy had thousends of World and Olympic champions in sports like Track& Field (especially among the women) 

She's been missing the third major event of the season year after year. Now she hasn't even qualified for the finals... Instead of making progress, she's getting worse. Either something radically changes in her approach, or she will be won nothing big. I'm sorry to say this, but that's how I feel. And the Indoor World Championships/European Championships and the Diamond League mean nothing if you constantly lose at key events of the season.

Edited September 13, 2025 by copravolley

[copravolley 656]

9 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

And to think that a few years ago, when we scored zero points in China inside the stadium, there were still those who said that, all things considered, it hadn't gone too badly... 

Sometimes Italian fans deserve not to win a piece of shit.

Just because things were bad back then, does that mean we should be happy that the medal favorite is eliminated in qualifying? The momentum was such that Athletics was supposed to overtake swimming in Paris, which didn't happen (I thought it was due to the ITA peaking at the European Championships in Rome in June). There's no sign of anything spectacular now either, unless there's gold (and I think Diaz is the only one with a realistic chance), and swimming is consistently achieving better results (not counting the Tokyo 2020 OG, where Fidal probably broke the bank for the next 100 years). Greater ambitions are normal, if you want to be better and better.

Edited September 13, 2025 by copravolley

[phelps 8,766]

1 minute ago, copravolley said:

She's been missing the third major event of the season year after year. Now she hasn't even qualified for the finals... Instead of making progress, she's getting worse. Either something radically changes in her approach, or she'll be nothing. I'm sorry to say this, but that's how I feel. And the Indoor World Championships/European Championships and the Diamond League mean nothing if you constantly lose at key events of the season.

the DL is the most important event after the Olympics for most athletes because it's what pays the biggest money 

 

ask Larissa if she would change her 2 DL for 2 European (or even World) gold medals 

 

and then...misses what? 2 years ago she was 5th (at 21), this  year she has improved her PB going beyond 7m for the first time in her life and she's been 1st or 2nd in every single competition she's participated to

 

so what? she had a bad day twice in her life (Today and Eugene 2022) and you dare to say she's just a flop?

 

she's a woman, not a machine! bad days can happen more often than not

 

c'mon! you clearly don't have the measure of what she's already done in her career despite being still very young, even if she retires Tomorrow, looking at the pure numbers, she's already the 2nd best Italian LJ specialist ever and one of the 10/15 best Athletes overall in our T&F

 

relax, man! relax and enjoy the sport for what it is...

[copravolley 656]

3 minutes ago, phelps said:

the DL is the most important event after the Olympics for most athletes because it's what pays the biggest money 

 

ask Larissa if she would change her 2 DL for 2 European (or even World) gold medals 

 

and then...misses what? 2 years ago she was 5th (at 21), this  year she has improved her PB going beyond 7m for the first time in her life and she's been 1st or 2nd in every single competition she's participated to

 

so what? she had a bad day twice in her life (Today and Eugene 2022) and you dare to say she's just a flop?

 

she's a woman, not a machine! bad days can happen more often than not

 

c'mon! you clearly don't have the measure of what she's already done in her career despite being still very young, even if she retires Tomorrow, looking at the pure numbers, she's already the 2nd best Italian LJ specialist ever and one of the 10/15 best Athletes overall in our T&F

 

relax, man! relax and enjoy the sport for what it is...

Do you remember Andrew Howe? Also a wasted talent, but at least he had a silver medal at the 2007 World Championships. Even at a similar age to Larissa, he was entering the senior peak...

Edited September 13, 2025 by copravolley

[phelps 8,766]

1 minute ago, copravolley said:

Do you remember Andrew Howe? Also a wasted talent, but at least he had a silver medal at the 2007 World Championships.

Howe is Howe, Larissa is just Larissa

 

Howe was unlucky, he was too fragile and got too many injuries that cut his career short

 

and the coaches never understood that 200m and LJ not only were incompatible between them (unless your name is Carl Lewis), but are also among the most dangerous event for people with silky muscles

 

look at Jacobs...he was the new raising star in LJ, but he had to stop practicing it because he was always injured and had to switch to straight sprint (and still he has always a lot of troubles)

 

being injury prone is just bad luck, not "a waste of talent"

[Faramir 520]

he's implacable, he will tire you out one by one if needed. The 300 Spartans are nothing compared to him.